Featured What Do You Believe about Demonic Instrumental Music?

I don't know of any Scriptures that prove or disprove the existence of demonic music - instrumental or otherwise. My opinion is strictly from the music that some artists use to glorify Satan. The vocals of certain songs seem to be demonically inspired, so I think the instrumentals may also be. With that in mind, they could just be grunge rock or some other kind of music that I can't stand. That is my uneducated (and probably biased) view.

 

Is it too much to ask how you define "demonic instrumental music"?

Please, no videos or sound bites.

 

I formulated an operational definition of music long ago.

Music is a nonverbal form of human interaction communicating mood, emotion, demeanor, decorum, etc. through the pleasing and logical arrangement of certain sounds. Being a form of human communication, music is thought.

It doesn't matter what instrument is used, whether it's the human voice or some machine being operated by a human (and horns and harps are machines--things without life, giving sound, as Paul referred to them) there is no music in our world without a human source, be it corrupt or whole.

But I suspect that what SMA means by "Demonic Music" is something that he thinks carries the power of the Devil, and he's probably thinking of the kind of music made by artists like Iron Maiden (I know, that dates me) and Marilyn Manson. I could be wrong. He never comes right out and says what he means.

I don't think any music carries any spiritual power, whether it be demonic or angelic. That's just pagan superstition. It's power is in the carnal realm, and it does affect our moods. We like it a lot, like food and love.

All music has a character quality. Hymns are solemn. Psalms (as a style) are triumphant, joyful. But there were also forms in Paul's day called dithyrambs, which leaned toward the drunken and wild spectrum of style, and accompanied bacchanalian festivals.

There is devilish music, as much as there are other forms of devilish and sensual behavior, like that mentioned above. But music that is truly demonic would possess the very noise of Hell, and couldn't rightly be called music, like demoniacs can't rightly be called men; they're beasts. It would be fearful and disturbing and repulsive even to those who worship devils.

 

Thank you for the definition.

It helps.

What is strong to me from your definition is "sensual" and the fact that listening to it might help to generate or augment evil or negative thoughts. (no proof for the second part, only personal experience)

One thing, "whether it's the human voice or some machine being operated by a human ... there is no music in our world without a human source,"

Waves crashing, wind blowing, thunder, rain hitting a roof, crickets sending out there calls, the repeated sound of a train on tracks, birds chirping, wolves howling, a line of dominoes falling, a bubbling brook, whales "singing", the sound of a fire burning in a fireplace, the Xerox machine operating, all at times sound like music to me, no direct purposeful "playing" by humans.

Also sound waves do have power.

Have you heard about the sound weapons that have been developed?

LRAD Sound Cannon - How Does LRAD Work | Sonic Weapon in Protests

 

Thank you for the definition.

They have to be directly under the power of evil?

Not just regular human beings in this world that like to explore the limits and also learn from others?


"Satan is not bound today"

The whole world is under his power:

...the whole world lieth in wickedness.
1 John 5:19

But he big S is limited in that he can only do what our God allows.

And the Lord said unto Satan,
Behold, all that he hath is in thy power;
only upon himself put not forth thine hand.
parts of Job 1:12

If he were not bound in some way beheading of the saints would be on a wholesale scale.

 

Poetically it is music, but not scientifically. The thing about music is, you know when you hear it. You know when someone is singing or speaking. And you know when the note and chord progression sounds natural, and when the notes and chords don't seem to follow one another, and whether or not something is harmonious or dissonant, and whether or not a musical phrase has been resolved. You know this by nature.

When we talk about music, we're not talking about the sound of a distant thunderstorm over the wide prairie, or the voice of a lover.

Soundwaves are not music.

 

Sounds good to me.

 

That is really useless as a definition. "Demonic music is anything a demon wants played." You gotta do better than that. How do you know it's "demonic"?

 

Well, if you're going to define music as anything that sounds good to you, then you have a useless definition of music, too.

 

Aw, shoot. I hear ya.

Thought music had sound waves but maybe only when played.

This sounds good. "The thing about music is, you know when you hear it. "

 

And it can be described scientifically, and a pattern of relationships emerge. Not so with waves crashing.

 

Natch.

I'll still illuminate the fallacies in your arguments and premises.

 

K