There are certain bands that have some BM qualities that I don't mind but straight up black metal is retarded. Putting on corpse paint and dressing in all black spikey leather is no better than eyeliner and skinny jeans. Not to mention the awful quality. Most of them choose to have shitty quality too. You'd think they'd put a little bit of money into some better recording equipment but I guess that's just too much to ask for.
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I like what varg had to say about this. he got the shittiest marshall amp he could get for the debut burzum release because its supposed to feel shitty and cold and hateful. I like the reasoning.
I love black metal. Probably my second favorite metal genre behind folk. And black metal and folk mixed is pure aural bliss.
Its supposed to sound cold, bleak, and desolate. Black metal is a social movement, or at least was a social movement, as much as it is a music genre. Its supposed to embody the simplistic heathenistic lifestyle of norse ancestry and reflect the cold, tranquil landscape in which they live everyday.
I dont really like the imagery either. I used to make fun of it really bad and I can see how it's an instant turnoff. That said, some Black Metal is fucking insanely sick. I like the really gritty, almost crusty shit the best. I don't even really fuck with any of it that's really keyboard driven. Like it's cousin Death Metal, a lot of the older bands have expanded out with a lot of them getting more progressive. A large amount of them have abandoned the Corpsepaint now as well. Enslaved is a great example of this. They are to Black Metal what Opeth is to Death and Cathedral are to Doom. Some purists are turned off by the less-theatrical American version. Personally, I think it's a higher evolution. Especially Krallice and old Wolves in the Throne Room. I think some of the shoegazy elements these new bands are clinging to kinda declaw it too much and make it boring, but at least they're trying. They're not just retreading old tires like a lot of the more mainstream metal bands
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Its supposed to sound cold, bleak, and desolate. Black metal is a social movement, or at least was a social movement, as much as it is a music genre. Its supposed to embody the simplistic heathenistic lifestyle of norse ancestry and reflect the cold, tranquil landscape in which they live everyday.