QFT.
I must say though, screaming about ripping out people's eyeballs is just as bad as being a Black Metal retard.
Yeah, she should be singing in a hilariously off-key, thick accented pseudo-majestic voice with regards to prancing unicorns and rainbows like Angra right? That's absolutely cool.
Duchess, I think it's really really really really shitty of a dude to quit your band because of YOUR personal choice and decisions. I'm good friends with a few Christian metalheads who are in otherwise secular metal bands and there's no problem. I think as long as there's no imposition, it's all fair game and should be respected.
With that out of the way, Satanism whether serious (Totally fine by me. My username comes off a song from a left-hand-pathist band) or tongue-in-cheek, is metal. Metal is not pretty, or beautiful, or whatever. It's grimey, disgusting, contains distorted riffs, primal vibes, etc, in some sort of capacity. As DcCowboys said, the inverted cross' meaning has subsequently been changed by anti-Christians, or those who just want something to rebel against. Metal is that outlet, and that's what it's commonly for. Even in the ProgPower scene we have more "Pagan's Mind" and bands like Evergrey who put out "The Inner Circle" than we have Christian stuff (at least, in terms of popularity). Even Orphaned Land is rebellious against common society in that they're of the belief that all beliefs have a distinct-but-equal voice. That's secularism at its core! It's just how it is. And mind you, there are a good batch of Christian-leaning metal bands (and NON-metal bands) that I've dug. You can totally deconstruct that and argue the Christian bands rebel against the secular ones because they make up the majority in the metal scene. Though my point still stands, it's all about opposition.
At the end of the day, the point I'm making is that it's less about the Christianity, or lack of thereof, and more about the outlet to stick a finger to the face of everyone else that makes metal, metal.
BTW Angrarules, I'm not so much saying that Angra isn't cool (I personally hate them though. Some killer riffs and songwriting but the vocals kill it for me) as I am trying to say that you can poke fun at everything that is metal. You can't actually take one batch of it with utmost seriousness and then laugh at the rest of it. It's all equally silly.
