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So I've told people before that I'm essentially a walking billboard for four things.

One, the gospel of Jesus Christ. Two, Jiu-Jitsu. Three, eating meat. And four, Christian metal. Okay, so a

couple of weeks ago, like any normal, well-adjusted Christian

man, I was listening to some very loud, screaming, angry Jesus music. Then I got on a little bit

of an old-school kick, so I landed on an album that was put out by a Christian metal band

on the metal label Solid State Records back in 2003. It was the album Failure On by a band called

Beloved. So it was the band's only full-length album that they released on a major Christian

label and then the band essentially disappeared. You know, they pop their heads above water with an

EP and a few performances here and there. But for all intents and purposes, their 2003 album was

the only art that that band

left for humanity. So I'm listening to this album, enjoying it, feeling overwhelming nostalgia.

I can literally see and smell my senior in high school self and my stinky bedroom, listening to this

album and trying my best to, you know, do a solo mosh pit. And then I get to track four called

Death to Traders. So this was a big time fan favorite because it had a very intense

crowd participation line. So this band was unique because it had two vocalists. So the clean

vocals were done by their front man and then their screaming vocals were actually done by their

drummer. And about three minutes and 30 seconds into the song, all of the instruments, except for one guitar,

cuts out, and the drummer screams, we were born for battle!

Like, I can't do it very good.

He did it amazing.

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