Quote: "Quote: "I think rap and the pop industry are more harmful"
Pop? What, this is incorrect because Michael Jackson being the king of pop hasn't harmed me. Though I agree with rap, you should also include death metal, death____(insert random word here), screamo, black metal and anything that generally includes inaudible crap no one wants to hear. And yes this includes slipknot, so power to Africa!"
'Pop' may be the wrong word, but some of the popular music that promotes being slim as stick, being selfish, getting rich (or die trying), having a girlfriend with the biggest melons. The stuff that's like rap, but isn't rap, like R&B I suppose.
But I don't think the lyrics of black/death metal have much of an impact and not because some of them are inaudiable (people managed to sing along just fine) but I'll bring up the lyrics of 'The Serpentine Offering' by Norwegian Melodic Black Metal band, Dimmu Borgir (video below) - a song that is audiable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAmMcBQavKE
[chorus]
My descent is the story of everyman
I am hatred, darkness and dispair
My descent is the story of everyman
I am hatred, darkness and dispair
Evoked and entertained through centuries
Wrathful and sullen -- dormant still
The ferocity pervades everywhere
Waiting to be released at last
Hear my offering
Ye ba**** sons and daughters
Share my sacrifice
Share my sacrifice
[chorus]x2
Reconcile not with the fear of the snake
But Embrace it as your own
Inject its venom into your veins
And replant the seed that gives growth
Still shrouded in mystery
Until your arise above perception
A veil of ignorance is in motion
Continuing on throughout generations
A veil of ignorance is in motion
Continuing throughout multiple generations
Let me be the one that deliver you from the deceit
And back into perfect accordance with the laws of nature
The snake is notoriously tempting
But the snake is air
What is worse than not knowing?
To live or disappear?
The ferocity pervades everywhere
Waiting to be released at last
Hear my offering
Ye ba***** sons and daughters
Share my sacrifice
Share my sacrifice
Very satanic - would pretty much make a Christian churn, but are the lyrics actually all that bad? Do they encourage anything 'evil' (from a non-christian perspective) It treats the snake as the source for knowledge and Christianity as a veil of ignorance over centuries and it is 'their' time to rise and take us from 'deceit' and into the ways of nature. Yes it promotes Satanism, but Grandma will probably be the first to talk about how misunderstood the values of Satanism are. I don't agree with it of course, I'm not a satanist, but all I see in those lyrics is just a religious argument from the School of Satanism.
But saying that it'd tremble too close to religious discussion, but all I see Satanism as is Christianity turned on its head - Christians follow the will of God, Satanists the ways of Nature, Christians saw satan as evil, these lyrics percieve Christianity to be evil and have a hatred towards it. Whether or not you agree with the idea, but you can see these lyrics really aren't that bad nor to they promote anything cruel or 'evil'. Though admittedly some lyrics can be brutal when describing gore and talking about it, but you know, we have gory games and movies, so it's only fair that we have gory music as well.
I think it's really only 'satanistic' aspects that tend to get people (especially fundemental christian groups) to blame these bands for murder. But it's no different to the complaints South Park or video games get. Of course blaming Slipknot comes as a surprise to me, because there's nothing really that bad about them.
Alternatively (which no doubt you'd agree are bad lyrics):
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
And they're like
"it's better than yours"
damn right
it's better than you yours
I can teach you
but I have to charge...
You sir have the moral ambivalence of a mutated shrimp!
