I love it when people want to talk about metal music like the s*** they listen to is the hardest s*** in the whole f****** world, like let The Bodies Hit The floor is going to be the soundtrack to the Antichrist rising or the beginning of world war III.. but thankfully every now and then somebody posts a black metal track that really embodies the atmospheric conditions of an unholy cataclysm being translated through guitar, drums, bass, keys, and vocals that are for f*** sake much more dynamic than the typical Cookie monster croak, and more akin to a rapacious ring wraith, plagued personification of a putrid purgatory plea, glorious and gruesome ghostly groans from the garden of the grotesque, avaricious apparatuses,and abhorrent aspirations, amplified and applied to the awesome assembly of afflicted anti-artistry. Musical murder of the messiah, and soundtrack to the end of empathy. Comparable to a demon crawling out of the depths of your heart and soul so that it may proclaim ownership over you and everything around you not for any reason relating to materialistic ownership, but more along the lines of claiming all to defile all. Claiming all to withhold all from any holy presence, or godliness. If there is any sound here on this plane of existence that resembling such as I have described, it is absolutely classified inbthe genre; black metal. So with that I will just say keep it up sport! Keep that s*** dark, and rap this up with a joke:

q: What's the hardest part about burning a church?

a: My dick.

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"Not bad, zoomers. I like it. But funny you should mention she is anti-facist, what are you doing against facism? Are you planing to use that knife in battle? Or just bought it to look pretty, look like bit of a hero? Are you expecting to scare the nazi with these sounds? Doubt it'll work. They'll come in force, you may take one or even two, but your friends will be nowhere to be found, and they'll take your knife, rape you, cut you up with your knife, burn down your place... I mean you're pretty much invinting them. Or are you only acting like this in the safe knowledge that they won't come?"

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In terms of catchiness and melodic content, American metal cannot compare to Euro stuff.

Sanctuary, Helstar, early Manilla Road have their moments, but they can't compare to the anthemic quality of German PM like Guardian, Helloween and Scanner.

You've disowned your melodic bands like Manowar and Iced Earth. You can't dig the melody, and you can't dig the cheese. Too bad baby. These bands still have huge European followings even though Karl Logan is a pedophile and JS waved that can of bear mace in the Capitol building. We don't give a shit. Melody reigns.

Euro guitarists went to guitar lessons where they played Bach and Segovia. They went to Beethoven recitals as kids, wtf do you expect. They are melody incarnate.

No, the short version is:

This place: https://www.metal-archives.com/

Doesn't allow certain subgenres of metal for no good reason despite being an important resource for many people.

And people act like that's completely fine because they don't care about those bands anyway.

It's an injustice and y'all know it.

"The underground is being taken back, not that these people were ever really a part of it. Faggots like you and people who browse reddit, saying it's okay to be anti-christian but not anti-jew or anti-muslim are so full of shit. So go out and suck the dick of your nearest nigger looter or your incel tranny friend whos trying to guilt a lesbian into fucking him so he can get laid for once. Your correctness strips the spirit out of anything born out of rebellion, or made to be shocking and evil.

1488 bitches. Am i banned yet?

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"Modern black metal scene seemed not to have guts. It’s been a known fact for more than a decade now, but became all the more apparent in the light of the recent “witch hunt” against what they call “political incorrectness”. No matter it be “hate speech”, “historical revisionism”, or any other sort of heresy. Despite blasphemous, horrid, extreme nature of the lyrical themes are the spirit that inspired the birth of black metal

Being a heretic always meant having inborn dignity, free will and intellectual honesty. That is exactly what today’s extreme music scene lacks the most. Despite its juvenile arrogance and pseudo-rebellious pathos, in reality we see nothing but blatant hypocrisy and simple human cowardice.

Those same people who claim to have “no gods, no masters” are the first to promote “religious tolerance,” when it comes to any religion other than Abrahamic ones.

Those same people who call for “revolt against all authority” are the first to cooperate with the authorities when it comes to the use of legal or financial measures against “the heretics”.

Being a heretic always meant going against the crowd, so if the crowd starts to push back, you can be sure about one thing – you are going in the right direction. Continuing this path requires the following:

Never ask for anything. Make all that you need from scratch – start your own label, record your own music, organize your own events, but never be indebted to your enemies.

Never make excuses.

“If you accept shame to avoid war, you will end having both”

Churchill once said. That is what happens when people think that they can settle the things down by explaining themselves. Your excuses are never enough for your enemies to accept you, but they are just enough for you to lose your friends’ respect. Stand your ground and do what shall wilt!"

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I have just about had enough of seeing Christianity's rise in extreme metal, specifically black metal. Unblack? Fuck off. Christianity has poisoned everything; extreme metal was the last vestige. Now I see it's filthy tendrils snaking their way through, posing as authentic. It's gross, offensive, and pathetic. Metal represents a means of breaking down social paradigms and crushing the oppressive nature of societal confines, specifically religion, and even more specifically, Christianity. I recognize that Christians have always attempted to infiltrate the ranks, but I'm noticing more and more that it's showing up and being accepted. When I see Order Ov the Black Arts posting an album by Hosts of Lord on Youtube, I question the authenticity of their name. I'm sure Jon Nodtveidt would be positively thrilled to hear that Christianity is now being accepted instead of pissed on.

Spare me any explanation, attempt at justifying it, or pointing out 8000 ways you think I'm wrong and that "Satan is part of Christianity too". I get it. Downvote it, I don't care. Embracing Christianity has no place in metal and I will scream that until my bones turn to dust.

Rant Over.

What are some mainstream advertisements that make fun of metal music or people who like metal music such as headbangers or goth people?

I personally remember there was this ad of this headbanger guy with a huge beard that was in an airport, banging his head to some song in his headphone. Then we hear that the song is actually a Katy Perry song. That ad was so insulting. Anyway, I couldn't find that ad, but I was wondering if any of you know any ads similar to this?

I am making a YouTube video about how mainstream media burying/damaging the metal music and community. For example, if you go to YouTube and watch the official music video for the song I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace, you see that they censored the word hit! At the same time WAP by Nikki Minaj is up and running with no censorship. The ad that I mentioned is just one of the thousand ways that the dominant media has ridiculed Metal community. I am just looking for more example of that.

Metal is about anti-establishmentism. You should be vehemently opposed to whoever is in charge EVEN IF YOU AGREE with them. No human person is perfect and it is our civic responsibility to be hyper-critical of our politicians because it can always, always, always be better. For that reason alone I would have loved to see the Capitol building burnt to the ground even though I detest trump. fuck whoever is in charge, always, and hail satan. \m/

"Since from what I understood many cuckolds are against mass killing, torture, rape, infanticide, cruelty etc what the hell runs in their mind while listening to albums such as The Return, Anno Domini, Pentagram, A blaze In The Northern sky, DMDS and Black Shining Leather?

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As soon as the music begins my mind is flooded with visions of human heads on spikes, mountains of corpses, demons ripping human flesh apart from the bones and women on their knees asking in vain for mercy. I get totally engulfed by hatred and maliciousness and in those moments nothing done to humans would seem too atrocious or perverted.

How the fuck some people keep a sane mindset listening to these monuments of malevolence and demonic lust?"

Damn. This dude is still going. Same guy from the "post 2006 black metal" one.

The riffs, the atmosphere, the production, the imagery, the song titles, the covers. All screams "the 90s are over, deal with it".

There is not a single band alive today that would not look/sound "uncanny" and "weird" back in the times of old arckanum, fullmoon, vlad tepes and moonblood.

Even the lo-fi portuguese/bosnian scene sounds raw in an unnatural and modern way. A forced way that reeks of modern times.

Why calling it black metal then? The fast drumming ? The tremolo picking? The voice? (even that degraded).

The last 100% black metal album was Fourth Reich in 2009 and even that I would not call it pure 90s bm. For that we have to go back to early 00s (late career Judas Iscariot and Warloghe)

I think at this point even old death metal (possessed, pentagrm chile, mantas/death demos) has a more "raw" black metal feel than what today is called black metal.

Think at how many 19 years old russian pretty face/round ass escorts could have sucked your cock if you did not waste your money on ancient records crap, sargeist/horna/name generic finnish band/ 47th album and the next LLN wanna be clone.

Drugs, guns, exlosives could be a good akternative too.

Don't believe me? Listen to Wrath of the Tyrant, Out from the Dark or Antichrist and then listen to any band formed in the last 15 years. You will feel like a foid who just broke up with 10 inches monster cock Chad and is now dating Timothy the 4 inch beta cuck.

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Deep inside you know I speak the truth.

i never get to share this story with anyone and ive pretty much taken a step away from the metal community for like 10 years now.. but ive been drinking and fuck it, here we go. ive been touched by john gallagher, lead singer and guitarist of dying fetus. not like, inappropriately lol.

basically i was at this concert at the house of blues, this was in 2009. i was just chilling minding my own business. dying fetus had just performed and we were waiting for the next band. suddenly, i got pushed with extreme force to the side and almost fell over. i turned around ready to be like what the fuck, when it turns out its the lead vocalist for dying fetus that just pushed me aside, and now he's jumping into the pit. I was like, holy shit man. this guy is legit lmao. i'm pretty sure some other people noticed it happen to and were looking at him. it was just a small but crazy moment. me and my friend still occasionally reminisce about it. i'm pretty sure its cuz i was a dumb little kid at that time and had some emo pants because i thought black pants would be good for a metal show lol. i think he wanted to show me what's what. anyway yeah thats my starstruck experience

"Unashamed to say this album is fucking amazing and I can already tell it's gonna be my top new release for all of 2020 and maybe even one for the ages.

Honestly I can tell this album is going to be a huge inspiration to me because it shows that someone can rise up from literally the worst hour of their life and create something amazing, triumphant, that blasts away all expectations and shatters the chains of society. Fuck cancel culture and all the braindead losers who tried to ruin Inquisition: They're probably still whining over their keyboards somewhere and will never accomplish anything, while this guy released the literal greatest album of his life even after thousands of people across the internet fought tooth and nail to bring him down.

Like when you think about it it’s really inspirational. He literally got the ASS END of cancel culture, they dug up EVERYTHING on him. But still somehow he’s still relevant, I fucking love it. I don't condone what he did or didn't do. I don't CARE what he didn't or do: And that's what black metal is all about. I knew when I saw him live back in 2017 and he stood up there on that stage with only a drummer and mesmerized me 10x more than Mayhem did, my literal favorite band of childhood legend, that he was special.

I was skeptical at first after all the bullshit but then I remembered that in the end the music is all that matters. Black metal is a genre built off arson and literal murder, and men who committed far worse deeds than this guy are worshipped to this day—and maybe even lurking in your own families and smiling. Hail Inquisition, they've earned their place among black metal history forever with this one!"

How do you think that heavy metal fans IQ compare to the rest of the population? Don't just use this subreddit as a basis (I don't think that is an accurate sample) This about the average Joe you would see at a show or festival.

Some people feel that Slipknot derives most of its influence from alternative rock and hard rock, and only a minority amount from metal.  The most obvious influence of their’s is Nu Metal (Again that’s just the influence, I know that they were only Nu Metal for a short period of time), which is an amalgamation of alt rock, hard rock, hip hop, electronic, funk, metal and pop. Some people feel that for bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit, metal only comprises a small portion of their sound with alternative being the largest influence of many. Some people also feel that when Slipknot eschewed the electronic, funk and hip hop influences, they replaced them predominantly with alternative and hard rock, still making metal only a small minority of the sound. They feel that the connection from Slipknot to other established metal genres is tenuous at best.

Now the main reason I see people say Slipknot is metal is because of the distorted guitars, fast tempo, angry lyrics, minor key signatures and harsh/powerful vocals, which all seem like pretty metal things. But the fact is that many non-metal genres predating Slipknot have all of these attributes. Check out Powerviolence, No Wave, Noise Rock and Hardcore for examples. These characteristics are not unique to metal and do not make music metal, which is why some people use lineage as an argument rather than sound. I have never heard a cohesive definition of metal based on sound that excludes these genres but includes all genres of metal, but perhaps someone here has one.

Source: I'm sure u/Wowboykid knows.

"slipknot has the most if not one of the most heaviest albums ever released under their name. u have to actually listen to their heavier shit and take a second to enjoy it instead of only thinking the shit they have produced is gay (dont get me wrong some of it really is gay). i mean actually do a little research if u think they arent metal because theyre based off of different genres? because theyre "nu metal"? no black metal bands or core bands have ever produced that amount of rawness and grit in their sound, yea they can blast beat and their production is always horrible but did they literally go through hell when making each song and represent those emotions in the songs? if they did it definitely doesnt sound like it. also IMO corey has the most brutal voice in metal history, atleast in their early days. its fast, its heavy, its unsettling at points and if u dont think its metal go choke on ur own dick cus it checks all boxes"

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The Biggest LIE in Metal Let’s set the record straight.

Metallica’s Black Album killed glam and saved Metal.

Nirvana’s “Nevermind” and grunge almost destroyed music.

The Black Album (BA) is very popular by way of album sales, much to the dismay of the corporate establishment. Music industry moguls are clawing back to dishonesty concerning albums bought, so any new pop entity is seen to break sales records and all previous acts are memory-holed. The establishment doesn’t push pop because it sells. They push pop to advertise a shallow, consumerist lifestyle, and the masses choose from what the establishment makes available. Metalheads are rightfully proud that we choose substance over consumerism and concern ourselves not about numbers but about art and message. We are the tightest-knit musical community both out of necessity and choice. While the BA’s cover and booklet are minimalistic, Metallica’s discography in general promotes the culture of cover art and the intimacy of exploring the music in a physical way, which is one hallmark of the Metal community. Metallica is the ultimate gateway band to the wonderful world of Metal, and the BA is the ultimate album to get a friend started.

Metallica fulfilled their dream and lived their “Metal up your ass!” philosophy by releasing the BA, thundering to public awareness and slaying one head of the hydra. It is the Destiny album. The folklore surrounding it is legendary and poignant: upstaging Ozzy Osbourne, the influence and passing of the great Cliff Burton, headlining arena shows before having a commercial radio presence, the ’89 Grammy performance (and the snub), recruiting Bob Rock, Hetfield blowing his voice out and 3 failed marriages. Metal has meaning and glam had no message. Metallica fought the lame, sappy whiners and won. The fashion statement was over in Metal, for a time. What is considered the biggest disappointment in Metal will be realized as the greatest triumph.

Metallica’s Self-Titled has excellent lyrics, as Metal as any other, which doesn’t differ from the first four albums. Powerful and gritty, lucid and enduring. Some examples: Sad But True – facing one’s own mask/addiction; Holier Than Though – calling people out on their self-righteousness; The Unforgiven – child abuse and feeling restricted in anything (the vein of Master of Puppets); Wherever I May Roam – the life of any wanderer (mythologically like Odin, only saving knowledge); Nothing Else Matters – finding your own happiness/expressing love for any relationship; God That Failed – a powerful expression of frustration (like Leper Messiah); My Friend of Misery – aloneness of a leader; Struggle Within – the fight inside oneself (like The Frayed Ends of Sanity)… On lyrics, Megadeth will be much more popular in the future when people start catching on to the political lyrics that are pointed and relevant, even timeless, on top of the awesome music.

The mainstream still fawns on Nirvana as heralding the termination of insincere glam “metal” (the party/sex rock), conceitedly, yet tacitly, aiming to declare the end of Metal altogether. Proof is in “hair metal,” the targeted phrase hurting the whole community that by majority has long hair. Nirvana has had a faux-influence on Metal, usually cited as a major influence on bands considered un-Metal, ironically those that concern themselves with partying, sex, glam and wank-abstraction, the bands that write with uncreative simplicity, uncreative complexity and affix tremendously useless, forgettable lyrics. That’s what happens when musicians are uncultured. Grunge is the bridge between glam and all of the ensuing edgy trends that are not Metal: nu, emo, cores (not all bad, but hardcore is hardcore), djent (anything based solely on the rhythm section is a descendant of breakdown cores and boring as fuck), etc. Just as glam spurred Metallica on to create memorable, lasting music, grunge also spurred on the mighty subgenres of Death and Black Metal to create crushingly brutal and transcendently dark music, respectively. Grunge was a fad and fads have little sincerity. For all its frustrating pomp, glam was more masculine than any trend after it, but when journalism talks about glam and grunge, it’s ultimately splitting hairs, trading bandwagons. How did Nirvana kill the trendiness it seized and upheld? How did Metallica sellout if the mainstream decidedly jumped on Nirvana? When was a Metallica song ever called that of a generation? Never. Even “St. Anger“ isn’t a sellout because it was received well by almost nobody, including the mainstream. Metallica can’t sellout; they have no idea how to. Mainstreamers still think Metallica plays Death Metal. Megadeth’s “Risk” will eventually pay off; it’s not for us. Those hating on Metallica’s BA have been monumentally and insanely duped. If you hate it, you are on the mainstream Nirvana bandwagon. Long live the death of all trends that aim to influence Metal. Indulge the temptation to crush bad music only with good music. This is true and valid elitism (the harsh kind has its place too and isn’t for everybody). Let the art lead. Positively promote the art you love.

Here is a fact: Without Metallica’s Black Album, Metal would be absolutely dead. It would hardly exist. Every Metal band/artist owes a lot to this album for continuing the flame and making the publishing of Metal viable for any subgenre. They all (Heavy, Thrash, Death, Black, Power, Folk, Doom, etc.) would have been muscled and sputtered out of existence otherwise. None will have been able to quit their day jobs. The groundwork Metallica have done to bring powerful music to the masses will eventually be noticed and enthusiastically praised. Metal is a community, and we love to be in the company of people whom prize heavy music. Metallica makes our community bigger. Bands take a risk to concur on the importance of the BA; many want to. The time is now for Metal bands and the Metal audience everywhere to support any torchbearer. A jab at Metallica, and any of its members, hurts all of Metal in general. A jab at the BA—the quintessential Metal promotion album—means all of Metal hurts. Why is it stated Metal is dying? The Metal community is stuck in the rut of attacking the very music that has influenced all Metal musicians, the immortal sign of self-respect issues. Metallica’s BA is not just the coming-of-age of four young men on the verge of stardom, it marks the coming-of-age of the legitimacy of Metal: power and message. The Destiny album. Many members of Metal bands are nervous as hell to play to middle-aged, non-heavy audiences, a fact of life for a community comprised mostly of introverts. However, our bands are scared of stardom less because of the mainstream and more for fear of backlash from the very people whom must get behind them! If not existing to conquer, our Genre will die a slow, agonizing death. Metal is only as strong as its most ambitious band is willing to bring heaviness to the mainstream.

Load/Reload (L/RL), whilst having filler songs, are very creative, well-produced, followed no trends and hearkens to the early days of Metal. The Metallica discography is not without error, but the blanket hatred for L/RL is unfounded. These albums were released at a time when music was decaying towards the devastation of sarcastic “rock” and nightclub music. When this soulless repetition was being peddled, Metallica released two records that went back to basics and reminisced on Blues, the genre that gave birth to rock/proto-Metal. Admittedly, the lyrical content waned on L/RL but a metalhead is being absent-minded when they sweepingly attack those albums, especially when considering the negative shock of music in general after Nirvana/grunge. There are fantastic songs on those albums, which could have been compressed to make one classic record. After the famous shotgun blast to the head, Metallica releasing another album in the vein of the BA or any precursor would have been a hugely forceful statement to the industry and the world; it was the absolute perfect timing to do so… It still is.

Though Metallica withstands the brunt of unfounded flak, the same utterly irrational hatred exists against the Dimmu Borgirs of the world, bands that have had ambition from the start and tight discographies of memorable music. Dimmu are spiritual siblings to Metallica for pioneering in different ways, and deserve little of their criticism and all of their praise, the same with every pioneering Metal band. What is more badass and Metal than fulfilling one’s dreams? Nothing. As long as a band is writing sincere music, we must support. Loyalty all the way for them all.

Cobain was talented and had ambitions to be more of a folk singer than a grunge rocker. He was a victim of the establishment deciding one meaningless song from “Nevermind” to be a hit, while other more meaningful songs on the album became not as popular. The folklore is absent with Nirvana at this stage: the fierce following that spanned multiple continents before a mainstream breakout album; already having influenced an entire subgenre and Genre forever; an intense desire to smack the mainstreamers in the face with a purposefully strong attitude. There is a reason bands/artists of many different genres cover the BA, and are inspired by it to create music of any Metal subgenre, or otherwise, of their own. Such inspiration does not arise from “Nevermind”. “Album, voice, song of a generation”—not for us disillusioned with the world, but for the edgy, those mortally afraid of meaningfully straying from popular norms. The record labels, insidious as long as they remain trickle-down, may be able to fudge the numbers but inspiration cannot be faked. The Black Album influences more than just Metal. The music world is strengthened altogether by having a great album.

The record is set straight. Metallica’s album, “Metallica,” is the bucker of trends. It kills them all. asbdrummer@hotmail.com

"If I can understand your lyrics like in a shitty pop song, then fuck you. Please don't do that. Not even for the half of a minute. It ruins fucking everything."

"This happens because christianity is a dying religion. Most people today dont go to churches anymore. The young might feel "edgy" when listening black metal, but their friends will be doing the same too. In other words, it became fashion, it became mainstream.

If you want better gatekeeping, bands will need to blasphemate against SCIENCE, and preach for the return of a glorious age of IGNORANCE and OBSCURITY.

Recently the scientific priesthood decided to show their power, arresting people from just going out in the streets, for no reason other than a show of RELIGIOUS power. So you have here a new religion to blasphemate against. The normies will get mad and will not listen to it anymore. There is your gatekeeping."

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"After the coronahoax, my misanthropy have escalated 10x, so much I loathe the submissive cucks who trust the mainstream media. As such, I'm looking for more misanthropic/nihilistic bands. Bands such as Craft, Armagedda, Ad Hominem, Iperyt, Blacklodge, Avsky, Odraza and FDS. Please recommend me some."

Highlights:

• "Listen up college kid from a guy who was around from the beginning of Heavy Metal. Now, i'm not going to write your paper for you (even though I could, and you would get a fucking A+), but I will give you a few key elements that you should definitely include."

• "What is heavy metal? What makes this genre of music different than glam rock, or stadium rock, or art rock, or punk rock? What makes it unique? Go watch a couple Sam Dunn movies to get that information. I suggest "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" (2006)."

• "Live performances are a crucial part of the genre where fans exhibits a strong brotherhood and a level of euphoric hedonism seldom seen in other live musical events."

• "I'll say this: in 1987 Hit Parader magazine, RIP magazine, and Kerrang magazine all had stories on bands like Night Ranger, The Cult, Rush, and ZZ Top. Were those bands metal? Some of their songs or albums might be on the edge. There have always been bands that have been on the margins of metal but we don't really police that border. Anyone that does is a fascist. Who says so? Lemmy says so. Lemmy never admited to playing heavy metal, he always said that Motorhead played Rock and Roll."

• "Was BOC metal? This magazine would say yes."

• "There's your answer as best as I could put it. Now I need another beer.

  Good luck college kid."

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Don't really understand why people are talking so much about how "it's not really a metal song". Genres in it's self is subjective. It has heavy guitar, bass drums and fantastic and powerful singing.

Sure it doesn't have programmed double bass drums, blistering guitars, a guy playing 1 string of the bass and a singer who sounds like a toilet, but the song still kicks ass. r/metal is not really a metal subreddit. r/metalmemes is the subreddit for truly dedicated metalheads

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The members have ties to NSBM shit...

THE FUCKING VIDEO SHOWS NAZIS IN COMBAT.

I don’t understand why I’m getting down voted so much. Whatever, I don’t care. I openly state I listen to NSBM and even have direct ties to the scene in my country (USA) and abroad.

I’m an American Army Veteran as well and love my country and support nationalism. I also subscribe to unpopular political and philosophical beliefs that most Redditers find offensive and demonize me for and cry about.

At the end of the day, black metal is primarily white, and from Nordic countries. There shouldn’t be any issue with bands openly expressing their nationalistic pride for being white.

Gays, jews, blacks, and pretty much all “minorities” are free to march around proclaiming their pride for themselves but as soon as a white man does it, it’s considered bad.

I’m not a nazi. I hate socialism. But I will say that Adolf Hitler was an amazing leader and even though his political views were extreme, he rebuilt a broken country by rallying an entire nation of people. That is absolutely remarkable in a historical sense.

Moving on, y’all pussies that are soooooo offended by NSBM, yet support group like ANTIFA really need to get a grip on reality. ANTIFA is literally a modern day group of people trying to shove their beliefs down people’s throats via fear, acts of violence, and oppression. That is literally fascism. Fuck the left side, fuck ANTIFA, and fuck socialism/ communism. It’s all bullshit.

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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Mortician. The heaviness is extremely distorted, and without a solid grasp of obscure VHS-only horror most of the samples will go over a typical listener's head. There's also Will Rahmer's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his sick gutturals - his personal philosophy draws heavily from the Italian cannibal boom films, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these downtuned meathead riffs and computerized blast-beats of at least 260 BPM, to realise that they're not just brutal - they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence, people who dislike Mortician truly ARE idiots - of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the overly long sample in Mortician's seminal track "World Damnation," which itself is a cryptic reference to Fender Tremolo's epic opening monologue from Cyborg. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those poseur simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Will Rahmer and Roger Beaujard's ultra-distorted deathgrind unfolds itself on their turntables. What fools... how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, I DO have an NYDM tattoo. And no, you can NOT see it. It's for the sick horror thots' eyes only - and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

Metal is mostly a state of mind. Think about punk; definitely not metal. Rock, maybe. But then think about grindcore or thrash metal: a lot of elements from both, but finally it is the artist that makes the decision. What about Faith no More? Mostly rock, yeah, but King for a Day is full of almost death metal riffs and screaming. Or, Perturbator or Carpenter Brut, both are very metal at least if asked themselves, but the songs don't rarely even include the most basic of metal instruments, electric guitar.

Judging genres by single songs is reduntant. Focus on material at album length and then make the definition.

Long hair and wearing black are obviously metal, but you cannot wear black and have long hair because it’s Metal. Is it more metal to play a telecaster than an explorer because you don’t care that it doesn’t “look metal”? But then again, visuals are somewhat important right? Can you go out on stage in a pink v-neck? I just don’t know. Thoughts?

no one cares pal. if you’re afraid of edginess & controversy, don’t listen to black metal. I’m sure there’s plenty of crust punk retards willing to take you in.

I don’t understand how some of you people think. How can you be ok with Satanism but be turned off by Nazism, they’re both hateful death cults. Bm has always been about that & being offensive.

NS is just the natural evolution from Satanism imo, since no one gets offended by “le spooky upside down cross” in 2020 but everyone loses their shit when they see “le racist cross with legs.” Nazism is a living political ideology grounded in (a fucked up) reality, while Satanism is for googoo gaga baby retards

I feel like metal musicians have gotten less badass. Idk why but I feel like back in the late 80s through 90s metal bands were harder motherfuckers. Like blackflag, pantera, motorhead. They just seemed like they could handle themselves more. Now I definitely love modern metal music, but it just seems like the musicians are a lot different.

No. Black Metal does not need be commercialized. It would just dilute it into something that it's not. BM is in opposition to society and especially all things popular.

Excuse my rant but BLACK METAL NEEDS TO STAY UNDERGROUND.

I like the rule that says don't talk about black metal. are you guys pretentious as siblingless 14 year olds (the use of the word "parodical" would suggest the affirmative) or just stupid? I haven't even read the "pinned" rules yet. the reason a lot of people don't want to be part of society is because of restrictive bullshit like this. I can't make a fucking joke? enjoy your fucked up shit-sucking existence you sad sack suck shits.

I wouldn't bother typing any of this were their other active, general BM subs here. what a laugh. also some of these "banned (lol) bands aren't even bands - "Dark Funeral Marduk 1349", "Bathory Behemoth", "Moonsorrow Gorgoroth", "Belphegor Anaal Nathrakh Deafheaven". sounds like you're just stringing random fucking band names together

and I wouldn't bother typing any of this if there was some distinction made between the rules applying to OP posts, and not being able to comment "hey that riff reminds me of [well know BM artist]". and if you got some dumbshit rules like you have, you should be bending over sideways to make that distinction. nobody with any fucking self respect whatsoever would spend to two fucking minutes here. you people (staff) are about as black metal as clown piss in the snow.