Today, I will be reviewing a book called “Heavy metal in the service of satanism” by Krunoslav Žažar. It has a total of 111 pages and it is really easy to read. In this book, the author made a list of bands which are satanic or have satanic lyrics in their songs. The book is written in Croatian so I will translate quotations to English.
It is stated that the author of the book is a member of the Franciscan order and  Mary´s Legion.

  In the introduction of the book, the author says that he started writing the book inspired by the events of today’s world which affect all of us. The awful things that happen like wars, earthquakes or any other events that evaporate human lives out of existence. He says that in Zagreb (the capital city of Croatia), in the last 10 years, a vast number of heavy metal concerts were held in which heavy metal bands were satanic.

His proof in the introduction are posters that contain satanic symbols like pentagrams, inverted crosses and the number of The Beast.
I will now quote his opinion (translated):

“One should ask himself whose children will attend such concerts and what kind of content will be served (to the children), when we know that that are extremely dangerous things which have lifetime consequences, especially for the human salvation brought to us by Lord Jesus Christ.”^[1]
 
You can already tell by his words in the introduction that the book will be based on his Christocentric perspective against mainly satanic metal bands or metal bands that are satanic at least by their content. His goal is to give an analysis of the bands and their lyrics that he found on the Internet.
  Later on, he quotes St.Paul and writes some fundamental Christian truths and states that metalheads have been corrupted by the devil:

“That is one of the devil´s seducements, that a man in his life gets a loaf of bread without working. From the examples, we will see that many young people choose to play heavy metal music for that particular reason, and they make quite a living from it.“^[2]

In the last pages of the introduction, from an x number of examples, he says that he will prove that metalheads have bowed down to Satan in the way how they dress, how they behave, what they say, by the content of their lyrics and the style of their music. He also says that in this book he wants to make a list of the satanic metal bands because there are bands that are not satanic and/or not anti-christian.

  The main part of his book is written in the following way: He is listing the bands alphabetically and describes them (to which subgenre of heavy metal they belong and who are the members of the band). Then he puts pictures of band members and the cover art of their albums. He is also listing names of the albums and songs which are satanic and/or anti-christian. Before the end of the analysis of the band’s content, he takes out the lyrics from one of their songs and translates it to Croatian. The goal of this analysis is to prove that these bands are satanic just by their lyrics and satanic imagery on their albums covers. In other words, if your lyrics or content are satanic, then you are a Satanist (of course, this is a logical fallacy, which there are many of in this book; I will explain those logical fallacies in an another post later on):

  “These words (the song lyrics) and the words from their (band „Acheron“) other songs prove that they are Satanists and that they attend black masses or similar rituals. That is a path that certainly leads to damnation. Listening to this kind of songs and buying this kind of albums is also a heavy sin and other examples from this book will show that the people who have started worshiping Satan by listening music have become worse and worse, so they do the most despicable things nowadays.”^[3]

    The author makes the same or similar conclusions with other bands because belief in God is the ultimate truth, and worshiping Satan is ultimate blasphemy. He sent emails stating his opinion about the bands and even got replies to them.

  I will now present the list of bands that he analyzed: Acheron, Angelcorpse, Apostasy, Averse Sefira, Bathory, Behemoth, Belphegor, Blasphemy, Blood, Burzum, Dark Funeral, Darkthrone, Demoncy, Dissection, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Enthroned, Evilwar, Gates of Enoch, Gorgoroth, Grand Belial´s Key, Havohej, Hellhammer, Immortal, Impaled Nazarene, Infernum, Inquisition, Krieg, Marduk, Marilyn Manson, Mayhem, Mutilation, Necromantia, Ozzy Osbourne, Profanatica, Resuscitator, Rotting Christ, Satanic Slaughter, Satyricon, Setherial, Slayer and Watain.

  To conclude his analysis, he states that a great number of murders, ritual suicides, church burnings, swearing, blasphemy, and sexual perversion are all consequences from worshiping Satan and bowing down to demons.^[4]

  To conclude, this is a book written from a person who has an extremely Christian view over satanic heavy metal bands. In his conclusions of the bands, he makes a vast number of logical fallacies because of his mainly Christian perspective that repeats over and over again. I will address these logical fallacies in my next post, „Logical fallacies of the Christian perspective about heavy metal music and bands“. This book is basically a form of ostracism and inquisition against heavy metal bands that have satanic lyrics and imagery (although they don’t necessarily have to be satanic, neither do the members have to be Satanists).

                                                                                    Salute! – The Mage

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^[1] Žažar, page 3

^[2] Žažar, page 7

^[3] Žažar, page 13

^[4] Žažar, page 110