I’ve got no religion.

is this not a bit too much like collection in a church? pile o’ shite…

ha ha for the simple fact that it costs £6.66 i might just buy it why the fuck not eh…plus if it pisses of the religious im all for it

hell yeah!!!! awesome idea…get with the programme n follow a religion with some substance, that in itself would after all be a first…. long live METAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL

I’m all very much in favour of having metal as a religion, it would be awesome fun, but wearing this goes beyond fun and into the realms of plain lame ;\ I suppose hammer is always looking to make money though…

(I have to say £6.66 is a good price though)….

Oh, and also, this reminded me: i remember when I was promised a free t-shirt for filling in a questionnare – even paid my £2.50 postage. Where my Dragonforce tee?

1) Buy t-shirt for £6.66
2) Wear t-shirt to church
3) ????
4) PROFIT!!

This is lame as fuck. I thought we were better than this pish.

Heavy Metal is spelt with a capital H and M (you idiots) which is my reason for not wanting this, also the Metal hammer logo should be on the front because on the back it now reads”heavy metal is my religion hammer”. other than that its awesome.

Just as gay as Bezer. But seriously, it’s bullshit like this what makes us proper metallers not get taken seriously by others. and what makes that t-shirt even more lame is that it has the metal hammer logo on it. And what’s with the inverted cross? Not all metal is satanic, you nobs! Antestor: Christian black metal. Slechtvalk: Christian black metal. Virgin Black: Christian doom/gothic metal. Mortification: Christian Death/thrash metal. Whoever thinks certain metal is shit cause of the religious views of the band are cocks.Obviously early extreme metal bands had satanic roots, but the genre of a whole has evolved!

you not only did you think wrong, you greatly misunderestimated the levels at which metal fans desperately want to belong and be accepted, even as part of some terrible ‘joke’ crusade.

It’s kinda cool, but I thought this was just for some laughs, not to go out of our way to offend people. I’d wear it if it weren’t for that inverted cross. No, I’m not religious, but it annoys me to see things like that being worn by people who aren’t actually antichristian and just do it to look cool.

That said, I live my life around metal and £6.66 is actually a pretty reasonable price.

” you not only did you think wrong, you greatly misunderestimated ”

sorry, has george bush just joined in the conversation or something? xD

this is bullshit, just like religion! turning metal into a cult now, not a way of life. fuck this stupid campaign and all it stands for!

i think your all taking it far too seriously, i think it’s a cool shirt, and i will most definitely be getting myself one. Jeez lighten up

All religion is bad, even one dedicated to METAL! The Rock’N'Roll, Heavy Metal attitude is about rebelling against the establishment. I think the shirt is cool, in a cheeky sort-of-way. The idea of the state recognizing Heavy Metal is a religion takes away from what metal is supposed to be. We can argue what bands are and are not Metal, there is no arguing this point… Religion is poison and I LOVE HEAVY METAL. \m/

Fuck me, how many people are taking this way too seriously???
It’s a fucking t-shirt! Some of you are carrying on like fucking fashion experts!
Get a grip, it’s £6.66 for fuck sake, just fucking but it!!!!

if it was a cool shirt then fair enough, but it’s bollocks! plus, it’s the whole heavy metal ‘religion’ thing that’s the real bone of contention with me, not just the shite top.

It’s the turning of something of an open floor, philosophically anyways, into a bit of a joke…maybe I’m just getting old and cynical.

Still though, maybe metal hammer will get a tax break if they’re in charge of religious mag! cunning.

I like the front, but the backs a bit tacky. Might just wear it with a shirt.

like the price btw

Calllm down people, it’s just a bit of fun!
Im buying this
People shouldn’t take it so seriously.. i have no religion but if i had to choose one it WOULD be Metal, soo yeah, cool idea.

is this going a bit far its kinda funny, but the back has to much on it.

Fucking want it xD

So now we get to the crux of it, the whole metal religion thing is just something for Hammer to make money out of!!!

This is utterly retarded and getting wayyyy out of hand, now. Whats the big deal with everyone trying to fuck up the Census, anyway? My parents do a lot of genealogy work, and the census’ of the past are invaluable tools to providing an insight as to how people lived, as well as how their lives progressed and developed from census to census. What are these details going to show anyone 100 years from now? That we’re a bunch of moronic idiots, who can’t make up our own minds, and will quite happily follow whatever the latest fashion or trend might be? Not sure about you lot, but that’s really not the kinda statement I want to be making to the people of the future, regardless of how real or not it might fucking be!

All this ” metal is my religion” business means we are forgetting about poor old Satan!

Oddly, I think the campaign is a stupid idea. As much as I love heavy metal, it has none of the properties that would make it a religion…

Having said that, I kind of like the tee-shirt. But more as a joke than a sign of support for establishing the church of metal. Without the context of the childish campaign, this tee-shirt looks quite good

How funny would it be if this metal religion actually took off..

Look at all the scientologists, have you actually read what they believe in? Its scary how little a religion can be based on.

I say we need to stop before we’ve got videos of tom cruise being plastered up on the metal hammer site; Dribbling, raving and jabbering about how good metal is. Trust me man it won be pretty.

So whats the symbol for this religion anyways?

This is getting fn embarrasing, people starving to death all over the world and metal hammer is campaigning for metal to be religion. What a waste of time, it was funny for five minutes last week now it’s pissing me off.

Ok this needs to stop..

I made a comment about scientology earlier, now its been deleted.

And guess whos face is on the front page of metal hammer….

Tom f*cking Cruise..
(Main page – Right hand side)

Get out while you can metlers.. ITS A CONSPIRICY! NYAGH!

Ok my message wasnt deleted

i just think its funny how they conveniently chose to mention christianity and buddhism on the tshirt, but too afraid to put islam! FUCK ALL RELIGIONS!

I agree with Mike – Its amusing, its a joke, its £6.99, shut up and buy it!

It’s a tshirt, lighten the hell up.

f course metal is my religion like bruce dickinson would say it ‘6 ….. 6 6 ……………’

If you don’t like it, don’t fucking buy it.
Its a bit of a grin, and I don’t have a problem with other people knowing I’m into Metal.

thats awesome.
but i wonder wot beez thought of the 1st line that “THE GUY” said….

If the proceeds of buying this t-shirt went to some sort of good cause rather than just lining future media’s pockets, the Sophie Lancaster Foundation for example then I’d be all for buying one as it seems like just a bit of fun.

As that doesn’t seem to be the case then I don’t think I’ll bother. Might still put Metal as my religion though purely because I’d leave the question unanswered otherwise!

cool shirt people should chill yeah its a bit lame that a way of life is being turned into some cult thing and a so called religion (i dont follow any religion) but it’s all a bit of fun at the end of the day and cut beez some slack he had a good idea and its brought the metal community together for a while

Nice shirt, damn you’ve got to love METAL!!

p.s MANOWAR FTW!!!!

I think thats all you need on the census for a new religion-10,000. This whole ‘crusade’ just goes to show what a load of unadulterated crap organised religion is, and how people get swept along on a tide of mass hysteria associated with anything- football is another example.

“Be excellent to each other. And….PARTY ON DUDES!”

Bill + Ted + Abraham Lincoln; that’s all you need!

i’ll buy it if the shop works…nothing seems to add to cart

the only thing religion duz is destroy, so fuck all religion, making metal a religion will destroy wot metal is, heavy fucking music and a metal heads identity, heavy metal is not a religion its a family

no1 and nothing will take that away from any true metal brothers n sisters

FUCK RELIGION

good grief. its just for fun. il wear it and £6.66 is a decent price for a shirt.

people take this far too seriously.

That’s the biggest crap ever….. Metal Hammer is so homosexual.

Lol’d at the fags acting like Heavy Metal is a ‘family’ and such. It’s a style of music, stop trying to make it seem more-than-life. Funny T-shirt, still against the idea of Metal becoming a religion; I’ll continue to hate Islam.

Love the price: £6.66! Fucking bargain!

It’s things like this that make me hate metal sometimes

Please stop, it’s getting embarrassing. A thousand curses on the fucktard who came up with this idea in the 1st place!

WIN I want one.

keep yer tshirt and i’ll shag the bird

Somebody had a go at me for wearing the Machine Head Halo t-shirt in a fucking music shop of all places cos it says ‘following a god so blind’ on the back. She said ‘that’s disgusting, don’t you care who you offend?’ I said ‘not really’. Maybe if the god-botherers and bible-bashers are made to think about their faith they might realise its dangerous and give it up.

Does she come with the T-Shirt?

It’s not supposed to be taken seriously, for all the idiots above who are doing so.
Pretty funny to be fair

This is really lame. Why didn’t they put ‘Muslim’ on the religions list? Scared they will declare jihad on you? If you want to be rebellious at least show you’ve got some balls and not take the cliched route and simply mention the religions that you know will not get their knickers in a twist about it. Wouldn’t wear this if they gave them out for free.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=7513986679&ref=ts

metal is a religion on facebook

http://www.swissattack.de.tl is my Religion

£6.66 – good price for T&Girl together

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If its a religion, why is there an inverted cross?
thats satanism not heavy religion.
To become a religion first have respect, and it sad to say that a lot of haviers dont have any respect. If something is not heavy, for their is shit.
Love n respect

God, I’d tap that shit

Nice tits. What’s her name?

That t-shirt screams ‘fucking-lame-poser-piece-of-poo’ If i saw someone wearing that it’d be such a cringe

I’m off to see Alice in Wonderland and get shitfaced after. How metal is that?… Not very. But seeing Alice in wonderland and sporting a Butchered at birth long sleeve is kind of metal….

RELIGION SUCKS!!!Even Heavy Kind Of That…\m/

Well that’s hella gay.

I prefer my own religion… It’s called MAIMESLIPSO
(maiden, metallica, slipknot and Sonata..)
DOn’t you think it’s better?

its like the box that gets passed after the breacher say whatever his got \m/

Im a christian and i think its cool. Just because you wear something that is “satanic” doesn’t mean that you are. I mean Tom Araya is a roman catholic and shouts hail satan in some slayer songs. Its a joke, jedis did it on the 2001 census and were taking it one step further. Hellyeah!

I think it is sad because we should be moving away from legitimising tany form of religion as something worth following. ‘Metal’ is not some belief system it is just a type of music – great music but that’s it. Why do rational thinkers want to put themselves in a group with people who believe in mythical beings. And of course some metal guys believe in god and can believe in satan because you can’t believe in one without the other – I believe in neither because they are totally ridiculous

As an Atheist there are few things in this world i dislike more than religion so to turn one of things i like most into a religion actually annoys me.

Also as the guy said above why only put two religions on the back? If your gonna start pissing off religious people you might as well go for them all…

Frankly this is a crock shit……..

Can someone post a link of religious people getting annoyede? I need entertainment.

Maybe we should make it race instead. A race of Metal brethren who all have one thing in common; a love of metal, black, death, hardcore, doom, whatever your preferred sub-genre might be. But all that matters is that we’re a race of brothers and sisters, united for the cause of Heavy Metal. Better than this religion business, I suppose it’s a bit late now though.