Other local bands

Likeminded
A Delaware punk legacy

Oftenot
One of the area's greatest

Stratia
Truly amazing and original Massachusetts metalcore

Variant
Our up and coming mall-rock friends (formerly Ridikule)

Johny Law
One of the best punk bands on the east coast

Non-local bands

Extol
A giant of progressive death metal

Underoath
One of the best emotional bands in existence

Crutch
Filling the void left by Chuck Schuldiner

Norma Jean
Quite possibly the best metalcore band ever

Anah Aevia
One of the few outstanding metalcore bands today

Falling Cycle
Technical metal blended wonderfully with hardcore

Demon Hunter
If you like KoRn, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Hatebreed...

Blindside
Extremely talented and difficult-to-define Swedish hard rock

Further Seems Forever
If you like emotional melodic rock, your search ends here

Marshmallow Forestfire
Killafornia hardcore, great for dancing

Good Record Labels

Solid State
By far the largest Christian metal label, subsidiary of...
Tooth and Nail
Probably the largest Christian punk/emo/rock label

Facedown
Great label for lesser-known hardcore bands

Selah
Home of great bands such as Anah Aevia

Burning
They have Crutch, what more do they need?

Endtime
If you like your metal extreme...

Other cool stuff

HxC.com
One of the best sites on the web for Christian hard music lovers

Hardcore Christian
Another good site for Christian music of all sorts

The HxC Boards
A community of hardcore lovers of all shapes and sizes
(and a favorite internet hangout of Jason and Matt)

Rock For Life
(Delaware Chapter)
Great Christian pro-life organization

Zerosynthetic
Jason and Matt's old band's website

Jason and Matt's mp3.com station
A collection of great Christian songs on mp3.com

Some old poetry by Matt
If you want to read old, unused song lyrics, go for it