I became interested in this topic when I heard on the news that at Columbine High School back in 1999 when the two boys went on a rampage at their school and killed 14 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 24 more and then took their own lives. The news and media all said that " They were influenced by listening to Marylin Manson and that 'Devil music'" or something to that sort. That's when I looked at the music that I listen to and think "How could they get that from a simple song?" I didn't feel that way.
When I first heard about there being demonic (Satanic) symbolism in Heavy metal music, or in any other type of metal music I thought "This is preposterous, there isn't any of that in metal music." In metal music yeah, they talk about the devil and incorporate the devil into many of their actions and songs, but that doesn't mean a thing. Well that's just my opinion.
There are many metal bands that do this. These bands are Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, and Rob Zombie but there is more. Now if you want to take the lyrics in a different manner that's all you. If you want to say that Iron Maiden's "Number Of The Beast" is all about worshiping the devil, it isn't. But as I said before it's all in the eye of the beholder. Just like in Metallica's "Creeping Death" the one verse is "Die By My Hand, I Creep Across The Land, Killing Firstborn Man". There not saying go kill. It's from the story in the bible, it's the "Tenth Plague". But thats all I can say for right now.
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