Beyond Good and Evil? Theological Ramblings about Your Favorite Music

By Matt Johnson

Everybody has a guilty pleasure in their life. For some it’s watching a superficial TV show about spoiled teenage girls living in LA with eating disorders. Maybe you secretly like a boy band. I’ll tell you mine. A couple years ago, I was really into those two for 99 cents Jack in the Box Tacos. Recently, I’ve wised up and started to notice the undesirable digestive effects of partaking in the dog food like mexi-treats. While I don’t dine at Jack in the Box anymore, I still have fond memories of my short lived junk food obsession. So now I have a new obsession. I am a fan of death metal and it’s closely related genre cousin, black metal. There, I said it. One of my favorite pastimes involves cruising around in my car and cranking up the metal mix on the stereo. Cannible Corpse, Immortal, Mayhem, Morbid Angel, Slayer-go ahead and scoff-I love “em all. What I once considered a guilty pleasure five plus years ago, I now consider one of my favorite forms of music-for real. (more…)