Creeping Death!

     Okay now this is the first of my worldly observations and it is based off the title.
     There is a guy I know that is exactly half my age, He was born the same year I graduated high school.  He is a cool kid, he plays video games, watches movies and listens to "some" good music.  I say some because he is rather narrow minded with his listening.  He listens to one type of music and one type only.  That type is modern day rap.  I do listen to rap, but just not modern day rap.  I am a more of a 80's, 90's gangsta rap type of listener.  But I also listen to most other types of music for the most part with the exception of country music.  I have never found any piece of country music that was remotely good to my ears, just doesn't work.  And like always...I digress.  So I am listening to Metallica on a completely random loop and Creeping Death comes on, which is one of my favorites from them.  This 18 year old walks by and says "What is this?"  With absolute disgust on his face.  So, I say to him "That's the sound a guitar makes when played at full speed!"  He then chimes in with "My music may swear alot but at least it's not about devil worship."  This, to me, may as well been a kick to the junk. "So, because a song has a verse in it with a chanting...DIE!DIE!DIE!...it is obviously devil music?"  He responds with a quick "Well, yeah!"  I then commence to school this youngen on the song, Creeping Death, and where the Band came up with it.
     Metallica wrote this particular fast paced mid 80's tune after watching the film, The Ten Commandments!  I have seen this movie on numerous occasions and have also read the Bible from cover to cover.  I am by no means a religious person, I just enjoy the stories that it contains.  There is a part in this film where God sends a creepy ass, wispy, smoky thing into Egypt to kill all the first born males in every family except those with sheep blood on their door frame.  This is the part where Metallica came up with the name of the song.  So, how I dare ask is this devil worship when it is a story of Moses and setting the Jewish people free from slavery?
    I suppose every human is guilty of this though.  Their ears hear what they want to hear.  If you don't give the music a chance you have no business making comments about what you seem to think the lyrics are about.  Not all heavy metal is about devil worship and sheep fuckin.  Country isn't always about losing shit.  And rap isn't always about smokin' weed.  I listen to what sounds good to my ears and that means I may not always agree with what is being said in the song either.  There are alot of songs that I do like but just don't like what is being said, but it sounds cool though.  It can go the other way as well, some songs I can relate to the lyrics but it sounds like shit so I don't listen to it.
     I guess the moral of this story is a classic one of Don't judge a book by it's cover.