i do.
i love all kinds of music, and even noise. i'm fond of bluegrass, chant, the heaviest of metal musics, electronic, jazz, world beat, country, classical, ambient . . . i even enjoy listening to the static on AM radio with an intermittent signal. i even enjoy the noise of an MRI scan, the cacaphony of insects and frogs at night near the woods, and the rustling of trees in the wind.
some of this has grown on me more as i age, some i've loved since i was young. i've always liked classical music, and the older i get the heavier the metal i prefer seems to get.
taste in music is a really funny thing. i believe it's well to praise the Lord with any sort of noise, if the intent is truly toward God. it's also wrong to cast it as a stumbling block before others who can't see past the rhythm or tone to the one the song is offered to - i can't say Christian metal is "wrong" but not all of it is "right" and it's not right for everyone; obviously not for anyone whose faith is such that they can't separate the noise of a loud, distorted guitar from the image of Satan.
not everyone has this immediate association; i consider it not much different from meats sacrificed before idols - where Paul cautions us against offending those whose conscience is "not too far removed" from idolatry. to some, it is nothing. to others, it is a pitfall. i'm sure there are brothers and sisters out there who think it's a sin to wear black clothing, because in their minds it is associated with evil -- does that make a colored cloth sinful? of course not, but it's not ours to judge each other in matters like this, but to keep our own selves from sin, or to cause our family to stumble into sin themselves.
