MY GOD IS MORE METAL THAN YR GOD
Jan. 31st, 2010 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: UK rock magazine Metal Hammer is urging heavy metal fans to officially register their faith as ''heavy metal'' while filling in the next Census questionnaire.
If the campaign is successful, Saxon frontman Biff Byford will become the proposed faith's ''world metal peace ambassador''.
This is, of course, why Facebook was invented.
I like this idea, if only because heavy metal has everything you need for a religion: good attendance, influence on lifestyle, unswerving devotion, call-and-response choruses, massive sectarianism and a solid merchandising business.
Personally, I think Ronnie James Dio would be a more appropriate choice for world metal ambassador. But he’s currently unavailable. And Saxon was the blueprint for Spinal Tap, so it’s not like Biff hasn’t earned it.
Of course, this kind of thing won’t get Heavy Metal listed as an official religion in the census results. It didn’t work for the Jedi in 2001, so it’s not likely to work now.
However, if it DOES work, they’ll need a name.
I have a suggestion.
Yes, I know, technically it’s taken. But it’s not like Metal Church is using it right now.
Metal gods,
This is dF
If the campaign is successful, Saxon frontman Biff Byford will become the proposed faith's ''world metal peace ambassador''.
This is, of course, why Facebook was invented.
I like this idea, if only because heavy metal has everything you need for a religion: good attendance, influence on lifestyle, unswerving devotion, call-and-response choruses, massive sectarianism and a solid merchandising business.
Personally, I think Ronnie James Dio would be a more appropriate choice for world metal ambassador. But he’s currently unavailable. And Saxon was the blueprint for Spinal Tap, so it’s not like Biff hasn’t earned it.
Of course, this kind of thing won’t get Heavy Metal listed as an official religion in the census results. It didn’t work for the Jedi in 2001, so it’s not likely to work now.
However, if it DOES work, they’ll need a name.
I have a suggestion.
Yes, I know, technically it’s taken. But it’s not like Metal Church is using it right now.
Metal gods,
This is dF
