Most Metal Teacher
By: Carl Sundberg
Last updated May 7th , 2010

German trainee teacher Thomas Gurrath is being hailed as one of the metal teachers on earth. By day, he's training to be a teacher of politics, history and ethics at Hegel Gymnasium in the Germany's Vaihingen district. By night, he's "The Bloodbeast," the frontman of gory death metal band Debauchery. They are said to feature, "naked, blood-smeared women" in its live act. The band's album covers include these naked, blood smeared women as well as chainsaws and other S&M equipment. 

But of course, this dual life is causing some friction amongst the upper brass of the school. After a school supervisor found some of the material on the band's website, he was reported to the school authorities. Now, he's been given an ultimatum, on the grounds that non-violence was crucial to upholding the image of the teaching profession. And that by maintaining his position in the gory death metal band, he could not simply uphold that professional image. 

He must give up the band by January 1st if he is to continue his teaching traineeship. 

Clemens Homoth-Kuhs, spokesman for the regional education authorities told 'The Local,' a German paper, "We have in the end agreed that Mr. Gurrath is now to stop his traineeship, but have told him that he can start again under certain conditions."

Gurrath explains that his music is merely a reflection of the violent world around him, and not his own points of view. "It's still only music, a form of art. It's no real violence, no one gets hurt by music, only if it's too loud."

The metal teacher intends to fight against the education authorities to continue his training and stay in his band. "I would never give up my music just because the education authorities order it."

[Tags] Metal, Rock

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