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[Ginger Piglet]

How did a forum of metalheads become such enormous bootlicking faggots?

The admin is a giant SJW and banhammered anyone who wasn't prepared to bend the knee to her.

She's also a hotpocket at REEEEEEEEsetEra, which tells you everything you need to know.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

What can you expect from a moderator of REEEEEra?

The resounding theme I'm getting from this entire thread is that, as @Null once said, free speech is a principal held by exceedingly few people. In fact, people who claim to care about it are lying especially when confronted with ideas that contradict their priors. With minor exception, people want ideological consistency and convenience, and their true colors show whenever those are challenged. The fact that people in this thread are very comfortable advocating violence against actual and perceived enemies speaks to this.

Anyway, here's some more awful takes from that thread from the first page alone:

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This site is an example of an actual free speech website. Null and most of the users lean right, but the Trump Enslavement Syndrome thread rags on the right constantly and doesn't get banned. Trump himself has a thread in Prospering Grounds too due to his lolcowish tendencies. No one is off limits for mockery here.

Metalarchives is just an example of when a Reset Era level retarded leftist starts a website. Nothing more, nothing less.

How did a forum of metalheads become such enormous bootlicking faggots?

Literal Reset Era moderators. That's it. Everyone else got banned and the site's Alexa rank has fallen relative to its peak. It's not even in the top 13,000 websites now.

I suspect there's also an element of snobbery about it. DSO are okay because they produce pretentious fart-huffing avantgarde stuff and therefore are okay because they're being intellectual and liking them allows them to get their nuts tickled with the smell of intellectual superiority.

Burzum, on the other hand, was the work of a literal basement dwelling autist incel who sperged out in an act of white male entitlement and weaponised privilege.

This also explains why they seem to line up to bag on Pantera as well. Yes, Pantera, post Far Beyond Driven, went to shit with their endless drama amongst each other, but because they were rednecks and endlessly proud of it, they're the music of stereotypical Trump voters with their tough guy act (the Five Minutes Alone incident springs to mind), the fact that they emerged from the South, and similar. They're unsophisticated dudebros, while DSO are French and thus classy and do everything better.

(Incidentally, I wonder how much Trump voter hatred is based on just plain snobbery. An awful lot, I suspect.)

I don't follow MA forums closely, but elsewhere on the internet DSO are top of the list of no-no bands for Nazi connections, along with Burzum and Mgla. Anthony Fantano and other left wing critics don't even publish reviews of their albums anymore. I think they're one of the best black metal bands of the last few years (it's not like you can really identify lyrical pretentiousness in bands with screamed vocals anyway), but anyone expecting black metal to be free of Nazis is stupid.

Bashing on Pantera probably has some anti-redneck bias, but it's more just the same kind of old "it's popular so I hate it" mindset that made UltraBoris give Master of Puppets 0% for a laugh. They were the last huge metal band to go platinum aside from borderline stuff like nu-metal, so they got a particular concentration of that sort of hate. Songs like Strength Beyond Strength and Regular People still crush so I don't care.

For what it's worth, BastardHead, one of the site's most insufferable leftists, is a Pantera fan, so I really don't think that was mostly political.

 

[RichardMongler]

NO LINKING TO BITCHUTE, GUYS!

 

[Save the Loli]

That's funny, why does Metal-Archives still link me to Varg's website from the Burzum page which features links to all of his "writings" and his RPG? I mean why is it okay to link me to a convicted murderer's personal website but it's not okay to link me to some dumb teenager's NSBM project's page just because it's on Gab or whatever?

 

[Pointless Pedant]

That's funny, why does Metal-Archives still link me to Varg's website from the Burzum page which features links to all of his "writings" and his RPG? I mean why is it okay to link me to a convicted murderer's personal website but it's not okay to link me to some dumb teenager's NSBM project's page just because it's on Gab or whatever?

Grandfather clause basically. While Morrigan herself was always far left, right wing content wasn't banned in the way it is now back in the 2000s. Varg has obviously been on the site since then and his links have stayed. I think new far right artists still get archived on the site, but I'm not sure what would happen if one of them released a Bitchute exclusive record.

 

[RichardMongler]

I think new far right artists still get archived on the site, but I'm not sure what would happen if one of them released a Bitchute exclusive record.

Just this month alone, Metal-Archives accepted three different RAC bands, so yes, artists of all creeds that play Metal get accepted provided they have a valid source of distribution. Their music must be either released in a physical format (CD, vinyl, cassette, et cetera) or available for download/streaming from a valid channel of distribution (Amazon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, et cetera).

That said, I'm wondering what will be the fate of those who write neutral or positive reviews of such music. Will the site be willing to accept such opinions or will they filter them out?

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Just this month alone, Metal-Archives accepted three different RAC bands, so yes, artists of all creeds that play Metal get accepted provided they have a valid source of distribution. Their music must be either released in a physical format (CD, vinyl, cassette, et cetera) or available for download/streaming from a valid channel of distribution (Amazon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, et cetera).

That said, I'm wondering what will be the fate of those who write neutral or positive reviews of such music. Will the site be willing to accept such opinions or will they filter them out?

Will anyone even review any of these records? The forum/review section is kind of dead at this point compared to a decade ago and there are practically no right wing users left. I wouldn't expect any reviews to even be submitted.

 

[Islamic Creampie]

NSBM and that sort of stuff gets reviewed every now and then. Usually by one of the few regular forum users still hanging on. They almost always get extremely negative reviews with the reviewer pretending it's because the music is just that bad and not the fact they're far right, but everyone who knows the community knows the deal.