Discovered recently that Electric Wizard were kinda dicks back in the day. “At the time, we were pretty bad people. I got arrested for arson of a car, outside a police station. Tim [Bagshaw] went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage…”

R. L. Burnside killed a man “possibly at a craps game.”

Varg of Mayhem Burzum burned a couple churches and killed a bandmate.

I could list other examples, but would like to hear from other people and other music genres.

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I mean, one is lyrics for a fictional killer, the other is real life spouse abuse. I don’t know about you, but real life events are worse than written words.

    John physically abusing his family is way worse than lyrics of an intentionally creepy song.

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      1 year ago

      You’re preaching an imaginary point here.

      I was just making the observation that knowing about John’s penchant for domestic abuse makes looking at Beatles lyrics an interesting thought experiment.