# The Devils Music!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-devils-music/519761>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 2, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-devils-music/519761 "2009-12-02T21:26:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-devils-music/519761/21 "2009-12-05T06:09:34Z")

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> [@DKW](#):
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> Okay, I won’t belabor y’all with a lengthy evisceration of that enormous pile of crap; I think it’s pretty obvious that these numbnuts wouldn’t know Satan from a fruit bat.
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> But I gotta ask…every time this comes up…every time some lunkhead group gets a stupid mad-on about The Devil…WHY do they never, ever give the time of day to songs and bands that _actually deal with the subject??_
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> Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden. Sung from the POV of a hapless bystander who receives a nightmarish, apocalyptc vision. Okay, he has a pretty unfavorable opinion of the experience, but at least it’s ABOUT Satan. Or how about South of Heaven, Slayer. It’s deals with Armageddon. 'Nuff said. Or for that matter, how about Holy Diver, Dio? Not quite as blunt, granted, but the symbolism is pretty clear. (In fact, and I’m not actually arguing this, but you could say that the Holy Diver is actually Lucifer. Y’know, light bearer, fell from grace, “dived” from Heaven, etc.) In fact, a lot of Iron Maiden or Slayer songs would qualify.
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> It’s THERE, people! It exists! It isn’t just some drivel Tipper Gore made up! Find it, dammit!
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> (Aside: What, gangsta rap not good enough for you anymore?)

Seriously. Obviously these people have never heard of Gogoroth or Mayhem. If they did they wouldn’t care about Led Zep anymore…

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**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-devils-music/519761/22 "2009-12-05T06:33:46Z")

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Speaking of Marilyn Manson they said:

_He took a little puppy dog that was only 6 weeks old, and tossed it into the audience, encouraging kids to rip it to pieces and then smear the blood all over one another, which they gladly did. He said he dreams of the day that he can take a little baby and do the same thing to the baby._

Now, don’t get me wrong, I hate MM’s faux “Satanic” asthetic (which hasn’t been “shocking” in decades) and horrible music, but cmon…this urban legend about the “Satanic musician” murdering animals for Satan has been around since Robert Johnson supposedly made a sacrifice at the crossroads. People will believe anything, I guess.

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