The article doesn't go into a whole lot of detail, but I'm under the impression that the problem was that his rapping was separate to his liturgical work.
Similarly interesting is a fairly recent Polish black metal band that incorporates Catholic hymns/chants in their music. Although in this case I think it's likely done in irony, or with sacriligeous intent.
Orthodox, not Catholic. But yeah, Batushka is awesome.
Then there’s Reverorum ib Malacht, the Black metal band who studied Catholicism so intently in order to make even more evil, sacreligious music, that they actually ended up converting.
I don't believe Batushka are Christian. There are some really great Christian black metal bands, though. Antestor's The Forsaken and Crimson Moonlight's Veil of Remembrance are both fantastic albums.
Of course, the best black metal is heathen, but when 99.9% of it is, that's to be expected.
Expressing freedom is getting more easy tho. Imagine rapping or punk'in priest in medieval times lol. Let's hope seen we will see some DJs and Electronic music.
However, he ended up being suspended from leading mass: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44601638
The article doesn't go into a whole lot of detail, but I'm under the impression that the problem was that his rapping was separate to his liturgical work.