I like the way many of Ozzie Osborne's and Black Sabbath's songs sound. Ozzie Osborne is known to bite the heads off animals and have a satanic appearance. Supposedly he has stopped doing drugs and become quite religious in the Church of England.
Even if Ozzie Osborne is a Hell-bound Satanist, would it be wrong to listen to his music? There are plenty of raunchy country singers, but I don't see too many Christians condemning country music.
His song, Mr Crowley, sounds like it's condemning the famous occultist Allister Crowley.
"Mr. Crowley, what went wrong in your head?
Oh, Mr. Crowley, did you talk with the dead?
Your life style to me seemed so tragic
With the thrill of it all
You fooled all the people with magic
You waited on Satan's call
Mr. Charming, did you think you were pure
Mr. Alarming, in nocturnal rapport
Uncovering things that were sacred manifest on this Earth
Conceived in the eye of a secret
And they scattered the afterbirth"
Ozzy is the soul mate of the agnostic. Much like any skeptic he is tortured by the great question of the heart. Take the lyrics of "God is dead?"
Lost in the darkness
I fade from the light
Faith of my father, my brother, my Maker and Savior
Help me make it through the night
Blood on my conscience
And murder in mind
Out of the gloom I rise up from my tomb into impending doom
Now my body is my shrine
The blood runs free
The rain turns red
Give me the wine
You keep the bread
The voices echo in my head
Is God alive or is God dead?
Is God dead?
Rivers of evil
Run through dying land
Swimming in sorrow, they kill, steal, and borrow. There is no tomorrow
For the sinners will be damned
Ashes to ashes
You cannot exhume a soul
Who do you trust when corruption and lust, creed of all the unjust,
Leaves you empty and unwhole?
When will this nightmare be over? Tell me!
When can I empty my head?
Will someone tell me the answer?
Is God really dead?
Is God really dead?
To safeguard my philosophy
Until my dying breath
I transfer from reality
Into a living dead
I empathize with enemies
Until the timing's right
With God and Satan at my side
From darkness will come light
I watch the rain
As it turns red
Give me more wine
I don't need bread
These riddles that live in my head
I don't believe that God is dead
God is dead
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
Wondering if we will meet again
On the other side
Do you believe a word
What the Good Book said?
Or is it just a holy fairytale
And God is dead?
God is Dead
[x4]
Right!
But still the voices in my head
Are telling me that god is dead
The blood pours down
The rain turns red
I don't believe that God is dead
Beautiful as is every one of his songs. I think his message, though dark and filled with hopelessness, is a good contrast to what the Christian life gives.