Black Metal
Sadly a lot of rock and metal genres are wrongly linked to 'devil worship', which is pretty silly. However Black Metal has had its fair share of justifiable hostility, the majority of bands do promote anti-christian messages and between 1992-1996 there were over 50 church torchings in Norway (where black metal originates, Scandinavia and Britain). This is obviously not good. However what I think is a main problem is that not everyone who listens to Black Metal want to go around burning churches, and a lot of the anti-Christan messages are just for show, part of the whole act. Not many people seem to understand this, and the fact that only those who seem to take it seriously ever make the news doesn't help.
Historical events in Black Metal
Rap/Hip-hop
A lot of rap music has reference to guns and drugs and the main fear is that this will encourage youngersters to get involved with this kind of thing. Another thing which it seems to encourage is bad language and swearing and maybe some racial implications. Again there are only copycats in some extreme cases and it is normally only older generations who have a problem with this sort of music.
Social Impact of Hip-hop
In Conclusion
I don't think music is actually bad at all. As always there are rare cases where the 'messages' in music are taken literally and people go a little bit to far, but I don't really think that people can blame the artist's for this (unless they are clearly promoting something without acknowledging that it is just an act).
Most Controversial Music Artists - a list of top 50 most controversial musicians
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