Holy Skronk: WinterBand, the End Times Christian Rock band is kind of amazing

so...anyway....you know how you fall into a YouTube hole? well I had just watched the A Band Called Death documentary

and i went to YouTube to see if i could find some of the 4th Movement stuff (the Hackney brothers' post-Death christian band) on there (it's there btw)

long story short, I ended up clicking shitload of weird fucking old 60s and 70s christian rock stuff that skot could probably tell you all about...

but then I saw a video with the image of these three old white haired dudes wearing robes that said "WinterBand EndTimes Christian Rock"

one guy was sitting down and wearing a safari hat

so i'm only human you know?

and these guys turned out to be kind of fucking awesome? and nuts! .... it's this kinda weird sometimes beefheart, sometimes proggy, sometimes 70s hard rock/metal...sometimes...i dunno what

anyway i'm kind of obsessed with these guys now...check it out

proggier/metal-er side (sorta)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj1HB5gD8io&list=PL3FE8D30D44C85896

skonkier kinda bar band beefheart shit (btw it's mostly just 7 minute vamp & guitar solo where they repeat "Rapture is coming!" every so often")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRnvIpWOe6Q&list=PL3FE8D30D44C85896

wake up! (the guitar player on the right is kind of a hero)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia_t__OHUs8&list=PL3FE8D30D44C85896

i don't know what to think of these guys

**btw just be forewarned these guys are like SUPER fucking right wing asshole end times weirdo dudes so this isn't like that private press sensitive campfire sensitive college-aged long hair catholic summer camp counselor early 70s shit....all their comment responses are way wacked and sometimes offensive

(also for a evangelical band they sure seem to only want to guitar solo for like 70 percent of their songs)

a ballad (also you are going to burn in hell)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQ1Txy0g94&list=PL3FE8D30D44C85896

make a joyful prog onto the Lord

some of it can get kinda bar band-y though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H15QzLkePC4&list=PL3FE8D30D44C85896

about 1:43 the guitarist goes apeshit...also drum solo for jesus!

side note, I was once at a fundie church lock-in with my trusty Fender Squire, and the youth group leader sternly warned me to play only guitar music that "honored the Lord".

I had no idea certain riffs were upsetting to Jesus.

on tour at stonehenge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTfscJt_KXQ&list=SPB412998AB6C625EF

ok lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQrTMAdP6A&list=SPB412998AB6C625EF

i swear if you couldn't see the videos i'd think this was some Ween thing or something-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qka5G-nDjBc&list=SPB412998AB6C625EF

this does seem like some kind of elaborate prank/performance art piece

Hot Christian rock telling it like it really is with no apologies to the ignorant, prejudiced or confused!

from http://www.winterband.com/

lol they got banned from GodTube

yeah maybe? man it's really elaborate if so

they really hate the idea of "the trinity" in their comments, i guess that's a thing w/pentacostals?

no truck with Papists

http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/the-margaret-mead-of-the-north-american-weirdo-winterband

"Obama Muslim 911" was a big hit with my pals back in those simpler times.

ah cool thx for the link

honestly tho i think the article undersells them a bit, like parts of this esp with the bald dude shreds are pretty fucking great...he in particular is nuts sometimes

The more I watch these three lead guitarist had to have been in a metal band at some point, you don't get those shredding chops otherwise...