What does your family/parents think of extreme metal?

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What does your family/parents think of extreme metal? My parents hate it, I'm not trying to correlate religion with music likes or dislikes by any means but if my parents knew I was listening to such songs by Emperor as "I Am The Black Wizards" "Inno A Satana", or Morbid Angel's "Rapture" they'd freak out as they're against anything that resembles anti-Christianity and magic(Wicca and Paganism included). I'm 18 now so I'll listen to what the hell I want to. I was watching the documentary 'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" when the part on black metal came on and my Mom's familiar with my love for Emperor and my face turns blood red when they start talking about the church-burning by some of the members of the black metal bands and then my mom asks "Is black metal Satanic music praising the Devil?", I think "Oh, shit and say no, it's music that features screeching vocals while death metal uses death growls. Is your family similar to the way mine act?
 
They don't really care. One time my mother heard it and said "credo!" which translated into English means "horrible!" and then walked away.
 
My mother used to not particularly care for it, but she didn't care that I listened to it either. My father likes it I suppose, he's not too keen on growling, but he's amazed by the technical proficiency of most metal guitarists and drummers. He really likes Opeth, Nevermore and Arch Enemy.
 
My mother hates growling, my dad thinks it's pretty funny.

Though my mom likes Power Metal. I listened to Sonata Arctica for about a month when i was in high school. She had me give her the cd. :lol: I didn't care though, since I got over the whole Power metal thing real fast.
 
Zephyrus said:
I am a Catholic with Catholic parents. I keep my metal to myself and they suspect very little.

Same here, except that my family is Episcopalian, and my father and I listen to the same music.

which I think is awesome, considering parents.
 
I used to blast death metal in my room through my 600 watt PA (yes, that was my stereo system back in the day), and being as all my dad could hear through the walls was the kick drums, he thought I was listening to to some tribal jungle music. :lol:
 
My parents respect what I like, even if it is in conflict with what they like.

I never had 'rules' or 'boundaries' set by my parents my entire life.