In no particular order - Pride & Glory, Suffocation, Pantera (R.I.P. Dime!), BLS, Death (R.I.P. Chuck!), Molly Hatchet, Confessor, Dark Angel, Malevolent Creation, Fates Warning, Blackfoot, Ted Nugent, pre- black album Metallica, Megadeth, Overkill, Ozzy, Randy Rhoads (R.I.P.), Morbid Angel, Black Stone Cherry, STRYPER, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath along with many other southern rock, hard rock, thrash metal and death metal artists.
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In mid November of 2007, in the backwoods of eastern Tennessee, the chill in the air was simply a promise of another long winter to come. There was a sound that rang through that cold air, a din - if you will, of something new and exciting. This clamor carried with it the beauty of an Easter morning sunrise service, the aggresion of a "hell fire and brimstone" southern Baptist preacher and the soul of southern roots that had once been covered with the filth of a Godless world. This sound, this music became - Rent Veil.
Rent Veil continued throughout the winter into 2008 and recorded their first demo in February. The demo was titled "Union". The trio of musicians, Tym Walker - Vocals and Guitars (formerly of Enter Self), Greg Frye - Drums and Vocals (formerly of Enter Self) and Doug McDaniel - Bass, performed, grew and honed their skills through out various parts of the United States, including their first performance at GMA Music Week (Nashville, TN) for Raging Storm Records and the always amazing - ever growing Cornerstone Music Festival in Bushnell, IL among others.
The sound now known as "Southern Praise Metal" drifted from a mainly metal standpoint into a southern roots filled metal niche. Influences from thrash metal, death metal, southern rock and even Gospel are present in the structure of Rent Veil's music. Frye and Walker being the main songwriters in a natural but odd fashion have harnessed the power of their previous musical ventures and held on tightly to their southern roots to produce the Rent Veil sound. Combining their backgrounds in metal, thought provoking lyrics and showing their diversity with some captivating (yet sometimes haunting) ballads - Rent Veil are the new breed of American metal! Walker who had never attempted to sing before became the vocalist, thus leaving Rent Veil as a power trio of true hearted, spirit filled, faith inspired musicians. Feeling a close connection to the blue collar working man of America, Rent Veil continue to focus on what is real and what is right... hard working attitudes, sweat of the brow, never wavering or concerning themselves with being politically correct, despising todays Godless trends and staying true to their faith.
In March of 2009, Doug left the band for personal reasons and Travis "Monkey" Tapp filled the gap on bass. Due to the economic downfall of 2009, Rent Veil were limited in their appearances. Though 2009 did find Rent Veil writing, pre-producing and beggining to record their first full length CD. The new CD will hopefully be released by spring of 2010.
When all the trends are dead, only the TRUTH will remain... kill the trends!
Give thanks With a grateful heart Give thanks To the Holy One Give thanks Because He's given Jesus Christ His Son Give thanks With a grateful heart Give thanks To the Holy One Give thanks Because He's given Jesus Christ His Son And now let the weak Say "I am strong" Let the poor say "I am rich" Because of what the Lord Has done for us (written by Don Moen)
Psalm 7:17 I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
Psalm 28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.
Psalm 30:12 that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever.
Psalm 35:18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly; among throngs of people I will praise you.
Psalm 75:1 We give thanks to you, O God, we give thanks, for your Name is near; men tell of your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 95:2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
Psalm 100:4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
Psalm 147:1-7 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground. Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
I know the proud flesh wants to serve Christ, by striking out new paths. Proud man has a desire to preach new doctrine, to set up a new Church; to be an original thinker, to judge, and consider, and do anything but obey. This is no service to Christ. He that would serve Christ must follow him; he must be content to tread only in the old footsteps, and go only where Christ has led the way. It is not for you and me to be originals; we must be humble copies of Christ. There must be nothing about our religion of our own inventing; it is for us to lay thought, and judgment, and opinion at the feet of Christ, and do what he bids us, simply because he gives the command.
Psalm 75 1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. 2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. 3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. 4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. 8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. 9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
‘Many a church has fallen into a condition of indifference, and when it does so it generally becomes the haunt of worldly professors, a refuge for people who want an easy religion, which enables them to enjoy the pleasures of sin and the honours of piety at the same time; where things are free and easy, where you are not expected to do much, or give much, or pray much, or to be very religious; where the minister is not so precise as the old school divines, a more liberal people, of broad views, free-thinking and free-acting, where there is full tolerance for sin, and no demand for vital godliness. Such churches applaud cleverness in a preacher. As for his doctrine, that is of small consequence, and his love to Christ and zeal for souls is very secondary. He is a clever fellow, and can speak well, and that suffices. This style of things is all too common, yet we are expected to hold our tongue, for the people are very respectable. The Lord grant that we may be kept clear of such respectability!’
~Charles Spurgeon {from his sermon “An Earnest Warning about Lukewarmness”}
"The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with My disciples?"—Mark 14:14.
JERUSALEM at the time of the passover was one great inn; each householder had invited his own friends, but no one had invited the Saviour, and He had no dwelling of His own. It was by His own supernatural power that He found Himself an upper room in which to keep the feast. It is so even to this day—Jesus is not received among the sons of men save only where by His supernatural power and grace He makes the heart anew. All doors are open enough to the prince of darkness, but Jesus must clear a way for Himself or lodge in the streets. It was through the mysterious power exerted by our Lord that the householder raised no question, but at once cheerfully and joyfully opened his guestchamber. Who he was, and what he was, we do not know, but he readily accepted the honour which the Redeemer proposed to confer upon him. In like manner it is still discovered who are the Lord's chosen, and who are not; for when the gospel comes to some, they fight against it, and will not have it, but where men receive it, welcoming it, this is a sure indication that there is a secret work going on in the soul, and that God has chosen them unto eternal life. Are you willing, dear reader, to receive Christ? then there is no difficulty in the way; Christ will be your guest; His own power is working with you, making you willing. What an honour to entertain the Son of God! The heaven of heavens cannot contain Him, and yet He condescends to find a house within our hearts! We are not worthy that He should come under our roof, but what an unutterable privilege when He condescends to enter! for then He makes a feast, and causes us to feast with Him upon royal dainties, we sit at a banquet where the viands are immortal, and give immortality to those who feed thereon. Blessed among the sons of Adam is he who entertains the angels' Lord. ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
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