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[Sevenoneself]

Good day!

I'll be honest upfront--I'm joining this forum to advertise my debut Christian hard rock metal album. Band name is Sevenoneself, album is "The Treasure of the Crucible". But more of that in a different post.

I grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada, where there's little-to-no music scene. In high school I survived off of HM magazine (and their sampler CD's), our local Christian bookstore (era of Intense, REX, and the beginnings of SolidState), and Cross Rhythms Music. I even ordered a few CD's from Rowe Productions; 2 were flagged at the border and by the time I paid duty I owned 2 VERY expensive Christian thrash albums!

I'm a multi-instrumentalist who has ended up playing in worship bands most of his life. I've been a part of very-small music projects, but nothing that has ever turned into anything. The fact that my wife and I had our first child when I was 22 could have something to do with that! I've been a youth pastor, associate pastor, and bible camp director.

I am not nearly as versed in the music world as most of you. I knew the music scene much better 25 years ago than now. But the last few years I've been checking out the top reviews at AngelicWarlord and have picked up some great new music.

My Favourite Christian Metal Bands / Albums (no particular order):

Tourniquet       - Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
Skillet              - Unleashed
Vengeance       - Once Dead
Stryper            - Against the Law
Narnia             - From Darkness to Light
Tamplin            - Soul Survivor
Theocracy        - As the World Bleeds
Living Sacrifice - Nonexistent
Zao                 - The Splinter Shards...
The Crucified    - Pillars of Humanity

[Dead Planet]

Welcome aboard.....

[Darkstone]

Welcome mate 

[auslander]

10 others You might like:

Deliverance - Deliverance

Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice

Bloodgood - Bloodgood

Barren Cross - Atomic Arena

Red Sea - Blood

Extol - Burial

Believer - Sanity Obscure

Betrayal - Renaissance by Death

Veni Domine - Material Sanctuary

Hero - Immortal

[Sevenoneself]

3 hours ago, auslander said:

10 others You might like:

Deliverance - Deliverance

Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice

Bloodgood - Bloodgood

Barren Cross - Atomic Arena

Red Sea - Blood

Extol - Burial

Believer - Sanity Obscure

Betrayal - Renaissance by Death

Veni Domine - Material Sanctuary

Hero - Immortal

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm a fan of Deliverance - Weapons of our Warfare, Vengeance Rising (first 2 albums especially), Bloodgood (yup, first couple albums), Barren Cross - Atomic Arena, and Extol's Burial.

I've listened to Believer' and Veni Domine (like 20 years ago!) and they didn't resonate with me. Red Sea and Hero I've never heard of, so I'll be checking them out right now!  

[martinsane]

Welcome 7. Looking forward to chatting with you. The group is a smaller one, but pretty dang active.

[Doggy]

[KarpetRydOFunk]

18 hours ago, Sevenoneself said:

I grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada

I'm sorry to hear that. ;}

Welcome to our little asylum. 

[lettard]

Hello & Welcome to HH 

[Dead Planet]

You can check out this Youtube site for Christian metal from the light variety to the extreme...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp5rChwwXgLqeFPteGYZr7A/videos

[Sevenoneself]

7 hours ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

I'm sorry to hear that. ;}

Welcome to our little asylum. 

Haha! 

[Sevenoneself]

3 hours ago, Dead Planet said:

You can check out this Youtube site for Christian metal from the light variety to the extreme...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp5rChwwXgLqeFPteGYZr7A/videos

Wow, does he have alot of music there! I'm gonna search for some of the old cassettes I had 25 years ago!

[Doug]

Welcome. I am a long time Heavy Harmonies follower, and only joined this forum last year. The folks on this forum have forgotten more about hard rock and heavy metal music than I will ever know and I'm an old dude!  They know a ton of stuff. I just try to follow a long..... 

[KarpetRydOFunk]

23 minutes ago, Doug said:

The folks on this forum have forgotten more about hard rock and heavy metal music than I will ever know

Is that what you meant to say?

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[Doug]

20 hours ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

Is that what you meant to say?

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Yes. I think folks on this site know a whole lot about music, and I think it's very impressive. 

[nyoilers]

Welcome ! 

[Sevenoneself]

On 5/23/2022 at 12:29 PM, Doug said:

Welcome. I am a long time Heavy Harmonies follower, and only joined this forum last year. The folks on this forum have forgotten more about hard rock and heavy metal music than I will ever know and I'm an old dude!  They know a ton of stuff. I just try to follow a long..... 

I agree!! I don't know how they can know so many bands and styles and songs! 

[Ponen]

1 hour ago, Sevenoneself said:

I agree!! I don't know how they can know so many bands and styles and songs! 

Welcome aboard...yep, they are the torchbearers. 

[Darkstone]

On 5/24/2022 at 4:29 AM, Doug said:

Welcome. I am a long time Heavy Harmonies follower, and only joined this forum last year. The folks on this forum have forgotten more about hard rock and heavy metal music than I will ever know and I'm an old dude!  They know a ton of stuff. I just try to follow a long..... 

Don't sell yourself short mate.

Your Main Site reviews are quite a substantial and helpful contribution.

I've been reading your reviews for as long as I've been here.

[Stefan]

Welcome the mayhem!

Plenty of nutjobs here...me included 

[Glen]

hello.