Awesome! Looks like you guys listen to some pretty great stuff. Other than, like I said before, Switchfoot and Jon Foreman's solo EPs, I've been listening to a lot of Underoath, Skillet, Flyleaf, Disciple, Anberlin, Esterlyn, Red, and Ten Shekel Shirt, and The Wedding lately. But then I also like the stuff like August Burns Red (if you're reading this, you should check out their cover of "Carol of the Bells"--it's the best Christmas song with a breakdown ever), As I Lay Dying, War of Ages, Norma Jean--you know, the hard stuff. Plus I like to go to more worship oriented concerts, like Casting Crowns, Third Day, Kutless, Building 429, that kind of stuff.
Avenged Sevenfold--definitely not a Christian band, but I do enjoy their sound, even if they're not something I'd listen to all the time. And, yeah, they have tons and tons of biblical references, and I've been able to use that as kind of a springboard to talk about, you know those kinds of biblical themes and redemption and what not.
As for those types of Christians you're talking about, I totally understand, 'specially seeing as I used to be one of them. (The in-your-face, you're-going-to-hell, wear-the-right-clothes, listen-to-the-right-music kind, mind you, not the goes-to-church-to-mooch kind. 
) It reminds me of the words of the apostle James, basically that pure and undefiled 'religion' is to care for the poor and the widowed. There are so many churches that have totally forgotten about Jesus and everything He ever said and did to get into petty arguments over man-made rules and ordinances, and it really breaks my heart.
But anyway, come to think of it, I really should've titled this thread just "Music" because I'd really be interested in a general survey of what, you know, everyone is listening to these days.
