Holy fucking shit. I almost was exposed to a swear word on the Internet by some asshole cunt. That bitch didn't know it's fucking illegal to swear on the Internet. Thank fucking god someone put a thin white line over it. I was about to shit a brick.
I got a temporary suspension on that R-word site that shall not be named for using the word "retard" in the context of refrigerating bread to slow the development of mold and there was no way to contest it.
So, with that sort of shit going on all over the internets, I give folks a little grace these days when it comes to self-censorship.
I listen to metal with themes of "my life has go so horribly wrong and all i know is pain" and "hot goth vampire girls". Sometimes both at the same time.
And then there is a 91 year old Christopher Lee that is singing about his Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather, Charlemagne.
It's wonderful how misunderstood a lot of the 'evil' metal bands are. Bands like Cradle of Filth and Cattle Decapitation have ostensibly repulsive artwork and song titles/lyrics, but the themes and meaning behind the songs meander between tongue-in-cheek fun to philosophical pondering to outright castigation of humanity's treatment of the natural world.
Judging a book by its cover and all that stuff...
Then again, there's Behemoth, who literally describe summoning demons and other pagan and satanic rites in their songs. But good grief, the music is so good.
The origins of metal have more moral correctness than the "Christian" US. Scroll all the way back to 1970, "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath. Song very plainly and literally about the corruption of the political establishment and the evil of war. That undercurrent never went away, all the way to the present.
Cradle of Filth is one of the worst examples to bring up, lol. Principles of Evil Made Flesh and V:Empire is mostly about vampirism and satanism. They literally have albums (Cruelty and Dusk) about Elizabeth Bathory sacrificing children in rituals to Satan to keep her youth and so many songs in Midian have Anti-Christian themes including a protagonist in one of the songs burning down a church.
But agree with you, only a small fraction of metal is satanic, it's mostly limited to a small subsection of Black Metal. Although... the wiki page for Early Black Metal in Norway is always a fun read. :)
Definitely Christopher Lee singing about his Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather, Charlemagne.
My dad is a born-again Christian and he threw out all his Black Sabbath records when he (re)converted. I started listening to classic metal in college, and I eventually had to ask my dad... "You threw out this? This is some of the lyrically-mildest stuff I've ever listened to." He just kinda shrugged, and admitted that he overreacted a bit, but this is still 100% the way lots of the evangelicals I grew up with think about anything that's not explicitly marketed as "Christian."
At this point we really need to accept that there are still puritans amongst us. That said, [insert profane insult here, everything I could think of would irritate someone, and well, shit].
I said BS at a presentation the other week, like literally the letters, because I wanted to say something completely wrong was bullshit, so I censored it for my wide audience. My boss "mentored" me later that I shouldn't say that because I never know who is watching my talk. If those little bitches lose the heart of my discussion because I used an expletive to reinforce the strength of my observations, they can eat a dick. Obviously, I said I'll try to keep their advice in mind because...
Wait, does that mean that Doom 2016 is based on true events, then? Because the H E A V Y M E T A L always plays when a portal opens up with loads of demons!
Hypothetically once a demonic hell portal opens could you push someone through it, stop listening, and trap them there? Will it work if I am the only listener using ear buds and Spotify? Asking for a friend...
So what does he listen to? Messiaen? Rautavaara? Or some cringe american band whose whole material is the blasphemous doctrine of some megachurch? If the answer is something like the first two, they certainly know how to open portals to hell and heaven and back while being extremely religious.
I personally love that he believes the mere act of watching a horror movie or listening to a loud sound can open a demonic fear portal yet his fear of fear portals does not.