Will a band being "religious" but not in your face about it turn you off to them?

[pmv]

Sephardic music (music of the Spanish Jews which was spread all over the place when the Jews got the boot) is really worth a listen.
Rondinella - Sephardic
Hadass Pal-Yarden - Ladino

Islamic Music:
Sabri Brothers - Qawwali (Sufi) music from Pakistan
Traditional Whirling Dervish - Sufi music from Turkey
Mercan Dede - modern Sufi music (Turkey and US, with some english lyrics)


Buddhist Music:
Monks of Drepung Loseling - Tibetan Buddhist
Gyuto Monks - Tibetan Buddhist

Vocal music is usually best when the words are in a language I don't understand.

I was going to mention Qawwali. There's also the kind of stuff Dead Can Dance or Azam Ali does, which I'm pretty sure has religious connotations. Loads of "world music" is religious, but if you don't understand the words it doesn't really matter!

 

[Pegun]

The new flyleaf album isn't too bad but there are others that piss me off when they add a lot of religious overtones to the music. That's when I know I need to stop listening to said band.

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

Ive always enjoyed "Switchfoot" when they were on the radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOTcr9wKC-o


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp6Qh-wT3ys&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt35Tdj3hoI&feature=channel

 

[SP33Demon]

Varying levels of "christian'ness"

Zao
Living Sacrifice
Underoath
As I Lay Dying
Blindside
Norma Jean
Mortification

etc...

and

AUGUST BURNS RED (fcking incredible band - go listen to new album Constellations)
http://www.myspace.com/augustburnsred/albums/constellations-12804150

Devil Wears Prada
Blessthefall
Burden of a Day
Paramore
Emery
Haste the Day
Gwen Stacy
The Word Alive
Demon Hunter