Christian metalcore juggernauts

JUGGERNAUTS

This album srsly cannot come fast enough

Pretty okay actually.

Still not sure about the mixing/mastering, but dig the doomy groove and broody refrain.

sunglasses-selfie-in-a-car-core

this band has some horrible vocals

Hi spartan I'm great hbu

'sunglasses-selfie-in-a-car-core'

loooool

I see you running in circles again

I know you’re trying to find a way out

You wanna go it alone in the end
You wanna follow the great dissent


We’re only devices and chemicals
Don’t lay your insides on a pedestal



Godless is just the fate that you wanted

I guess you like to bleed alone
Regress among the frail and haunted
Godless is just a hollow hole


We lead the self, submit to none
We shut the doors and black the sun
No greater lord than I alone
(We feel a pulling to walk on our own)
We can’t afford to walk below

(Under the weight of a dead man’s bones)


We’re only enough until the bell it tolls
There’s always a line for the bitter souls
We don’t have to fight to retain ourselves
We follow the light to deny this Hell

I see that my dude here is a graduate of the God’s Not Dead school of apologetics

It’s a shame their lyrical themes are becoming increasingly surface level and narrowly apologetic. Beyond the angry-Christian-white-moderate lyricisms the whole project has been a bit of a mess stylistically and the mastering is fairly questionable.

genuinely some of the worst lyrics ive seen

Give them an album or two and I guarantee they’ll do a full Kid Rock-style pivot

Imagine a metalcore “Don’t Tell Me How to Live”

Man it's almost like they're a Christian based band or something.

@caliggyjack believe it or not, it’s possible to have Christian beliefs without being a reactionary chud

They've shown no evidence of being such. You're making assumptions based on vague lyrics to suit your own prejudices.

The only reactionary ones here r u guys

reactionary chuds or not, the lyrics do suck ass

Yeah theyre lyrics have always been...

Well they're certainly no wolves at the gate I'll say that much.

First couple albums had some neat lyrics imo

“Every single time I feel the burn I try to throw it away.
A fast fix for the brokenness of everyday.
Its like the pain is building up, it's swelling up,
I've got to choke it down and break it down until it's broke down.
It's like a shard of glass, it's like a broken piece.
Of everything I hate, it's everything in me,
A burnt heart stains black the blood it flows.
A dead soul will overshadow.
Push it out. I'ts everything you never were,
Push it out. I want to see it shatter.
And Everyday I see my life rewind tearing through dreams I find I'm wide awake.
And even when it's wrong I start to learn, and then I do it again.
I reach out to grasp and get a broken hand,
And everyone is going to turn their backs.
I want to take them down,
And strike them down and leave them struck down.
Its like I'm made to fail with everything I gain.
Just an infected piece in a defective game.
My two hands give birth to nothing right.
A black past is an effective foresight.
Push it out, it's everything you never were.
Push it out, I want to see it shatter.
And Everyday I see my life rewind tearing through dreams I find I'm wide awake.
And everything is building up, a pale heart is an empty cup,
If nothing ever changes, I'm breaking down, giving up.
Burn it out, let it go, break it all, lose control,
Force it out, bring it through, pass it down, make it new.
Kill the pain, scrape it off, leave it here, make it stop.
Tear it down, bleed it out, all the hate, see it straight.
No one ever told me that it would all stay the same.
Everyday I fall on shards of my hatred and shame.”

And yeah Wolves is quite rough.

'Cause you've been my god, my god
And when you're gone, I'm godless, I'm godless
You don't believe in love
But can't you say that you've been thinking of us?

@isee rough? hard disagree, they're the best lyricist in the Christian Metalcore scene!

Grave Digger gives me emooootiooooons

o god here we go

godless?

but we still have money

yeah they've definitely got some lyrical bangers in their first few albums

How many singles is this now? I swear bands are releasing half their albums as singles these days

Five singles. It is a longer record for DH but at this point we’ve heard almost half of it.

Why the hell are they releasing so many fucking singles?

“Man it's almost like they're a Christian based band or something”

Lol, right? Dunno why some people have such a hard time just allowing others to have their spiritual beliefs/convictions without feeling the need to mock it and talk shit.

"angry-Christian-white-moderate"

oh yes because this couldn't be relatable to Black people, Asians, Hispanics, etc...

@Ghost https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/188/266/a37.jpg

The issue I take with Ryan Clark's writing here has little to do with the fact that it is Christian-influenced/religious, my issue is with the platitudinal, narrow, condescending message in some of these lyrics:

"Godless is just the fate that you wanted
I guess you like to bleed alone
Regress among the frail and haunted
Godless is just a hollow hole"

As a fan of DH since '04, these lyrics read as lazy in both spiritual message and delivery--far less nuanced than their early output. To each their own though, OC.

+1, that is a really really mediocre lyric regardless of your religious views

it's also making an argument straight out of a God's Not Dead film so it's not like it could be saved by better writing

Remember back when people on sput hated on mewithoutYou simply because they were Christian? No? Oh yea cause it didn’t happen. Maybe because they didn’t write lyrics coursing with fire and brimstone for those that don’t share their beliefs, or lyrics complaining about cancel culture

checkmate atheists

these guys have become the christian five finger death punch in more ways than one

even peak Mars Hill-era worship leader Dustin Kensrue managed to write some really cool lyrics so religion isn't an excuse (Words in the Water, Listen Through Me, Disarmed, probably the rest of Major/Minor)

it's disingenuous to say, "oh derp you just hate christian themes in your music," like no i fucking don't, i just hate shitty lyrics and these shitty lyrics happen to have shitty christian themes

like others have said some of their earlier albums had decent lyrics, it's just that with each album they've veered more and more into this antagonistic, militant us-or-them lyricism with a major presecution complex. it's cringe as fuck and extremely alienating to the non-religious fanbase they used to brag about.

to be fair, as a Christian, you're not trying to please the world. Your goal is God alone- not love for the world, not appeasement towards non believers, etc.
However, being militant isn't proper either... Jesus didn't come down and persecute people, nor did he encourage his followers to either.

Plenty of good Christian stuff both lyrically (not that I care much about lyrics) and sonically over the years like MWY, The Chariot, Norma Jean, earlyish AILD, TOCS-onward Underoath, Thrice... even Demon Hunter themselves were really fun in the early Christian Slipknot days

Also why is there some new variant of ghost username here every time I check back in on this site stop jacking my swag

https://youtu.be/gSv4WiQ_gOM?t=18

"checkmate atheists" bahahaha

album got delayed to October 28th