Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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Re: Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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Huh. During my whateveryouwannacallit I stopped listening to all secular music. I would only listen to hymns, deseret book type stuff and christian music.

I still hate heavy metal.

Oh, and now I'm pagan.

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!?!?!
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Re: Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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just me wrote:Huh. During my whateveryouwannacallit I stopped listening to all secular music. I would only listen to hymns, deseret book type stuff and christian music.

I still hate heavy metal.

Oh, and now I'm pagan.

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!?!?!

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Re: Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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Blixa wrote:there is something to be said about how the mass concert experience works to produce collective identities of all kinds.

If it's a band as good as Shinedown or Godsmack, it's as if we all see the lead singer (Brent Smith or Sully Erna) transform into Joseph Smith before our very eyes. The singer looks like Joseph, he sounds like Joseph, and his mannerisms are like Joseph. (Well, thankfully, not!)
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Re: Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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I love a metal concert. It's a good time. I don't consider it to be devil worship. I think of it as fire breathing dragon worship, because fire breathing dragons are just as real as the devil.
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Re: Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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You will find those of us who have followed metal to Satan on the wild side.

Forward my mail to me in Hell.
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Re: Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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I don't like metal - and never watched or listen that so called music.
(Sometimes I was forced - one can not close the ears - so I know what is all about.)

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Re: Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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Are y'all Puritans?

I went through a long NIN phase, until a friend pointed out it was despairing. Which, is probably why I liked it. But then I went through a phase where I was anti-despair.

I still like some metal, as long as it hopeful and not despairing. :mrgreen:
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Re: Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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madeleine wrote:Are y'all Puritans?



Mormons. It's almost the same thing, though. :neutral:
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Re: Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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madeleine wrote:Are y'all Puritans?
No, I am not.


Here is one of my favourite musics - and its background:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvezKgSIJiM

... and in a more modern - someway caricaturistic - version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aq2hem5DJ4

The last minutes of those musics are pure metal - I think it was in 1859.
I watched it first when I was 5 yo. You can say I was indoctrinated.

Warning!!!
The videos are not compatible with Mormon dress code (no ballets are, by the way).
Don't answer if You (all) didn't watch the whole video - at least the first one!
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Re: Metal Music and the Loss of Faith

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This was the warm up act to my first Slayer concert.
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