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Should christians be listening to Christian metal?

My take on the question is no. I shall sum up my experience with this: I have started praying a lot more recently. I used to listen to some Christian metal now and then. Now I can't bring myself to listen to them anymore. I will give more details if deemed necessary in later posts.

Note that I know some of you do listen to Christian Metal. And I used to listen to them too. The objective of this thread is not really to start a debate whether it's good or bad. It's to get you to reflect over it again, and discern it carefully with the Holy Spirit. So there is no need to challenge what I have said and there is no need to get worked up or angry. Why would you get angry with a Christian who don't listen to Christian Metal?

Questions to reflect on.

1. Have you prayed and sought guidance from the Holy Spirit on this matter?

2. Are you sure there are no demonic influences in Christian metal?

3. Have you consulted your pastor regarding Christian metal?

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Give this a try: Pray (Praise God; Confess your sins; Pray for things). Do your usual quiet time. Read the Bible prayerfully. Consciously ask the Holy Spirit to flow into you. Make sure you are fully filled with the Spirit. Be in sync with God's Word's in your heart. And then finally, try listening to some Christian Metal and see what happens.

I love Gospel and contemporary Christian music. But I also like metal. It doesn't bother me at all, honestly ^_^

If it doesn't threaten my inner peace and doesn't take away my joy, I don't see how it can be bad. I'm pretty sure most of it isn't Satanic since the lyrics are about glorifying God and making others aware of the truth.

Harmony, Divinefire, Believer, Pantokrator, Immortal Souls, and Extol are much better! =D

If the music does not glorify God, it is considered ungodly. From my experience, listening to a lot of secular music does in fact draw me away from God spiritually. Music can influence the mind subconciously. My pastor also did warn us to be careful with the type of music we listen to.

Metal music draws demonic influence into your life. So it's a big no. A fellow church member of mine was demonically possessed because he listened to a lot of metal and rock music. Not to say that everyone would have that kind of experience, but it's certain that metal will have negative influence on the listener's mind.

But define what it means for music to "glorify God." Does that mean that a song has to have overtly religious lyrics, or simply not have lyrics that are anti-God? And if so, where does that leave music without lyrics?

Saying whether or not music "glorifies God" isn't really as black and white as many people seem to think.

Proof of bold? Because I know plenty of people who listen to metal and are perfectly lovely.

Also, why metal? I've never understood why metal gets such a bad reputation in religious circles. Is it because some metal has lyrics that could be considered by some to be offensive? And if that's the case, let me remind you that there is plenty of metal that is not offensive to those of a religious persuation, and plenty of metal doesn't even have lyrics.

I draw your attention back to the same principle of all the hype surrounding the tritone back in the day. Just because something sounds scary and/or dissonant doesn't mean that it's bad. Dimished and augmented intervals and chords are not demonic. They're a natural part of chord progessions in the major and minor keys in which western music is based. The chords that metal music uses were used by Bach and Beethoven and Mozart and plenty of other composers and musicians centuries before metal as we know it existed...it's the same notes and chords and scales and progessions, and yet those aren't considered bad or demonic (by most...I'm sure there's someone out there who wants to boycott Mozart because they think he was Satan incarnate or something).

If it's lyrics that offend you, then obviously just don't listen to songs with lyrics that offend you. Everyone is going to have a different limit when it comes to that.

But if it's the music itself? Like with most things, music becomes considerably less scary and mysterious once you understand it. Music is music, notes are notes, chords are chords. They're all just vibrations at various frequencies. Nothing more, nothing less.

I think that if God has truly influenced the music, how could it be bad? Just because it sounds similar to other, non-Christian music, doesn't mean it's bad. After all, we took Christmas and Easter and made them Christian, didn't we? whee So why not music?

1. Secular music are considered ungodly, songs that have no mention of love of God. My current perspective on secular music is it's okay to listen to them once in a while, but one must be careful not to get obsessed with them.

The ability to judge music in terms of its effect on one's faith depends on one's spiritual level and maturity. For one, I did consult several ministers before on this matter. But the most important point for me is when I was convicted by the Holy Spirit on this matter.

2.1 Correct. Many metal listeners are very friendly and nice people. They don't go around hurting people or doing bad things. What metal really does is draw your spirit to the dark side without you even knowing it. Many metal/rock lovers like to associate with the darker side of life like goth, darkness, death, vampires, blood and so on. This is what I realised recently happened to me over the years. These things mentioned should have no place in a Christian's life. Note that God not only judge people by their actions, but also what is in their mind and their hearts. It is not a coincidence that rock and metal music are becoming popular in our time. We are living in the endtimes. This is a evil ploy by Satan to cause people to sin unknowingly, twarting their chance of making it to the Rapture, and also to prepare them to receive the Antichrist.

2.2-2.5 It has all to do with God. If I wasn't a Christian, I would probably listen to anything I like.

Where in the Bible does it say that screaming vocals and metal guitar riffs are demonic? How can they be demonic if they're an expression of a Christian's human soul (which I believe all music is, Christian or not)?

So your opinion is based on stupid stereotypes surrounding people who listen to a kind of music, and some retarded bullsh*t about loud and fast music automatically being demonic that has no base in reality whatsoever.

I'm done.