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:The development of heavy metal music in the '60s and its continuing popularity through the '70s, '80s, and '90s coincides, for one thing, with the period of the greatest popularity horror films and books have ever known. Both mark a transitional moment in our history: the end of Pax Americana; new economic crises; de-industrialization, the decline of unions and the rise of low-pay service jobs; revelations of corrupt leadership; powerful social movements challenging dominant policies on race, gender, ecology, and consumer rights; new challenges to the stability of social institutions such as the family; and redefinitions of political themes such as freedom. Much of the culture of the past twenty years has functioned to restore the sense of security undermined by these disruptions. Heavy metal, like horror films, has provided ways of producing meaning in an irrational society. <ref>[http://www.superseventies.com/stairway.html Dr. Robert Walser, Professor of Musicology, Dartmouth College] - author of ''Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music''</ref>

:The development of heavy metal music in the '60s and its continuing popularity through the '70s, '80s, and '90s coincides, for one thing, with the period of the greatest popularity horror films and books have ever known. Both mark a transitional moment in our history: the end of Pax Americana; new economic crises; de-industrialization, the decline of unions and the rise of low-pay service jobs; revelations of corrupt leadership; powerful social movements challenging dominant policies on race, gender, ecology, and consumer rights; new challenges to the stability of social institutions such as the family; and redefinitions of political themes such as freedom. Much of the culture of the past twenty years has functioned to restore the sense of security undermined by these disruptions. Heavy metal, like horror films, has provided ways of producing meaning in an irrational society. <ref>[http://www.superseventies.com/stairway.html Dr. Robert Walser, Professor of Musicology, Dartmouth College] - author of ''Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music''</ref>

However, Christian Metal is not at all satanic, anti-Christian, and doesn't promote suicide or violence.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Hunter</ref><ref>http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/extol_lyrics_6528/blueprint_dives_lyrics_25619/pearl_lyrics_280397.html</ref>

However, Christian Metal is not at all satanic, anti-Christian, and doesn't promote suicide or violence.<ref>http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/extol_lyrics_6528/blueprint_dives_lyrics_25619/pearl_lyrics_280397.html</ref>

===Satanism===

===Satanism===

===Anti-Christianity===

===Anti-Christianity===

It has been alleged that many secular heavy metal contains and is rooted in Anti-Christian sentiments<ref> [http://www.av1611.org/rock.html Hatred of Jesus Christ]</ref>, especially amongst the extreme metal sub genres, such as with Scandanavia's black metal scene. Secular Metal bands that claim to be Christian are criticized for making Un-Christian sounding music, or faking Christianity to sell records or corrupt young Christians, although a lot of the bands are true Christian Bands, strong in the Christian faith, and use their lyrics to spread the gospel, such as and Demon Hunter.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Hunter</ref>

It has been alleged that many secular heavy metal contains and is rooted in Anti-Christian sentiments<ref> [http://www.av1611.org/rock.html Hatred of Jesus Christ]</ref>, especially amongst the extreme metal sub genres, such as with Scandanavia's black metal scene. Secular Metal bands that claim to be Christian are criticized for making Un-Christian sounding music, or faking Christianity to sell records or corrupt young Christians, although a lot of the bands are true Christian Bands, strong in the Christian faith, and use their lyrics to spread the gospel, such as and Demon Hunter.

===Suicide and Violence===

===Suicide and Violence===