Is heavy metal evil ?

I think dark and evil music is a satirical reflection of society. Slayer, ozzy, danzig, manson, back to the clasics like sabbath and alice. It's always the balance of being shunned and alienated compared to being above the influence of what your told to be and being prepared to point out things that you see as the crumbling of decency.

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

Nah
But there are some pretty fucked up people out there that write fucked up lyrics with messages I would categorize as evil. But that's not the mainstream. There is such a thing as "neo-NAZI bands" for instance, the message doesn't really become any better if you bring it with a drum and put a guitar riff behind it. But by itself, heavy metal bands aren't evil.

Believe in me, send no money
I died on the cross and that ain't funny
But my so called friends they're making me a joke
They missed out what I said like I never spoke
They choose what they want to hear, they don't tell a lie
They just leave out the truth as they're watching you die
They're saving your souls by taking your money
Flies around shit, bees around honey

Holy smoke holy smoke, plenty bad preachers for the devil to stoke
Feed 'em in feet first, this is no joke
This is thirsty work, making holy smoke, yeah
Making holy smoke

- Iron Maiden, Holy Smoke

Notanymore · 41-45, M

@Kwek00 yeah. I remember the nazi-punk/anti-nazi-punk thing through the 90s

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Notanymore there are metal bands too... these things excist and I'm glad they aren't mainstream. But the message is important, the lyrics are important, etc.

But a lot of people really don't analyse all the lyrics. Hell, I have a CD collection and I can just enjoy a song without knowing what the singer is actually trying to articulate. It wasn't so long ago that a faction of American conservatives suddenly came to the realisation that "Rage agains the Machine" wasn't really promoting their "American" way, and that they weren't capitalists. And those people threw a bit of a tantrum on their own corner of the internet. In their minds, RaTM is probably evil now. Because lets not forget, what categorizes as "evil" is subjective.

Notanymore · 41-45, M

@Kwek00 but it's the satire that makes it. Rage against the machine are damn sure capitalist. They're using art and a platform to make themselves super wealthy. They over exaggerate to point out inequities in the system. Just like danzig did or slayer or marilyn Manson. they gonto extemes as art to highlight how society is crumbling.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Notanymore Their lyrics, aren't really promoting liberal society as most western countries experience it today. I have no clue what they do with their money, I'm not talking about how they as artists function within this society, I'm talking about the message that hides inside the lyrics.

Notanymore · 41-45, M

@Kwek00 absolutely it's aggressive and beyond extreme. But it's art, exaggeration of the problem and solution. just whatbart is supposed to be.