Favorite Bands

[cupn00dles]

Asian Kung-Fu Generation
L'arc en Ciel
Dragonforce
The Offspring
UVERworld

CTFan

All those bands but Dragonforce, which sounds uber-bishie, are great. Specially Offspring. It's the only band which I own every album 

[Radical_Dreamer]

i like a lot of bands its just what mood im in at the time but i mostly like (THE USED,HIM,A7X,DESTURBED,PANIC AT THE DISCO,SLIPKNOT. AND MANY MORE

H.I.M. seems to be picking up popularity stateside out of nowhere these days. I'd heard of them because their singer did a song with Apocalyptica and the singer from The Rasmus. It's called "Bittersweet." Great song.

[Nicole_Flesher]

The Rasmus!!!! I've heard one of there songs ''In the shadows'' awesome song never heard any other song. People say that the heartagram is a evil star or some thing like its another sign for the devil. What is you peoples thought.

[Radical_Dreamer]

The Rasmus!!!! I've heard one of there songs ''In the shadows'' awesome song never heard any other song. People say that the heartagram is a evil star or some thing like its another sign for the devil. What is you peoples thought.

It's a take on the pentagram, an often used symbol in heavy metal music and a heart. It's symbolic of what they do: love metal. To associate them with devil worship, or any sort of religion because of their logo is absurd.

[Burning Zeppelin]

Hm, that was Kazuki's display picture. I wonder why he doesn't come to the Compendium anymore.

[Magus068]

The Rasmus!!!! I've heard one of there songs ''In the shadows'' awesome song never heard any other song. People say that the heartagram is a evil star or some thing like its another sign for the devil. What is you peoples thought.

It's a take on the pentagram, an often used symbol in heavy metal music and a heart. It's symbolic of what they do: love metal. To associate them with devil worship, or any sort of religion because of their logo is absurd.

They consider pentagram as a symbol of evil because it's always associated with black magic.

[Burning Zeppelin]

Christianity

According to Heather Child's Christian Symbols, Ancient and Modern, the pentagram is a symbol of the five senses. Also, when the letters S, A, L, V, and S are inscribed in the points, the pentagram is a symbol of health (Latin salūs).

The pentagram appears on the shield of Sir Gawain in the 14th Century poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In the poem the five lines of the star are given multiple meanings: they represent the five senses, five fingers, the five wounds of Christ, the five joys that Mary had of Jesus (the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension and the Assumption), and the five virtues of knighthood which Gawain hopes to embody: frankness, fellowship, purity, courtesy and compassion.

Satanism

Satanists use an inverted Pythagorean pentagram (one point down), often inscribed in a double circle, with the head of Baphomet inside the pentagram. They use it much the same way as the Pythagoreans, as Tartaros means Hell in Christian terminology (the word is used as such in the Bible, referring to the place where the fallen angels are fettered). The Pythagorean Greek letters are most often replaced by the Hebrew letters לויתן forming the name Leviathan. Less esoteric Satanists (LaVeyan types, the ones that exist in abundance) use it as a sign of rebellion or religious identification, the three downward points symbolising rejection of the holy Trinity.

Neopaganism
 
Many Neopagans, especially Wiccans, use the pentagram as a symbol of faith similar to the Christian cross or the Jewish Star of David. (It is not, however, a universal symbol for Neopaganism, and is rarely used by Reconstructionists.) Its religious symbolism is commonly explained by reference to the neo-Pythagorean understanding that the five vertices of the pentagram represent the four elements with the addition of Spirit as the uppermost point. As a representation of the elements, the pentagram is involved in the Wiccan practice of summoning the elemental spirits of the four directions at the beginning of a ritual.

The outer circle of the circumscribed pentagram is sometimes interpreted as binding the elements together or bringing them into harmony. The Neopagan pentagram is generally displayed with one point up, partly because of the "inverted" pentagram's association with Satanism, however within traditional forms of Wicca the inverted pentagram is associated with the Second Degree Initiation and in this context has no relation to Satanism.

Because of a perceived association with Satanism and also because of negative societal attitudes towards Neopagan religions and the "occult", many United States schools have sought to prevent students from displaying the pentagram on clothing or jewelry. In public schools, such actions by administrators have been determined to be in violation of students' First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.

The Druze

The Druze, descendents of exiles from Fatimid Dynasty-ruled Egypt also keep a five-colored pentagram as their symbol. They live mainly in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. Though they share religious beliefs with Muslims and Christians, both groups consider them as pagans.

[V_Translanka]

After listening to several Radiohead albums I've come the conclusion that they are, god help me for using the dreaded word of this internet-driven world, overrated...That's right, I said it! lol...I like their singles, but the rest of their songs seem sub-par...Do they have a Singles or Best of album yet? I bet that'd rock. Maybe I'm just more of a fan of bands that I like to listen to their whole albums instead of just one or two songs...If nothing else I ask for consistancy dammit!

>_>

[Nicole_Flesher]

The Rasmus!!!! I've heard one of there songs ''In the shadows'' awesome song never heard any other song. People say that the heartagram is a evil star or some thing like its another sign for the devil. What is you peoples thought.

It's a take on the pentagram, an often used symbol in heavy metal music and a heart. It's symbolic of what they do: love metal. To associate them with devil worship, or any sort of religion because of their logo is absurd.

They consider pentagram as a symbol of evil because it's always associated with black magic.

Thats true if you go to a spells web site they always say place the candles on top of the pentagram or something that you use to cast the spell with.

[Radical_Dreamer]

The Rasmus!!!! I've heard one of there songs ''In the shadows'' awesome song never heard any other song. People say that the heartagram is a evil star or some thing like its another sign for the devil. What is you peoples thought.

It's a take on the pentagram, an often used symbol in heavy metal music and a heart. It's symbolic of what they do: love metal. To associate them with devil worship, or any sort of religion because of their logo is absurd.

They consider pentagram as a symbol of evil because it's always associated with black magic.

Thats true if you go to a spells web site they always say place the candles on top of the pentagram or something that you use to cast the spell with.

I'd hardly say always. It is said that Socrates, the wisest man in Athens, wore a pentagram as a symbol of the orbit of Venus. It was a symbol of mathmatics at the time, of knowledge.

[Burning Zeppelin]

After listening to several Radiohead albums I've come the conclusion that they are, god help me for using the dreaded word of this internet-driven world, overrated...That's right, I said it! lol...I like their singles, but the rest of their songs seem sub-par...Do they have a Singles or Best of album yet? I bet that'd rock. Maybe I'm just more of a fan of bands that I like to listen to their whole albums instead of just one or two songs...If nothing else I ask for consistancy dammit!

>_>

Yeah...I guess. R.E.M rock. Led Zeppelin is overrated.