Expert warns about Satanism in rock and heavy metal music

The Italian Claudia Caneva, professor at the University of Roma Treparticipated in the course on “Exorcism and prayer of liberation” that took place in the Italian capital with the help of the Pontifical Athenaeum Queen of the Apostles (APRA) and the Italian group Search and Socio-Religious Informationwith a presentation on “music and Satanism.”

In conversation with ACI Prensa, Caneva warned about the influence exerted by rock music and other subgenres such as heavy metal, death metal or the death rock on the behavior of youth, mere “victim” of a cultural industry produced by the “adult world.”

Also a professor at the Institute of Sciences of the Pontifical Lateran University and the Salesian University of Rome, she has been studying for years how artistic products influence the behavior of young people.

Author of books about the provocation of the contemporary imagination or about the relationship between music and philosophy, Claudia Caneva asserted that this type of music transgresses and can even “physiologically alter adolescents.”

“Demonization through music, a privileged vehicle of dissemination, is a phenomenon to which we must be very attentive,” he warned.

He also stated that heavy metal, “which has a very sharp sound and which involves children,” has become an object of study and is a topic “that is currently on the table of experts and researchers.”

In this sense, he recalled the case of the Italian Davide Canotti, a former follower of the satanic sect of Marco Dimitri, known as “Satan’s Children” and founded in 1982 in Bologna.

Canotti, Claudia Caneva recalled, was interrogated by the police after having desecrated several ossuaries from cemeteries in Italy and stolen bones of buried children.

“In his response to the authorities, he assured that he had never taken drugs and that his only drug was music,” he said. The man claimed that he listened to groups of black metal in whose songs they even invited to “destroy the tombstones and break the crosses.”

Young people, main victims

This, according to Caneva, is just an example of how Satanism is present in this type of music, which from the beginning provokes a certain type of behavior and “induces certain emotions” in you.

He also pointed out that music albums include subliminal invocations to Satan, although he specified that “if you listen to it, it is not mandatory that the devil is inside you.”

However, he assured that many exorcisms that are carried out are due to the victims listening to these types of songs.

“I believe that young people are victims of this situation, and I always ask myself: Who produces these things? Who controls them? Why are certain things allowed?” he lamented.

Along these lines, he made reference to the phenomenon called “mirror neurons”, a relevant discovery of neuroscience used in the educational field that explains how neurons have a behavior similar to that of a mirror.

This dynamic shows “that the action we observe in another individual is reflected in our brain, making neurons play a decisive role in our behaviors.”

For this reason, he warned that “music is not just music, music is a show, it is a performance” and young people are “victims of those who produce it.”

The fundamental role of parents

Later, Caneva highlighted to ACI Prensa the importance that parents play in this area and in their role as educators of their children. “Parents are educators and must be attentive, opening a dialogue with young people, promoting maturity.”

“Young people are very sensitive to neuroendocrine dynamics, and especially in adolescence, where they experience a hormonal explosion, loaded with aggressiveness and emotional affection,” he said.

Likewise, he reiterated that prohibiting this type of music “is of no use”, but rather it is a process in which we must “fight” and work on awareness to make them see that this type of music “can have very negative consequences.”

Caneva also cited the musical subgenre of Trap and other sectors of the industry such as video games or television series, which lead to “negative emotions, aggressiveness and restlessness.”

The purpose? Hopeless and manipulable youth

Regarding the purpose pursued by a large part of the current industry, the Italian expert assured that they seek “a lack of hope that destroys young people, to make them insecure and to be able to manipulate them.”

“In television series they propose ‘antiheroes’ as role models. Young people are the future and satanism is not only found in music, he who produces war or who exploits the poor at work is also satanic,” she emphasized.

Finally, he stated that if one sees the album covers or posters of this type of musical groups, Satanism “is easily identifiable.”

“But remember that Lucifer was the most beautiful of the angels on the ice throne, and ice means indifference, something that this industry also aims to do, to make young people become cold and indifferent people,” he concluded.