Black Metal.

[AgoliantLives]

Originally Posted by cookiecutter

I'd just like to share something that I've been thinking about in regards to Black metal.

To me Black Metal is the most intimate of the genres. I feel very close to the musicians playing it. I can feel their emotions and their ideas very easily. This is especially true to me with the better one-man bands. This is a big reason why I like Black Metal, and why I like the particular Black Metal bands I do.

Aww, how cute. I bet you're the cuddly type.


(joking)

[Έρεβος]

Originally Posted by Jean-Pierre

Are you sure you're not talking about yourself? He completely rescinded everything you have written in this thread.

I couldn't care less about what ANUS says. Nihilism is a complete joke. Nothing more than a philisophical justification to be weak and inactive, kind of like how Ayn Rand is a philisophical justification for college girls to be selfish and oblivious.

Another moron that doesn't know the difference between fatalism and nihilism, is there an end to you idiots?

[Xorv]

Originally Posted by ~Neurotica

Man, you are keeping astonishing me...

I bet you're a joke account.

No, I'm not.

[Wires & Waves]

maybe if ANUS nihilism wasnt completely different to the commonly understood definition of nihilism you wouldnt have this problem

but then we've already seen you love to attach your own bullshit meanings to words so whatever

[Hubster]

I reckon this is the longest running argument I've seen on the forum for ages. How many pages has it gone for... anyone?

I think we should have some kind of betting pool for how many more pages it goes for

[Έρεβος]

Originally Posted by Hubster

I reckon this is the longest running argument I've seen on the forum for ages. How many pages has it gone for... anyone?

I think we should have some kind of betting pool for how many more pages it goes for

I'm quite done already. This "argument" is useless and very dumb.

[Mort Divine]

Well, I guess beating around the bush to say "I lost" works too.

[Astrum]

pwnd

[Έρεβος]

Originally Posted by Mort Divine

Well, I guess beating around the bush to say "I lost" works too.

I'd say it was more of "Vesupria won quite easily, and I don't care to stay in the argument as it was retarded from base 1."

[Hubster]

I'm interested to know:

As soon as many people mention a (Black Metal) band name, someone comes along and damns that band as being generic and copycat.

There have been some times where some of the copycat accusations border on the ludicrous (imo) and that a particular band is anything but generic.

In my opinion, I generally find that lesser, younger bands overall, on much lesser known labels, donning amateur looking corpsepaint and upside down crosses everywhere are the copycats. But the thing is that those bands are simply "starting out", some of them progress past this phase and develop their own musical style.

And of course we have Black Metal bands who may not ended up breaking barriers, but do a raw, simple version of Black metal really well, they interpret their art through their music well.

So in a somewhat rhetoric sense I ask, what do you consider as NOT copycat? Who can you name in Black Metal who is apparently so bad?

And also, who then is NOT a copycat? If Black Metal is so generic, who IS worthy of recognition? Why? Why would that band then stand apart?

Please try to be serious in your response: this is not supposed to be a trashfest, I'm asking this question to Black Metal enthusiasts in this thread.

EDIT: typos fixed