Black metal Christians don't eat brains 

LOL! it is pretty messed up...

Your not lying.

Literally millions of people die. There are rivers of blood, demons and an angel of death. Also dragons.

If it wasn't for Christ black metal would not exist.

This is a very good name. Thank you

Cole Stubbs Words. They're what I do. Use the meme. If it catches on, I will be tickled pink. Cheers.

Bruce Baker Light metal, slow metal, white metal, afterlife metal (as you said), wooden metal, happy metal, build metal, P.E. metal, ole metal, obligation metal, acute metal. That was the most I could come up with.

ScumContinual96 How about "emo metal"? Teen, slumped over, screaming into the mic "IIIIIIIIIMMMMMM SSSSSOOOOOO DEEEEPRESSSSSSSSED! WaaaaAAAAAAAA!!"

Bruce Baker That's called suicidal depressive black metal

go outside, people out there arent like this lol

+Arian hmn I think hipster black metal is even funnier, Deafheaven anyone...

kalidesu I actually like some those bands though... Deafheaven, Wolves in the Throne Roon, Alcest, Krallice, even Liturgy

+Arian hmn I dont even think its a troll, its just like the little kids at thanksgiving wanting to sit with the grownups

+kalidesu The thing that's really hilarious is when black metal fans complain about bands like "Deafheaven" and call it "hipster black metal", when they are the ones acting like stereotypical hipsters.

ganondorfchampin Irony is lost on some people.

black metal derives of thrash metal who derives of heavy metal who derives of rock who derives of gospel and jazz songs who derives oof acoustic songs

Carrotttt I am genuinely surprised he never brought that up.

+Carrotttt Seriously expected it to be brought up, but it never happened.

+106.2TheSims lol the best? The audio quality is shit.

+Xyloblast Tons of "true black metal" as I've heard it preached over the years has horrible audio quality. But I mean that's what you get when you record with a $3 mic. Trying to be raw for the sake of sounding like a band playing in a metal trash can is more laughable than christian's interjecting themselves into a genre of music that apparently they have no business dabbling in... It's all music. I grew up on Emperor, CoF, Dimmu, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Cryptopsy etc. etc. All very much blasphemous music. I myself am a christian and it's ridiculous to say that christian's can't enjoy non christian music or even try to replicate the sound in which they favor. We all at some point try to reproduce something we have seen or heard. Does religious music artists and communities make fun of or condemn an "heathen" artist who is playing a hymn? Doubtful. Music is a melting pot. Let it simmer and enjoy the aromas. Taste it if you'd like, I just hope it isn't to salty...

+WeerdScienceXD what Burzum and Darkthrone were doing actually sounded good. in fact, Darkthrone's more recent stuff is "better" produced, and actually pretty catchy at times.

TheHyeGamer That's a fair point. Thanks!

***** How do you get that from anything I'm saying? We are all here for a short time and everything positive we do to help each other out and those in the future makes ALL the difference in the world to people living now and those to come. Nothing positive we do is useless at all. You only live once, and so does everyone else. Knowing that, wouldn't you want everyone to have the best quality of life they can while they are here? Yes, in the far distant future, the Sun will engulf the Earth, and if we haven't relocated as a species by that point or died off, we will be wiped out. That doesn't mean it's useless to do anything, because there's the here and now, and there's many generations left to come that will be directly impacted by our actions in the present.

I totally don't mind Christian metal.... Especially Skillet.

I just want to say that you clearly don't get black metal and you never will... often it's about rejecting religion entirely, especially Christianity as it was forced upon Scandinavia and replaced native paganism and often all it is, is an expression of anger, it is about personal struggle but on a much deeper, hidden level.

If this is how they want to express themselves and their faith, more power to them.

+Dr Shaym Goddamn bronys everywhere!

***** Google 'Screams From Equestia', or something to that effect. Or just 'browny black metal' will probably do.

+Dr Shaym Huh. I posted links to several examples, but now the links are gone. What the fuck.

+Dr Shaym lol Im in one

***** Sorry, I haven't created a page for it yet because Im lazy and Im still working on the first demo, but it should be done in about a month.

@@MazzarothManiacs praise god will mock the devil

Guillaume Lavigne I'm pretty sure he was just fucking around. You know, with the stereotype of metal being "gory" or "satanic" or "just noise", whatever.

+ScumContinual96 maybe

Look at the lyrical content of Celtic Frost/Hellhammer, Venom, Bathory, Burzum, Mayhem, Emperor, Immortal, and others. Think of the way these band's music is perceived by people not familiar with metal. Do you REALLY think this is a good outreach method? Because I guarantee 99% of the black metal community isn't going to change their views because of a "Christian" black metal band.

Then that 1% is what I celebrate!

If they were to change their views, isn't blasphemy the unforgivable sin? Makes the cause null and void.

Ryan, so full of hate. Ever tried love? Usually works out better

+Extol Jesus Thats a rather weak argument

Also being a metal artist myself, I do not think you can have a form of metal called "Christian Black Metal". If you do a little research into the history and beginnings of black metal, you can see how anti-religious it is. I don't believe that you can't have christian music "sounding" like black metal, but you can not call it "Christian Black Metal". It has to be called something else.

***** The question is: Is Black Metal "Anti-Religious" meaning it is against all "Religions" or is it Satanic? These two things are different...the concept of Satan is Jewish. Christian and Islamic alike. However, If Black Metal meant "Anti-Religious', then having Christian Black Metal is contradictory... If Black Metal meant 'Satanic', then there could be Christian Black Metal as Satan is a Christian concept.

Espi Kvlt I don't know what kind of musical experience you've had, and based off your comment you only listen to it, but there is a lot more to musical genres than just what they sound like. That was my whole point in the first place.

Espi Kvlt You could not even begin to conceive the complexities of harmonies, timbre and music theory that go into these songs; as a music education student and a metal artist alike, I have to say there is a lot you need to look into and discover to understand it.

***** I will agree: The Idea of Black Metal is Anti-God in all regards, which in turn contradicts Christian beliefs alike. In other words: Christian Black Metal would have to be something other than Black Metal.

Christian black metal is quite disgusting, I must say.

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***** Yes.YES. More people need to do raps in the comment section, regardless of the topic.

+JustAPerson nice copypasta

+Raw Dog

hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love that analogy!

+Angloth Black metal in and of itself is just music. What do you mean, fundamentalist extreme ideology? I'm sure you hang around a lot of metalheads, right?

He means there's a lot of black metal fans who are spoiled kids with delusions of grandeur who shite talk.

pietzsche Not what I gathered from his statement and I did ask him, not you. Your interpretation doesn't interest me, because it is just as much speculation as my interpretation would be.

swarmlord101 I don't really care.

i like the way you think \m/ \m/ breeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Faxx. Metal has always been about pushing the limits and not caring about what others have to say

I'll check em out. thanks.

Don't forget "For Today"

+The Swamp Fox Today is not a christian black metal band, they're considered to be metal core (I've listened to all their albums albums)

Movie Man Manny I wasn't saying they were, I just meant that I feel they are a good Christian metal band to listen to in general...sorry if it sounded that way. There's TOO MANY different "Metal labels" for me to know the difference anymore honestly....what little music I actually listen to anymore these days...just sharing a band name that I really loved back in 2009-2010...what style metal are they anyways lol not being sarcastic btw

The Swamp Fox Fare point. Just giving the topic of the conversation it seemed that you were implying that they were

Well christian metal. metal That is about god is sung With conviction by those on Gods side.

Shhh. Don't tell anyone.

The worst of a good thing is still not so bad, though.

They're mostly just ultra-individualists/egotists, and moral nihilists or extreme atheists

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Rock on man

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Samsara Bardos I have heard of them many times

I think the answer is pretty obvious: because they like the sound. How is it stupid for Christians to make music in a certain style, just because the people who are making that kind of music are mostly anti-Christian? Think about it this way: electronic music is one of my absolute favorite things in the world and it's my dream to one day make a living making electronic music. But let's propose an alternate history: what if the pioneers of electronic music were all Satanists and as a result of their influence, 99% of electronic today was about Satan and burning churches. Would it be stupid for me to make the music that sounds beautiful to me, since I'd be borrowing the sound of a music genre that's typically anti-Christian?

SgtSlavin That's a fair point. Another example would be straight-edge hardcore. They liked the sound of punk rock and agressive music, but didn't care for the "sex and drugs" part, so they built they own subgenre and their own scene. But I don't know...I feel christian black metal is corny as hell...in the same way that something like "capitalist blues" would be. Again, I'm not saying it can't be done, or that some bands have a monopoly on certain sounds. I just think it's cringe-worthy in some cases.

Rich Tremblay I didn't know about straight-edge hardcore, that was really interesting, thanks for telling me about it! I see what you mean though about Christian black metal being corny. The sound really doesn't lend itself to positive lyrics about Jesus's guidance and whatnot. I think Christian black metal could probably work if the lyrics had more of a gothic, "save me from Satan, I'm neck-high in evil!" etc. etc. sort of tone instead but personally, I wouldn't listen to it either way.

Rich Tremblay 2 points: 1. Straight Edge does not stem from Christians who were into punk and hardcore. A tiny bit of research would uncover that its genesis is via the early hardcore punk band Minor Threat, who had a song called "Straight Edge" and intimated in the lyrics that the band members had better things to do with their time than to "f*$% their heads". Did the Christian punk and hardcore community embrace straight edge? Yes, they absolutely did. Beginning especially with the wave of punk and hardcore that was birthed from the west coast hardcore scene, and fertilized by bands getting signed to Tooth & Nail Records, and subsequently, Solid State Records, then Facedown Records, etc. But Straight Edge as an idea, and later, a scene, preceded the faith-based hardcore and punk scenes by quite a time span. 2. I'd like to make a distinction with regards to something you said: "why would they borrow the sound of a music genre that is typically anti-christian?" What might define an "evil sound"? Is it the "sound" of the music that is truly anti-christian, or is it the lyrical content? Music, in and of itself, is simply a series of notes, beats, chords, etc. that cannot inherently be evil, no matter what some so-called church authorities have claimed or speculated through the years. Rather, the lyrical content is what makes something pro or anti-topic (or neutral, in some cases). As such, despite the anti-christian lyrical content of bands like Darkthrone, Burzum, Belphegor, or Mayhem, the sound of the music is still appealing to those, like myself, who enjoy the more abrasive aspects of the metal genre. Of that subset of people, musicians who espouse a faith in Christ wish to create the same type of music, but change the lyrical content. Black Metal "purists" who feel the genre itself is inherently "evil" often decry Christian Black Metal (CBM) or "unblack" metal bands, because they feel that the CBM music lacks the requisite atmosphere of "true" or "kvlt" black metal, because the music itself doesn't contain that element of "evil" required to truly be black metal. Note that, until more recently, many CBM listings on the Metal Archives had the genre listed as 'Black Metal' rather than simply Black Metal. I'm glad to see that has changed, especially given the quality of some of the upper echelon CBM bands like Crimson Moonlight, Frosthardr, Divine Symphony, Elgibbor, Frost Like Ashes, Vardoger, and A Hill To Die Upon. For anyone else who isn't a purist, music is music, and the genre trappings aren't necessarily all-inclusive.

I never said the straight-edge movement was based around christianity.

GoCrazyDontMindIfIDo funny how right after he says "there's nothing metal about them" the vocals are screeching like crazy. I wonder what's not metal about that XD!

I thought he was just being highly sarcastic, along with the "hall Satan" at the end. Personally, he looks like he listens mostly to Ska (which is a very cool "get up, get happy" musical genre).

Sal G Thank you! Need all the help I can get. Which part seemed like a lie, though?

I agree with Sal. Not all Christians dwell in the stereotypical "Rock music is the devil!" mentality. It's just a style. Daa'as it. The end.

Archmagedallan MUSIC IS THE DEVIL. God is love, God is life.

Archn Scythe Sound is the devil. The sound of your baby's laughter? The devil.

Everything that is not god is teh devil. Including babies.

just3nerds Totally the weirdest thing about Slayer. Interesting point!

FUCKING SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! \m/

What do you think about Immortal Souls?

agreed, some of that stuff is better than mainstream "metal" played on the radio, but no actual metal fan listens to what the radio calls "metal." i had friends growing up that listened to those bands and it always seemed like some goofy compromise with their parents. like they wanted to listen to something heavy and didn't want to get in trouble with their mom or they simply weren't allowed to listen to other metal. the whole thing usually seemed lame and worse yet, totally un-metal. i've always felt like half the bands playing it are just capitalizing on christian teens. there has been far better metal coming out in the secular world the whole time and maybe you were just never exposed to it.

+A Wooden Chair fucking beast song!!!

It was the pharisees and sadducees that harassed and slandered Jesus, not the Jews, Jesus himself was Jewish.

IF my studies are right the pharisees and the sadducees are higher religious gropus of the Jews. The Jews took Jesus from the Garden then to Pilot then to the Roman guards to be tortured then to the cross. Yes Jesus was a Jew

Hunter Campbell What a surprise.. rather than going out and doing something about people being judged for being different, you're going to pray for them, likely from the comfort of your own home. Why are you even on the internet? Don't you know you need to sell your possessions and live in poverty in order to enter the kingdom? I hope you're not having Thanksgiving with your family instead of the poor and the sick, because that's another great way to get locked out.

zeke1220 Dude calm down why are you even trying to be a bully for the love of Pete grow up. Seriously my religion tells me pray for your enemies and I do I don't like you but I know your o ly human. Also yes I do help I do and you know lots of things have happened when I'm the one trying to help those in need and here you are going off on some one who's tried with their life and others happy Thanksgiving ....

Hunter Campbell The point is that any energy that you've spent on prayer could have been used for things that are actually helpful. The difference being that praying makes you feel good about yourself without actually benefiting anyone, but the other things require greater effort for the same reward. Prayer is a selfish act for selfish people.

black metal is not about brutality

Its made only better by him coming out.

It's our homage to '90s meta cinema. Gremlins 2, Last Action Hero, Stay Tuned, etc. Thanks for alerting us, clearly not a good way to spend anyone's time.

They effectively are, it's just that stereotypically, metal (especially black metal) comes with a negative connotation, generally associated with murder and/or worshiping Satan etc.. The genre is more defined by how the music sounds, and not so much what the lyrics are, however you'll find that especially in metal, most genres are heavily linked to certain lyrical themes. For example when most people think of power metal, the instant thought is a fantasy theme filled with dragons and knights, but in reality there are plenty of power metal bands that write about everything from philosophy to war history.

***** Well way to go to him for breaking stereotypes

+Liliputian07 Wait, a Satanist Viking being gay somehow breaks a stereotype? You DO realize, that Vikings had gay marriage thousands of years ago, right?

How the fuck would we know that tom

+Its not a phase mom its an asthetic Beacuse we have archaeology AND written history, that both prove ancient viking allowed gay marriage. Duh!

+tom riddle Where the fuck did they get the concept of marriage

Maz H White metal and unblack metal, depending.

This Exists GREY METAL!!!!! Oh, oh oh, better yet GUN METAL!!! rofl

+This Exists This guy knows his shit, more or less lol. However, but Euronymous didn't actually use Dead's brains in a stew. The necklace part is debatable. Might be true and Euronymous only gave the necklaces to those he thought were "worthy". You probably should have mentioned that Dead was pretty fucking insane lmao and that his suicide photographs were used for a later Mayhem album.

+Maz H It's actually called fucking ridiculous.

Strictly Music Deathcore*. But if you're talking about their first album, then yeah you're quite right. As for being close to unblack metal, I wouldn't say so. Same lyrical themes, same subgenre, but two completely different sounds.

Well, they're deathcore actually Early on they were more brutal death metal and grindcore influenced though

And tampering with the evidence at the scene before using Dead's corpse to make an album cover (Dawn of the Black Hearts).

PastorOfMuppets What Euronymous did was horrible, but he's far better then Varg. Varg is a racist neo nazi asshole, convicted of murder, arson and hate speech. Euro threatened to kill people a couple of times, but unlike Varg, he never acted upon it.

SoupCann Correct me if I got the story wrong. From what I read, and can remember. Euro tried to kill Varg initially, which failed. So Varg killed Euro instead. True he could have stopped the attack and left it at that. It sort of reminds me of Ender's Game. He chased and killed him to end all future attacks. So on one hand you have a guy making things from a dead body, sipping brain soup, attempting to kill someone else. And in turn end up dead for their failed attempt. By the way this also comes from a interview I remember watching with Varg. That Euro was actually the one trying to kill someone. Varg just didn't stop the attack, he finished it. And racists are not a minority in Black Metal I hope you know. So this is like claiming Metal itself is played on banjos and boxes. When it comes to music I care little for the person or that persons life. Over if the music is fucking good. Will I listen to offensive material? Hello! Black Metal has a shit ton of that .. its not Hello Kitty Playland. So in all of that all we are left now with is arson. So now about arson. Yes he burned churches, empty ones. Yes its still arson but no one was in them. Would you rather he burned them while they were in Sunday Mass? He was making a statement, a childish one in my eyes, but a statement nonetheless. Do I agree with arson? Not in the least. Always better ways to assert how you feel. Like in a hateful racist song. So the rest of us puritans can listen to, and shake our fists in contempt.

***** Well, you're partly right, but all that stuff that Varg said on Euro trying to kill him? There's no evidence. His apartment didn't have the cattle prod or any of the other murder weapons he was supposedly going to use. Blackthorne has even said that the murder was premeditated and that Varg told him before the murder. Over the course of his life Euro said in interviews that he would kill dozens of people, but he never acted upon it. People who knew him also said that Euro was really not nearly as "evil" as he wanted people to think he was. The guy didn't smoke, and Manheim even called him a "family guy". The brain stew, while I've never found any real evidence, seems to just be something made up, although the skull necklace did happen. Personally, I think he was just trying to show that black metal wasn't just a fad and that it should be taken seriously, which worked. Black metal is still an active scene and has survived past him. I also think that it's partly because of the great history of the genre that people love black metal. Who at this point doesn't know what happened to all these norwegians (and one swede) over 20 years ago.

PastorOfMuppets lol nice 'schuldiner' reference! yeah i thought varg said he acted in self defense when the dude threatened to kill him? also im using your channel name as my band name now

+bromixsr there is no moshing on black metal shows

+bromixsr I'm slightly confused, who offers a hand and who kicks you in the face? Because, aside from the lack of moshing at most black metal shows, as Max K pointed out, every single time someone has fallen down at one of the very many metal shows I've been to, the crowd has made damn sure everyone involved is fine. Mosh pit etiquette yo, it's a real thing, and you better believe it's taken seriously.

+Jon Havoc I have a friend who goes to Deathcore shows, and getting kicked in the face and moshing isn't irregular. I'm guessing it's just the Core metal fans that do the dumb shit.

+bromixsr At metal shows, nobody kicks you in the face on purpose. You must be thinking of the retarded 16 year olds at metalcore shows who think it's brutal, and don;t really know what moshing is

+MPSecare aww c'mon not that Core-is-not-metal-thing again.

Start your own.

+lalakuma9 I understand but a lot these bands and Rock n Roll all share one common element Shock Value without it. No one would ever bother to listening to their music in the first place. How else did MM, Sir Mix a lot, Ozzy, Mega Death etc got famous? How else did they get record deals? It's an obvious answer yet some people never reflect on it much.

Chris Nihilus Thanks!

Black Metal is most definitely still a thing. Akitsa, Bone Awl, Leviathan, Mutilation Rites, Taake, Horna is still releasing records too. There's tons of bands still floating around.

Kvelertak is number 5 on my list of the greatest shows I've been to. Glad to see another fan.

Rock music was invented by an evangelical preacher named Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

The irony of that is of course that Christianity doesn't teach anything nice about the world. Christians believe we live in a Fallen World, our God was crucified and killed by the Empire and though resurected still with his wounds. True, ultimately there is salvation and the triumph over evil (unless one is a strong hell advocate of course) but that doesn't mean one can't believe that we are living in hell right now. You migth want to check out "Death to the world" a orthodox christian magazin for punks and metalheads. deathtotheworld.com/

why are these black metal heads such thin skinned drama queens? That's what's ruining the music. why do you guys even give a shit? "not historically Christian" Gimmie a break.

+Justin Braun This guy made a whole damn video about it, I'm just responding. I don't go around crying about a genre of music all day, but I definitely have a fucking opinion about it lmao.

+Scarlett S. right on. and it is your right. and I will always defend your right to voice your opinion, and mine. Although I don't know why Black Metal would appeal to a hardcore Chistian in the firstplace. IDK. Mabey it's like the Spainish Inquisition strain of Christian?

Agree 100% with this top comment. Fuck this guy for not knowing even half the truth. If he had watched "Until The Light Takes Us" and Varg's recent videos talking about what really happened in the Black Metal scene between 1991 to 1993, this guy in the video might actually have sounded like he knew what he was talking about.

Scarlett S. if you don't like Unblack Metal bands then don't listen to it. It is really that simple.

The poor production quality is intentional. It's supposed to sound dead. All Shall Fall by Immortal has quite good production quality, as do Dimmu Borgir's last couple albums.

Sacramentum is pretty listenable too, moreso than most of whats out there.

lolzzz that is what people think....I THINK YOU SHOULD DO THAT ...EVEN THE FOUNDER OF SATANISM SAID THAT AND i KNOW i STUDIED EVERYTHING....AS A CHRISTAIN I KNOW THE GOOD AND THE BAD.

Lies, read the bible and you will see how the darkness and light coexist in many instances. For example, Levitt and th concubine, Numbers:5-11 up-till numbers 5-30 ish, and not to mention God flooded the earth and killed a good chunk of people with a great flood.

God cleary say his way is a way of faith for we "walk by faith and not by sight" . I am sorry but as christain death metal is not Godly and does not glorify Christ. There is nothing holy about it. God is not about a music genre or a style or entertainment , it about repentance and putting your faith in JESUS. PERIOD

FlaccidFajita 2 Corinthians 6:14 2Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 1 Peter 2:9King James Version (KJV) 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; The point is as christains we are called to be the light how can we be christains and act and do things like the world. if there is no difference between what is of God and what is of the Devil, then there is a really big problem. I think that you should pray and ask God for discernment because at the end of the day serving Jesus is not about a style or genre of music . It's about repenting from your sins and putting your faith in Jesus the one that died on the cross for you and me. Death metal didn't die on the cross for me Jesus christ did

Alexander Thomas God cleary say his way is a way of faith for we "walk by faith and not by sight" . I am sorry but as christain death metal is not Godly and does not glorify Christ. There is nothing holy about it. God is not about a music genre or a style or entertainment , it about repentance and putting your faith in JESUS. PERIOD