When I was like 11 years old I had a guilty pleasure and it was Yellow and Black. Yeah, you guessed it; Stryper. Gimme a break, I was young. There was just something cool about these guys back then. To Hell With The Devil had just come out and the single Honestly was a kick ass ballad. Michael Sweet actually wrote that song for his wife, Kyle Sweet, whom he had met the year prior when she was hired to do make-up for the bands first video.
 

 
Kyle has apparently been fighting ovarian cancer since February 2007. Michael and Kyle …read more

Back when I first started this blog I had a two part post about how metal has been deemed the Devil’s music and how a lot of the gimmick behind metal is Satan and about anti religion lyrics. I also said something about how Christian metal isn’t exactly “Flying off of the shelves”. I was wrong!
While metal is still deemed the Devil’s music there are a lot of Christian metal bands out there that you really wouldn’t know were spiritual if you didn’t read into it.

I have a busy weekend with my daughters 1st birthday so I’m going to try to squeeze in some news and not much more.
Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) has announced that they have been working on the line-up for Gigantour and are about halfway done.
A lot of crazy shit has been happening at and around Ozzfest this year, a few deaths at, leaving and going to Ozzfest, But the latest

Moving forward to the eighties, heavy metal spawned many “Satanic” bands into popularity. Venom, Slayer, Merciful Fate, the whole nine. These days there is still a slew of Satanic bands but lets face it, 97% of it is gimmick. The other 3% is those crazy black metal Scandinavian bands; they take their devil music seriously!!
Writing songs these days isn’t easy because after all what is there to write that hasn’t already been written about. If you lived a good life and you don’t want to be a poser you don’t write songs about how hard your life was growing up. …read more

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 …read more