I Gave Up Death Metal for Jesus Christ

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TheOddGoat
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22 Jan 2010, 4:28 pm

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Overall, I feel very happy with my lifestyle changes, and I want to continue living this way. I'm also glad that Jesus was there to help me, otherwise I would have been lost forever. So what do you people who might be reading this think? Pretty amazing story, huh?

Good on you for making positive changes to your life.
I do find a fair bit of popular culture and counter-culture a bit too negative myself, and death metal would be one of the most extreme examples.
But even so I still occasionally check out death metal tracks on youtube. I always find the lyrics incomprehensible, and I find all that growling and speed drumming oddly amusing.
But then when you look at the band names, the album covers and the lyrics, a lot of it is pretty unpleasant.
Perhaps I also need to find some more life-affirming heavy metal to listen to!

Unpleasant lyrics is a very good way to put it. Some of the bands like Cannibal Corpse have some of the most vile, hateful, brutal, sadistic and despicable lyrics you can think of. I'm glad I've turned away from Cannibal Corpse because they're possibly the most creepiest band out there. I wouldn't say they're satanic or anything like that, I'd just say that they're violent and hateful, and they do push the envelope with the violent lyrics quite a bit.

Their lyrics are violent but not hateful at all.

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22 Jan 2010, 7:04 pm

TheOddGoat wrote:

firebird93 wrote:

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Their lyrics are violent but not hateful at all.

Well, you have to admit, they can go a bit overboard on the violence level.

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22 Jan 2010, 8:38 pm

I don't really see how any of this matters. You can't even hear the lyrics, and if you didn't understand the language that is being sung you wouldn't know what they were saying anyway.

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25 Oct 2011, 3:03 pm

I'm a christian and I love Cannibal Corpse, mainly because they DON'T MEAN WHAT THEY SAY.

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25 Oct 2011, 3:46 pm

Violent death metal lyrics are for the lols and shock. They are not meant to be serious. Even if it’s not your type of humor, there are still plenty of bands with different subjects.

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25 Oct 2011, 5:48 pm

I'm sorry but the bible is just about as violent as Cannibal Corpse. More than likely, you can thank brutal acts such as the crusades/inquisition for your current faith - otherwise chances are you would be Pagan. You're not supposed to take CC seriously so their lyrics hurt no-one, but you're expected to take the bible seriously, aren't you?
"Yahweh had ordered Moses, and they put every male to death... the sons of Israel took the Midianite women captive with their young children, and plundered all their cattle, all their flocks and all their goods. They set fire to the towns where they lived and all their encampments... Then, when they took the captives, spoil and booty to Moses..., Moses was enraged.... 'why have you spared the life of all the women...? So kill all the male children. Kill also all the women who have slept with a man. Spare the lives only of the young girls who have not slept with a man, and take them for yourselves"
Now that's some brutal death metal man! \m/ *headbangs*

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25 Oct 2011, 11:22 pm

When I became seriously Christian my musical tastes turned to girly dance music from rap and metal I used to listen to. I really liked eurodance I heard as a child, but my fundamentalist parents wouldn't let me listen to it. Now I'm an adult and listen to it all I want.

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Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc8sTtzAnyY[/youtube]

After seeing and experiencing all kinds of terrible stuff in my life, I wanted music to be my one escape. If I wanna hear about people murdering people and stuff, I can simply turn on the news. In my music, I tend to want nice imagery. Not always, but like 90% of the time or more.

Oh well, time to go listen to Aqua - Roses are Red. Woohoo.

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29 Oct 2011, 11:55 pm

This is preachy garbage through and through.

Also "The Beatles are positive" is a nice lark. Like that pleasant "Norweigian Wood" song. What was that about again? Oh right, attempted rape and arson. How uplifting.

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30 Oct 2011, 2:55 am

Lol @ this thread.

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30 Oct 2011, 5:54 am

As a Swedish citizen, i apologise for Ace of Base.

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