DELIVERED FROM HEAVY METAL/ROCK

cwr89 said:

wow, powerfull.

I don't want this to sound as if I worship the devil, because I most certanly wouldn't give him the time of day, or night for that matter.

personnaly I love Heavy metal, I am not into many different bands, but It is the 80's bands that I love, in particular, Metallica. Metallica is my favorite band of all. but I like AD/DC iron madien, mezzfetz (missfits), it is the NWOBHM that really interests me. I come from a musical aspect. I say wow james heitfeild's solo at measure 200 is fanamanal. I am not like wow, kurt cobaine killed himself so I want to die now.

I like to listen and thing about the lyrics. but I would never worship them. the breaks the 10 comandmends right there, no other god befor him. I belive that it would be a false idol. but anyway, I look at swearing like this, what does it matter? 2000 years ago, I can tell you there was no such thing as swearing. what does 10 or so words realy do? and any way, almost all of the "swear words" had different meanings when they were created. I feel it isn't wrong as long as it isn't meant to hurt some one. think about this.

what is worse?
that movie was F***ing awsome
-OR-
your a jerk.


so I really don't mind that much. but I also, do judge bands on there religion too, I like the band project 86 and demon hunter alot. but abit ago I read a book I can't think of the title, but bassically it sat down with bands and talked to them about there religions, that was really interesting. I will look for the title cause it is in depth heavy metal.

now as far as these songs being strait from hell. I really don't think so. so thing OH YA i can see that easy! but others I would question. like Metallica's mamma said. all it is is james expressing his feelings for his mother now that she is gone, and he misses her. or something like motorbreath, it simply means that were all going way to fast we need to slow our lives down.

the reason I am really defending metallica is, all the members of the band quit there drugs quit the alcohol and everything and that really is an acomplishment.

oh well, I am sorry for wasting your time hehe, I am just rambleing on and on. I think it is bed time for me now.

~Casey



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another thing I was thinging is, I wouldn't say that the people of the bands are satanic, I would say that the music sounds satanic maybe.

the problem with the newer heavymetal or the numetal is it is all so emotional, it is all oh my girlfriend dumped me, and I am crying and I want to die.

I was listing to I think it was hoobestank, and I hear "now that your bleading you stair at the ceiling and wish it would all go away"

that is rediculess. stuff like that makes my barf

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Starcrystal said:

Over 20 years ago I was an amateur songwriter, and I hung out with some club bands. I was mainly into Heavy Metal like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and the like. I can honestly say both the lyrics and style of music were nothing but the voice of Satan tempting me. If they sang about drugs or devil worship, it must be OK, I thought. So I did those things. The escalation of my drug & alcohol use, and my occultism escalated parallel to the music I listened to.

Black Sabbath songs like N.I.B. (Which stands for "Nativity in Black, I later found out) and "Lord of this World" sparked a deffinite interest in the occult. With some of the musicians I hung around with I cursed Christians, and we even played music near a church to try to cast a spell on the Christians.

Even as a Christian I struggled with this music. I noted that just the style of beat alone could influence people. While working out in the gym I could normally lift about 245 - 250 lbs. on the bench press. But if someone turned on Ac/Dc (Usually the song Hells Bells, or Highway to Hell) I found I could press up to 275 lbs, and I could do more reps as well.

Its been scientifically proven that the beat of music influences the heart rate, releases adrenaline, and has an effect on attitude. One day at work a few years ago a lady friend of mine working next to me told me to watch how people worked when either Heavy Metal or hard core Rap was played. Sure enough, the quality of work decreased, and we noticed a change in attitudes for the worse. When mellower music ws put on, or no music, the quality of work got better. We observed this over several weeks.

I knew from my involvement that there are backmasked messages in a lot of rock music. Although you can't hear them consciously, these words still go into your brain subconsciously, and the brain like a computer makes them a subconscious thought which can surface later. I've listened to tapes that show this to be proved by scientific testing.

As a Christian I can honestly say that every time I allowed myself to listen to Heavy Metal, I backslid. Maybe I never went back to what I was, but I did get very distant from the Lord. I stopped going to church, stopped praying, and my Bibles collected dust. In their place I would write songs and record music on tapes.

One song I wrote in 1991 had these lyrics: (Don't forget, I'd been saved several years already & even ministered in churches by that time)

"I'm living with your sin!
It cries out in my soul!
Never ends, always begins.
Cause to lose control.
Deceased kings speak to me and I have seen the world through their eyes, yeah!"

That doesn't sound to Christ inspired, does it?
And those are just the opening lyrics. The rest is worse, so I wont write it.

I also realized that by buying rock & Heavy metal tapes that I was only supporting the artists: many of whom are in the occult and are drug addicts. Think of it this way. The musicians who die from drug overdoses purchase those drugs from money earned from the royalties to their music. Those who buy their music are contributing to their deaths!

It grieves me when I hear Christians defend rock music and say things such as, "It doesn't bother me," or "I still live for God," or "If people do bad things because of rock & roll, its because they're weak minded."

The Word of God tells us to have NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS. Anyone who can't see this music is a work of darkness has to be spiritually blind. I admit I was and I THANK GOD HE SHOWED ME MY ERROR AND DELIVERED ME.

There are evil spirits in that music, and this I know for fact. In the occult we purposely invoked demons, summonsed demons to be in the songs! I've read expose`s that reveal the professional bands often do the same. The Rolling Stones was one of the most notorious to have done this.

Rock music had a BIG hold on me, and was one of my struggles for years on and off, even as a Christian. I thank God for his power and his deliverance from Satan who uses rock music to establish strongholds in many lives. I pray that God show anyone whose still involved in this music that it needs to be repented of. what does it glorify? Sex, drugs, satan, and violence? then what are we doing listening to it? Jesus called us out of the world to be sanctified, not to be partaking in the sins of the world.

PRAISE GOD FOR FREEDOM FROM THIS SIN!

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thrash said:

There are a number of Heavy Metal bands that sing about Jesus and have lyrical themes of Christianity.

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