Comments on: Rock Stars Against Religion

By: meestro

meestro — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:58:00 +0000

Eastern Orthodox Christian, actually…http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/378075_10150419025739687_5052659686_8097439_1485359413_n.jpg

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:41:41 +0000

Hey guys, I've heard a rock song once about religion and i liked it a lot, but i don't know what it's called and i'm looking for it. The only thing i remember is some words from the lyrics. ''One by One'' ''I've had enough, had enough, had enough...'' and ''otherside''. Does anyone know this song???

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:12:08 +0000

Metal! Haha, unfortunately most of the metal bands they suggested are pretty boring.

Good stuff =p

By: Aj

Aj — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:47:22 +0000

Filter – Dose:

I believe in something else
now go bother someone else
stick your fingers in your book
take a better second look
you crook

I hate it when you breach my space
and I hate it when you preach your case
and you should go down (down)
save someone else.

Nine Inch Nails – Heresy

he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see
he tries to tell me what I put inside of me
he got the answers to ease my curiosity
he dreamed a god up and called it christianity

god is dead and no one cares
if there is a hell I’ll see you there

By: Cole

Cole — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:47:28 +0000

I’m throwing Incubus into the list. The lead singer, Brandon Boyd, is anti-religious and it’s pretty easy to pick that sentiment up in alot of Incubus songs.

By: Mathew Wilder

Mathew Wilder — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:28:33 +0000

Depeche Mode also has some pretty great songs that are critical of religion, or show strong skepticism towards it.

By: Modern Girl

Modern Girl — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:24:12 +0000

I heard of most of those metal bands (via my metal head brother) but I wouldn’t say they’re prototypical “rockstars.” Their genre isn’t really mainstream.

More mainstream bands that could be added would be:
Smashing Pumpkins
Cake
Godsmack
Our Lady Peace

Even Bryan Adams has one song “This side of paradise” in which he criticizes religion.

By: jedipunk

jedipunk — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:51:09 +0000

Does anyone remember the song “Give me your money” by the Suicidal Tendencies. That song was the first step in announcing my eventual atheism.

By: Ulrich

Ulrich — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:45:55 +0000

Tobias Sammet, of German melodic metal band Edguy (who are one of the most popular bands of their style, though barely known outside of it), has taken on religion several times. With “Avantasia – The Metal Opera” he even created a double concept album whose backstory features a medieval Catholic church as antagonist. His lyrics are usually very unlike the blood and gore of the more extreme metal styles, but occasionally quite graphic, too:

“The blood of anger and pain,
ink of the Old Testament.
I know they’ll end their crusade,
drown in the blood of the lamb”
- “Sign of the Cross”

(The albums are totally awesome, by the way. If you’re not averse to metal, listen to them.)

Another very remarkable song by him is “Theater of Salvation”, which accuses the church of fear-mongering and rejects religious taboos:

“Night after night I remember the words of the priest:
‘Thou shalt not! Never give in to the promises made by the beast, so help me god!
Never give in to temptation or you’ll burn in hell a long, long time!
Forever-eternal salvation is what I can sell if you stay blind!’”

Interestingly enough, Sammet is apparently not an atheist – he’s thanked “God” in the credits section of some of his albums. It seems his idea of God is not quite the one taught in church, though…

By: Zar

Zar — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:53:27 +0000

They forgot Tori Amos. She’s probably less threatening-looking than all the death metal bands, being a nice-looking woman who plays soft music on her piano. But she really rips into Christianity.

In “Under the Pink”, she has two very blatantly anti-Christian songs: God (“God, sometimes you just don’t come through/Do you need a woman to look after you?”), and Icicle, which is about wanking on Easter Sunday while her family is downstairs praying!
…”Meeting the monster in our Easter dresses/
Father says bow your head like the good book says/
I think the good book is missing some pages/
Gonna lay down/
And when my hand touches myself/
I can finally rest my head/
And when they say take of his body/
I think I’ll take from mine instead/
getting off, getting off while they’re all downstairs/
Singing prayers, sing away, he’s in my pumpkin PJs/
Lay your book on my chest, feel the word feel the word”…

There’s also “Raspberry Swirl” from “Choirgirl Hotel”: “I am not your seniorita/I am not from your tribe/in the garden I did no crime”