By Seth Metoyer, Heavens Metal Magazine –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Metalheads aren’t exactly known for swallowing whatever the news dishes out. We question authority, we shred against the grain, and we don’t follow the herd unless that herd is gathering in the pit. So why do many still fall for the outrage trap the media sets for us over and over again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take the recent fixation on Los Angeles. Flashy headlines, burning cars, street chaos, and social media commenters rushing to condemn it all as the fall of Western civilization. But zoom out, and you start to see a pattern: the same folks shouting \u201criots! lawlessness!\u201d are often the same ones who downplayed the Capitol riot back in January 2021. \u201cIt wasn’t a riot, it was a protest.\u201d \u201cThey were patriots.\u201d Or, in some cases, complete silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But let\u2019s call it what it was: a serious and chaotic event. Regardless of whether you brand it a riot, a protest, or even a misguided revolution, the facts remain the same; people died, many were injured, and the very institutions that hold the country together were attacked. It wasn\u2019t just a blip. It was a break in the American psyche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enter Jon Schaffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah, that<\/em> Jon Schaffer\u2014founding guitarist of Iced Earth, metal icon, and one of the first people to breach the U.S. Capitol during that infamous day. Arrested. Guilty plea. Solitary confinement. Yikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now he’s talking about Jesus. And he\u2019s saying it loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n