Why do people associate rock/heavy metal with satanism?

When I was younger, I went to a Dutch Prodestant church. They were very set in their traditional ways. One of those ways required us to only listen and sing to music produced for praise for the Lord. Of course, I quickly got very bored of that kind of music. After all, the are so many combinations of ways to say, "Hallelujah! read more

There is Unblack metal. So, its not only for satanic people who like black metal. 3. Some people think heavy music is an act of satanism: OK. Aggressive riffs doesn’t mean its about satanism. It may be about anger, hatred, protest etc. Punk rock has also aggressive rock. But most people don’t say its satanic. Green Day has loud music. read more

Heavy metal is just a type of music like anything else. In my opinion rap has more evil concepts in it then metal does. I just think it's stupid how if you listen to Megadeth, Children of Bodom, Sabbath, tallica, old A7X, people asume your like an evil satanist emo gothic tard. read more

Suddenly the bands realized that this stuff is cool and people are associating their music with dark negative energy.The heavier the music, the closer does the listener associate himself with this dark power.This gave birth to Satanism's association with 'Rock and Roll' and 'Metal'. read more