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Everyone that takes metal seriously completely misunderstands metal as intentionally absurd, over the top, pushed beyond the boundaries of normality and into self aware ridiculousness. Demons and the coming hordes of hell and whatever screamed to death and edginess.
This is why combining it with other seemingly absurd things works, and generally doing whatever utterly ridiculous stuff you want to mix with it. Ridiculous combinations work because it is quite ridiculous to begin with.
Everyone that fails to understand that metal is ridiculous and silly doesn’t really understand metal. There’s a reason shit like Ladybeard works. It’s ridiculous, accept it, lean into it and have fun.
Oh yeah, even a lot of the “tr0o kvlt” black metal bands are firmly tongue in cheek, just look at Darkthrone, Aura Noir and Immortal, or even Venom if you want to go way back.
And in my 25 or so years in the metal scene, 90% of the people I’ve met are just absolute goofballs.
absolute goofballs
Rofl god yes. So much ridiculous goofyness that people get up to at festivals, gigs and pubs. The metal events in particular had a far goofier vibe with sillier behaviour compared to something like the punk gigs where you could reasonably expect all the punks to be on drugs by the end of the night or the emo gigs where half the pub would be empty halfway through as they always went home early.
Metal dudes just wanted to “be metal”, which itself meant to behave somewhat ridiculously.
Can you show me some metal that shouldn’t be viewed with some self awareness that it is absurdist and over the top?
anti-war '80s thrash, Napalm Death and grind against inequality, Botanist, etc.
I also like Deafheaven so I’m banned from Facebook metal groups.
Just lie, but like the few FB groups for black metal I’m in are shitholes, frankly. The admins acting all ‘centrist’…
“well I don’t like their politics” promotes some shitty neonazis with guitars “listen it’s about the harshness, that’s all”
Some metalheads are just the shittiest people to talk about music to. They’re always hyper-focused on their specific sub-genre of music and they get very upset when metal publications even talk about related genres e.g. darksynth or hardcore.
Like they still buy into the mentality that the music you listen to is what makes you cool or tough or manly, like they’re still fucking 13
Aww come on, some of us are pretty okay and not like that at all :deeper-sadness:
I only mean the most obnoxiously vocal ones
I have a friend who’s super into metal but he also doesn’t shit on other music. You guys do exist.
Genre purism leads straight to stagnation too
It’s an attitude that actively kills their own scene
Metal has a similar problem to rap in that regard, that being the genre is very self-referential.
Almost every metal band has some stupid song like “Can’t Kill Metal” or “Brothers of Metal” or some other shit with metal. We know you’re a metal band you don’t need to tell us every 5 seconds. I want a metal song, not a song about metal.
Whenever people talk about black metal I always cry laugh my favorite band ended up having a pedo and a Nazi. Got the black metal special.
you should listen to my friends band
I mean, is it really Kvlt if you’re not searching for the mixtape in the woods?
The tape has to be buried in snow and frostbitten.
Don’t ask me how inanimate objects can become frostbitten ok? It’s just grim and kvlt
I’m looking like a poser with my shovel looking for that mixtape… suddenly the local 5th gen black metal band taking photos for the cover art see me and think I’m burying a shallow grave.
Edit: They start weeping, because they’re more post-rocky and open than the edgelords of yore
do you like wormlust and andavald? two cool icelandic bands that kinda fit that niche. oranssi pazuzu and jordablod too
Atmoblack is cool and good and OP is not a poser for the edit
