Metal Church

Metal Church is an American heavy metal band from Seattle. They formed as Shrapnel in 1981, their legendary first album was released in 1984 and the band's most recent work, The Weight of the World was released in 2004. Metal Church was formed when the Thrash/Speed Metal Genre was still evolving. Most of their early work had a special trademark that resembled many of the European Black and Death Metal bands of the 1980's. The songs in their most succesful albums, the self-titled Metal Church and The Dark, proved to be throroughly worked albums. David Wayne's vocals resembled those of the growls used by the european black metal bands but in a very high pitched tone. The lyrics from the album The Dark talk about death, assasination and fears. Metal church is still a working band, they are working with their third vocalist and even though the days of thrash metal are now over, they still have a lot of life left in them.

Current members

• Ronny Munroe: Vocals
• Kurdt Vanderhoof: Guitar
• Jay Reynolds: Guitar
• Steve Unger: Bass
• Kirk Arrington: Drums

Former members

• David Wayne (January 1, 1958 - May 10, 2005): Vocals (On the albums: Metal Church, The Dark, Live, Masterpeace)
• Mike Howe: Vocals (On the albums: Blessing in Disguise, The Human Factor, Hanging in the Balance)
• Craig Wells: Guitar (On all up to, and including, Live)
• John Marshall: Guitar (On Blessing in Disguise, The Human Factor, Hanging in the Balance, Masterpeace)
• Duke Erickson: Bass (All except The Weight of the World)