Anyone here a fan of Black Metal?

[Alaska]

I've met a few kids who've just been into the bigger stuff like Darkthrone and mayhem and such, but never actually a fan of the more obscure stuff.

I'm into all different sorts of music, including all different types of punk (especially crust and powerviolence), shoegaze, ambient, drone, screamo (the real shit), etc. I listen to everything I can, and can find stuff I like out of any genre.

But Black Metal encompasses so many emotions, and it's always extremely beautiful, extremely raw, extremely whatever. It's always extreme, and I guess that's the point. Tremolo picking and blast beats can do that to a band.

There are many ideals and shit in the genre that really oppose my stances on things (a lot of racist bands, nihilism, killing the innocent, etc), but many bands incorporate different elements altogether. Radical and spiritual lyrics, oneness with the earth, rebirth, cosmic phenomena, and many other lyrical subjects. But they always manage to make it sound like the lyrical subject at hand. The words match their actions, in a way.

But yeah, was wondering about other soldiers of satan's army we have here, and what do you think of the genre as a whole? Obviously, criticism is fine.


P.S. I've always entertained the idea of a Black Metal Bloc. Everyone in corpsepaint with battle axes and claymores and shit. Yay or nay? :zombie:

 

[Gudj]

Blackmetal and Blackmetal variants are consistently in my top 3 favorite genras at any givin time. Drone and screamo also are up there.

It does suck how many fascist blackmetal bands there are, but there are still a ton of good ones. That's one of the few cultural traits that I don't try to accommodate at all. Just because you think you were descended from vikings, does not in anyway mean you have the right to be a racist homophobic moron. Also lyrics about satan-worship (different than just satanism) bother me. But as you mentioned, alot of blackmetal lyrics are about a spiritual and physical connection with Earth which I am totally down with.

Wolves in the Throne Room and Moonsorrow are currently being played alot around here,
and I am so down with a blackmetal bloc.

 

[Alaska]

What do you think about the depressive "black n' roll" stuff like Shining and Lifelover?

And yeah, I have a long history of describing the difference between ACTUAL satan worship and the hedonistic "happy fat man" values of satanism. Neither I give two shits about personally.

I actually have a wolves in the throne room bumflap... First one I've ever seen. haha.

And my really stupid "Live Grim" knuck tats. I love them, but no one gets it, I guess.

 

[Gudj]

I have not heard either of those bands... but anything "n' roll" sucks so I wont seek them out.

I do like shitty blackmetal sometimes though. Not shitty in the way fascist first-wave blackmetal was shitty, well, I guess I do sometimes like that to... but shitty like recent Dimmu Borgir and other blackmetal-influenced-pop.

 

[Alaska]

I'm a big fan of some nazifucks like Satanic Warmaster and Kataxu, but because Satanic Warmaster has some of the sickest riffs ever, and Kataxu sound like a black metal Atlantis. Still dig the music, but am not down with whatever cause they support.

I loved Stormblast, but their shit afterwards is just pure symphonics. Bad as Satyricon now.

It's just a label, because they don't adhere entirely to just black metal. Soul-crushing music, man. Really fucked up stuff that you should at least give a listen to. Just sayin

 

[Beegod Santana]

I thought black metal was the shit when I was about 14. Now it seems like a pretty ridiculous genere to me. Very redundant. I can still remember being about 10 and seeing that mayhem record with the picture of dead after he blew his brains out on it. Now THAT was brutal. These days it seems like there's just shit tons of bands doing stuff that was already done in the 80's and 90's, the only difference is that now death / black metal now has a huge audiance thanks to Brendon Small and Metalocalypse. These days black metal is somewhat of a joke in modern society, 10-20 years ago it wasn't seen as a joke at all. There was a genuine shock to it. The people making this satanic music where actually out there burning down churches and killing people. Now I can't walk through down town boston without seeing a bunch of little wimps in girls pants rocking mayhem t-shirts. WTF?

Honestly these days I perfer GWAR.

 

[Gudj]

I hate Mayhem and I hate the shockfactor of Blackmetal. Although it is sometimes a good time to watch people in corpsepaint blow fire and carry swords through the woods, that's not at all a main reason I like blackmetal.

To me well executed blackmetal (like drone and doom metal) has a really calming hypnotic property to it. It is very redundant, but that just adds to it. Ambient blackmetal especially is very meditative and often spiritual.


Does anyone else really like Warduna?

 

[dirty_rotten_squatter]

I posted this a while back, but nobody picked up on it....http://www.smnnews.com/board/index.php?

 

[Alaska]

You may see Mayhem shirts worn by posers and shit, but that's mayhem. They're one of the biggest bands in the genre, man. Same with Iron Maiden, Manowar, etc.

A lot of bands improve on shit done in the 80's and 90's, and many do much more.

But what DOES irk me is the fact that one of my favorite bands' vocalist was on Fox News, talking about how he wrote the lyrics to his last album while stationed in south korea...

And what's weird is that he doesn't mention AT ALL the ritual and tribal-based lyrics and sounds... Or the name of his first album, Eater Of Birds, which is half about a spider roaming the desert, and half an on-going destruction spell. Too un-american, I'm assuming.

Sick-looking board, man. I love when people attempt to combine the punk and metal communities.

 

[formaldehydekat]

i listened to a draconian album last night
that's black metal right?
it was totally epic even though the version i downloaded kept advertising the album in the middle of songs

edit: nevermind i guess it's doom fml

 

[Alaska]

Yeah, Funeral Doom. But there are a few bands with that name. One of them is Blackened Death.

You know, being a music nerd-douche isn't really that charismatic at all... haha.

 

[formaldehydekat]

i am a music nerd-douche as well, except mainly with deathrock/post punk/gawf stuff
it's cool though because even when no one else likes me for being too elitist i'm pretentious enough to pretend to not care

rofl jk
i'm too lame to be el33t

 

[catapult bodies]

Satanic Warmaster has some of the sickest riffs ever

they do have some sick riffs here and there, amidst the *poppy* stuff... definitely influenced me for my band...

i used to listen to shining... you should check out the les legions noires stuff if you haven't... raw french black metal namely (my favorites) brenoritvrezorkre, belketre, vlad tepes and mutiilation... they seem to be getting a heap of attention these days but i love that stuff...

also i should mention majesty from los angeles, who i believe was the first US black metal band, before von!... no one's heard their bestial vomit demo, which is like black/thrash with a detuned grind sound (minus blast beats)... this was the band before nausea (LA not NY) and also terrorizer!

also there is good weird stuff out there and people being creative... like the dude from urfaust on one of their albums sounding like morrissey!

 

[Sneaky Hobo]

Wow... I just can't get over the crackers of fox news trying to headbang... I don't know weather or not I want to laugh or just punch them all.

Edit: Ok, it's just funny as fuck.

 

[Alaska]

Sup Jesse. Knew you would sign up

Ah! Belketre and Vlad Tepes are only bested by Pest for me, in terms of really raw stuff.

What do you think about Darkspace? So much hype around them lately. I mean, they're pretty good, but I dunno. They seem to be liked by every kvlt fucker out there, and they are good, don't get me wrong, but eh. Call me a hipster, but I like Portal a lot more. They play the "all-consuming inter-galactic blackhole" sound much better.

 

[xmaggotx]

i dont like it anymore except for like lifelover and the austrasian goat...but i usto be into like sargeist, black witchery, belphegor, anaal nathrakh, etc. anyone into folk metal/celtic metal...like adorned brood, finntroll, korpiklaani, etc?

 

[Odal]

The first poster in this thread has extremely similar music taste to me. Those of you who like punk music but not metal, should really check out some of the newer stuff coming out. Cultures are really mixing in interesting ways. (See Panopticon or Iskra, Anarchist Black Metal)

Black Metal is one of my favorite genres mostly due to the nostalgia connected with it, but it has more or less been desecrated by the mainstream and the hundreds of generic bands lurking the internet. Some of my favorite bands lately being, Skagos, Panopticon, Morbosidad, Frail, Lifelover, and Leech. A lot of very interesting things are starting to happen.

This is my first post, by the way.

 

[JahDucky]

 

[xbocax]

Black metal can be really great intense and harmonic buuuut. Bitches needa kno when to end a song >.<. Maybe it's just me but i get really anxious when a songs over 3 minutes and alot of black metal stuff ranges from 4-7 minutes.

 

[Odal]

Awesome prank call got me laughing "IM AN EVIL MOTHAFUCKA JOE, YOU KNOW THAT
". But the pictures in the background were definitely not legit black metal in any way hahahaha.

Check this, I've been listening to these guys a lot lately.