Another great article from Marc Barnes (does he write any other kind?).
“You see, the problem with Black Metal – and similar super-cool forms of Satan-worship – is that it can’t keep up with the Roman Catholic Church. They make grotesque album covers full of bloodied skeletons either a) having lots of fun playing music or b) desecrating some holy place/thing or c) doing both AT THE SAME TIME OMG, and their fans say “Wow! How bold!” And thus we get the brilliantly original pile of skulls.
As a Catholic, I have to laugh. Because you see, not only am I religiously obligated to have no fear of Death, who is dead, but I’ve literally prayed a rosary in a chapel in Rome made out of the bones of hundreds of martyred monks.”