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Most teens may not get excited about church, but in Finland they go out of their way to attend in the latest testimony to the country’s infatuation with heavy metal music: Metal Mass. –

AFP reports “It’s nice that there are slightly different church services
compared to the usual ones,” says 15-year-old Teea Pallaskari, who
skipped geography class to make the service in the plain, red-brick
Lutheran Church — the state religion — in this small town about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Helsinki.

Inside, Pallaskari and her classmates squash together on packed pews, belting out hymns as a lead singer moshes wildly onstage to his band’s earsplitting tones.

Not everyone is happy with the mix. Some churchgoers feel loud rock music has no place in a house of God, and some pure metal fans accuse the Lutheran Church of co-opting their music to lure young people.

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The biggest metalcore band in the land happens to be a Christian sextet that, for a second time, is primed to crash into the upper echelons of the Billboard 200. –

Reuters reports Underoath will on Tuesday release its fourth album, “Lost in the
Sound of Separation.” It’s the follow-up to 2006’s “Define the Great
Line,” which debuted at No. 2 without any significant radio play or
mainstream push; it has sold 366,000 copies in the United States,
according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Instead of the typical avenues of exposure, the Florida band has
relied on a fierce, two-pronged model of touring and Internet marketing.

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Christian metalcore band Haste the Day has asked guitarist Jason Barnes to step down after months of spiritual searching by their close friend concluded with his loss of faith in God. –

The Christian Post reports In their statement, the seven-year-old band from Indianapolis
explained that Barnes had been “searching and searching for real
meaning in his existence.”

“After several months of reading literature and talking with
friends, Jason had determined that he felt there was no God and
certainly no Jesus,” the group revealed.

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