part one
If in doubt, throw it out!!!!!!!!! : However it truly in the
end is going to have to be your own "conviction" of what
You think is correct to do!!!!! Pray to God for direction in
Your life!!!!!!
God will guide You, if You truly draw near to Him.
However if one were to continue with their lifestyle:
1) If You smoke, then You can witness where others smoke!!!!!!
2) If You listen to Metal, try and find as Christ like Metal
You can find, In Your View, to be a witness where Metal is.
3) If Your Pierced, or Tatooed, then be a Witness to Pierced Metal Heads.
4) Love God, and be a witness, and if God says to You one day,
drop the Metal, then worry about it then.
5) Seek Your relationship with Christ, and let Tommorow worry about tiself,
because the worries of today are sufficient for today.
However, if God tells You to drop it today, drop it today!!!!
I'm a Metal head, and Metal Guitar Player Myself, and I
worry about what bands say what. I have allways been a
fan of Black Sabbath ----Because "Warning" on the first
album, "Speaks" to Me, as a reprise or rebutal to NIB,
( which I then in turn had seen NIB ---to be advice to not
believe in Lucifer being able to be good. ) And I had seen
all of that, long before I had become a Christian. But to
this day I can not dispute the anti-lucifer/"warning," way
In which I was able to interpret things ---because of the
song "Warning" itself.
However Ozzy played with altering the natural "Attack"
and "Decay" of His singing to hide multiple sets of Lyrics
in places so for example "deadly petals with strange
power," could also be heard as "deadly battles with
strange power," etc.., depending on what one can hear,
which opens a whole new world and debate, about "fluid"
lyrics ---which can say waht they need to at a particular
moment ----which is extreemly dangerous indeed!!!!!!
And yet "behind the wall of sleep," when it sings "Visions
cupped within the flower....deadly peatals with strange
power....faces shine a deadly smile....look up on you at
your trial....chill that numbs from head to toe...icy sun
with frosty glow.... words ago read to your
sorrow....words ago read no tommorow..."
The Bible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
however, the song goes on to tell you to die, and die again,
And thus go to higher Kabbalistic worlds ( which I do not
recomend ) because "Black Sabbath," "Warning," and
Volume 4, "Weels of Confussion," etc.., all sugest that
their "deaths" due to the "world having it's evil way,"
means that "Behind the wall of sleep," means to "turn
your body to a corpse," Again and again ----however, if it
means the first time, to someone, than how can that be
good, unless it is "death in Christ," which is death to old
self, in the newness of ones Saved life!!!!
( And I'm sure Sabbath wasn't aware of the meaning of death in Christ ).
And Warning sings:
"Now the first day that I met ya, I was looking in the sky,
when the sun turned all a blurr, and the thunder clouds
rolled by, the sea began to shiver, and the wind began to
moan, it must have been a sign for me to leave you well
alone, I was born without you baby, but My feelings were
a little bit to strong...you never said you loved me, and I
don't belive you can, Cause I saw you in a dream, and
you were with another man, you looked so cool and
casual, and I tried to look the same, But now iv'e got to
love ya, tell me who have I to blame, I was born without
you baby, but My feelings were a little bit too strong
............... Now the whole wide world is moving cause
there's iron in My heart, I just can't keep from crying,
cause you say we've got to part, sorrow grips My voice,
as I stand here all alone, and watch you slowly take away,
a love Iv'e never known, I was born without you baby,
but My feelings were a little bit too strong, just a little bit
too strong................Now the whole wide world is moving
cause there's iron in My heart, I just can't keep from
crying, cause you say we've got to part, sorrow grips My
voice, as I stand here all alone, and watch you slowly take
away, a love Iv'e never known, I was born without you
baby, but My feelings were a little bit too strong, just a
little bit too strong."
And Planet Caravan, among other songs, But planet
Caravan is another good example of multiple sets of
Lyrics in portions of the song -----which in turn could
possibly lead to pseudo-spiritualy altered lyrics for all
lyrics in any song, if one were worshiping that kinda
stuff as the guide in their life????????????????????
Black Sabbath has allways been highly regarded by
everyone in Metal, and the first album, and it's guitar work
were killer: It starts out simple, with the song "Black
Sabbath," and progresses from their in intensity.
So who am I to tell you that once "Metal" gets into your
blood, that it is easy to get it back out???? That one, is
not easy on our strength alone, and would have to be
between you and God, one way or another!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the Guitar playing in bands such as "Pantera,"
"Lamb Of God," "Amon Amarth," "Opeth," "Godsmack,"
etc.., for New Metal, since the span from Judas Priest, and
Iron Maiden, Dio, and Metalica, thru to today, offers lots of
choices, And I have allways loved the guitar playing of
Randy Rhodes, and Darrell Lance Abbott, etc.., Darrell's
guitar work, on from "Walk," to "cowboys from hell," to
"Cemetary Gates," etc.., is killer!!!!!!!!!!!!