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yeh when I was younger I can't deny I first got into heavier music (beside metallica and ac/dc) because of it's shock value, I think it was Marilyn Manson. Soon after that though a friend of mine gave me a cd with Arch Enemy, Opeth, Children of Bodom, Emperor, Death, Dissection, At the Gates and all of the great metal bands around 1999-2000 and I loved them all for the music. Soon after though i found out about the church burnings and what not and this really caught my attention because I also have some resentment towards much religion myself. But even though I was a little kid all this corpse paint, pointless satanism in the lyrics just to create shock value to me is no different then the things all those actors and what not in hollywood do to just stay in the spot light. Most metal bands are like this aswell yet most of us metalheads always put them up so high and glory because they supposedly are unique and go against the norm. Now I like Immortal for the whole act because you know in their lyrics the speak about blasyrk and the imagery of a cold north land stricken by war.. and they are obviously warriors in that... so that's acceptable, I mean thats a good idea but all this shock value bull shit that is really just to catch peoples attention.. fuck that if you thought your music was good enough than you wouldn't need to do that unless it actually supported it in a way. Gorgoroth are removing their lyrics from all these website because they are so stupid.. maybe.. or maybe it's that it will make people want to hear them 10 x more... antics
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