The song is about ignorant people shaming the entire genre of metal because of their preconceived bias opinions; mostly that, despite metal being a fairly intelligent and progressive genre, most think metal is nothing but loud satanic gibberish. At the same time, 99% of the people who say these things about metal have never actually listened to metal and will never educate themselves on the subject.
I know the feeling very well. I once dated a girl who was extremely intelligent and progressive, but absolutely detested all forms of metal because all of it was "satanic emo garbage" in her eyes. Of course, she had never listened to any metal, and was just basing her hatred off of generic stereotypes. Her being a very smart person (who ended up going to Harvard), I thought I could show her how symbolic and meaningful some metal could be and maybe she'd learn and understand, but NO, instead she immediately shot down any attempt without a good reason. Metallica, Black Sabbath, Tool, Cynic, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, and Death were all the same. She finally pulled me aside and said, in an extremely serious tone, "there's nothing you'll ever do to convince me that metal is more than just Satanic screamo" and things just fell apart. Not because she didn't like my musical tastes (my current girlfriend hates metal too), but because she refused to educate herself on this and went her life hating something 100% based off of cliche, biased stereotypes (among other more serious reasons). I thought it was extremely hypocritical that she spent day and night advocating gay rights, minority rights, and defending other things that are constantly under fire from stereotypes and biased hatred, but when it came to a genre of music, she formed a biased and cliche opinion on something she knew nothing about, just like the racists and homophobes she fought against use. "Metal is satanic" "metal is just screaming nonsense" "metal takes no talent" when 90% of the time, especially with an amazing band like Death, all those "complaints" are completely inaccurate.
The song is about ignorant people shaming the entire genre of metal because of their preconceived bias opinions; mostly that, despite metal being a fairly intelligent and progressive genre, most think metal is nothing but loud satanic gibberish. At the same time, 99% of the people who say these things about metal have never actually listened to metal and will never educate themselves on the subject.
I know the feeling very well. I once dated a girl who was extremely intelligent and progressive, but absolutely detested all forms of metal because all of it was "satanic emo garbage" in her eyes. Of course, she had never listened to any metal, and was just basing her hatred off of generic stereotypes. Her being a very smart person (who ended up going to Harvard), I thought I could show her how symbolic and meaningful some metal could be and maybe she'd learn and understand, but NO, instead she immediately shot down any attempt without a good reason. Metallica, Black Sabbath, Tool, Cynic, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, and Death were all the same. She finally pulled me aside and said, in an extremely serious tone, "there's nothing you'll ever do to convince me that metal is more than just Satanic screamo" and things just fell apart. Not because she didn't like my musical tastes (my current girlfriend hates metal too), but because she refused to educate herself on this and went her life hating something 100% based off of cliche, biased stereotypes (among other more serious reasons). I thought it was extremely hypocritical that she spent day and night advocating gay rights, minority rights, and defending other things that are constantly under fire from stereotypes and biased hatred, but when it came to a genre of music, she formed a biased and cliche opinion on something she knew nothing about, just like the racists and homophobes she fought against use. "Metal is satanic" "metal is just screaming nonsense" "metal takes no talent" when 90% of the time, especially with an amazing band like Death, all those "complaints" are completely inaccurate.