Black metal issue

"Black metal" arrest article

So they say, a bunch of confused adults are so much scarier than a bunch of confused youths.

It's stupid that the police conducted a raid on what they claim was an 'illegal gathering of black metal followers', when in fact, none of the bands playing that new year's eve was a black metal band.

I don't know a lot about black metal, the only black metal-ish band I listen to is Cradle of Filth, and even that is band that's so very mainstream and accused of being 'sell outs'. But I sure do know that youths who listen to black metal are SO NOT youths who worship devils and drink goats' blood and burn bibles. They are merely young people who enjoy music that is not Simple Plan, most of them just casual listeners anyway.

This doesn't have a lot to do with the black metal arrest, so I'm digressing a little. Anyway, sometimes, people listen to certain songs without really paying as much attention to the lyrics as they do to the music. I won't deny having liked songs that blaspheme God and Christianity. *That was before I made my new year's resolution =) But I have never, ever let the lyrics and messages of the songs affect the way I think.

I've listened to songs that my mom wouldn't have wanted me listening to, not only because of the liberal use of crude words, but also because of the image and message of the music. But look at me, I haven't killed anybody or taken drugs or worshipped the devil. Respectable adults with respectable jobs have grown up listening to Alice Cooper, and they're probably model citizens now.

You think by listening to Eminem, I would go ahead and kill my mother, then stuff her in my closet?

It's almost as though the police, and probably everyone else old enough to be our parents, think that young people like us are simply too retarded to be able to think for ourselves. They must honestly think that a song can affect our thinking so much that we start peeing on bibles and sacrificing animals.

We may look stupid, we may act stupid (sometimes), but we are so NOT stupid.

And imagine, dressing up in black, indecent public display? That gets you detained for drug and urine tests? That takes the cake for being the most moronic thing ever.

Maybe one day I could put on a black Slayer shirt, black cargos, mess my hair up a little (to make me look more retarded and unable to think for myself), put on lipstick that's so very thick that it resembles blood, have my headphones on and start some serious headbanging, and walk around in Bintang walk. Maybe I'll get detained, and they'll carry out urine tests on me.
Hey, I'm a Devil Worshipper.