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The experiment last August saw Pantheïst and Arð accompanied by David Pipe, the cathedral organist at the Diocese of Leeds,
This dude took his last name and ran with it. David Pipe, Master of the Pipe Organ.
Any metal, including doom metal, is infinitely better than contemporary Christian music.
I don't know about that. You can't pass the time by counting the unintended references to man on man anal sex in the lyrics of metal music the way you can Christian music.
Talk about nominative determinism
This isn't appropriate. Churches are places of worship, not rock concert venues. Or anything for that matter which isn't somehow or in some way worshipping God.
We thought that churches would look at it as slightly heretical, – having a metal band playing in church – but that wasn’t the case at all
The thing is, a lot of C of E "Churches" are just ran by "modernists" who are basically just closeted agnostics at this point who only do stuff for money, unfortunately.
I'm not from England, but i do pay a lot of attention to music and, broadly speaking, religion, and I'm not entirely sure this is a fair take. Places of worship are not traditionally meant to be exclusively worship zones; they can and should be places to engage the community. An example is that old (medieval) german churches traditionally gave free beer to their patrons as an incentive to attend mass. One major criticism of modern religion is their inability to adapt to modern youth, and this seems like a creative way to engage the community.
Additionally, a lot of "heavy metal" (which is separate from Rock) is basically classical scales but sped up and using distortion. For me personally, there's a subgenre of metal that incorporates operatic vocalists that i find surprisingly fitting for such a sitting.
But people who are coming to concerts aren't going to typically stay for Jesus.
The main reason churches are losing youth/young adults is due to a failure of keeping a community of them. Churches creating young adult fellowships and youth fellowships are important. There is definitely an audience there, as non-denominational churches know this and know to keep a Christian centre, hence the youth go there.
Free beer as an incentive to attend mass is a bad example as well, you should attend mass because you want to go to mass.
Maybe the reason we don't go to church anymore is the lot of you are more interested in our musical tastes than the pedophiles hiding within your ranks.
Of course we care about paedophilia. You have to be deranged not to
Not sure I'm following your points here. You suggest that the church needs to keep and maintain a community, but doing things that attracts such potential members is inappropriate? I'm not really understanding what the idea to get new members is. Outreach and knowing your audience are important factors in growing a community.
One way to attract members is to showcase that the things that matter or are interesting (within reason) to potential members matters to the current members. People tend to be attracted to people that at least appear to understand them. Highlighting that everyone around you is wrong and doesn't get it kind of pinpoints a major underlying issue with the church today.
Unfortunately, the reality is that every group needs a way to attract members and increase attendance. I'm providing one from 1400s Germany, and some areas in Germany are, to this day, prolifically religious (bavaria, for example). Maybe it turns out it was a good idea to do what you can to keep members?
But you'd want an audience that is actually religious- not coming for the free beer.