Quote: (06-25-2016 10:52 PM)911 Wrote:
"It was debunked" is the unofficial blue pill mantra.
If you can't grasp Led Zeppelin's satanic dimension, you might as well be posting on Rolling Stone Magazine or some other "progressive" message board.
With all due respect, 911, this is not supported by facts.
The only hard-rock or metal bands that were genuine "satanists" (i.e., actually practicing devil-worshipers) were the "black metal" fringe bands. They are easily identifiable, and are not part of the mainstream at all.
Metal bands of the 1970s and 1980s made commercial use of occult and "demonic" imagery for one reason only: to cynically exploit the market. They did it to sell records. These guys were just musicians, and could have cared less about "satanism." They may have been hedonists, drug users, and alcoholics, but they were not peddling any sort of doctrinal system.
Most of the big names indulged in it. I think it was Black Sabbath that figured out in 1969 that evil and danger sells.
Later, the big bands figured out that occult imagery sells: Zepplin, Rainbow, Dio, and many, many others.
It's just one bad joke, really. Even the "hair metal" bands of the 1980s got in on the act. Remember Motley Crue and Twister Sister used to indulge in the same bullshit, with their pentagrams and devil-screaming jibberish?
If you're going to attack them, at least attack them for being opportunistic, cynical, and exploitative. That I can buy. But "satanic"? It just doesn't hold up.
If you were to ask Robert Plant, Ozzy, or even Ronnie James Dio if they were "satanic", they would laugh in your face, and would keep laughing all the way to the bank.
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