Heavy metal music has often been connected with Satanism,
in part to the lyrical content of several bands and their frequent use of imagery often tied to left hand path beliefs (such as the upside-down pentagram)
As a result, members of several bands, including Slayer, Venom, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, and Marilyn Manson have faced accusations of being Satanists. More often than not, such musicians say they do not believe in legitimate Satanic ideology and often profess to being ATHIEST or AGNOSTIC, in some instances, followers of right hand path religions, while using that which appears to be "Satanic" for entertainment purposes and shock value...
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Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure.
Members and fans of the black metal scene claimed responsibility for over 50 arsons directed at Christian churches in Norway from 1992 to 1996.
Conflict between scenes
Many[who?] recall a strong rivalry between Norwegian black metal and Swedish death metal scenes. Fenriz and Tchort have noted that Norwegian black metal musicians were "fed up with the whole death metal scene"[7] and that "death metal was very uncool in Oslo" at the time.[19] On a number of occasions, Euronymous sent death threats to the more commercialized death metal groups in Europe.[19] Allegedly, a group of Norwegian black metal fans plotted to kidnap and murder certain Swedish death metal musicians.[19]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_metal#Church_burnings




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