Metal is Super Religious

[Jumala]

At least in its imagery and metaphors. The Book of Revelation calls on a lot of Semitic and Indo-European myths, wherein a Storm god fights a flying Chaos beast and throws it down into the ocean. Between Judeo-Christian and it's distant relatives in Babylon, Assyria, etc. most of hte imagery of metal is pretty strongly derived from a religious background and a religious zeitgeist that IS fundamentally incompatible with people who use microwave ovens and refine amphetamines in their garage.

However, it's kind of entertaining fiction and it's sometimes got more with an orientation towards the world than any kind of belief in sorcery or arbitrary, meddling demiurges and holographic light gods.

[The Magic Pudding]

most of hte imagery of metal is pretty strongly derived from a religious background and a religious zeitgeist that IS fundamentally incompatible with people who use microwave ovens and refine amphetamines in their garage.

Are you sure?  When I put a spoon in the microwave I can plainly see the spirit of the microwave is displeased, it will cast bolts of lightning at the interloper spoon.

[Jumala]

Steel, get thee behind me!

[Cecilie]

What kind of metal are we talking about here?

[Jumala]

What kind of metal are we talking about here?

Most power and black metal, a decent portion of death metal; all sorts of quasi-metal stuff like industrial; a lot of 'heavy metal' stuff like Judas Priest and Led Zeppelin.

[Cecilie]

What kind of metal are we talking about here?

Most power and black metal, a decent portion of death metal; all sorts of quasi-metal stuff like industrial; a lot of 'heavy metal' stuff like Judas Priest and Led Zeppelin.

I only have one thing to say: Zeppelin is not metal thankyouverymuch.

[Jumala]

What kind of metal are we talking about here?

Most power and black metal, a decent portion of death metal; all sorts of quasi-metal stuff like industrial; a lot of 'heavy metal' stuff like Judas Priest and Led Zeppelin.

I only have one thing to say: Zeppelin is not metal thankyouverymuch.

Eh, it was called that before there was much of a modern 'metal' genre; but I will say that they are definitely something different than Entombed.

[Cecilie]

I gotta say that I didn't understand much of your post about Metal music being super religious. I suppose you can't simplify it for us (me) non native English speakers?

[Jumala]

I gotta say that I didn't understand much of your post about Metal music being super religious. I suppose you can't simplify it for us (me) non native English speakers?

A lot of the imagery and allegory used in metal music and art derives from Ancient Near Eastern mythology and Apocalyptic literature.

[Cecilie]

I gotta say that I didn't understand much of your post about Metal music being super religious. I suppose you can't simplify it for us (me) non native English speakers?

A lot of the imagery and allegory used in metal music and art derives from Ancient Near Eastern mythology and Apocalyptic literature.

Examples?

[Asmodean]

In my experience, most metal bands only incorporate religion into their music if their songwriters are religious or otherwise have some connection to religion, like being opposed to it for instance.

The lyrics of the Industrial Metal band "Deathstars", for instance, sometines incorporate religion in a negative way. For other bands, like In Flames, I struggle to find examples of religion really being there at all. Yet others still use pagan mythology freely enough without being even remotely pagan. Sounds cool, y'know...

My band has up until this day not made a single song where religious symbols are used in any way, shape or form and any exception is purely coinsidential and unintended. But then... You can read many things into some lyrics and melodies, so who knows, maybe someone would want to call our songs religious as well. They are not, but if it toots a fanhorn...  

[history_geek]

I have to say that there are a lot of metal bands that usually use ancient mythology, and black/death metal, 'nuff said, but I can't say that metal music is super religios or even that religious (sure after listening to Korpiklaani, I sometimes feel it might not be so bad to go pagan

[Cecilie]

the Four Horsemen

[youtube:1rt4tpxy]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwypN3YI4m0[/youtube:1rt4tpxy]

Also, original version. Which one is better?

[youtube:1rt4tpxy]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-AcYn5gh9Y[/youtube:1rt4tpxy]

Sure, Hetfield's voice is better, but Mechanix is faster.

I like an excuse for posting videos of Metal music. At least this time is wasn't completely offtopic, right? Right?

[Ulver]

Metal contains religious imagery simply because god created a rock so heavy even he couldn't lift it.

[Cecilie]

Motörhead is not impressed with this thread.