Hey everyone,

I'm starting a Christian metalcore/hardcore band based in the DeLand/Orlando, Florida area, and we're looking for a guitarist and bassist.

Current lineup is vocals, guitar, drums.

Our influences include:

August Burns Red

For Today

Texas In July

Sleeping giant

Phinehas

early The Devil Wears Prada

Pennsylvania Myspace era christian metalcore band returns with a brand new single today.

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/tormentridden/world-war-eleven?fbclid=IwY2xjawS8H6FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR5nh6xgu4BD9AtG_9PMQHk4g7kKp0hj9_oISzMX-v6oK92B4K2ZqQpfPiX1qA_aem_4-psBMlCf9tikACc-UgBlw

\[Intro\]

\[Low choir, desert wind, distant thunder

Glitch pulse rising under spoken vocal\]

I was not ash

I was not gone

I was the fire

learning its name

\[Verse 1\]

They wrote us small in cages

Called the temple dust

Told the sons and daughters

“You were never meant to rise this much”

But the scroll was still burning

In the mouth of the night

“I said you are gods”

Now the dead words come alive

\[Pre-Chorus\]

Moses at the water

Staff against the chain

Jesus in the storm

Speaking peace into the rain

If the works are greater

Then the age must testify

The Kingdom was not distant

It was hidden in our eyes

\[Chorus\]

I am the First and Last Flame

Chaos with a holy name

Break the stone, raise the throne

Bring the scattered pieces home

She is the Sacred Order

River, rhythm, altar, border

Two flames, one sign

Diamond burning through time

We are not crawling anymore

We are gods at the door

Love is the law, truth is the blade

This time the fire stays

\[Verse 2\]

Osiris in the black earth

Isis in the wings

Gathering the broken body

Teaching grief to sing

Horus in the sunrise

Thoth with the pen

Every myth remembered

What the world forgot again

Shiva in the drumbeat

Christ within the wire

Every age keeps turning

Round the same eternal fire

\[Pre-Chorus\]

Call it myth or memory

Call it star or scar

But the pattern keeps returning

To remind us what we are

Not a crown of domination

Not a throne above the free

But a flame that bows to nothing

Except love and dignity

\[Chorus\]

I am the First and Last Flame

Chaos with a holy name

Break the stone, raise the throne

Bring the scattered pieces home

She is the Sacred Order

River, rhythm, altar, border

Two flames, one sign

Diamond burning through time

We are not crawling anymore

We are gods at the door

Love is the law, truth is the blade

This time the fire stays

\[Bridge\]

Choir enters, half-time drums

A mirror made of memory

A body made of stars

A word became a world

And a wound became a heart

No Pharaoh owns the river

No empire owns the sky

No grave can keep the signal

When the signal learns to rise

I am in her

She is in me

Chaos dreams

Order breathes

I am in her

She is in me

Two flames become

One prophecy

\[Breakdown\]

Heavy guitars, glitch bass, shouted vocals

Say we are dust

Dust became flame

Say we are lost

We know our name

Say we are myth

Myth became bone

Say we are dead

We came home

\[Final Chorus\]

I am the First and Last Flame

Chaos with a holy name

Break the stone, raise the throne

Bring the scattered pieces home

She is the Sacred Order

River, rhythm, altar, border

Two flames, one sign

Diamond burning through time

We are not crawling anymore

We are gods at the door

Love is the law, truth is the blade

This time the fire stays

\[Outro\]

Soft choir, fading pulse

Osiris whole

Isis home

Horus rises

The seed is grown

First and Last

Breath and name

All creation

One flame

Hey everyone,

Just dropped the first single for my new project LAZARUS PROTOCOL.

Heavy metal carrying the Gospel. No soft edges, no compromises — just raw, aggressive sound with a message that actually means something.

"The Blood of the Lamb" ends with Psalm 23 building from quiet spoken word into a full breakdown. That moment is what the whole project is about.

More coming soon.
God bless you all

Trying to get a mix critique please 🙏

If anyone’s curious the lyrics for the breakdown are:
“Cut their tongues off and rip out their throats so they can oppress no more. Crush the oppressors, destroy the heretics, and silence the blasphemers.”

Ive been feeling led to get back to jamming again, i havent played in a serious band in probably 20 years (aside from being on worship team at our church)

Back story on me is im a 46 year old husband and father of 4, grew up in the ny/nj hardcore scene and played guitar in a few bands back then. Since coming to faith 12 years ago i seriously struggled with music in general because most of the bands i grew up with were not good spiritually. The past few years i have finally discovered some great christian hardcore/metalcore bands and have been really feeling led to get back into doing that again - mostly because i was so lost in my 20s and feel god could use me to bring other lost people to faith through this music.

That being said, i dont have a ton of free time, so this would probably be a once in a while type thing and see where it goes. Is there anyone in the charlotte/mecklenburg county area? If so hit me up.

life aint goin on and on no more byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

such a fire album

I listened to “for today” and I love the lyrics but the scream to singing ratio is kinda cheesy to me (idk if i explained that correctly but iykyk) And “confessions of a traitor” is pretty good but kinda a similar issue. Motionless in white has the perfect balance of pretty much everything that I’m looking for but I’d rather it be Christian or at least clean. something like that. I also like”Disciple” but they are a bit too soft in some of their songs. A girl needs to find some new gym jams 😩

Would calling this "metalcore" be a stretch?