And Rock Begot Metal

I have discovered a thrash metal band in the Philippines. Since military history has left many Filipinos knowing the English language, the band uses an English name: "Distorted Mankind." Their singer wears a T-shirt for the band Pantera, and he sings in English. But I can't post their video, because attentive listening detected a naughty word in the song.
 
The biggest difference between styles which I could recognize came shortly before the halfway point. "Classic" did some rapid single-note picking; then "Modern" did picking which moved more obviously up and down the scale.
 
An online outlet called "Alternative Press" has posted a list on YouTube of ten movies which used metal music in their soundtracks. One of the films named is "The Crow," the classic tale of an undead monster on the side of good. I'm not sharing the video here, simply because of several distasteful images; but nothing nasty FROM THE MUSIC is featured there.
 
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The city of Clisson in western France has held a metal-music festival every June for some time. I don't know if they stopped it in the years of Covid panic; but I see online a notice that it's cancelled THIS year for some reason.
 
Wow! Copperfox, I didn't know you were a discerning metalhead! I like it, too, but maybe I haven't gotten quite as 'scientific' about it. My favorite artist at this time is someone you may not have heard of: Dan Fastuca. For a long time, Dan was a featured artist of Jackson guitars, and there are a number of guitar editions that bear his name. Dan is also into racing, diving flying and...lions. Dan and I have in common that we are both lionkeepers. We occasionally compare notes with each other about all things lion!
 
There's a magazine, around a century old, called The New Yorker . It exists partly for the purpose of encouraging affluent New York City residents to feel superior to us country hicks, and encouraging us hicks to wish that we also could be cool, trendy urbanites. But one of its virtues is a generous quantity of clever, entertaining one-panel cartoons.

Not until a few days ago, in the waiting room of a medical office where I had a magnetic- resonance appointment, did I discover a completely unexpected additional virtue: The New Yorker is willing to give coverage to metal music. There wasn't much time for me to look at the article, but I saw one amusing morsel.

A member of the band Anthrax was quoted as remarking about the famous group Metallica. He said that Metallica was like the United States Marines: they're the first to get into the action, and the last to depart.
 
There are Christians who insist that we must try never to be unhappy, always to be cheerful. They'll point out how Saint Paul urged the Philippians constantly to think about good things. But the working out of painful feelings, the catharsis of sadness or fear, IS ITSELF ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS. This is why God was okay with the Psalmists INCLUDING THEIR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS in what was to be sacred Scripture.

Wood Nymph and I have no desire at all to kill people or destroy property. METAL ARTISTS don't want to kill people or destroy property either. As is true of other musical genres, evil persons may GET INTO metal music; but original metal was never intended for the purpose of encouraging evil actions in real life. We have direct experience of the fact that metalheads display a wide-open friendliness, reaching right across barriers of race or age.

 
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