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Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe
Hahaa  That's so great! We're like polar opposites. I just love that the early stuff was so damn dark. I think the main thing is that the early pioneers really believed in what they were doing. I mean how many bands were dressing up in corpse paint and singing about satan? There's just a sort of feeling I get from listening to that stuff that I don't get much from the modern stuff.
Although Sortsind is relatively new (late 90s) and they're my absolute favorite Black Metal band. So it's not like I hate ALL new stuff and love ALL old stuff. There's just a certain feeling in some Black Metal records that I love. It's hard to say about the Post Black Metal/Shoegaze scene. I think the more open minded listeners (like me) welcome it. I could see if some didn't enjoy it but Noktu is an ass for completely disparaging a whole genre. I mean really. Shoe gayze? Come on. |
Do you listen to other genres of metal besides black metal? Over the last year I've noticed you really only sticking to black metal and then of course your trance/ electronic music.
I really started to get into metal when I was about 15-16, but that was mostly local stuff to Vancouver and finally then I started exploring the Scandinavian scene. I was always aware of black metal's existence, however I also heard about the church burnings and a grossly exaggerated story regarding Mayhem in the early '90's. It kind of turned me off and I didn't really start to look into it until I heard a few albums like Sigh's
Sonicscape (Which you'd probably hate :P) and then I started exploring it. By then I was 18 and I think a lot of the things about black metal that appeal to teenagers didn't work for me. While I was extremely agnostic at that time, the scenery evoked by some of the newer bands just didn't work for me. By then I was already pretty heavily invested in death metal and started expanding out towards avant-garde, so black metal became something I kind of stuck my head in every now and then to see what's what, but never something I really followed with any loyalty.