Are Doom-Metal fans Satanists?
Pentagram Only on Sundays! In all seriousness, no, Doom-Metal has nothing to do with Satanism whatsoever. Most metal actually has nothing to do with Satanism or devil worship. It is one of the most persistent and incorrect rumours plaguing Doom-Metal and metal in general. It is possible however to confuse Doom-Metal with the only Metal genre that does actively have a lot to do with Satanism; Black-metal. It’s rather simple to keep apart however, Doom-Metal is the really slow one and Black-metal is the really fast one! Doom-Metal has no ties to any religion whatsoever. While terms like “god” and “Satan” are often used in the lyrics they have symbolic value for the artists. The subject of, for example, loss of faith in Doom-Metal can easily be said to be satanic by ignorant religious zealots, but this is not true. The meaning behind lyrics like that would be the sadness and the pain that cause somebody to lose faith and the misery that precipitates from it.
