Death/Black Metal

musicismylife78
musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited September 2006 in Other Music
Anyone a fan of the genre? I havent heard much but am fascinated by how extreme the bands seem to be. Mayhem's band history is bizaare and disturbing.

Is it a worthwhile genre or just a commercial and money making gimmick?

Lately it has come under fire especially in norway with fans of death metal setting fire to over 40 churches.

Bizaare stuff
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  • pearljam0000
    pearljam0000 Posts: 450
    yea black metal is definetely crazy, I watched a speicla on the discovery channel about black metal and they went to Norwya to interview some of the black metal bands there, and I gotta tell you, it was disturbing what they said. I havent listened to much of it though. I thought Slayer was nuts...Mayhem and Deicide make Slayer look like choir boys.
  • Azwethinkweiz
    Azwethinkweiz Posts: 547
    i'm definitely not a fan of the satanic death/black metal bands. it's just evil music that serves no purpose whatsoever.

    i'm not a right wing christian or anything, but i just dont see any logic in these bands.
    take a band like Cannibal Corpse. most of their lyrics are about cutting up small children while cumming inside of them..and im not even exagerating.

    that's not what music is supposed to be about.
  • Aranarth
    Aranarth Posts: 227
    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    Is it a worthwhile genre or just a commercial and money making gimmick?

    every genre by itself is worthwhile, but every genre also has money making gimmicks, like basically Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir for black metal, not bad bands per se, but pretty cliché and generic.

    But some of these bands are definitely not for everyone, like Cannibal Corpse, as mentioned before.

    Even know I have no clue about what is "evil music" and what music is really all about, but that's an endless debate in which I don't wanna take part, I'll just say, to each his own, and it's pretty awesome that Pearl Jam fans are mostly very open-minded.
  • Gossard_Is_God
    Gossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    I like Black metal although i dont listen much these days

    Mayhem
    Cradle of Filth
    Immortal
    Dimmu Borgir
    Burzum
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  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    Bunch of nonsence garbage music with HATE as it's only meaning.
    Oh dear dad
    Can you see me now
    I am myself
    Like you somehow
    I'll ride the wave
    Where it takes me
    I'll hold the pain
    Release me
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    dimmu borgitr is really lame but I really like balck and death metal. I love how most people discount it instantly, though
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  • spat
    spat Posts: 644
    2 years ago i went to see type o negative and they opened up for cradle of filth. now i love type o, one of my favorite bands, they can hardly be considered ''death'' metal. i hadn't heard much about cradle so i decided to stick around a while to see what they were about. well, when they came on i thought the gates of hell opened up hahaha. it was pretty entertaining actually. i couldn't understand anything the guy was screaming but none the less i saw people singing along and i wondered what the words must be. one thing that was pretty cool though, for the first few songs they had these gargoyles on the speakers, i thought they were fake cuz they didn't move, then all of a sudden they got up and started jumping around to the music! scared the shit outta me hahaha.
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  • ItsEvolutionBaby74
    ItsEvolutionBaby74 Posts: 490
    somebodyelse'ssky wrote:
    Bunch of nonsence garbage music with HATE as it's only meaning.
    Celtic Frost, Opeth???? Look beyond Cannibal Corpse and Decide, man!
    "Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling!"

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  • funkymonk
    funkymonk Posts: 279
    eBay is apparently banning the sale of certain Black/Extreme Metal albums on their site

    http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=58406
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    I can see banning dumb shit like Burzum, but Emperor? Give me a break, dudes.
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  • ItsEvolutionBaby74
    ItsEvolutionBaby74 Posts: 490
    funkymonk wrote:
    eBay is apparently banning the sale of certain Black/Extreme Metal albums on their site

    http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=58406

    eBay is just playing into the hands of the people who place too much importance on the media, go after the actual issues for god's sakes!
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  • Azwethinkweiz
    Azwethinkweiz Posts: 547
    that's fucking lame. why the fuck do we have freedom of speech then?

    if people doesnt like it, dont buy it.
  • Manu
    Manu Posts: 40
    I used to listen to quite a lot of Death and Black Metal and still do from time to time. As anywhere, there are of course shitty bands in these genres but also good, technically very skilled bands.
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