MUSICAL:
Crimson Thorn,
Extol,
Living Sacrifice,
Vader,
Cannibal Corpse,
Nile,
Decapitated,
Amon Amarth,
you get the idea
SPIRITUAL:
Hank Hanegraaff,
Normal Giesler,
Josh McDowell,
Lee Strobel,
Christopher Neiswonger,
Greg Koukl,
Dr. William Lane Craig,
www.carm.org,
www.equip.org,
www.str.org
www.apologetics.com,
etc.
Sounds Like
A touch of Vadar, a splash of Kataklysm,
a pinch of Dying Fetus, and a hint of Nile.
Long story short - Jeff, who was in the now defunct secular grindcore band VULGAR PIGEONS (myspace.com/vulgarpigeons) asked his fellow Pigeon John if he would drum on Jeff's Christian death metal project, Tortured Conscience. Berto, having previous knowledge of VULGAR PIGEONS and himself a guitarist in a grindcore band named IGNIT (myspace.com/ignitband), volunteered his vocals for the band.
The Beliefs This Band Represents:
1. Belief in the Triune God (one "what", three "whos." God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit)
2. Jesus is fully God and fully man. He was not a created being but the one who spoke and the world leapt into existence. He condensended Himself to cloak Himself in human flesh and became the sacrifice for our sins.
3. Jesus is the one and only way to the Father. All other religions attempt to win salvation by performing works, thinking that they can earn their way into heaven. Only Christ tells you the truth and says you cannot do it on your own. The righteousness of man are like filthy rags to God.
4. The Bible is the inerrant word of God. Your opinion and my opinion mean absolutely nothing without an objective source to find out who's right. That source is the Bible. Whatever idea, thought, position, etc. that goes against the Bible is simply wrong.
REVIEWS:
FROM METAL HAMMER:
"TORTURED CONSCIENCE perform indetikit Deicide-style death metal straight out of 1995 on EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW [8], a genuinely crushing album that is all the more remarkable because the band are pushing that bizarre product, Christian extreme metal. Lines like "The apologists through time test the Scriptures for the facts" sound weird delivered in a custard-gargling bellow, but you know what? It works." - Metal Hammer, 8 out of 10
FROM S.O.D.:
8 Skulls
Hailing from San Francisco, Tortured Conscience makes its debut with Every Knee Shall Bow. Death Metal fans will start banging from the get-go, as these dudes throw down some serious Grindcore-tainted fare that is equal parts groove and fury. Drummer John Gotelli channels some righteous Voodoo Loa, his blasters going full bore while the snare-cymbal rips are relentless. Jeff Lenormand tackles all the stringed instruments. His bass rumbles along at a frenetic pace and his guitars are downtuned but crunchy. The basic rhythms rely on a thunderous sound, a whirlwind of dissonance upon which Lenormand sets down some melodic solos. Throat Berto Salas uses an effective growl that sometimes grinds down even lower but never quite approaches pig squeals. Lyrically, these are Christian dudes to the bone, which in this day and age makes them even more seditious than their Satanic counterparts. Some may scorn the word - or the WORD - but the lyrics never get in the way of the Grind. Fans of Grinding Death Metal will definitely dig this one. (OR)
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TO ANY HONEST SKEPTIC WHO WANTS TO WRITE:
I'm (Jeff) more than willing to talk with you if you're an intellectually honest person and are civil and polite. (And the ability to use Spell Check and to be pithy would be helpful, too.) But if you just want to spew childish banter or feel the need to curse every other word or call names, don't bother; I wont respond to you. This is grown up time and if you want to play games, I suggest you sit at the kid's table and share with the other children about how "evil and metal" you are.
"Christianity is not something to be shoved down your throat or forced on you. You have your life to live and I have mine. All I can do is tell you what I have learned and experienced. After that, what you do with Christ is your decision." -Josh McDowell
“If each individual person passes out of existence when he dies, then what ultimate meaning can be given to his life? Does it really matter whether he ever existed at all? It might be said that his life was important because it influenced others or affected the course of history. But this shows only a relative significance to his life, not an ultimate significance.” – William Lane Craig
“If life ends at the grave, then it makes no difference whether one has lived as a Stalin or as a saint. Since one’s destiny is ultimately unrelated to one’s behavior, you may as well just live as you please…In a world without a divine lawgiver, there can be no objective right and wrong, only our culturally and personally relative, subjective judgments.” William Lane Craig
“If death stands with open arms at the end of life’s trail, then what is the goal of life? To what end has life been lived?…Is it utterly pointless? If its destiny is a cold grave in the recesses of outer space, the answer must be yes—it is pointless. There is no goal, no purpose, for the universe…If there is no God, then our life is not fundamentally different from that of a dog.” William Lane Craig
“Man cannot live consistently and happily as though life were ultimately without meaning, value, or purpose. If we try to live consistently within the framework of the atheistic worldview, we shall find ourselves profoundly unhappy. If instead we manage to live happily, it is only by giving the lie to our worldview.” William Lane Craig
"If he [the Bible critic] tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour, not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this." - C.S. Lewis (professor of medieval and Renaissance literature, Cambridge University; author of The Chronicles of Narnia.)
"We are not absurdly arguing that Apologetics has in itself the power to make a man a Christian or to conquer the world to Christ. Only the Spirit of Life can communicate life to a dead soul...But we are arguing that faith is, in all its exercises alike, a form of conviction, and is, therefore, necessarily grounded in evidence." - Benjamin Warfield (Princeton University)
"God saves...apologetics do not." - Josh McDowell
"Faith in the Christian sense goes beyond reason but not against it." - Paul Little
"We cannot pander to a man's intellectual arrogance, but we must cater to his intellectual integrity." - John Stott
TO THE "JESUS MYTHERS" -
"It would be a dangerous error to imagine that the characteristics of an historical religion would be maintained if the Christ of the theologians were divorced from the Jesus of history." - Herbert Butterfield (historian)
"The similar stories such as resurrections, and others, of Greek mythology were not applied to real flesh-and-blood individuals, but instead to non-historical, fictional, mythological characters." - Josh McDowell
"The resurrection provides a basis in historical probability for trying the Christian faith. Granted, the basis is only one of probability, not of certainty, but probability is the sole ground on which finite human beings can make any decision...The moment we enter the realm of fact, we must depend on probability; this may be unfortunate, but it is unavoidable." - John W. Montgomery
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hey guys i just wanted 2 let u know that it is close to the king's bday and as such I have been listening 2 ur version of little drummer boy!! OH YEAH, nothin says metal 4 the Lord like sum Tortured Conscience!! can't wait for a new album guys, love/support from Hamilton,Ontario,Canada, love ur brother in Christ ~~MELVIN~~
i wish i have a cd from you guys.. specially that blinded song that is so amazing the riffs are so cool its totaly heavy. i have a band here and we want to cover it in one of our songs but how it is very hard to find here in philippines. even in the internet i still dont find it where to download it... but anyways TC is so heavy... hails to TC......
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.
Just stopping by to show some respect. Are you playing anymore as Tortured Conscience? Can I catch you live sometime here in the Bay? I apologize if these questions are answered on your page already, but my time is short- I use the timed computers here at the public library (I don't own a computer).
PASAMOS A DEJARLES UN AFECTUOSO SALUDO Y REITERARLES NUESTRA PATENTE INVITACIÓN A LOS EVENTOS DE DEUTERONOMIUM EN LA REPÚBLICA MEXICANA, ESTO CON MOTIVO DEL 99 ANIVERSARIO DE LA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA DENTRO DEL TOUR “TOGETHER FOR THE REVOLUTION.”
ESPERAMOS VERLOS POR ALLÁ Y COMPARTIR JUNTOS EL ESCENARIO, NO UN ESCENARIO DE LUCES Y SONIDO, NO UNO DE BACKLINE Y TARIMAS, SINO EL ESCENARIO HISTÓRICO QUE CONFORMAMOS TODOS EN LA ESCENA DEL METAL QUIENES QUEREMOS ALGO MEJOR PARA NUESTRA NACIÓN, LA SUBTERRÁNEA Y LA MEXICANA.
LOS DEJAMOS A TAN SÓLO UNOS DÍAS DEL TOUR, CALENTANDO MOTORES O MÁS BIEN DICHO MÁQUINAS CON UN PAR DE VIDEOS NADA OFICIALES QUE ENCONTRAMOS POR AHÍ DE DEUTERONOMIUM, GRABADOS NADA PROFESIONAL POR UNOS FANS FINLANDESES EN EL OHM FEST.
"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
KATAKLYSM EUROPEAN HEADLINING TOUR 2010 w/ BELPHEGOR, DARKEST HOUR, SUICIDAL ANGELS, RESISTANCE 7 Jan 2010 Batschkapp Frankfurt 8 Jan 2010 Roxy Saarbrücken 9 Jan 2010 Atak Enschede 10 Jan 2010 Biebob Vosselaar 11 Jan 2010 Academy Islington London 12 Jan 2010 La Locomotive Paris 13 Jan 2010 Live Music Hall Cologne 14 Jan 2010 Backstage Munich 15 Jan 2010 Arena Vienna 16 Jan 2010 Posthof Linz 17 Jan 2010 MOR Cafe Zlin 18 Jan 2010 TBA Ljubljana 19 Jan 2010 Estragon Bologna 20 Jan 2010 Matrix Bochum 21 Jan 2010 Z7 Pratteln 22 Jan 2010 LKA Longhorn Stuttgart 23 Jan 2010 Hellraiser Leipzig 24 Jan 2010 Postbahnhof Berlin 25 Jan 2010 Markthalle Hamburg
‘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”}
Ephesians 1:3-14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
yeah the neighbors got in a fight and the girl burned her boyfriends stuff on the porch (right next to the gas main) of the building i live in, Actually caught the tree that touches my porch on fire
Thanx for accepcting the request guys ur music has been a blessing to me ive known of this band for a while and its been such an blessing to know that theres music out there this brutal and at the same time glorifies god god bless jayson c.
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