This study was conducted to investigate the relationship of music preference to locus of control, religiosity, parent and peer relationships, and drug use, with an emphasis on the relationship between musical preference and suicide ideology. Adolescent clients (N=22) at a large Christian counseling center and adolescents (N=76) at a religious after-school program completed an instrument measuring the constructs of suicidal risk, social support, family and peer relationships, and drug involvement. The results for the non-clinical sample indicated a negative relationship between preference for rock music and drug involvement and suicide, and a positive relationship between parent relationship and preference for rock music. Unknown music preference was negatively related to parent relationship. The findings revealed that music preference was not significantly related to most of the subscales in the non-clinical sample. Overall music preference did not differentiate between the clinical and non-clinical groups. For the clinical group, preference for heavy metal music was related to suicide ideology and drug involvement. These findings may suggest that while non-clinical adolescents are not as affected by the messages conveyed in heavy metal music, clinical adolescents may be more sensitive to the messages and mood of this type of music. (NB)