Music: Spiritual Effects of Rock/Metal Music

[Monica]

I have to throw in my 2 cents on this one, I am a metal girl and love music which some people might be horrified by!!

There is a lot of rubbish in any genre, especially metal, but for me it's the amazing and original bands that make it all worthwhile!

Agreed!

I find pop music far more "evil" because it is usually about shallow, superficial self-worship, or usually about sex and is marketed at children. Also there is no passion or technicality in the music, it is just electronic tones or beats stolen from other earlier artists. It makes my brain physically hurt!

Agreed!

Sure there is Satanic metal out there, but metal covers many many many different sub-genre's! My favourite is Pagan Folk metal such as Agalloch and Moonsorrow. The music is INCREDIBLE, and it's about nature.

Oh, I love both those bands! I saw Moonsorrow recently and I was immediately transported back to a medieval lifetime. I had an intense spiritual experience, right there at the show, with tears streaming down my face! That Moonsorrow show was one of the most spiritually intense concerts I've ever been to, and I've been to over 300 concerts.

There are a couple of bands that would be considered Satanic that I love (Black Sabbath, Dodheimsgard) but my thought there is that these bands usually only have a basic Christian overview of "Satan" (evil being, lives in Hell) rather than what I truly believe Satan to be (the media, hollywood, pop music etc) so for me it's just not a big deal and it doesn't make me feel "evil" to listen to it.

Agreed!

As for the vibrational level, I find it increases mine because I just love the music so much. As for lyrics, most of what I listen to isn't even in English and I actually love the screaming. I used to hate it but then I got used to it and now it's totally fine. Screaming/growling is just a texture, nothing to be scared of.

Funny, I have gotten used to some of it...for example I used to not be able to handle Dark Tranquillity, but now I am ok with the vocals because the rest of the music is so awesome, and because Mikael is always smiling during the concerts. I've seen them live and his light is very bright!

Many others though, I still cannot stand. I miss a lot of great music because of the vocals. I prefer good singing and just don't understand the throaty growling.

Also metal culture as a whole is harmless (aside from the couple of nut jobs that ruin it for everyone, but that is also in every culture). Metal people just mostly want to drink beer and sit around listening to music, they don't usually do other drugs (except for a bit of weed) and they don't go out starting fights or bashing up police.

Yeah, it's so funny, whenever I go to a metal show, I marvel at how so many of the people there look so 'tough' but are actually just normal people and actually very nice once you start talking to them.

Music taste, like religion, is an extremely personal thing and no two people ever like/believe exactly the same thing, but in my opinion metal is the last thing anyone should be afraid of spiritually.

I would agree with that overall, with the exception being some black/death metal bands that I consider truly very dark.