A Hard Habit to KickHard rock, that is. And that's 'habit' as in the garment. You may remember this guy.
Cesare Bonizzi, aka Fratello Cesare, is a practicing Capuchin monk. And for years he's fronted a serious metal band!
See
http://www.sdmahaney.org/bogarc/20080724-monk_metal.html, "
This Monk Rocks Harder Than You" [with video link]
"
I
don't play to draw people closer to Christ, to the church, or to
religion. I do it to convert people to life, to understand life, to
grab hold of life, to savour it and enjoy it. Full stop."
Well, it seems 'full stop' as come to mean.... full stop.
"
Brother Metal Quits Music"
http://www.news24.com/"
"The
devil has separated me from my managers, risked making me break up with
my band colleagues and also risked making me break up with my fellow
monks. He lifted me up to the point where I become a celebrity and now
I want to kill him," the monk said in his farewell video.
The
video shows one of the monk's band members shaving off Bonizzi's long
mane of white hair as a sign of his turning a new leaf on life."
It seems having his own
Wikipedia page was too much. So I guess we're going from this,
back to this.
But don't lose faith!
"
Bonizzi, who fell in
love with heavy metal when he attended a Metallica concert some 15
years ago, says fame had put him on the wrong path. But he still thinks
heavy metal can be a means to spread the gospel message of peace and
love.
"I think that metal is the strength of music itself. Metal is a brother," he said in the video."
