What do you guys think of black metal?

[Verruckter]

Re: What do you guys think of black metal?

I wouldn't exactly call Axamenta ****, to name but one band that are Black Metal and are awesome.

I didn't want to mention them because they are not "pure" BM, but rather BM/Death/Prog.

They still ****ing kick ass though

[tha Guardians]

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Don't get me started bro. I want to whip on that pink headband and sit around watching it pulsate on my head. **** yeah!

Sweet dude. I rock a red headband.

Headbanding ftw xD

[R-Sisco]

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I don't know about all of you, but i prefer grindcore/hardcore

Black metal is ok, but its not my favorite type of metal.

[Gibson63]

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i prefer Metalcore

[Soul Slayer]

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loool besides the obvious like doom or sludge, black metal probably has the LEAST amount of guitar skill required for metal genres. True black metal bands go for that crappy, unrehearsed, recorded-in-the basement sound. Don't get me wrong, i have a huge collection and love it, but skill? Just cause its fast doesn't mean its hard.

i'm not referring to speed.
i'm referring more of that tremolo picking is used extensively, which may be harder for the less experienced, as well as bands like Emperor using harmonics in I Am The Black Wizards.

[Verruckter]

Re: What do you guys think of black metal?

i'm not referring to speed.
i'm referring more of that tremolo picking is used extensively, which may be harder for the less experienced, as well as bands like Emperor using harmonics in I Am The Black Wizards.

Well anything is harder for the less experience. Honestly, BM takes few skill.

[ShAiOnEi]

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Black metal is a great genre of music it sets a sort of environment when you listen to it kind of like a rare wine after a while it gets better....Isahn is kick ass he is the true pioneer of the genre and still makes great music today. Technical skill over musical ingenuity is the worst way possible to think...not everything has to be produced in an expected way musically. People have forgotten the true reason for what metal stands for and it's not who plays the most detailed and difficult song ever known to mankind. Metal has messages and meanings inside and it's expressed differently through the genres. I know it's hard to come back to the old styles when we have all these new catchy rhythms with these "hardcore" breakdowns that stagnate the era today that's more generic than is ingenuitive. But there isn't much you can do music evolves over time and so do the people so it's hard for the new generation to understand what we used to have. Our brotherhood is no longer as strong as it used to be but I will still support true metal. Hail

[Verruckter]

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There IS NO definition of what metal "should be". Stop restricting it with ****ing limits.

Also lulz @ brotherhood. And BM is not the only genre of metal to set a sort of environment, pretty much every other genre does that except BM is "darker" thus people go zomgwtf.

[Heartseeker7]

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Straight to the point, I love it.
But I prefer neo-classical metal over it.

[irionman]

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I bet I'm one of the biggest black metal fans/if not the biggest on these forums. (If you don't believe me, ask datenshi) I've got stuff from the biggest names (Filosofem - Burzum) to the smaller stuff (Demo 2001 - Necroplasma). Some of it can be repetitive, but some of it is amazing and makes you feel it. Also, guitar skill is not always a basic skill in black metal bands.(some of them just suck)

My favorite BM bands -
Eikind
Dark Funeral
Burzum (technially NSBM, but who cares)
Emperor
Venom
Taake
Wyrd
Beherit
Behexen
Von (inspired Watain)
Carthaun
Great Vast Forrest
Gaahlskagg
Kampfar (if you've never heard of them, go buy the cd called Kvass)

[irionman]

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i prefer Metalcore

Yuck

[XxXMetalheadXxX]

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Black metal is pretty good and I enjoy it.
-XxXmetalheadXxX

[dbziscool]

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I enjoy Black metal quite a bit. How ever I do think that bands like Dimmu Borgir are way overated. Most "black metalers" hated Dimmu Borgir untill that got a hold of HellHammer. Anyhow, I love most Black metal dated back to the days of Bathory. Most of the black metal bands I like consist of:

Burzum
Mayhem
Chthonic
Dark Funeral
Venom
Emperor
Nokturnal Mortum
Immortal
Ancient
Gorgoroth
ect.

Though as far as Mayhem goes, I enjoy the newer Mayhem more so than old. Thats right dead fans!(lol) I think Attlia is a great vocalist and I loved the new album. Don't get me wrong I think the first album was good to. but Mayhem is just...so much cleaner(More together) now.

[Gibson63]

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Yuck

-__- i just can't stand black metal because of the singer. metalcore have the best melody,breakdown out there IMO..

bands like

As i Lay Dying
The Devil Wears Prada...

Don't say any **** about them..until you listened at least to 5 song and +...

[Verruckter]

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Don't say any **** about them..until you listened at least to 5 song and +...

Listening to 5 different metalcore songs is the same as listening to 5 times the same metalcore song.

The solos, breakdowns and melodies are incredibly generic, boring and uncreactive.

Seriously, metalcore is one of the most gimmicky, generic and overall boring (not to mention painfully faux-depressing) genre out there. It's also not even metal (because it takes a lot more from hardcore than from metal).