Well, yes, that part is kind of problematic for sure. The statements he made and the amount of guilty by association and suspicious connexions he's drawing between bands for completely unreasonable motives, are concerning for sure.

But the meere fact that he is a Christian shouldn't bother people.

I recently converted to Christianity, and ditched all extreme metal overnight. Roughly 95% of black metal, 80% of death metal, and 60% of thrash would be incompatible with my beliefs

I also strongly agree with this.

How many have been butchered and slaughtered under the name of ''Satan'', compared to that of ''God''?

I can't stand any of Burzum's material and it's perplexing to me that Burzum is still held in such high regard.

Can't believe discussion is still going on with this obvious troll.

...as they aknowledge both sides and picked that of the enemy, even if they don't realize it

If this came out of the mouth of my grandma (pretty close to 90 years old and raised in almost extremist catholic ways) I could pass that off as yesteryear's nonsense, but holy shit, give me a break.

It's hard to have constructive discussions with people like this.

It's also hard to believe that someone who makes these kinds of claims doesn't have messed up views on a bunch of things like homosexuality, trans people and women...

I had a very Christian buddy years ago that said he had yet to find a band that was genuinely blasphemous in a way that bothered him despite how religious he is. He said that for a band to really offend him, they would have to admit that God is real, God is great, God is the one true god, and choose to turn to Satan anyways.

I remember interacting with a religious metal fan online who has no problems listening to bands like Possessed, but can't listen to bands like Immolation.

Possessed, he claims, really didn't believe in the Satan stuff and were writing those lyrics merely for shock value. Bands like Immolation are different, because it's more anti-Christian than theatrical Satan stuff.

I wish it was easier to sort out the bands who were genuine satanists from those who are doing it “for shock value.” At this point, I just assume every single Satan band is trying to be the latter and it’s kind of boring. If you expect everyone to be shocking, it really isn’t all that shocking. The only way I can even imagine it being provocative anymore is if they presented satan as a more androgynous figure than the male power fantasy as usually portrayed by metal bands.

There's a fair amount of stuff that I listen to that's stained by people involved:
Burzum
Dissection
Gorgoroth
Emperor (and anything that Faust was involved in)
Darkthrone's Transylvanian Hunger (since Varg wrote some lyrics)
Inquisition (though I've listened to them far less since that last scandal)
Gloryhammer/Alestorm
Pantera
Mayhem
Thorns
Drudkh
Sword of Darkness (obscure Vietnamese symphonic black metal band, once they broke up one of the guys started Vothana)
Michael Jackson
Iced Earth
Judas Priest (Dave Holland material)
Young and in the Way
Horna (stuff before Werewolf left the band)
Pretty much any 80's glam band that didn't check if their groupies were underage or not

I really, really hate to admit that the last Nokturnal Mortum, Drowning the Light and Satanic Warmaster albums were actually enjoyable, because all three bands involve dishonest pieces of shit about "oh we're not nazis"

The only two I can outright remember that actions of a band member actively turned me away from the band are:
Carpe Noctem
Goatlord

Not metal but I recently learned what Randy Scott (founder of Art Data Interactive and the main guy behind the surprisingly good soundtrack (and the only good thing about)) Doom on the 3DO did. That felt like Inquisition all over again.

Gotta ask, what did Alestorm do?

A group chat from Gloryhammer, of which one of the Alestorm guys is also a member (I think the vocalist), got leaked online and the guys in the band were saying some racist/sexist shit.

EDIT: grammatical errors

Fascism is unpopular, people don't like it, you look like a freak when you excuse it. Go outside. talk to any normal person and get off your online circlejerk fests around GBK or whatever shitty band you like.

I know of some metalheads who converted to Christianity, and dropped all metal, extreme or non-extreme, as a result. However, with time, they gradually began to start listening to secular metal again after a while.

I know that there are some Christian metal fans who only listen to Christian bands (I don't know if they do this for other genres or not) whose blood boils whenever someone in the Christian metal world even acknowledges a secular metal band (whether it be wearing a shirt of a secular band, covering a secular metal band's songs, etc.). I remember Mortification's lead singer once got figuratively crucified by some of his fans for wearing merch of secular metal bands.

On another metal circle I post at, one guy recently said Immolation was his favorite metal band, but he converted to Christianity, and now he can't bring himself to listen to them, as he finds their largely anti-Christian lyrics to be very off-putting (they do have some songs, particularly on more recent albums, that have lyrics that aren't anti-Christian or anti-religion, but he won't even listen to those). He would like to have a Christian band that sounds just like them, but there doesn't seem to be one.

What about Stormkeep? Are they fascist or not, does any1 know?

What about Stormkeep? Are they fascist or not, does any1 know?

What about Stormkeep? Are they fascist or not, does any1 know?

El Paso… first a maniac wielding a box-cutter cuts 3 fans at our concert—one ear-to-ear (thankfully all the victims are going to recover), then we learned that Glen Benton is kicking us off the ‘No Salvation Tour’. It was a helluva night. Since we started this tour, we’ve had to endure Glen Benton’s constant bitching and ultimatums. He was always trying to snip our balls and demanded that we couldn’t use our fog machines and on some nights, we couldn’t use our backdrops or other production elements because he had issues with all of it. With respect to the headliner, we abided. Moreover, in efforts of friendship, good tour vibes, and because we’re simply cool fucking guys, we let Glen Benton and his band use OUR BACKLINE because they didn’t want to bring all their gear on tour!

“Specifically, we let the headliner use our cabinets and Glen Benton used our entire bass rig—head and cabinet—since his own bass head failed him early on. While we were generous with our backline, not once did Benton thank us, offer us a dime, or even lift a finger to help move anything—and he fucked up our bass head numerous times with his resetting the EQ, etc., despite us politely asking him NOT to mess with the bass tone we dialed in. Gee, with all the money and free gear Benton brags about to us daily, you’d think he’d do something about getting his own rig.

“Things got ugly in El Paso when, after we learned Benton had lost our bass rig cables and once again fucked with our bass head, so, we put our foot down and told him he couldn’t use the head anymore. Note: we still allowed Benton to use our cabinets for their show.

“That said, Benton threw an EPIC hissy-fit and immediately kicked us off the tour! He booted Broken Hope from the tour simply because we refused to let him use our bass head! What bullshit. Now, even though that lame reason is what Benton used to get rid of us, I believe there’s more to the story here. During this entire tour Benton has given BH and our crew nothing but a shitty attitude and has tried to sabotage our production every day for no good reason. Though Benton blocked us from using our fog machines, he couldn’t stop us from using our professional soundman, nor stop us from giving concertgoers an amazing and high-powered show. The fact remains—as all our show attendees have seen—we fucking handed Glen Benton his ass every night of the tour and he couldn’t keep up. Benton and his caravan of mini-van drivers couldn’t touch our live show—even on our worst night.

Benton sent Shaun Glass a text last night, threatening to break his jaw if Shaun badmouthed Benton. Well, I’m calling Benton out right now because his bullshit is old, fake, and he ain’t scaring anyone. Glen Benton is a lazy, jealous, jaded, ungrateful, unprofessional, egomaniacal bully. He menaces everyone from bands and fans, to promoters and booking agents. How he maintains a career is beyond me. And this time, he fucked with the wrong band. Karma is a bitch, Benton.