Holden Matthews, 21
Posted on 02/15/2020 6:03:17 PM PST by marshmallow
The three Louisiana churches went up in flames in a span of 10 days, each doused in gasoline and torched with oily shop rags in the middle of the night. Each Baptist congregation was predominantly black, causing church leaders to fear that white supremacists may target their parish next.
But as the fears swirled, the arsonist, 22-year-old Holden Matthews, was busy planning his next album cover, according to text messages obtained by prosecutors He burned down the three churches in St. Landry Parish, federal prosecutors said Monday, because he wanted “to raise his profile as a ‘Black Metal’ musician.”
Matthews, the son of a sheriff’s deputy, pleaded guilty Monday to setting fire to the churches “because of the religious character of those buildings.” Prosecutors say Matthews wanted to “promote himself” among fans of black metal, a subgenre of heavy metal typically characterized by Satanist lyrics, guttural vocals and thrashing guitar at breakneck tempo.
His plan, prosecutors say, was to mimic the rampage of church burnings carried out in the 1990s by extremist black metal band members in Norway as a crusade against Christianity.
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Those who prey on blacks the most are (1) blacks and (2) liberals and (3) democrats.
He’ll be having fun in Angola.
Btt
Holden Matthews, 21
So hang him and write a ballad about it.
I hope this pervert gets the max.
Oh! “Black metal” as in “darker than regular metal” NOT “Black Musicians playing metal music”
Got it. Perp is a white guy.
Sorry I was confused.
The idiots didn’t put parentheses around Black Metal in the headline. “Black Metal” bands are usually white scum who are a tentacle of the left.
Incel..
He has delusions of being the next Varg Vikernes. Varg is a lowlife.
Heh - many moons ago, a Lady friend & I went to a Foreigner concert. Opening act was black guys in flashy, glittery garb - think Michael Jackson at his most flamboyant. I’m like, “what the...?”
It turned out they were a pretty good “metal” band, maybe somewhere between Blue Oyster Cult “Godzilla” and Bon Jovi. Wish I could remember their name!
THIS perp: Can we find a speaker loud enough to melt him in under 20 seconds? (Also many moons ago) NASA had a jet engine powered giant “horn” they used to test reinforced concrete structures @ launch pads.... Should work here.
What’s that? He didn’t kill anyone? Ok, sentence is 30 years isolation, 24/7 listening to really bad disco.
What’s that? You say the jet engine powered speaker is more humane?
well, are the church leaders and media going to apologize for their racism and bigotry they were so quick to jump to? I mean if China can get apologies, we auta too.
Being masochistic I read some responses to this on WP, counting how many seconds it took me to find TDS. As always, less than 10 seconds. Christianity and law enforcement were also attributed to his motive.
Sheriff's deputy kid, crime against blacks...he'll need to be in protective lockdown or he'll be dead.
ask to borrow one from Disaster Area, the loudest band in universe
Well, then let him go...
After all he is sorry and remorseful. /S
Living Color? One of the songs “Cult of Personality “?
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