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EPISODE · Oct 3, 2025 · 15 MIN

Should Catholics Listen to Heavy Metal?

from The Brian Holdsworth Podcast

As a former metalhead and guitarist, I wrestled with that question after becoming Catholic. In this video, I explore what great thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, the Church Fathers, and St. Thomas Aquinas actually said about music, emotion, and virtue — and how those insights might apply to modern music like heavy metal.

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As a former metalhead and guitarist, I wrestled with that question after becoming Catholic. In this video, I explore what great thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, the Church Fathers, and St. Thomas Aquinas actually said about music, emotion, and virtue...

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