I was watching pedal demos and found this guy that makes demos but also slow ambient post rock and is on tour right now mostly at Churches... I might check him out when he comes to Austin...
Reviving from the dead because I watched the wrong video or followed the wrong people because social media/YT recs are just a wave of worship guitarists.
As a heathen from birth I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it - the only all-ages venue in my shitty city growing up was a youth church founded by a junkie so I saw a lot of Christian genre acts (punk, ska, ska-punk, punk-ska, the occasional death metal/grind act, also a Christian techno room but I never went in) but it never occurred to me that polite guitar music for megachurch services could be a genre unto itself.
Re: WTF is "worship" music?
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 9:42 am
by retinal orbita
I’m really having a hard time picturing what a Christian techno room is like
Re: WTF is "worship" music?
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 6:22 pm
by jirodreamsofdank
Bad '90s rave but you're high on Jesus instead of ecstasy, I guess. (Or you're high on both.)
Re: WTF is "worship" music?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:42 am
by Ghost Hip
I went to a Catholic high school and one of my friends convinced the school to let him put on a Techno mass. Dude wasn't even Christian, he just wanted to do it.
Re: WTF is "worship" music?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 2:56 pm
by repoman
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Re: WTF is "worship" music?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:13 pm
by $harkToootth
I'm very late for this thread and didn't read the whole thing but I thought 'worship' was used as a synonym for 'tribute'? Like doing a cover band with original songs. I first heard the term in Black Metal circles. Like, you would have a DARKTHRONE worship band. This would entail getting similar tones and playing riffs in the vein/style of DARKTHRONE. It can also be broader like 'amplifier worship' bands i.e. very loud drone bands.
So that board on page one was probably a derivative of a 'Swedish Death Metal Worship' band.
I am guilty of using the term that way having on more than one occasion wanting to start a 'synth-punk worship' band (think NERVOUS GENDER, THE UNITS, to a lesser extent VICIOUS PINK and other synth pop bands but with harsher tones). I have used it in reference to Power Electronics, "I want to do an 'ATRAX MORGUE worship' project".
So if 'worship' is not used in combination with another word, that's how I connotated it, if one were to say they play 'worship' music, I would assume it was what I derive as 'Christian Rock' but [INSERT FAITH HERE].
Could be wrong, not saying I'm right. Happy to learn.
