Why religious people hate hard-rock and heavy metal music?

Answer 1

This is the best question i ever seen, this one is really hard to answer. Killer question dude. I try to answer then.
Religious people hate that kind of music cause all the religious people have been told to hate this kind of music. So every religious people have to avoid this music. That's my opinion. Long times ago i ever seen a video, maybe when i was 13 years old so maybe at the mid of 80's , in this video, we been told to avoid or hate this kind of music, they play it backward and they say there are massages after they do that. The massages are worshipping the devil and betray their God. Beside that, they also told us about the meaning of the lyrics that sang by the artists of HR and HM bands. They told us about the meaning of the name of the bands itself. For example Kiss is standing for Key or King In Satan's Service, etc.
So as i told you that the religious people have been injected in their thought about this music, this music is bad, very bad, worst for their religion life. This music is the devil sent. This music have to be avoid by a religious people.
And what i think about this, all are just nonsense.
Why should we hate it. All music is coming from the heart. God give us a heart. And this heart we use to feel. Feel what we believe, feel what we want to hear & feel what we have to do. So do not push or force our heart not to do what its want.

Answer 2

OOOOOOOkay

To make a long story short if possible. Back in the 80's these two guys played a rock record backwards and thought they heard hidden words paying tribute to Satan. Religion and rock in the south have never been friends since Elvis shook his pelvis.

This theory of back masking gained popularity even though it was all nonsense but once cd's came out so did the hoopla as hard rock started losing it's popularity as well.

Bands such as Iron Maiden were accussed of being satanic because they wrote songs about the apocalypse however they also wrote a song which included a part of a church hymn, AC/DC wrote the song Hell's Bells and caught hell for it. Slayer continuously writes horror based music and even has a song "Silent Scream" that is somewhat critical of abortion something Christians would appreciate.

To some fundamentalists any mention or reference to Satan is taboo and singing songs about him is seen as a form of worship. Some of these bands started putting fake back maskings on their music for example in 1998 Information Society put a backward loop on the cd Don't Be Afraid that said "Obey your parents, do your homework, winners don't use drugs." AC/DC's lead singer asked an audience "Who in here wants to go to hell?" and when some audience members shouted "Yes i do!" he responded "Yeah right sure you do!".

M.O.D. wrote a comical song called "Satan's Cronies" in which the chorus says "We are satan's cronies the devil is our friend but it will be the devil that betrays us in the end".

There is an old animosity between rock and religion even bands like Stryper couldn't fix in fact they were accused of being closet Satanists because of their band colors yellow and black and the title of their most popular cd To Hell With The Devil.

Since heavy metal has wained in popularity goth rock has become a new potential target just because of the antics of Marilyn Manson but in fact there are very few Satanic rock bands or albums and those are pretty blatant such as Gary Numan's cd's Sacrifice, Exile and Pure.

I'm a Christian and i used to love metal but got bored with it because it seemed too many bands copied each other and i discovered electronica..i also like Goth and Industrial. The Goth movement in the states actually spread mainly due to Catholic schoolgirls.

ahhhh the 80's

Answer 3

Not all of us do, and I'll be the first one to tell you that there is plenty of religious hard rock and heavy metal, as well as rap out there. I love it!

Answer 4

Its not the music. its the lyrics. Some hard rock bands sing satanic lyrics or use profanities in their songs which are objectionable to many religions. There are some clean hard rock bands that are acceptable for listening to by religious people. I am Christian and listen to rock bands, I'm just careful what I listen to.

Answer 5

This Christian loves hard rock, and even some heavy metal. Most are taught to shun that "label" of music, however. Not sure why.

Answer 6

I dont think it is the music. I believe it is the lyrics. I am a christian, I like christian rock music. But as for the other hard rock they have bad lyric suggesting improper thoughts.

Answer 7

who said religious people hate hard rock and heavy metal? i dont think thats true

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I don't know. Don't generalize, tho. I'm religious & I sing hard rock/alternative stuff. Not christian rock either. Real rock.

Answer 10

I don't know, some of that music sounds evil to me with all the yelling and screaming going on. I like Metalika (sp?) and Aerosmith, that stuff is cool, but there's some stuff that just sounds awful.