Is Rock music satanic? mwahaha

[eSineM]

I copied this from another forum...thought it was pretty interesting

In the following  statements,
rock musicians testify of an    outside power that has taken over them
while writing and performing  rock    music. Some of them have actually
identified this power as demonic:


In Smash  Hits
magazine, Bon Jovi says: ". . . I'd kill my mother for      rock and
roll.  I WOULD SELL MY SOUL."
Robert
Plant and Jimmy Page of     LED ZEPPELIN both claim that they don’t know
 who wrote their occultic  song    Stairway to Heaven. Plant testified:
“Pagey had written the chords and  played    them for me. I was holding
the paper and pencil, and for some reason, I  was in    a very bad mood.
 Then all of a sudden my hand was writing out words. …  I just    sat
there and looked at the words and then I almost leaped out of my  seat”
(Davin    Seay, Stairway to Heaven, p. 249).
“I’ve
always considered that    there was some way where we were able to
channel energy, and that  energy was    able to be, from another source,
 if you like, like a higher power or    something, that was actually
doing the work. I’ve often thought of us  just    being actually just
the earthly beings that played the music because  it was    uncanny.
Some of this music came out extremely uncanny” (Bill Ward of  BLACK   
SABBATH, cited in Black Sabbath An Oral History, p. 7).
“It’s
amazing, ’cause  sometimes    when we’re on stage, I feel like
somebody’s just moving the pieces.  ... I’m    just going, ‘God, we
don’t have any control over this.’ And that’s  magic” (Stevie    Nicks
of FLEETWOOD MAC, Circus, April 14, 1971).
ANGUS
YOUNG, lead guitarist  for    AC-DC, is called the “guitar demon”; and
he admitted that something  takes    control of the band during their
concerts: “...it’s like I’m on  automatic    pilot. By the time we’re
halfway through the first number someone else  is    steering me. I’m
just along for the ride. I become possessed when I  get on    stage”
(Hit Parader, July 1985, p. 60).
“We receive our songs by   
inspiration, like at a séance” (Keith Richards of the ROLLING STONES, 
Rolling    Stone, May 5, 1977, p. 55).
“I was
directed and commanded  by    another power. The power of darkness ...
that a lot of people don’t  believe    exists. The power of the Devil.
Satan” (LITTLE RICHARD, cited by  Charles    White, The Life and
Times of Little Richard, p. 206).
JIMI
HENDRIX’    girlfriend, Fayne Pridgon, said: “He used to always talk
about some  devil or    something was in him, you know. He didn’t know
what made him act the  way he    acted and what made him say the things
he said, and the songs and  different    things like that … just came
out of him. It seems to me he was so  tormented    and just torn apart
and like he really was obsessed, you know, with  something    really
evil” (sound track from film Jimi Hendrix, interview with Fayne 
Pridgon,    side 4, cited by Heartbeat of the Dragon, p. 50).
“You
can’t describe it  [playing    rock music] except to say it’s like a
mysterious energy that comes  from the    metaphysical plane and into my
 body. It’s almost like being a  medium....”    (Marc Storace, vocalist
with heavy-metal band KROKUS, Circus, January  31,    1984, p. 70).
“They
[The Beatles] were like    mediums. They weren’t conscious of all they
were saying, but it was  coming    through them” (YOKO ONO, The Playboy
Interviews with John Lennon and  Yoko Ono,    Berkeley, 1982, p. 106.).
“[Of his
 music JOHN LENNON  said]    “It’s like being possessed: like a psychic
or a medium” (The Playboy    Interviews, p. 203).
“I
really wish I knew why I’ve     done some of the things I’ve done over
the years. I don’t know if I’m a  medium    for some outside source.
Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it’s not what  I think    it is—Satan”
(OZZY OSBOURNE, Hit Parader, February 1978, p. 24).
Jimmy
 Hendrix once    said, "I can explain everything better through
music. YOU HYPNOTIZE  PEOPLE...    And when you get people at their
weakest point you can preach into the     subconscious what we want to
say.  That's why the name "electric  church'    flashes in and out."
Led
Zeppelin (From the song    Houses of the Holy): "Let the music
be your master, won't you  heed the    masters call? OhSatan"
“It’s
amazing that it [the  tune    to ‘In My Life’] just came to me in a
dream. That’s why I don’t  profess to    know anything. I think music is
 very mystical” (John Lennon, “The  Beatles Come    Together,” Reader’s
Digest, March 2001).
“I felt like a hollow temple   
filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting 
me for    a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another”
(John  Lennon,    People, Aug. 22, 1988, p. 70).
“The
music to ‘Yesterday’ came  in    a dream. The tune just came complete.
You have to believe in magic. I  can’t    read or write music” (PAUL
MCCARTNEY, interview on Larry King Live,  CNN, June    12, 2001).
“It
happens subliminally. It’s     the music that compels me to do it. You
don’t think about it, it just  happens.    I’m slave to the rhythm’
(Michael Jackson, explaining the reason for  some of    the filthy
sexual gestures during his concerts, during a 1993 Oprah  Winfrey   
interview, The Evening Star, Feb. 11, 1993, p. A10).
“When
the Siberian shaman gets     ready to go into his trance, all the
villagers get together... and  play    whatever instruments they have to
 send him off [into trance and  possession]. …    It was the same way
with The Doors when we played in concert... I  think that    our drug
experience let us get into it... [the trance state]  quicker.... It   
was like Jim [Morrison] was an electric shaman and we were the  electric
    shaman’s band, pounding away behind him. Sometimes he wouldn’t feel
 like    getting into the state, but the band would keep on pounding and
  pounding, and    little by little it would take him over. God, I could
 send an electric  shock    through him with the organ. John could do it
 with his drumbeats”  (DOORS    keyboardist Ray Manzarek, cited by Jerry
 Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman,  No One    Here Gets Out Alive, pp.
158-60).
“Rock has always been the  devil’s    music, you can’t
convince me that it isn’t. I honestly believe  everything I’ve    said—I
 believe rock and roll is dangerous. … I feel that we’re only  heralding
    something even darker than ourselves” (DAVID BOWIE, Rolling Stone, 
February    12, 1976, p. 83).
“In the end you have to look  at a 
  song and not know exactly where it came from” (BRUCE SPRINGSTEIN, 
Dateline,    Dec. 14, 1998).
Flea (from the Red Hot Chili   
Peppers):  "Music is really great, it can, it can, it can move,    you
know a large group of people, it can inspire and move a large  group of
   people--then revolution can happen"
“That
certain feeling happened  to    me in a big way quite often with the
first King Crimson. Amazing  things would    happen--I mean, telepathy,
qualities of energy, things that I had  never    experienced before with
 music … you can’t tell whether the music is  playing    the musician or
 the musician is playing the music” (Robert Fripp,  guitarist    for
KING CRIMSON, Down Beat, June 1985, p. 61).
“I
believe inspiration comes    through me and that I channel it” (Jim
Kerr, SIMPLE MINDS, cited by  Steve    Turner, Hungry for Heaven, p.
147).
John McLaughlin, leader of    MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA,
testified: “One night we were playing and  suddenly the    spirit
entered into me, and I was playing, but it was no longer me  playing”   
 (The Rock Report, p. 58).
Glen Tipton of JUDAS PRIEST  says, 
  “I just go crazy when I go onstage … it’s like someone else takes over
  my    body” (Hit Parader, Fall 1984, p. 6).
In 1974,
 JONI MITCHELL told  the    press of a male spirit who helps her write
music. “Joni Mitchell  credits her    creative powers to a ‘male muse’
she identifies as Art. He has taken  so much    control of not only her
music, but her life, that she feels married to  him,    and often roams
naked with him on her 40-acre estate. His hold over  her is so    strong
 that she will excuse herself from parties and forsake lovers  whenever
   he ‘calls’” (Why Knock Rock? p. 112, citing Time magazine, Dec. 16, 
1974, p.    39).
“I wake up from dreams and go    ‘Wow, put this down on
paper,’ the whole thing is strange. You hear  the words,    everything
is right there in front of your face. I feel that  somewhere,   
someplace it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the 
world”    (MICHAEL JACKSON, Rolling Stone, Feb. 17, 1983).
“When I
hit the stage it’s all  of    a sudden a ‘magic’ from somewhere that
comes and the spirit just hits  you, and    you just lose control of
yourself” (Michael Jackson, Teen Beat: A  Tribute to    Michael Jackson,
 Summer 1984, p. 27).
GINGER BAKER, drummer for the   
popular ‘60s band CREAM, said: “It happens to us quite often--it feels 
as    though I’m not playing my instrument, something else is playing it
 and  that    same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That’s
 what I mean  when I    say it’s frightening sometimes. Maybe we’ll all
play the same phrase  out of    nowhere.  It happens very often with us”
 (Bob Larson, Rock and the  Church, p.    66).
JOE
COCKER, who contorts    grotesquely during his performances, claims that
 something “seizes”  him when    he songs rock & roll (Time magazine, cited by Bob
Larson, Rock and the Church,    p. 66).
Lead
singer Perry Farrell of    JANE’S ADDICTION performs in a “frenzied
trance-state” like that of a  shaman.
“When
I’m singing and in touch     with the energy I’m generating, I sometimes
 literally have no  awareness of    where I am. The ego disappears, and
me and my surroundings with it. …  that’s    the reason I’m in music--to
 achieve that feeling” (Daryl Oates of HALL  AND    OATES, interview
with Timothy White, 1987, Rock Lives, p. 592).
The
original recording of “I  Put    a Spell on You” was done after the
SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS and his band  members    got drunk and “some type
of presence seemed to seize him.” He began  “grunting,    growling,
screaming, gurgling in strange unknown tongues, and wildly  dancing   
around the studio” (Heartbeat of the Dragon, p. 40).
Crosby
of Crosby, Stills
& Nash made that
plain enough when he bragged, "I figured that the only    thing to do
was steal their kids. I still think it's the only thing to     do...I'm
not talking about kidnapping...but about changing young  people's   
value system."
The sexuality of music is  usually    referred to in
terms of rhythm, it is the beat that commands a  directly    physical
response.  Music with the heavy, hard beat got the name "Rock  and   
Roll" when a disc jockey coined the term from sex in the back seat of a
 car.  The rock beat is Satan's sound of lawlessness. The rock beat is 
musical    perversion. Every knowledgeable musician knows that the term
"rock"  really    means a shameful act of lust.  But that is not the
only problem!  The  beat of    rock is nothing new. Pagan, animistic
tribes had the "rock beat" long  before    it came to America.  They use
 the driving beat to get "high" and bring  them    into an altered state
 of consciousness.  Traditional drumming and  dancing    techniques are
designed to achieve the Shamanic State of  Consciousness.  You    see,
the beat  is a vehicle for demon infestation.

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[liljp617]

How much of that did you actually confirm?


The answer would be a:  No.

[eSineM]

NO Indeed....just all about how people wanna perceive it

[sflynt]

No. It comes from being passionate about it and just letting yourself go. Depending on how you view life and what you've been through, it just comes out in different ways for people. There is nothing satanic about it, unless your into that sort of thing...

[jackiemontalvo20jackie]

you knw what you should look up go to you tube and look for illuminaties and satanic music you will find artist like eminem rhianna katy perry michlle jackson. and lot more. i got freaked out when i saw it. its crazy tho 

[eSineM]

A person is what they "eat".  Feast on rock music with satanic lyrics, references to satan...etc. and one will find themselves having those lyrics "embedded in their brain".   Those lyrics will affect one's moods, one's decisions and then consequences always result from the decisions one has made.  Those consequences will "make or break one's life".   I've noticed those that listen to rock music for any length of time often take on a "sickly appearance"...I'm not saying that listening to rock music directly caused this, I am saying that the rock music lyrics greatly influenced the choices those had made in life and it's made them "unhealthy".   Don't think so?  The rock musicians definitely have their lyrics embedded in their brain......and many of them die a premature death due to life choices they made.  There aren't very many of them that actually look healthy if at all--- for very long.  There have been experiments that say plants will wither and die if exposed to rock music.  I wouldn't tell anyone what they should or shouldn't listen to...I would though encourage everyone to do some studying and know exactly what you are exposing your mind/brain to.

Ive seen tons of people listen to Tool and heavy metal as they workout, and they are in great shape. Rock music has no bearing on your health, lyrics are not always embedded in the brain. Most everyone in society now days dies a premature death due to choices they make 99% of those choices involve diet. Even if this were all true, do you really think removing rock music would help? Rock music didnt invent people, people invented Rock music! They are not a product of the music, the music is a product of the people... Should you also get rid of all horror movies? all bad words? Books with negative information? Dark clothes? where do you draw the limit here if you feel these things are so influential on your life?

[imac887]

Music is how you perceive it. The artist's meaning may very well different from your own. I love rock music because of the outlets it provides to people who have nowhere else to turn at a particular moment. The best rock musicians are extremely intense and passionate about the music they play.

[jusu]

No it is not. Music is just that , Music. It's like TV is bad Video games make kids kill...silly.

[velvet53]

I don't feel it is. It all depends on how one treats the lyrics. I remember years ago there being a big thing about hidden meanings between the lyrics. If one feels the music is satanic then I suggest don't listen to it.

[mc1962]

No.  I am was a teen in the early 70s when these bands came out, "Kiss"  "AC/DC" Black Sabbath" and many many others and there is no satanic involvment other than MONEY..........These bands found a nitch and were able to cash in on it and more power to them.  Kiss' Gene Simmons is a good example of how people thought they were demons or that they were possessed by the devil when he (Gene Simmons) is nothing more then a good productive member of society.  Do not think for a moment that they "sold their souls" or are "satanic"........their only crime is luck. 

[AmyTrivitt]

People need something to blame everything on. Some types of music has and will always be considered satanic. Do I think it is, No.

[syntheticbeauty]

I don't think Rock music is Satanic at all. Not even the death metal, black metal, whatever metal bands out there that try their best to be demonic.
 Most of it all is a gimmick, the whole shock factor sells.
It's kinda how most of pop music uses sexuality and rap uses being gangster and thug to cause a a " hey look at me" appeal.
Every music genre has a way to appeal to it's fans and they have to set themselves apart.

So my opinion on this would be Rock music isn't satanic....

[syntheticbeauty]

As far as people listening to lyrics and doing what they hear, that honestly can not be blamed on the lyrics.
If a person is that influential or malice enough to listen to some of these gross lyrics and act on what is stated they obviously have deeper issues beyond listening to music.
Music may say suggestive things in their lyrics but does that mean we all are going to rush to do what it says? I highly doubt it.

People allowing the music to take control of their lives like drones.
I highly disagree! Sure some people take the scene to an extreme, but I'm a fan of rock/metal music as well as other genres.
I have been exposed to this music since I was 5 or 6. My mother listened to shock rock, hair metal, death Metal,  Metal, and even classic rock.
It never took any affect on me, because I wasn't weak willed. I understood that music was a form of expression and also a form of attention seeking.
My mind hasn't been altered and my perspective haven't been tainted.
I don't sit at home listening to this music in a drug induced state, thinking okay I want to go harm someone or myself because the song has been etched in my memory and I must do it.
When I look at myself every day I'm not seeing this gross unhealthy looking mess that most people think rock music fans appear to be.
I see a 23 year old with fairly white teeth,  a decent weight, very kept hair and cute clothes.
hmm I wonder if the affects of  listening to those dreaded rock lyrics will set in at my 30's? haha

I can agree that rock music can alter ones feelings, but it applies to every kind of music.
Tell me that listening to some songs by Keith Urban, Garth brooks, and other country singers doesn't make you feel sad, happy, upset, and other mixed emotions.
 

Most country music is depressing and some makes you want to dance.

What about rap, pop, oldies, even classical?  

How classical composures utilized their feelings into music so that the listeners can feel what they felt.
It needs no lyrics to comprehend the pain, the anger, the joy and all these mixed emotions without even speaking a word.

Operas even use dead languages or feign languages in their music and we listen to it and feel the pain in the tone of their voice or follow a story without complete understanding of the lyrics or lines.

Every type of music has some influence in our emotions, but at the end of the day we decide what we want to do with out lives and how to live.


As far as how some musicians tend to be, unkept hair and looking like their 60 when they are 30.
Sure some of these people look horrible, but honestly you want to blame it on their lyrics? It's not the music that created their lifestyle.
They all chose to be who they are. I mean look at Britney spears her music wasn't rock, look how wasted and used she looks sometimes.
Look at Whitney Houston she use to be sweet and glammed up.

Their are plenty of non rock musicians and celebrities that look terrible and live life in excess drug abuse and look like the local hobo when they are in the own confinements ( but beautiful on the red carpet)


Even stating that rock music or lyrics harms anyone's health is a far fetched statement.

Sorry, if I offend anyone with this next statement,  but you did give me great idea I'm going to sue black sabbath now because of prolong listening to their music, I must have obtained bone cancer from listening to their music for years. haha  ( before anyone goes on ranting mode it's a joke, not me having cancer but suing anyone)

If anyone is weak willed enough to allow lyrics to consume them then they need to seek help fast.

I can sit here and rant my behind off about this subject because I'm very well informed about vast amounts of music and a lover of lyrics.  

[marcar1008]

Don't think so, now there are many Christian beats out there, I am sure Rock can be transformed for the Glory of God too. 

[Fireman10]

How much of that did you actually confirm?


The answer would be a:  No.

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