Heavy metal music is a product of the late hippie culture that was formed in the early 1970s. The band that has long been considered the father of heavy metal is a group of old bands such as Led Zeppelin. Heavy metal music adds a lot of distortion through guitars. Effects to reflect the power of the music itself. You can’t hear these distortion effects in early hippie bands, such as the Beatles. The first person to use distortion effects extensively was Jimmy Hendrix, because Jimmy’s psychedelic music belongs to pure hippie culture. , so his distortion is mostly used to express illusion, freedom and inner conflict rather than power. Heavy metal music strengthens this distortion through chord trends, rhythm, etc., showing power and deriving various heavy metal branches. For example: death metal, speed metal, thrash metal, grindcore metal and pop metal that emerged in the 1980s and achieved great commercial success. Later heavy metal music, especially nu-metal in the late 1990s, paid more attention to power and order, and even completely gave up "freedom" in music. The music was full of mechanical rhythms, blocky chords, Heavyweight distortion and slogan-y lyrics! This new metal music is a product of the fusion of hardcore music and death metal represented by the band "Black Flag" in the late 1970s! But no matter what, the first generation of heavy metal music is still a product of hippie culture, and their themes are still peace, friendship, and anti-war! Reflections on war and fears of the Cold War. As for the relationship between heavy metal and religion, there is only some dark metal and death metal to deepen the mystery through some religious themes and express the fear of the Cold War, but the core issue they are concerned about is not religion, such as the Old Testament (Testment) band. In the later period, new metal bands had nothing to do with religion and did not express mystery and fear. Instead, they became increasingly involved in political and social issues and directly expressed anger and political views. The most representative one is rage against. machine) band. There are also some bands that pay more attention to personal growth experiences and inner feelings, such as korn, which is a kind of closed, violent, and lack of tolerance music. Therefore, I think you as a Christian can absolutely love this kind of music, but this kind of music really has nothing to do with your faith. I think you can listen to "Gregorian Chant", this kind of sacred and solemn music as your religious music.