So you might have read the metalhead on the street claim that their music is positive in statements in the newspapers. What exactly do they mean?<\/p>\n
Let me take a few examples:<\/p>\n
Heavy Metal:<\/u><\/b>
\nBlack Sabbath – War Pigs<\/b>
\nPoliticians hide themselves away
\nThey only started the war
\nWhy should they go out to fight?
\nThey leave that role to the poor<\/p>\n
Go do yourselves a favor and listen to it online, through online streaming sites or other methods<\/i>. You will find it to sound very, very old and classic-rock like. Except that classic rock sings about love, and less worldly topics.<\/p>\n
Power\/speed metal:<\/u><\/b>
\nStratovarius – Eagleheart<\/b>
\nHeart of an eagle
\nHe flies through the rainbow
\nInto a new world and finds the sun
\nSpreading his wings
\nAbove all the sorrows
\nThe glory of Eagleheart<\/p>\n
This is also the cheesiest sounding of all metal – high-pitched vocal singalongs, no screaming, no growling, and lots of very classical elvish-sounding guitar solos. Girls will dig Nightwish<\/b>, which is like Evanescence but more operatic.<\/p>\n
Thrash Metal:<\/u><\/b>
\nMetallica – One<\/b>
\nFed through the tube that sticks in me
\nJust like a wartime novelty
\nTied to machines that make me be
\nCut this life off from me<\/p>\n
This is also an easy-to-find song and video; it won a Grammy for Best Metal Performance.<\/p>\n
Yes, it does<\/b> touch on the sensitive subject of suicide, and<\/b> *gasp* euthanasia, and war again<\/b>. However, watch the video, and you will see why – the protagonist, as a young boy, is told “for democracy, any man would give his only begotten son”. He is sent off to war and is hit by a grenade and is left a shell of himself, paralyzed from the neck down. Stuck in the ward, he cannot sleep, traumatized by the events. He then uses Morse Code to signal to the doctors that he does not want to live anymore. Whether or not the doctors did anything we don’t know, but it cuts to a funeral hymn.<\/p>\n
Death Metal:<\/u><\/b>
\nDeath – Mentally Blind<\/b>
\nYou see your vision and no one else’s
\nYour every word filled with sarcasm
\nCrucify people with invisible knowledge
\nVerbal destruction with each compulsion
\nWe will see where you go
\nThe future for you is nowhere
\nEvery minute a cliche of your kind
\nToo much to say from a person with no respect
\nYour accusations you will regret
\nFrom the mentally blind come ideas that are poison
\nTake away the power, a shallow person you will find<\/p>\n
Death metal is pounding, and heavier than thrash, but one of the identifying factors is heavily growled vocals. Those are not voices of Satan! It is merely the style. Go read around. Go educate yourself. I’m already helping out here. I don’t have the following songs, but these can be Googled nevertheless:<\/p>\n
Death – Living Monstrosity<\/b>:
\nLiving monstrosity
\nA freak for life they’ll always be
\nNever knowing love or hate
\nOnly pain the drug creates<\/p>\n
(Oh look, an anti-drug song!)<\/p>\n
Death – Without Judgement<\/b>:
\nGuilty until proven innocent
\nWe condemn your soul and fate
\nNever mind the possibilities
\nToo busy for logic or to calculate<\/p>\n
Anddd Death – Spiritual Healing<\/b>:
\nBlinded by the twisted ways you live
\nKill for religion, will the Lord forgive?
\nIdiocy has stricken your mind
\nA real-life hell you will find<\/p>\n
If anything, Death<\/b>‘s lyrics are merely championing that you should not blindly accept the false teachings of others. In other words, don’t be stupid<\/b>.<\/p>\n
I will not deny that black metal is morbid, rhymes in occult, and talks about crushing skulls, or that Pantera has violent lyrics, or that Death has a song called Mutilation. However, read beyond the sound, and you will find some very intelligent lyrics.<\/p>\n
I’d like to give as much detail as possible, but I don’t have any black metal songs. The hardest I have is just by the band Death<\/b>, and I don’t listen to them a lot.<\/p>\n
Now let’s look at rappers, who champion free sex, drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n
Nelly – Ride Wit Me<\/b>:
\nIf you wanna go and get high wit me
\nSmoke an L in the back with the Benz<\/p>\n
Let me spell L<\/b> out for you. LSD<\/b>. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide<\/b>. A drug that creates illusions and vivid daydreams.<\/p>\n
50 Cent – In Da Club<\/b>:
\nYou can find me in the club, bottle full of Bud
\nMama, I got that X, if you into takin’ drugs
\nI’m into having sex, I ain’t into making love
\nSo come give me a hug if you into getting rubbed<\/p>\n
X is also E which is also Esctasy. A Bud is a Budweiser, a brand of beer. These hip hop<\/i> songs are being played on the radio and being sung along by girls and boys, underaged alike!<\/p>\n
I have been to many underground gigs on the more urban rock side, and have never seen somebody smoking a joint publicly. I have never seen anybody having sex in a rock gig either. Look for these things in nightclubs, people.<\/p>\n
The more heavy the music played, the less girls you’d find.<\/p>\n
Why are there so few venues to have rock gigs as opposed to hiphop\/R&B gigs? Venues complain that the rockers don’t drink; this is especially so with the Malay crowds. Hiphop and R&B is more profitable. Don’t assume that there’s debauchery there, either – there will be more in a dangdut club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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