Telling people their desire,Satan's sitting there, he's smiling". This is not saying that they worship the devil, from a documentary that I saw on VH1's "Heavy: The Story Of Metal" It was said that "According to the band, the song was inspired by an experience that Geezer Butler related to Ozzy Osbourne. Geezer painted his apartment matte black and placed several inverted crucifixes on the walls. Then, one day, Ozzy brought round a book about witchcraft, which Geezer became extremely fascinated by. One night, he read the book and fell asleep. He recalls waking up and seeing a black figure and, as he put it, "crapped myself". He then told Ozzy, who wrote the lyrics to what would become Black Sabbath: "What is this that stands before me? Figure in black which points at me".(Ozzy Osbourne,Black Sabbath) So it's not about worshiping the devil, it was about a bad experience.
Some people say that the members of Slayer are devil worshipers. But their lead singer Tom Araya commented on it saying "Yeah,yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band, but next to that just the fact that we're normal."
Most of the people who sing about the devil have really,really strong catholic (Christian) beliefs. He also showed up on a documentary entitled "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" in which he was asked about his religion, but then he was asked "God Hates Us All, How does it fit in [with religious background]?" In which he replied "God doesn't hate, it's a great [expletive deleted] title"(Araya,wikipedia). So basically what he is saying is not to judge a book by its cover.
With the search I did today, I feel it was a prevalent search. It was easy to find some examples for this topic. You and I now know that many people who make metal music, no matter how "Demonic" sounding could be catholic. Meaning nothing towards saying "we are devil worshipers". But my search has only started. We will see in the coming weeks.
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"Black Sabbath (song)." Wikipedia. 17 Apr 2008
Metal :A Headbanger's Journey. Various. VH1 Classic, 13 May 2008.
Heavy: The Story Of Metal. Various. VH1 Classic, 13 May 2008.
"Tom Araya." Wikipedia. 18 Apr 2008
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