Black Metal is teh funnies.

Watch some of these vids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqBDmLT-w-c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee0yDlLhzXg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4yRIf9XLrU 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd5XGpHRFXI

Then watch this videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS3zntyrPkQ&feature=RecentlyWatched&page=1&t=t&f=b

I love Black Metal but can't help laughing at the bands. 

*raises hand* erm...what exactly is black metal about?

*raises hand* erm...what exactly is black metal about?

MarioFanatic

Any attempt to lay out the ideology of a musical genre is bound to generalize to the extent that some traits are unfairly played up with respect to certain artists, while others are laid out which do not apply to all. Nonetheless, there is a clear ideological thrust which can be sketched out which captures the essence of the thought behind black metal music.

The attitude taken to art in black metal is complex. To a large extent, aesthetics are ideology. Black metal is generally held to embrace anti-Christian sentiment, misanthropy, nihilism, Paganism, or Satanic imagery, as well as in rare cases racism and nationalism. In actuality most black metal musicians view their craft as a natural result of their inherent misanthropy and anti-establishment Weltanschauung[citation needed]. Similarly, there is often a deep link to nature which is emphasized, being a type of naturalism, with a heavy emphasis on mortality and the unknown aspects of death. More generally, most black metal musicians are strongly anti-collectivist, critics of religion and are advocates of individualism and rational egoism, but Nationalist Socialist black metal is an exception to this case.

The majority of those involved in the scene are not outspoken with regard to either nationalism or xenophobia (these values are almost exclusive to National Socialist black metal), perhaps because standard black metal ideology is influenced by anti-idealist philosophers who often regarded racism as a form of idealism or philanthropy. Nonetheless, many black metal bands espouse a form of nationalism that is not racism: they are merely proud of their nation, but do not deny the right of other people of other nations to be proud of theirs. This is part of the anti-collectivist mindset which is sometimes held. It follows logically that homogenisation between cultures (irrespective of race) is something to be avoided, and the way to avoid this is to take pride in being a representative of one's own culture, and produce art that is distinct to it. This form of nationalism is manifested musically by the incorporation of folk elements to some black metal bands' work.
-from wikipedia
 

*raises hand* erm...what exactly is black metal about?

MarioFanatic

*waits as my question is answered, so i don't look like an idiot* 

*raises hand* erm...what exactly is black metal about?

MarioFanatic

Screaming like women, wearing fruity make-up to look like a zombie and double bass drum kits. 

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*raises hand* erm...what exactly is black metal about?

lycrof

Any attempt to lay out the ideology of a musical genre is bound to generalize to the extent that some traits are unfairly played up with respect to certain artists, while others are laid out which do not apply to all. Nonetheless, there is a clear ideological thrust which can be sketched out which captures the essence of the thought behind black metal music.

The attitude taken to art in black metal is complex. To a large extent, aesthetics are ideology. Black metal is generally held to embrace anti-Christian sentiment, misanthropy, nihilism, Paganism, or Satanic imagery, as well as in rare cases racism and...[/QUOTE]

ah! well thanks for enlightening me. if you would excuse me i gotta go now *gets the **** out of thread*

[QUOTE="lycrof"][QUOTE="MarioFanatic"]

*raises hand* erm...what exactly is black metal about?

MarioFanatic

Any attempt to lay out the ideology of a musical genre is bound to generalize to the extent that some traits are unfairly played up with respect to certain artists, while others are laid out which do not apply to all. Nonetheless, there is a clear ideological thrust which can be sketched out which captures the essence of the thought behind black metal music.

The attitude taken to art in black metal is complex. To a large extent, aesthetics are ideology. Black metal is generally held to embrace anti-Christian sentiment, misanthropy, nihilism, Paganism, or Satanic imagery, as well as in rare cases racism and...[/QUOTE]

ah! well thanks for enlightening me. if you would excuse me i gotta go now *gets the **** out of thread*

Whuts wrong with a little paganism? 

Praise hail satan, let us drink chicken blood and sacrifice a virgin to praise lucifer. tzar3

Yak's blood. 

For some more black metal funniness go to the top 10 most ridicolous black metal pics of all time.yasser34

I loled at Vrangsinn's Ass 

Yeah, cant really understand these guys, spikes and leather and the black and white make up, I prefer the leather jackets and denim vest, the whole biker look but hey its their style I guess. Black metal during the 90s burned down some churches, crazy stuff.tzar3

Try telling that to Black Metal fans. They'll argue with you all day that the stuff is not evil, lol. 

[QUOTE="tzar3"]Yeah, cant really understand these guys, spikes and leather and the black and white make up, I prefer the leather jackets and denim vest, the whole biker look but hey its their style I guess. Black metal during the 90s burned down some churches, crazy stuff.Gamezilla57

Try telling that to Black Metal fans. They'll argue with you all day that the stuff is not evil, lol. 

But it isn't evil.  At least not all of it.  To be evil you must cause pain and suffereing.  The only one would be those that burnt down the churches.

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[QUOTE="tzar3"]Yeah, cant really understand these guys, spikes and leather and the black and white make up, I prefer the leather jackets and denim vest, the whole biker look but hey its their style I guess. Black metal during the 90s burned down some churches, crazy stuff.lycrof

Try telling that to Black Metal fans. They'll argue with you all day that the stuff is not evil, lol.

But it isn't evil. At least not all of it. To be evil you must cause pain and suffereing. The only one would be those that burnt down the churches.

Haha, a lot of the lyrics are evil, man. At least most of the lyrics in Death Metal are, but Black Metal's lyrics don't differ much from Death's. Just go look up the lyrics to "Zombie Ritual" by Death. Also, you need to look up the band Mayhem. If those songs don't talk about causing pain and affliction, then every song must be all fun and rainbows!

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[QUOTE="tzar3"]Yeah, cant really understand these guys, spikes and leather and the black and white make up, I prefer the leather jackets and denim vest, the whole biker look but hey its their style I guess. Black metal during the 90s burned down some churches, crazy stuff.lycrof

Try telling that to Black Metal fans. They'll argue with you all day that the stuff is not evil, lol. 

But it isn't evil.  At least not all of it.  To be evil you must cause pain and suffereing.  The only one would be those that burnt down the churches.

Google Burzum, and Mayhem.  These black metal dudes mean business heh.

haha well the topic creator does have a cattle decap banner in his sigg.

But thats grindcore.  A bit different. 

I do listen to Mayhem, I still don't consider it "evil". Burzum is Nazi right? I think Nazi's are evil.lycrof

From what I've heard of Mayhem is pretty evil. Let's just say I can't post the lyrics here without me getting suspended....or banned. It's that bad, lol. 

Is black metal even good? All I usually listen to is Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Saxon, Black Sabbath, Dio, AC/DC, Van Halen, Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth, it does get boring sometimes and other metal genres do interest me a bit.tzar3

You forgot Diamond Head. And yes Black Metal does have its moments. 

Is black metal even good? All I usually listen to is Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Saxon, Black Sabbath, Dio, AC/DC, Van Halen, Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth, it does get boring sometimes and other metal genres do interest me a bit.tzar3

Ah, it's got it's talanted musician's, but from what you saw of the videos that Ly posted: they all pretty much do the same thing. Make-up, Satanic lyrics, bludgeoning guitar (I do like bludgeoning guitar, though). Same thing with Death Metal. Same gory lyrics about disembowelment and other stuff that really can't be mentioned here. I personally prefer the classics like Megadeth and Pantera, or the Modern stuff that doesn't got to such extremes.

What would be some good black metal albums?tzar3

I couldn't be the one to recommend you any, because I don't really listen to any.  

What would be some good black metal albums?tzar3

As cliche as the name sounds " In the Nightside Eclipse " by Emperor is a good one.

[QUOTE="tzar3"]What would be some good black metal albums?mr111111

As cliche as the name sounds " In the Nightside Eclipse " by Emperor is a good one.

I've heard that one of their members killed a homosexual hooker in a red light district. Just loose talk of headbangers, though. I doubt it's true, but that genre of music has been known to have some very evil followers.....*cough*.....Mayhem.

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[QUOTE="tzar3"]What would be some good black metal albums?Gamezilla57

As cliche as the name sounds " In the Nightside Eclipse " by Emperor is a good one.

I've heard that one of their members killed a homosexual hooker in a red light district. Just loose talk of headbangers, though. I doubt it's true, but that genre of music has been known to have some very evil followers.....*cough*.....Mayhem.

Well, I don't know about you, but if I payed for a hooker and she turned out to be a he, I'd be pretty pissed. Mayhem is just crazy. No seriously, those dudes have as much mental stability as Syd Barrett.

Yeah, cant really understand these guys, spikes and leather and the black and white make up, I prefer the leather jackets and denim vest, the whole biker look but hey its their style I guess. Black metal during the 90s burned down some churches, crazy stuff.tzar3

Jesus, black metal sure has its history of violence, didn't one of the guys from Burzum murdered another guy from Mayhem?tzar3

Something like that. And made a necklace with his teeth. 

[QUOTE="Gamezilla57"][QUOTE="mr111111"]

[QUOTE="tzar3"]What would be some good black metal albums?mr111111

As cliche as the name sounds " In the Nightside Eclipse " by Emperor is a good one.

I've heard that one of their members killed a homosexual hooker in a red light district. Just loose talk of headbangers, though. I doubt it's true, but that genre of music has been known to have some very evil followers.....*cough*.....Mayhem.

Well, I don't know about you, but if I payed for a hooker and she turned out to be a he, I'd be pretty pissed. Mayhem is just crazy. No seriously, those dudes have as much mental stability as Syd Barrett.

LOL! True. The guys that told me that also said it was planned. He made the guy believe that he was also a homosexual, then led him off to the woods and killed him. I still doubt it, but I have read that one of their members was convicted for murder somewhere. 

[QUOTE="tzar3"]Yeah, cant really understand these guys, spikes and leather and the black and white make up, I prefer the leather jackets and denim vest, the whole biker look but hey its their style I guess. Black metal during the 90s burned down some churches, crazy stuff.Sony_Casual

The whole, resist Christianity thing huh? So you saw that VH1 special too eh? 

[QUOTE="tzar3"]Jesus, black metal sure has its history of violence, didn't one of the guys from Burzum murdered another guy from Mayhem?mr111111

Something like that. And made a necklace with his teeth.

I heard another story about members of Mayhem killing someone and making a necklace with fragments of his skull.....sick stuff. 

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[QUOTE="tzar3"]Jesus, black metal sure has its history of violence, didn't one of the guys from Burzum murdered another guy from Mayhem?Gamezilla57

Something like that. And made a necklace with his teeth.

I heard another story about members of Mayhem killing someone and making a necklace with fragments of his skull.....sick stuff.

Skull fragments, teeth, whatever. No matter which way you slice it (ha ha slice), it's pretty nasty. 

What would be some good black metal albums?tzar3

What would be some good black metal albums?tzar3

Aborym - Generator

Enslaved - Ruun

Melechesh - Emissaries

Most of Dimmu Borgir.

Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells  

Many others to name 

[QUOTE="Gamezilla57"][QUOTE="mr111111"]

[QUOTE="tzar3"]Jesus, black metal sure has its history of violence, didn't one of the guys from Burzum murdered another guy from Mayhem?mr111111

Something like that. And made a necklace with his teeth.

I heard another story about members of Mayhem killing someone and making a necklace with fragments of his skull.....sick stuff.

Skull fragments, teeth, whatever. No matter which way you slice it (ha ha slice), it's pretty nasty.

Yea, this stuff isn't like gang war stuff, it's just outright disgusting.

I will keep a list of those bands but something tells me it might be to0 heavy, too evil. Even for me.tzar3

Oh please, don't be a puss If you can handle the Priest and Metallica you can handle these church burning bastards.

[QUOTE="Gamezilla57"][QUOTE="mr111111"]

[QUOTE="tzar3"]Jesus, black metal sure has its history of violence, didn't one of the guys from Burzum murdered another guy from Mayhem?mr111111

Something like that. And made a necklace with his teeth.

I heard another story about members of Mayhem killing someone and making a necklace with fragments of his skull.....sick stuff.

Skull fragments, teeth, whatever. No matter which way you slice it (ha ha slice), it's pretty nasty.

No the vocalist commited suicide and the guitar player took pictures of it and made it a demo cover and made a necklace from skull fragments and supposedly made soup with bits of brain in it

[QUOTE="mr111111"][QUOTE="Gamezilla57"][QUOTE="mr111111"]

[QUOTE="tzar3"]Jesus, black metal sure has its history of violence, didn't one of the guys from Burzum murdered another guy from Mayhem?Lief_Ericson

Something like that. And made a necklace with his teeth.

I heard another story about members of Mayhem killing someone and making a necklace with fragments of his skull.....sick stuff.

Skull fragments, teeth, whatever. No matter which way you slice it (ha ha slice), it's pretty nasty.

and supposedly made soup with bits of brain in it

I lol'd hard 

[QUOTE="mr111111"][QUOTE="Gamezilla57"][QUOTE="mr111111"]

[QUOTE="tzar3"]Jesus, black metal sure has its history of violence, didn't one of the guys from Burzum murdered another guy from Mayhem?Lief_Ericson

Something like that. And made a necklace with his teeth.

I heard another story about members of Mayhem killing someone and making a necklace with fragments of his skull.....sick stuff.

Skull fragments, teeth, whatever. No matter which way you slice it (ha ha slice), it's pretty nasty.

No the vocalist commited suicide and the guitar player took pictures of it and made it a demo cover and made a necklace from skull fragments and supposedly made soup with bits of brain in it

Thats how they paid there respects.  The suicide note only stated "Sorry about all of the blood" 

Yeah you are right, is just music nothing big, if I can handle Slayer then I can handle these guys. I tend to get crazy when I listen to heavy music thats all.tzar3

That's the spirit, and remember, GOD LISTENS TO SLAYER! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2Z7Q_FAyA

The best interview ever.  Me and my friends Loled fiercley when watching it. 

LOL GOTHICS AND THEIR MUSIC. SORRY ITS NOT EVIL ITS PLAIN WANNABE.

they real musicians? sure they can play guitar but they cant sing.. they scream like ****.

These are wannabe.. no they dont think they cool with their makeup on and saying "satan" forever, all thats an act. They are gothic posers.. emos.

METAL SUCKS. PERIOD. I DONT CARE IF YALL BASH ON ME I GOTTA TELL THE TRUTH. LOOK AT THEM. THEY. HAVE. MAKEUP. ON.

and they screaming like chipmunks.