subject: The Myth About Heavy Metal Music [print this page] Ever since Elvis Presley started shaking his hips and making rock music people have been suspicious of anything heavier than country and western music. There is a good reason for this. A lot of heavy metal music is of the less than desirable kind. The myth that all heavy metal is evil is one that I hope to dispel.
It is not just those that worship satan that play heavy metal music. There are bands that are non religious and even bands that are christians that play this form of music too. Just because you are not always able to hear what they are actually saying does not mean that the music is dodgy. It is just different.
It is an unfortunate truth that many of the earliest, underground heavy metal bands were affiliated to the satanic cult and some of the more recent ones are too. It is not all bands that follow this line of thought though. There are still plenty of heavy metal bands around that are the furthest thing from this kind of band though.
In fact, most of your most popular heavy metal bands are not affiliated to any particular religion. Instead the protest about the way the world is being run and how they are treated by those who do not understand them.
You can get a feel for the type of individual that enjoys heavy metal music by visiting some of the metal clubs around you. You will almost certainly discover that the clubs which play the more popular music see far more fights than those clubs that play heavy metal. Heavy metal gives its audience a way to vent safely while rave or house seem to intensify the pent up frustration.
It is a common misconception that all music that is not popular is evil. There are a lot of Christian heavy metal bands out there that play music intended to bring people to the lord. The common feeling about heavy metal is a classic case of judging a book by its cover instead of its contents.
