Black Metal Emo Spergs -

[chimpburgers]

@Abethedemon wanted a thread on these people so here we go. There's already a wealth of information about these guys from their ED page, so there's already plenty out there to start out with.

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Black_Metal

Black metal is just like it sounds. It's metal infused with lyrics about Satan. The entry on this genre over on Urban Dictionary goes into the history of it pretty well:

A genre of the Heavy Metal category derived from Thrash Metal through such bands as Venom, the main early defining differences between it and its father-genre being tremelo picking and 'blast-beats'; drum beats played about twice the speed as the traditional trash metal base beats (32nds as opposed to 16ths).

Taking major influence from Bathory and Venom, the ganre became largely associated with Norway through the work of Mayhem, Burzum and Dark Throne, many of the later bands categorised into the black metal genre being influenced by these three bands, and many of these bands being from Norway themselves.

Spawning from thrash metal as black and death metal did, they ran parallel. Eventually the two genres became commonly associated since they both implemented tremelo picking, blast beats, and invariably screamed vocals much of the time. This was taken into influence by some bands and the genres eventually interweaved with some projects such as Dark Throne, Profanatica, and late Emperor.

Other movements of the genre since its rising in the Norwegian metal scene have been melodic/symphonic projects such as Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir, and more underground movements such as the Black Legions, which as a collective are as yet universally nameless.

There are a handful of discussion forums about black metal, though I have not seen as many as active as the Satanist forums:

http://www.orthodoxblackmetal.com/forum/

This one seems to have more activity:

http://www.deathmetal.org/forum/

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/forum/index-l-en.html

This is an example of what the music sounds like.

Typical form of dress:

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The kinds of crimes that black metal musicians have committed:

http://www.metalinjection.net/lists/top-10-crimes-committed-black-metal-musicians

Church burnings:

Burzum mastermind Varg Vikernes was convicted of four church burnings, including that of the Fantoft Stave Church, an eleventh-century national landmark whose loss galvanized Norwegians. He later used a picture of the burned church for the cover of his EP Aske. (English translation: Ash)

Samoth, guitarist of Emperor, was sentenced to sixteen months in jail after being convicted of church arson in Norway. Jørn Inge Tunsberg, guitarist of Hades (nowHades Almighty), was also convicted for burning down a church in Åsane, Norway, and spent two years in prison.

Faust, drummer of Emperor, traveled to Holmenkollen Chapel with Euronymous ofMayhem and Varg Vikernes of Burzum with the intension of bombing the chapel. When the homemade bomb they put on the altar refused to detonate, they soaked hymnals and Bibles in gasoline and lit them on the altar, burning the church to the ground.

 

[Abethedemon]

Black metal ist silly. It's such an edgy activity to participate in, yet most people who do it take it completely seriously.
It's also worth mentioning that there is such a thing as Unblack metal, or black metal that sings about christianity.

 

[NobodyInParticular]

Black metal ist silly. It's such an edgy activity to participate in, yet most people who do it take it completely seriously.

I think some bands have a greater awareness of the silliness of it all than others yet still have credibility within the scene. Exhibit A: Immortal.

Of course, with the self-seriousness of most of the scene, you do have your "Spinal Blacks."

The Black Satans: True Norwegian Black Metal from Finland

Morbid Anal Fog: A Tribute to the Most Unholy of Cured Meat

Gorgorotten: Reclaiming National Glory Isn't As Kvlt When You're French

 

[AnOminous]

The tale of Mayhem is pretty much definitive black metal. They had a lead singer named Dead, who then blew his brains out so as to be actually dead, and when his bandmate Euronymous found his dead body, his first response was to take a photograph of it, which then ended up on the cover of their next (bootleg) album.

Here it is:

Spoiler: I suppose I should spoil this

His suicide note started out "Excuse the blood. . ."

Some versions of the story have Euronymous actually eating part of his brain. Apparently, this isn't actually true, but the fact that was even taken seriously shows what passes as normal in black metal circles.

Euronymous, incidentally, later got murdered by Varg Vikernes, the guy mentioned above for his hobby of burning down churches because, well, he doesn't like them much. Burning down churches is very black metal.

Black metal is full of huge lolcows who take themselves incredibly seriously, despite the fact that black metal is the dumbest, silliest, most extreme metal tropes all put together into one ball of insanity. I have to admit to a certain grudging admiration for people who put this much into their art, even if it is mainly atrociously unlistenable noise perpetrated by extremely silly people.

Varg's personal project is a band called Burzum. Yes, even after a rampage of church burning and murder, they eventually let him out because, well, that's Norway for you.

Here's an actually good black metal song.

 

[Stacktac]

Some versions of the story have Euronymous actually eating part of his brain. Apparently, this isn't actually true, but the fact that was even taken seriously shows what passes as normal in black metal circles.

He did take some pieces of skull bone and handed them out to what he considered "worthy" musicians. He also went home first and got the camera (early 90s, no smartphones), staged the scene (position of gun and knife), and then took the photos. All of that is worse than just taking a picture... Necrobutcher, the bass player, left the band over all of this, and he got replaced by Varg, who later ended up killing Euronymous...

Even though two people died for it, De mysteriis dom Sathanas is still a kick-ass album. Euronymous' parents asked for Varg's parts to be re-recorded as they didn't want the murderer of their son to be on the same album as his killer, they said they did, but never did, as it was more kvlt that way...

Varg, by the way, is batshit crazy, and his craziness is increasing as the years go by. He believes black people are inferior because they descended from Neanderthals, believes in every Jew conspiracy out there, is an anti-vaxxer, and so on... His website if full of incoherent ramblings on a wide array of topics.

To end with a video, here's "preteen deathfuck" for you. Yeah....

*Edit*: I almost forgot, the great Mayhem does an interview:

 

[Mark Corrigan]

We already have a thread about it here: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/metal-elitists.14161/
But aaaaaaaanywaaaaaaaaaaay...

BM is a difficult subject to me because I've been listening to it for a half of my life so I guess I'm not objective. One thing I'd like to point out, however, is that you won't really find many lolcows in the BM circles. The reason for this is that in the case of most people, it's just an angry, temporary phase in their lives which passes when they get laid. Even if they continue to listen to this music, it's only for aesthetics, not because they take this ideological garbage seriously.

Yes, there are cows of Varg's caliber, but they are very rare and Varg himself isn't really trollable, because he's pretty much a recluse who only communicates his spastic gospel to Walmart Vikings without being interested in what they have to say. Everyone know what Varg is like, I won't say anything about him anymore, because everything has already been said and this topic is really, really stale now. Other BM musicians, for the most part, have a lot of distance to their art and only sperg out their philosophies when directly asked about it. Fenriz from Darkthrone is a techno DJ, Ihsahn from Emperor teaches music at school. Immortal are and always have been a tongue in cheek band. Tom Araya from Slayer is Catholic (yeah, I know Slayer is not BM, whatever). It's really not as serious as it seems from the outside. Those people have normal lives, friends, sex and enjoy a good beer.

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Another point I'd like to make is that very few BM bands are actually satanic, and those that are usually treat Satan not as a literal grim ruler of Hell with bat-winged demons flying around, but as a symbol of mutiny against Christianity (this is how Behemoth approaches it, for example). Satan is too 1990s and what is k3wl nowadays is nationalism (note: I said nationalism, not racism or chauvinism) and mythologies. It's interesting, I think, how other nations use BM as a tool to tell about their own cultures (apart from Scandinavia, there's a lot of BM bands in Slavic countries, there are bands influenced by cultures of Mongolia, Middle East and so on). And when you stumble upon a band that seems insanely over the top, chances are they are doing it on purpose.