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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
I can understand liking metal for its raw power. I like metal for its aggression and gloom, but because I feel aggression and gloom about particular issues, I gravitate toward songs that offer realistic reasons for these emotions.
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I like it when bands refuse to get explicitly topical; the use of allegories allows bands to not only have a wider audience, but allows the same song to be personally fitting over a wide variety of circumstances.
Take this song by archgoat, "The Light-Devouring Darkness".
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Belives of the lowliness
Of Christ's false holiness
Those weak of the soul
Earth you shall eat
The light devouring darkness
the great fallen spirits
Gratification of their lust
The virgin shall conceive
Him who denies Jesus Christ
Hail the great triumphant one
In his own name he comes
Burning down the seven churches
All the world worship the beast
Conquest, slaughter, dearth and death
The lamb, the woman and her seed
Cast in the pool of eternal flames
She spiritual darkness now shall reign
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I like it.... it's treading a familiar metal theme, the defamed individual, free from the shackles of christian moralism, conquering the throne. It's triumphant, antagonistic, & snide. Wonderful.