Hell's Bells 2: The Power and Spirit of Popular Music- New 6 1/2 Hours

At 6 1/2 hours (DVD-R #1 at 3:52 and DVD-R #2 at 2:48 or so, not including two extras), it's both more enlightening/entertaining, and more eyeball punishing than the 1989 version.Like the first HELL'S BELLS, the best way to understand the effect of this sledgehammer, um, documentary is to first watch Stanley Kubrick's gang trash nihilistic masterpiece A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, and place yourself mentally as that Malcolm McDowell character, strapped in a comfy straightjacket with eyes wired wide-open gleefully ready to get your brain loaded, washed, spun around the rinse cycle, and go along for the ride.Most fun aspects of the movie/film here are the staged events, like the scrubbed and street-costumed kids being interviewed man-on-the-street style, the illuminati-scheming university professors (this book, section 4, about 1:41 into DVD-R #1  Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens ) scene (--hmmm...shades of Matthew Paul Turner's books? I saw the same kinda stageshow when the fundies infested my college campus and thrilled everyone with the street theater in the early '80s "winning" arguments with their own posing as local student hecklers) plotting to corrupt students with pagan signs and influences (I recall taking my music appreciation class in my freshman year, being indoctrinated with Bach and asking the prof innocently why it seemed that classical composers in the 17th and 18th centuries seemed to be primarily retained to churn out violin muzak for the nobles' dinner parties), the faux rock star Charles Monroe insulting Buddhists by smashing dolls on stage, and "Kurt Louder" of MTTV spoofing M(oron)TV--quite effectively, I might add. On an interesting political note, the vid features two appearances by the Dixie Chicks, which suggests that the March, 2003 anti-Bush outburst (the end date of this HELL'S BELLS 2 info runs out about June) was politically inspired by Reel To Real's affinity for John Birch Society opinions (the video earned a promotional writeup in the JBS mag, THE NEW AMERICAN).At the one hour mark on DVD-R #1 (1:00:53) there's a funny presentation about Edmonton, Alberta Canada using classical music as teenager shoplifting repellent. The presentation has one statistical gaff: the assertion that the program led to a crime drop of 800%, which is a mathematical impossibility (800% is eight times the whole of 100%; it's akin to stating "He fell 800 feet off the 100 foot high cliff to his death..."). Numerous other places, even locally in my stomping grounds (downtown Nordstroms!) have caught onto the fact that the Great Unwashed cannot endure music without a metronome time signature. (I've caught on to the same phenomena some years ago using avante-guard classical, improv bebop jazz, and ESPECIALLY opera to annoy "beer & hotdog crowd" and pesky bluehairs from the office area.)Like the 1989 version, lots and lots of Anton LaVey and Aleister Crowley. And LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of MTV music vid clips of what seems were the late night hard stuff when M(oron)TV really swam for the septic tank, interspersed with lots of quotes from ROLLING STONE tabloid-racked rag, and some of SPIN. Date on the material runs maybe 1996+, running out about mid-2003.Yeah, I'd say the picture makes a solid case about the axis of eeevil, the war pact of MTV and Rolling Stone on circumstantial grounds, but the presentation, which proves by such means that MTV/Rolling Stone is some pretty vile stuff, doesn't answer a basic question: are acts like Insane Clown Posse and Marilyn Manson religiously committed to a cause/master, or are all the grandstanding and slimey quality theatrics just a working marketing ploy? The onus of the arguments centers on the act(or)s, but avoids the corptocracy offices.HELL'S BELLS 2 still has two of the not-quite legitimate academic "experts" in the critic documentary section about 40 minutes in, the David Tame book  The Secret Power of Music: The Transformation of Self and Society through Musical Energy  extolling Madame Blavatsky's intercontinental telepathy with long-dead historical and fictional persons  The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults, Vol. 14: The Church Universal and Triumphant, Inc. feat. Elizabeth Clare Prophet , and "Dr." Adam Knieste  Why Does a Woman Cry . All of the sources puffed as legitimate academics are far more pop writers than the presentation suggests. Missing this time vs. the 1989 edition are the rock-music-kills-plants allegations, the backmasking hoax from 1982, and Bob Larson's rock-music-boils-eggs whopper.Recommended!.Format: This set came in a 2-DVD slimline case, full color cardstock professional cover art, but this film is copied to two silver generic DVD-Rs --those DVD-R copy blanks you can buy at $20 for a 50-stack for your computer/laptop-- with the "label" sides of the disc ink printed amateurishly. I noticed the printing quality on the "label" side from an ink printer (?), put a drop of lighter fluid on the printing (the stuff is useful to remove the "sticky" from price stickers, like those strips on new CDs at the top spine), and the ink started to run a bit. Playing surface is DVD-R deep purple, not a manufactured DVD. My second DVD-R has one slight "sticky" spot on the playback on the main presentation. The 2nd disc has two extras; the second extra is a 2:32 cutout of the VHS presentation featuring an art-pop lefty group, Caeser Pink and the Imperial Orgy. My DVD-R "sticks" at the 2:32 mark on the Casear Pink "extra".

As a Christian, I found the special 2 disc updated edition DVD to be an excellent investment of my time and my money. Viewing these two DVDs has deepened my Christian faith and given me a much more circumspect understanding of the music/entertainment world along with pertinent information related to the occult and Satanism. I also believe it enriches my prayer life by helping me to better understand who I’m praying for. I may buy more copies to give as gifts. Maybe the recipients won’t listen or care about the message, but people should care about what’s happening in their culture (not to mention the reality of what happens after death). Wish I had known about the truths revealed in these two DVDs when I was younger. Many thanks to The Apologetics Group!!!

First of all this is very much an orthodoxy Christian world view on secular music. I first saw this when I was a brand new baby Christian. I already knew that many artist like "The Doors", "AC/DC", "Kiss", "Led Zeplin", etc. where all Satanic and I stopped listening to all those guys... and I loved them too. Music was and still is a center piece in my life.After watching this video I stopped listening to secular music (voluntarily). Months later I listend to one of those "good" bands, one which I wouldn't have thought of as Satanic in the least bit. The Foo Fighters... they were my favorite of the bands still making music at the time. I cried after truly listening to the lyrics of their music. Many of their songs actually mock Christ!!! He also states how happy he is to be a member of Satan's followers in many of his songs... it's deep in the lyrics but easy to see with the mind of Christ. Needless to say, I never listened to them again (voluntarily).Music stays with you and sticks with your spirit forever. You need to purge all the evil with you. Christ has nothing in common with Satan, so you shouldn't either. This video does define that line very well. If you don't believe the Bible is the inerrant word of God then you will not agree with this video... but it's still the most education video on music in America that I've ever heard of!I'd recommend this for all peoples... but not all ages. The subject matter deals with the Spiritual, Social, Mental, Sexual, and Occultic connections of Western Secular Music. I personally wouldn't show this to anyone who isn't mature enough to talk about sexuality. The topics on the first disk are tame enough, but the second disk might as well have that written on the top. It's well censored, but not so much that you lose the idea of what's going on. There's a lot of shock in this too... for all you people who've yet to be jaded by the world... God bless you guys too.If this video doesn't shock you, then you've personally served under satan willingly and can testify to the truth in the documentary.

That documentary is extremely well researched and therefore credible. Narrator does not throw comments, assertions or quotes without reference so you can literally verify everything that he says.That is shocking material... I thought of stopping watching it at some point because I was being put in front of uncomfortable truth and because of actions and certain sacrifices that it requires when self-examining.I now realise that most soft pop, pop rock music, rock, prog, metal, hard rock contain openly messages ranging anti-Christian to satanic. Satanic messages are also in girly soft pop music, but unless you watch this you would not know, would not suspect, but their negative messages slip through to your unconscious and messes up with how you see the world and what you think is OKAY.I love metal music for the performance drums and guits more than for the lyrics, I used to think the music does not affect me, I used to listen to Dimmu Borgir and did not care about their satanic mindset, ACDC, Children... but after watching this material, and for being believer in God, I could not continue to be subdued by these music.I made conscious decision to destroy all my Children of bodom CDs, Dimmu etc... Hard time for me...and lots of money. But I feel it was the right thing to do.I kept some CDs of Rhapsody and Testament because I could not find antichristian references in their lyrics...I would give more than 5 stars...