I am glad someone started this post.There is no doubt that Satan speaks through certain types of music.The bible said that Satan was a musician and speaks through his music.Many people do not know there is a type of music called "Black metal".It was started in the late 70's and has evolved into a dark,underground,Satanic movement still alive and well today but mostly unheard of.Bands with names such as Venom,Cradle of filth,and Gorgoroth are the heavy hitters with a large unground following.There are hundreds more bands of a lessor nature such as Marylin manson,Cannibal corpse,Bile,and others but just as destructive as far as spiritual corruption goes.Anyone who thinks this type of music is harmless if dead wrong.Young or old,take a person who is easily influnced and listen to this type of music and you will see a noticeable difference in personality:Lack of respect for life,more aggresion,and a spiral of depression and hopelesnes.That music speaks of death,destruction,violence,and total lack of respect for life and morals.It's not surpising that listening to that type of music would make you a more aggresive and evil type of person.



Much like the rap world the people who listen to this music often take it to the extremes.Murder,hate,beatings,violence,and Chruch burnings have all been directly linked to both the people who are playing music in these bands and the people who listen to them.People who listen to black metal and death metal get a thrill out of watching people die in real life from pro-death websites such as Nothingtoxic and others.Christianity and Christians are looked upon like a disease that must be cured.

I know I am going to get the usual crap from the usual people in here saying I know this guy that listens to that music and he is a harmless,bunny petting,sunday school teacher and "I listen to Venom and I am not like that".But I say to you if that is the case Satan either has not taken a interest in you because you have nothing to offer him,or you are such a week spirited person there is nothing for Satan to gain by corrupting you.The people who get hit the hardest by Satans wrath are probably the back sliding Christians who go to these shows.Satan knows he has a great deal to gain by corrupting and turning the Christians away from God.You will find that many of the people who murdered others because "the music told them to" were usually people who lived in nice houses and had a normal life.The Columbine killers are a prime example and facts show the type of music they listened to had a direct influnce on why they did what they did.You can say what ever you want but I speak as someone who formally in that scene before I turned to Christ.I saw these things first hand.I saw hundreds of bands in a 15 year period sometimes going to shows 3 times a week.I saw many of the death and black metal bands and I can say without any doubt Satan was alive and well in that room.I felt like the people around me was ready to stick a dagger in my back at any moment.Like the whole room would be consumed by fire.

You can call it harmless but I say otherwise.Go to a Cradle of filth show sometime and talk to the people there.See how many of them are pro-life.So how many go to church on Sunday.Ask them how much they respect life and morals.The majority of them are drunk,stoned,and would gladly burn a church down if they could get away with it.These people who support these shows are the scum of the earth.They keep evil alive and are all examples of Satan in flesh.I have no respect for the people who support that type of music and have boycotted the theaters and clubs that allow them to play there.

A taste of the Black metal shows

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

Saturine...yes as you just said a forum is a place to express your opinion and say what you think

but to come to a place where people express their opinions and say what they think just to complain about people expressing their opinions and saying what they think is ....er...how can I say this without offending anyone .....DELUSIONAL

Saturnine....what's actually is delusional is for someone to log into a debating forum to complain about people debating

surely even in your life outside the forum you express your opinions to others which may differ from their opinion ...
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all I did was express my opinion. In the same way that everyone else is saying what they think. You don't have to like it. It doesn't change my opinion and afterall this IS a forum

My very first experience in a Baptist church almost cost me my left hand.

My daughter's mom, shortly after we got together, talked me into going to church with her.

There I sit with my long hair, having listened to some Heavy Metal music on the way to the church, and the preacher just happened to pick that particular Sunday to have a sermon about eh " Evils " of Heavy Metal music.

I have always been one to question people who make broad claims...and this would have been no different.

When I heard the preacher say " It's either good Christian music, or it's spawned from THE DEPTHS OF HELL!!!! " my daughter's mom IMMEDIATELY grabbed my left hand and put an absolute deathgrip on it to keep me from saying anything...lmao

Of course, later in life, I managed to get banned from another ( completely unrelated ) Baptist church for asking a simple question of the preacher.

Another ex talked me into going with her. The preacher was a real Hellfire and Brimstone kind of guy. She leaned over to me and whispered ( in the middle of the sermon ) that the preacher had had a heart attack while preaching a couple of years before.

So...on the way out...in the greeting line...it finally came to be our turn to say something to the preacher, praise the sermon or whatever...and I asked him...

I hear that you had a heart attack while preaching once.

He said " Yes sir. I certainly did. Only by the grace of God am I here today. "

I looked at him and said... " Think maybe that was God's way of telling you that you needed to mellow out??? "

Yeah...I got banned for that.

* shrugs *

I think the issue is more similar to certain aspects of the Soviet system, for example, they pushed Lamarkian evolution which is a known nonstarter, therefore how do you teach Xian values and faith, while still providing an actual real world education?