Road to Antichrist

This is a series which will become increasingly significant to Christians in the coming years. I have my doubts that many will take it seriously right now, but it will be important to understand what's really happening, when the world 'steps into the Light.'

Part 1 - The Orwellian Nightmare

Part 2 - The Real Agenda

Part 3 - The Rise of Conspiracy Theory

There is a 4th installment on the way, as it says at the end of Part 3.

Forced Xristian - Violation of Hypocrisy (2012)

 

(FX logo)

Forced Xristian was a 'Horror Death Metal' project, shortlived, like so many others. Aside from drum tracks, all music on this album is completely improvised. Could be better, could be worse, but it is what it is.
Lyrics/Songs were originally written some months prior (Nov.-Dec. 2011) intended for another project which I was putting together conceptually back then ('Ritual Abuse' was the name I thought of using for a Christian Death Metal band, the theme of which would be based around SRA, with songs about regular Christian Metal stuff as well).

The name 'Forced Xristian' came from three ideas (at the time), superimposed: 1.) The idea that, due to its obvious truth, I felt I really had no choice than to accept Christianity whether I wanted to or not; I was forced into it, the same way a person is forced to choose between life or death in a detrimental circumstance that hinges upon their right decision. 2.) A fetish found in a certain pornography subgenre where people of one gender are forced into the role of another. 3.) Phonetically, it rhymed with 'Mortician,' the band whose style I was basically ripping-off, and doing my own version of. 

(Image saved years ago that was supposed to be used somehow in a subsequent Forced Xristian album that never happened.)

(Cover to the album "Violation of Hypocrisy")

I wanted to use a bunch of movie samples (like Mortician, of course), so I took some from some movies I really liked. In retrospect, these movie choices (for the most part) are pretty atypical and not what one would expect from the Horror Death genre. Some odd choices in there. 

I can remember having been up for three days on speed already at that point, and having finished the songs, staying up throughout the night editing movie samples. 

Mediafire link: 

Forced Xristian - "Violation of Hypocrisy" (2012)

Devotee (2018)

Devotee is a project from 2018 that I did four albums with, all in the same year. My music is often an outlet for, and a reflection of, a lot of emotions, trouble, and spiritual fluctuations that I may be going through at any particular period of time.

Devotee is no different, in this regard, tagged as 'Hipster Black Metal,' for the lulz of it.

Spiritually, my disenchantment with Christianity was reaching an apex following three years of uncertainty, doubt, and speculations causing me to research avenues of comparative-religious study with which I was not previously familiar. This really deserves its own post, but just to give an idea of what I was going through with these projects/albums.

(the first two)

Within the music, aesthetic, and imagery of Devotee's first two albums, influences can be detected from Left-Handed Islamic ideation, gnostic glorifying of the Demiurge (reverse-Gnosticism), and Pre-Islamic Paganism.

"Sacred Visions" is full of raw hymns to the Demiurge. The idea behind this was a backwards approach to early/medieval Christian Gnosticism, where it was proposed that the god of the Old Testament was the Demiurge, unworthy of worship, and identifiable as "Satan."
My reasoning was that, were this true (by their own logic), then worshipping the Abrahamic God was akin to devil worship. Sarcastically then, I devised "Sacred Visions" as a rejection of this concept, which in turn promoted a 'Left-handed' interpretation of what would otherwise have been seen as a 'Right-handed' one.
Simply put, I flipped it on 'em.

"Faith of the Ancients," is probably my favorite Devotee album. The final production might not be great, but I purposely left it as it was because the mastering tools at my disposal took something away from the music, while still giving it a 'fuller' sound.
Since I don't know what I'm doing (learning as I go, with obsolete equipent), I just left it raw, and I think it sounds better that way.  

(the last two)

Things take a sharp turn to the left (no pun intended) with the release of "Grey Metal," which almost shares more common territory with Noise music. Catastrophically atonal, fraught throughout with dense, relentless anxiety, and suffocating esoterism, it is probably uneasy listening.

The closest comparison that comes to mind is if you had Blut Aus Nord's "Mort" attempting to interpret Leviathan's "The First Sublevel of Suicide." Whether or not this is apparent to anyone else, or only in my personal sense of delusion, I have no idea.
"Grey Metal," ideologically is meant as an excercise in balance between Right-hand and Left-hand, with regard to spiritual practice. It is a merging of the two realms (throwing accusations of heresy to the wind), and an audial example of how this feels to me, due to what I was experiencing at the time personally (anxiety, health issues, habitual drinking, spiritual conundrum causing synthetic syncretism, emotional imbalance seeking equilibrium, among other things).
It is what happens when you mix Christianity with it's opposite, through a bridge of Islam. The (only temporary) grey limbo that ensues is captured on this release. It's a necessary, albeit uncomfortable stop on one's journey toward truth and understanding.

"Second Blood," is the ironically titled fourth album. This album has more obvious punk influences, and there's even a 'Black Metal Reggae' song. The alcohol was flowing free on this album, evident in its Punk Rock nihilism, and it's "idgaf" ethos. The vocals are mixed way too loud, of warbled, drunken ramblings and urgent nonsense are screeched into the void.
Strangely, this album has seen more popularity and success than the others, I think.

Download at 'Name Your Price' on Bandcamp (free or donation):

 https://devotee.bandcamp.com/ 

Mediafire links: 

"Sacred Visions"

"Faith of the Ancients" 

"Grey Metal"

βαρ†ιστ chvrch (2015)

βαρ†ιστ chvrch was another excursion into electronic subgenre experimentation. Basically, I really wanted to try doing some Witch House, and this is what happened. I used the name 'Baptist Chvrch' because my wife and I, along with some other brethren, had all stopped going to a certain IFB church at the same time.
We ended up half-forming a small home-church gathering, and tongue-in-cheek references to the 'Baptist Church' were not uncommon.

Not surprisingly, I didn't put too much thought into the project name. It's basically used sarcastically, as a bit of joking commentary on how we viewed the Baptst denomination at that time, as basically embodying every negative thing they say about Catholics, but unable to realize it.

$alt Poi$oning - simply me trying my hand at Witch House music, with a strange quasi-religious slant. Actually, I guess it's not so strange, considering the genre. The title refers to a method of abortion.

Untitled - A bit of a mix between Witch House and Black Metal, although there are no guitars on this album whatsoever. I've often thought of putting this album under a more suitable project, but I guess it is more easily recognizable under this project. If I were to move it, out of the 5 people in the world who heard it, the two of them who liked it wouldn't be able to find it. So, with them in mind, I leave it.... 
...until I move it. 

Download at 'Name Your Price' (free or donation):

https://chvrch1.bandcamp.com/