Why do more hardcore fans than metalheads love Jesus Christ?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I have some theories but I'm wondering if anyone else shares the same ones...

[John Dule]

[PSOL]

Metal is influenced more by counterculture and folk culture then hardcore I suppose, what with the influence of pre-Christian and anti-mainstream European culture. Or at least that is what my outside observer view is theorizing from what I know.

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I assume if you consider yourself a fan of hardcore you probably need a lot more Jesus in your life, so- oh, misunderstood the thread.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Many of the bans that were important in seeding the metal genre are known for blasphemous content, or otherwise un-Christian imagery. Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Venom, Slayer, &c. That sort of stuff will drive off many (but not all) Christians. To my knowledge, the history of hardcore is rather different, though I could be wrong.

[PSOL]

     Many of the bans that were important in seeding the metal genre are known for blasphemous content, or otherwise un-Christian imagery. Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Venom, Slayer, &c. That sort of stuff will drive off many (but not all) Christians. To my knowledge, the history of hardcore is rather different, though I could be wrong.

I’m not sure what symbology, aesthetics, and thematic origins many hardcore bands take root of; but I do notice that the little Metal I see having more occultic and Northwestern European pre-Christian imagery.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Many of the bans that were important in seeding the metal genre are known for blasphemous content, or otherwise un-Christian imagery. Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Venom, Slayer, &c. That sort of stuff will drive off many (but not all) Christians. To my knowledge, the history of hardcore is rather different, though I could be wrong.

I’m not sure what symbology, aesthetics, and thematic origins many hardcore bands take root of; but I do notice that the little Metal I see having more occultic and Northwestern European pre-Christian imagery.

     Pagan imagery took off in the 1990s, motivated in part by a desire to capture more traditional ideals of masculinity and heroism. The predominant religious aesthetic of the 1980s for metal was Satanic/anti-Christian, and those '80s bands were very influential for the '90s bands that would base their image and music in pre-Christian themes. Occultism, it should not be surprising, goes back to the very start of metal as a genre.

[Sestak]

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