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Report: Russian Town To Ban 'Satanic' Heavy Metal

May 20, 2010

Andrew Osborn of Telegraph.co.uk reports: A Russian town famed for its crusades against swearing and easy morals is trying to ban heavy metal concerts arguing that they are "satanic" and "ideologically destructive."

Officials in Belgorod, a town some 400 miles south of Moscow, have written to local café, club and restaurant owners asking them to refuse to host heavy metal concerts.

"I am not familiar with such music myself but we have been asked to head off any satanic activity," a local official, Vladimir Shatilo, told the daily Kommersant newspaper.

Read the entire article at Telegraph.co.uk.

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