Comments on: Christian Hardcore http://thefetteredheart.com/2009/07/02/christian-hardcore/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:07:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Danno http://thefetteredheart.com/2009/07/02/christian-hardcore/#comment-2594 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:08:50 +0000 http://thefetteredheart.com/?p=2030#comment-2594 I don’t know if I’d ever consider Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Black Flag, 7 Seconds, Jerry’s Kids, or Sick of it All to be hardcore. Advent, yeah. But the others? I dont know about that.

]]> By: raphael http://thefetteredheart.com/2009/07/02/christian-hardcore/#comment-2034 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:06:23 +0000 http://thefetteredheart.com/?p=2030#comment-2034 listen to advent. their lyrics are pretty outspoken:

]]> By: Beloved Spear http://thefetteredheart.com/2009/07/02/christian-hardcore/#comment-1850 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:11:47 +0000 http://thefetteredheart.com/?p=2030#comment-1850 While I enjoy the hardcore sound, I’m not sure how effectively it conveys the Gospel message in the absence of translation/subtitles. It’s a bit like one of my personal hardcore faves, which you can check out here at a live concert in Philly:

It’s…intense. As content, it has…intensity.

That’s not to say it has no place in the Christian’s musical vocabulary.

Where the hardcore sound works theologically is in articulating defiance against injustice and a expressing a deep awareness of the brokenness of our culture. These are good things.

]]> By: Bob Pearson http://thefetteredheart.com/2009/07/02/christian-hardcore/#comment-1847 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:11 +0000 http://thefetteredheart.com/?p=2030#comment-1847 Interesting mix of prophetic messages, call to a reformed life, resistance to the dominant culture, but wrapped up in a very disturbing style and way to express these ideas through this music genre.
I guess my overall reaction is this is disturbing as it is combined here. Counter cultural but embedded in a specific cultural context.

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