Am I Evil?

Being acused of things we have not done is at the best of times annoying. Think of that time when your best friend said it was you who was talking in class and not him, or breaking the Greenhouse window when in fact it was the neighbours Pyromaniac Son who failed at his attempt to prove that you can use Fireworks to power his RC Car. When it happens it is annoying!

Now for me being an avid listerner to most things Guitar, i have in the past been acused of listering to Satanic music. Why? well because the song happend to be a Heavy Metal track by the band Iron Maiden. Now i am not Blind or Deaf and i know that there is music out there that does tickle the Devil's fancie and i am well aware that this type of music is not helpful for anyone (it can lead to Whitchcraft, Weird Masks and bad cases the purchase of a G-Wiz!) but i feel that if you are mature enough and realise the songs context then there is no issue.


Lets do a case study (no skiping, questions will be asked!) and look at a band that you may have heard of called Iron Maiden.


Iron Maiden, a product of the NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) are, in my mind the biggest Heavy Metal band of all time (and i dont want any of you thrash fans telling me that it is Metallica because you are wrong and if you disagree then bad luck i am telling you...YOU ARE WRONG!) and have sold over 80 million albums worldwide, pretty impressive! This has not been achieved without problems. The band has many times, especially with the 1982 release 'The Number Of The Beast' been acused of being Satanic, now with songs such as 'The Number Of The Beast' and 'Children Of The Damned' maybe they leave themselves open to abuse but this is what annoys me.

Picture the scene, a single-minded Human being is walking down an aisle in HMV and comes across the tiny Heavy Metal section which has for some reason been swapped around with the Dance section anyway, notices a band called Iron Madien and picks up one of there CD's. Looking at the track names the human picks out a track called 'The Fallen Angel'. SHOCK HORROR the fallen angel is what the Devil is, yes that evil being called Satan. Well the band must be Satanic...er no, just cause they write a song called 'The Fallen Angel' does not mean they dance around Stonehenge every Blue Moon and cry out Beelzebub when ever they fall to the ground*.

For me if, a song confuses me i will look into it, do some research into what is actually being said and in what contxet (just like Bible study but more music based). And if the song is actually saying un-helpful and bad things then yes i will delete it from my itunes. Thankfully i am mature enough to know that bands who play Heavy Metal are not always Satanic and i could list a load that are not.

So as i always say, before you start an argument and judge. Actually find out what you are talking about and start behaving like proper people!

So am i Evil for listering to Heavy Metal/Hard Rock music...er NO!