It might take awhile for him to realize that at least some of this stuff just won’t work in his new life.
Man always starts on the outside - visible change.
But God works from the inside out. First, the most important thing is receiving Jesus and being eternally saved.
The rest is icing on the cake.
He converted over 20 years ago.
They have a heavy image but their lyrics and music is pretty cerebral. Nothing vile.
I couldn’t agree more and while I know he’s been saved for 20+ years now I can still relate. I’ve been saved for 33 years and to this day I still like a lot of metal, especially older metal. Not just Iron Maiden, but a lot of thrash bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, Overkill and many more. There are some I wont mess with at all but those are mainly along the lines of Morbid Angel or Deicide, as I see them as outright blasphemy.