And Rock Begot Metal

On one of Denver's rock-radio stations, I heard a DJ saying something to the effect that a metal song had been written about Alexander the Great. I couldn't hear clearly whether the DJ wrote the song himself, or someone else did.

EDIT: When Wood Nymph saw my above remarks, she told me that IRON MAIDEN had recorded a song about Alexander.
 
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I'm not so much into heavy metal. Though there are Christian music that has that kind of style, like Disciple or Thousand Foot Krutch. It's still something to appreciate that even heavy metal to bring out the message.
 
Even secular metal music may be beneficial. It helps us to work through harsh emotions. There ARE metal performers who are Satanists; but the great majority of metal artists are simply ACKNOWLEDGING hard things in life, not PRAISING evil.

Not every Christian will be sufficiently soothed by "He saved my soul / And made me whole / With precious love / From up above."
 
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Resuming the subject of the benefits of mainstream metal music......

On our latest visit to a favorite club in Colorado Springs, one of the bands we enjoyed was completely new to us, called "Apocalypse Born." I could not pick out anything evil or dirty in their songs. After this band finished its show-opening set, I spoke with the oldest member, a man of age sixty-two.

He noted that I had been dancing to their music, and I explained that the aerobic exertion is good for my blood pressure. (My longtime forum friends know that I began suffering hypertension in 2008, after my second wife joined the first one up in Aslan's Country. In all the time since, exercise has been a huge factor in keeping myself alive.) This prompted my new acquaintance to open up about his own health issues.

He told me that performing metal music has been good for his posture and balance. This made sense, but another point surprised me. He said that he is also dyslexic! --and that this condition also is helped somehow by his performing.

Well, okay: if it works, it works.

Almost forgot: during the set of another band, a young woman (probably younger than Wood Nymph) got up to dance, and persuaded her mother to dance beside her. We actually see many cases of metal music bridging generations. As for that, WE ARE one such case.
 
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Okay, I did not hear any naughty words in this video. As for the MOOD of the song, I repeat: our experience with metal artists is that they DON'T ACTUALLY LOVE EVIL. Rather, they offer a catharsis, an emotional safety valve, by RECOGNIZING bad things in life. All metal artists we've ever met offstage were friendly, sociable people.

The band here does what Madeleine Liljestam's group does: contrasting a melodic female voice with harsh male screaming. But the man doesn't always growl.

 
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