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<blockquote data-quote="BookofMatt" data-source="post: 69242763" data-attributes="member: 318724"><p>This is brutally accurate, and I say that as someone who's not only a big fan of bands with wacky props and costumes, but has worked with and performed with many. </p><p></p><p>The vast majority of the time, bands who utilize "evil" imagery or theatrics do it with an underlying sense of camp and comedy. GWAR is my favorite example: they formed during the moral panic against heavy metal and were intentionally designed to be as shocking and offensive as possible with demonic costumes and gory stage shows, though it was all on top of ridiculously goofy and satirical lyrics, and I can personally attest that the guys under the costumes were bigger fans of the Washington Redskins than of Satan. Even for smaller part-time bands like the ones I've worked with, it's all just a show. I know a band who goes all out with "Satanic" imagery like goat horns and pentagrams, but their songs are less devil worship and more jokey songs about pizza and horror movies. Same with KISS: they tried to look scary with their fire-breathing and blood spitting, but they still wrote songs called "Love Her All I Can" and "I Was Made for Lovin' You".</p><p></p><p>I know there are a few bands who promote Satanism (in various forms) in earnest, but they're far, far from the mainstream, more likely to be found in the underground circles of Scandinavian black metal, where I doubt many - if any - Christians are likely to tread in the first place. And I'd bet good money most of them "practice" Satanism in the sense of an atheistic philosophy which outright rejects the supernatural, so I doubt even <em>they</em> chant spells in inverted stars. </p><p></p><p>Personally, I feel making accusations of Satanism in music is a worthless endeavor. After all, Sammy Davis Jr. and Liberace were both one-time members of the Church of Satan. If Christians are going to target pop culture for protest instead of actual worldly problems, at least go after more pressing issues in mainstream music like racism, misogyny or the exploitation of women and minors. Those seem like far more important things to address than some band using spooky images on their album covers.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's no merit whatsoever to any claims of backmasking. In fact, the actual practice of adding reverse messages didn't even take off until the Trinity Broadcasting Network made the first accusations of Satanic backmasking in 1982, about Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".</p><p></p><p>My favorite example is one which I think sums up the panic about backmasking perfectly, when you play the end of "Weird Al" Yankovic's "I Remember Larry" in reverse: "Wow, you must have an awful lot of free time on your hands".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BookofMatt, post: 69242763, member: 318724"] This is brutally accurate, and I say that as someone who's not only a big fan of bands with wacky props and costumes, but has worked with and performed with many. The vast majority of the time, bands who utilize "evil" imagery or theatrics do it with an underlying sense of camp and comedy. GWAR is my favorite example: they formed during the moral panic against heavy metal and were intentionally designed to be as shocking and offensive as possible with demonic costumes and gory stage shows, though it was all on top of ridiculously goofy and satirical lyrics, and I can personally attest that the guys under the costumes were bigger fans of the Washington Redskins than of Satan. Even for smaller part-time bands like the ones I've worked with, it's all just a show. I know a band who goes all out with "Satanic" imagery like goat horns and pentagrams, but their songs are less devil worship and more jokey songs about pizza and horror movies. Same with KISS: they tried to look scary with their fire-breathing and blood spitting, but they still wrote songs called "Love Her All I Can" and "I Was Made for Lovin' You". I know there are a few bands who promote Satanism (in various forms) in earnest, but they're far, far from the mainstream, more likely to be found in the underground circles of Scandinavian black metal, where I doubt many - if any - Christians are likely to tread in the first place. And I'd bet good money most of them "practice" Satanism in the sense of an atheistic philosophy which outright rejects the supernatural, so I doubt even [I]they[/I] chant spells in inverted stars. Personally, I feel making accusations of Satanism in music is a worthless endeavor. After all, Sammy Davis Jr. and Liberace were both one-time members of the Church of Satan. If Christians are going to target pop culture for protest instead of actual worldly problems, at least go after more pressing issues in mainstream music like racism, misogyny or the exploitation of women and minors. Those seem like far more important things to address than some band using spooky images on their album covers. There's no merit whatsoever to any claims of backmasking. In fact, the actual practice of adding reverse messages didn't even take off until the Trinity Broadcasting Network made the first accusations of Satanic backmasking in 1982, about Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven". My favorite example is one which I think sums up the panic about backmasking perfectly, when you play the end of "Weird Al" Yankovic's "I Remember Larry" in reverse: "Wow, you must have an awful lot of free time on your hands". [/QUOTE]
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