death metal
For Christmas, I recieved the book "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson from Lindsay's aunt Donna, who knew it was a book that I would love. It is a true story about Chicago around the turn of the 20th century, revolving around the construction of a world fair, coinciding with a serial killer on the loose in the city at the same time. I do in fact love what I have read so far, so Donna was spot on with the gift. I was discussing the book, or more importantly the subject matter with my boy Hoz the other day. Yes the same Hoz who blogs on mindsay and looks like either a porn star, librarian, homeless person or pedophile depending on which shoelaces he straps on in the morning, That is, however, neither here nor there. We got to talking about serial killers, and I followed up this conversation by doing more research on wikipedia.
I read about Holmes, the killer in the book. I checked out the Bloody Benders, which Hoz told me about. I also checked out the BTK killer, Dennis Rader. I searched for BTK, as I had forgotten his name. You get hits of the murderer, as well as a couple hits based on Death Metal bands using references to serial killers in their songs and cd titles and even band names. Appalled really is not the word, more like enraged and disappointed in the abilities of humans.
Families suffered in immense ways at the hands of a serial killer. I firmly believe that if any person takes the life of another, they do not deserve their own life, period. They thought themselves to have the right to end another person's life, and I do no excuse that in any way. In correlation to that, anyone who would like to glorify those types of actions, should not be allowed to even speak, print, sing (if you could call death metal that) or in any other way broadcast those types of ideas. PERIOD. There is no justification for it at all, and if their minds see some way of justifying such a thing, they should not be allowed an avenue to spew that filth.
I listen to many genres of music, including heavy metal. I have been to many metal concerts over the years. The people that go to these concerts LIVE through the music. Think I'm wrong? Drive by a venue where a concert is about to be held by one of those death metal groups. Look at the people. If they can't help themselves not to live vicariously through the music. Glorification of this kind of thing is deplorable. I don't propose a solution, because I'm not sure one exists. It becomes a slippery slope to try and attempt any resolution from trying to stop people who do terrible things with their freedoms. I don't lnow what the solution is, but my faith in people continues to be assaulted everyday, more and more.
