If Music be the Food of Lucre, Scream On

Contrary to all expectation, Christian churches are not averse to getting buttocks onto hassocks, even at the price of hiring out their organs to accompany metal bands. A senior lecturer in music production even thought the idea might be found "slightly heretical," which seems at best theologicaally naïve: like any organisation seeking to control hearts and minds, an efficient religion should inveigle its influence into as many walks of life as possible. Church premises were once the main social and commercial venues in the country, for the very simple reason that nobody with any inclination to avoid pariah status could avoid going to church. Now that other means of communication are available, custodians of the Deity's real estate holdings have ascended to the recognition that death metal dupes are still dupes, and that venues mean revenues.