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Devil Music: Satan Sells…But Who’s Buying?

by Metal Martyr on July 5th, 2007

Devil Music: Satan Sells…But Who’s Buying?

As we all know when you ask the average person off the street what the first thing they think of when you say the words “Heavy Metal”, they will tell you “Devil Music”. That’s what we expect from the ignorant, but ignorant or not it is what a lot of heavy metal has been based around for a long time.

This didn’t all start with heavy metal contrary to what everyone wants to believe. The devil in music dates far back to the early days of the blues when Robert Johnson a famous short-lived blues musician was rumored to have met the devil at the “crossroads” and sold his soul in return to be a great guitar master.

Hardcore Christian folk would label pretty much anything that wasn’t a hymnal the devils music, pretty much because most music being fun, loud and fast would sooner or later lead to sin of some sort. This is a fact we can’t deny. Oh well, life goes on. Anyway, moving up a few decades…enter Black Sabbath. As we all know, in the late 60’s Black Sabbath was born and pioneered the sound of things to come with dark horror like rock and roll which would soon be coined as heavy metal. They played heavy distorted evil sounding guitar and sang evil things. Oh and had a cool name that was tied darkness to a holy day. Among many other evil doings in rock and roll, it was rumored that the members of Led Zeppelin made a pact with Satan and the fact that Jimmy Paige was intrigued by and studied the work of Aleister Crowley didn’t help the rumor fizzle out any. The Devil was showing his face in hard rock music.

To be continued…

*Picture obtained from Mutantsandmasterminds.com.

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