I Gave Up Death Metal for Jesus Christ

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Before I joined the church that I'm currently going to now, I didn't have a lot of faith in Jesus. I was kind of sad, lonely, and wanted to find some friends and even tried to do stuff to look cool. One thing I would do to relieve my sadness was to listen to this very dark, misanthropic death-metal music. I wasn't really paying much attention to the lyrics at the time. I used to think that the lyrics were just words that didn't mean anything, but boy I was wrong. However, I did know not to listen to anything blasphemous, so if I detected some stuff that was anti-christian in the song lyrics, I'd stop listening to it. The music I listened to was morbidly violent and talked about subjects such as murder, disembowelment and mutilation that others might find pretty disturbing. It wasn't blasphemous, it was just violent. I just liked the way it sounded because it was so insanely angry with brutal guitar riffs. I listened to this stuff for a period of at least six months. From May of 2009 to early December of 2009. During the time as the summer was ending, my family and I weren't officially members of the church that we currently are now. It was during the week before my baptism that I decided that if I were to become a member of this church, I would have to give up this angry death metal music, and I did. Didn't think I could do it at first, but I did, and I'm proud of it. Now days I listen to more positive stuff like The Beatles. I still like metal music like Metallica, Bullet For My Valentine, Breaking Benjamin (though that really isn't heavy metal) and Disturbed. There are also two christian metal bands that I really like called Demon Hunter and As I Lay Dying. 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 decision bro. You have my support.

I don't enjoy death metal music myself (none I've heard anyway), but if you do enjoy it, why should you stop listening to it? It's not like they write brutal lyrics because they really do all the things they sing about, or because they endorse it. It's a form of storytelling, no different from horror movies. It's fiction. Artistic expression. It's one thing to stop listening to music because you don't enjoy it, but people who tell you to stop listening to music you do enjoy are not your friends.
There's some pretty explicitly brutal stuff in the Bible as well. And some people, specifically in churches, claim that the Bible is truth. The Bible tells you to stone people to death, among other things. It also says rapists should be punished by having to marry their victims. Is that fair to the victim? Is that wisdom? Is that even remotely sane?
Are these your friends who tell you to give up music you enjoy for a book with such lessons in it?
Just a thought.

There is a lot of Christian (death) metal, FYI. Mortal Treason.

I'm really proud of you for doing what you felt was the right thing! My very wise dad says that song lyrics matter, because they have the power to influence you subconsciously. So it's good that you started listening to happier music.

Wow... That is amazing.

Christian Death Metal is a strange concept to me, but whatever makes you happy, i'm glad you've found sumthin

I stand corrected how about Nuwave Christian Grimecore Blackdeath thrash-chill Metal? tis all the same to me, Christianity is supposed to be about Meekness and Kindness, not angry and loud, but thats just my opinion, and I'm not a christian, so i probly dont have any right to judge enjoy!

"Un-black metal" What's next, "The Un-Blues"?