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How in the word would you even think that disturbed is christian? I know they have a song called "prayer"...but..wow.
I've been on both sides of the spectrum. I'm one of the few girls that are totally into death metal. Now i listen to ONLY christian death metal.

Let's clear this up.

NOT CHRISTIAN-Distrubed, Slipknot, Korn, Otep, In flames, Metallica, Linkin Park, System of a Down, Seether, Evanescence, Nine Inch Nails, Dethklok, Nightwish, AFI, The agony Scene, Stone Sour, Static-X, Staind, Three Days Grace. And others that i just don't know of right now.

CHRISTIAN- Cirimson Moonlight(death metal at it's best!), Skillet, Relient K, Thousand Foot Krutch, Zao, Norma Jean, Demon Hunter, As i lay dying, Killswitch Engage, Disciple, Falling up, RED, Kutless, and Flyleaf.

Any more questions, ask me or another lovely gentleman who introduced me to crimson moonlight.

i think that bad christians arent really bad, but misunderstood and misunderstanding what it means to be christian heart

Yes they are.. have you read the lyrics??? Or are you judging them on how they look??

strange, because i have read somewhere else that during an interview that they did not want to go to hell, and are christians, singing christian lyrics, being a christian band...

At any rate, you have to remember that we live in a culture where the head idol is entertainment. You can see how a lot more professing Christians want to have something related to music, instead of desiring to reach out for the poor, the homeless, the forgotten. After our world culture was Americanized, it is difficult not to find this thirst of worship for music and whatnot.

Please keep in mind that in our days most churches are like a "circus": They just to attract people. I'm currently reading John MacArthur's "Hard to Believe," where he talks about this church that says something like: "We promise that you'll be entertained and have a good time listening to our music band."

Remember: We are not here to sing or listen to music... we're here to give living worship to the living God, and with worship I mean reverentiating Him for all His attributes, for who He is, and for what He has done. It saddens me to see so much professing Christians around the world burning their eyelashes doing things that die from a day to another, or consuming their strengths doing things that is not definitely not focusing on the eternal.

Instead of focusing so much in ourselves (which I believe is the essence of the true bad "Christian") and in music, we should remember Miccah 6:8 and do our main duty. Of course, not all of us will be teachers or preachers, but it is the duty of every Christian to share the testimony of the great things the Lord has done in our lives... even to the point of rejection by the world (and by some professing Christians), and even to the point of death.

the one thing in the world that gets me angry, beyond angry, are people claiming to be christian, but arn't. I've heard people try to make a case for calling themselves christian, but not beleiving Jesus was nything but a very good prophet. The problem is we cannot seem to ever hard-line anything, DEFINE what it means to be christian, I mean, look at the denominations, they formed because we cannot agree on minute details that don't even matter. We can't agree on the big things either, so we're so diverse, it's impossible to say to anyone that they arn't christian, even if they arn't acting like it.

It's just another example of how things go when we, as humans, put our own intellect and understanding before the things that the Lord reveals through His word. We always come out looking like fools. Our ways are so finite in comparison to the Master's will. There's no way we could fully understand what is on His mind. How do we know, then? We read His word and follow it, not drifting to the right or to the left. We concentrate on His word and allow it to change us!! It's far too easy to distort the word of God by adding out own understanding to it.

Now, as far as the music argument goes, it's fairly simple. The real music is in the lyrics, not the way that the sound is played. A person can praise the same God with the same lyrics, yet have radically different sounds (example: a classical pianist and a death metal guitarist). Music is a powerful tool, both for edification and for corruption, so we have to be careful. I always try to read the lyrics of a song that I like to really understand whether or not I can afford to listen to it, because I want to keep my mind clean.

...and to throw my hat into the whole "anti-gay" bit that seems to get us all into massive amounts of embarrassment with our society, God created people with free will, but He also has a design for us all. I see sin is a perversion of God's original design that is exercised through our free will. I'm going to get into a lot of trouble with this next statement, but I'm going to say it anyway. Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice brought about through our free will by giving in to the temptation to misuse our bodies in such a manner ("normalized" addictions to things like pornography are among the same style of misuse, so we straight arrows aren't completely guiltless). No one is born as a homosexual. However, regardless of what strongholds the enemy of our souls may have over our lives, we serve a God that loves us all the same. He is as a parent to us, in that He hates the things we do, but loves us all as though we were perfect.

...and we, as Christians, must strive to love all the people of this world as our Holy Lord Jesus loves us, having died on our behalf while we were still His enemies!! This is not left up to choice. We are ordered to do so, and what may separate the true believers from the false ones could be left to a single question: are we willing to love the lost ones of this world in the same manner?

Think about it.

If we were not to have any music but that approved by the elders in church then why are we not singing the Psalms from the OT? They are the only ones that God deemed fit to have included in the Bible. If the Music gives the message of Salvation and that God loves us then it is good music. You have to remember to be of the world but not in the world. Watch what they are saying in the lyrics, if they are not about God then you should get rid of that music.