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Personally, I don't really care what religion any true metal band belongs to. They believe what they want to believe ,and that's their business and none of mine. Religious orientations of musicians shouldn't be a deciding factor when purchasing their music, in fact I find doing so is very discriminitory and religiously intolerant.
And the argument that religious radicals raise that by listening to metal that is performed by satanists you'll become a satanist yourself is ridiculous to the point of being hillarious. I mean, I listen to Dimmu Borgir, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go out and murder a million Christians and sacrifice them to satan, especially with the fact that I'm a Christian myself!
This kind of reminds me of this one argument I had with one friend I had at one time (who shall remain nameless) who was just about as fanatical as they come, so fanatical in fact that he could have come from another planet. I, being a big vampire fan started talking about vampire movies to him, and he then screamed at me at the top of his lungs and said that vampire movies are of satan and that if I watched them I would turn into a vampire and roam the night forever offering my victim's blood to satan. I then laughed at him, thinking he was joking, and said in a cheesy Transylvanian accent "Beware mortals! Tonight your blood and souls are mine!! MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!"
He then screamed at me like a raving madman and said that he wasn't kidding at all, and that I was in danger of the fires of hell. Well, soon after that I broke it off with this kid both becuase he was a violent fanatic, and I found at from other people that he was actually mentally insane, and had violently attacked many of his fellow students/teachers in school to the extent of biting them and trying to throttle them to death, and this poor whacko even beat up his own mother! I confronted him about it, and he said that why he was acting this way is because two demon lords directly under satan, named Sun Scorpion and some other name like Larkashog or something were torturing his soul and had been doing so since his birth. And that's when I decided that being a friend to this fruitcake may indeed pose a serious danger to my sanity and even my health!
My point here is, people shouldn't believe what the zealots say about true metal because some, certainly not all, but some of them may very well be violent insaniacs like that kid, who don't have a clue what their talking about.
Now there are some times when some metal bands can go too far, such as Cradle of Filth's song "I Raped the Virgin Mary and Sodomized the Bastard Christ" and what that one satanic band (forget their name) did lately at their concert with the nude women hanging on the crosses, that to me is just plain dispicable, but those are in the extreme scenarios. So mainly, you won't find stuff like that in metal unless you go looking for it. Just like gangs in a big city like New York and Chicago, a gang isn't going to come up and kill you if you're just walking down the street, minding your own business, you have to go looking for trouble like that to find it.

Oh, and one minor note here, I think it has been established that Black Sabbath wasn't a satanic band at all. Like good ol' Ozzy said they only thing they conjured up was a box of chocolates!

[quote]Let me give you some quick examples of some album covers that fall in this category, even though the band in question is completely innocent of the satanic charges: Gamma Ray's Somewhere Out In Space and No World Order, Edguy's Tears of a Mandrake, Iced Earth's Burnt Offerings and Something Wicked This Way Comes, almost all Manowar covers, Virgin Steele's Marriage of Heaven and Hell (I and II), Helloween's The Dark Ride, some Blind Guardian ones, almost all Iron Maiden covers, and I can just go on and on with the list. I've had some people ask me if I'm into satanic music after they take a quick look at my CD collection![/quote]

WHAT?!!! Dude, you gotta be kidding me! Obviously these whackos that are telling you this crap have never heard of fantasy/sword and sorcery art before, because that what the art on the covers is, fantasy art! It's not satanic in the least! And if these people think that fantasy art is of satan, then they seriously need psychiatric help, I'm serious!
And the Andi Deris comment is just plain ridiculous!! I've never heard such bull crap in all my life! God gave singers each a unique singing voice, so therefore its impossible for voices to be satanic! Personally, I love Andi Deris' rough-sounding voice. And I can sing a bit myself, and my voice is naturally bellowly and a bit growly. It's a bit of a mix between Kai Hansen's voice and Alice Cooper's voice. I'm even planning on forming a power metal band, I'm writing the lyrics and have made up a name for it and everything, and I plan the artwork on the covers to be dark fantasy/horror oriented, so if anyone says that I'm a satanist or anything like that, I'll tell them to just blow it out their arse!

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If you're wondering why metal is associated with satanism so often, just take a look at your own name... the 666 signifies satan.Why did you put it there? because it sounds cool, or because you love satan?

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Because it sounds cool of course!! Is this your idea of a joke Illevor, because if it is, it isn't very funny. And if your serious, then your pretty much spitting in the face of the religious tolerance rules of this board. I didn't intend for this thread to become a religious bashfest.