I don't mean to be rude, but this has to be the most offbase editorial I've read in my 6-7 years of reading material on this site.
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The vinyl version of the demo which that song came from was limited to a hundred copies, each containing a section of tape - if all hundred owners got together and somehow managed to reassemble the various pieces in the correct order, the right way around, they could hear an exclusive song. That, my friends, is Black Metal in a nutshell. The mere idea that a hundred people from around the world care enough to go to all that effort merely to hear a single song which is, most likely, not worth the effort - that sums up the genre, the passion, the devotion, the mystery, the sheer misanthropy for the human condition that people have nothing better to do with their lives - all part and parcel of the pure Black Metal experience.
Arrogance defined by black metal fans. They act as if this is the ONLY genre in the history of music that draws people from different regions into a singular cultural and musical hive. This has been the trend of music, poetry, etc for CENTURIES. Even in modern times, the same statement can be applied to Blues, Hip-Hop, Folk Music, etc. Hell, I've seen Eurotrash flock to underground Trance festivals. Just because you "embrace teh darkness" doesn't make you unique to any other musical relativism.
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What I am suggesting here is that modern Black Metal has gone from being the noblest, most heartfelt and interesting music that there is into a commercialised pastiche of itself. It was once at the forefront of the underground in even experimental terms, a thing so powerful and genuine that people committed serious crimes over it; now, even the headline figures have sold their souls to exterior forces.
LMFAO. Do you really think Dead offed himself because he foresaw Dimmu Borgir on MTV2? Varg killed Aarseth because he wanted to maintain the sanctity of fuzzy tremelo picking and high-pitched vox? Samoth and Faust torched churches and murdered homosexuals because they wanted to speak out against religious indoctrination? Of course the fuck not...They were a bunch of stringy-haired, attention-starved teens who wanted to make a statement in the scene. Even Necrobutcher stated that their actions were absurd and done for attention. In context, no different than a Emo Kid cutting himself or a Marilyn Manson fan shaving his head and wearing torn stockings and black lipstick.
God Forbid...er...oh wait, my fault...SATAN forbid, that maybe Maniac wants to buy a house for his family instead of living in an isolated cabin that would eventually become the album cover...Forsake Frost and Satyr for wanting to play outside of the same smelly Norwegian shitholes and wanting to better themselves. Or maybe Ihsahn has gone as far as he can go with Emperor, and wants to play Progressive, diverse music.
I don't understand the stigma against wanting to be more than just the same album over and over again, or desiring to move beyond having to work 2 jobs just to afford the instruments and equipment to play in the same vicious circle week in and week out.
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I thought the extreme right were proud of their views, but when put between a rock and a hard place, or in this instance between nationalist pride in your superior white bloodline and the commercial concerns of a record label, money will win out every time.
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They revel in the edginess of the random violence of Black Metal, much as they would with Gangsta Rap, yet actual political statements horrify them, intruding on their safe worldview and sanitised ideal of what music should and shouldn't say.
The most sensible statement made so far. But then you bring it all crashing back down in your conclusion. I respect the genre as an art form, but that's it. It's not this free-of-societal binds culture than some idealize it to be. It has a hierarchy, it has a lack of flexibility, and like most art forms/cultural movements, it has its share of freaking idiots. The "tool" and "sellout" words are thrown around too liberally towards anyone who wants to branch out (Ihsahn, Satyr, Abbath). Maybe, just maybe, it's possible that the arrogance and nonsense of some of the "troo kvlt" BM'ers is what drove so many out of the movement?
