Eh, I don’t reject it just on the basis of the subject matter, and I never reject a band because of their religion when it isn’t part of the music.

That being said, Christian metal falls into the same flaws as contemporary Christian. There’s only so many ways you can write songs about the same subject matter and it be interesting, so if the rest of the music isn’t amazing, why bother listening to it?

Unfortunately, most of the musicians making Christian insert genre here are pretty damn mid tier at best. Like, compare any of the better ones to a band like Amon Amarth that beats a single subject into the ground, and it doesn’t hold up. At least when AA does yet another viking raid song, or Odin/Thor song, you can just ignore the lyrics and the rest is fucking balls out slamming.

I’ve yet to hear any Christian metal bands that can pull that off.

Plus, and I know this isn’t going to make anyone happy, I happen to live not just in the bible belt, but near enough to some of the Christian music centers of recording that I either directly know, or run in the same circles as a shit ton of Christian Music groups and solo acts. And they’re mostly douchebags looking for an audience that won’t object the their relative lack of talent, and don’t actually believe ANY of the shit they sing about. I ain’t risking some kind of defamation hassle to name names, but Jesus fucking Christ, some of those people need Jesus in the worst possible way. We’re talking about breaking ten commandment level behavior, not just having a few extra drinks or banging some church lady.

Which, that’s an issue too. They’ll bang church ladies, even when those ladies aren’t legal to be fucked. It’s a serious problem in the whole “tour around churches for gigs” level bands. But you don’t hear about it because you don’t talk about that shit.

And, again, that isn’t just the Christian metal people, it’s the rappers and country, and contemporary Christian singers too.

But I’ve heard plenty of it, and I’m usually willing to give a listen to stuff I haven’t heard before. It’s just that most of it is meh.

No, but if you have any recommendations, I’ll change my answer to yes