Black Metal = Only the GREATEST form of music ever created!!

Set_Abominae · Post by **Set_Abominae** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:36 pm

Kuroryuu wrote:Yeah thats what I would consider it to. Do you like em?

Eh... they're alright. I'm more into 'beauty and the beast' goth metal... and Agalloch.

TokyoU15 · Post by **TokyoU15** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:12 pm

Black Metal is.............................ok.

Only BM bands that really standout are Dimmu, Old Man's Child, Dissection and that's all I can think of.

oh and I use to hate Cradle and I know many hardcore BM fans loathe them and disregard them as a joke, but I find all the BM traits in their music and they're good.

FoolThemAll · Post by **FoolThemAll** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:36 pm

I can't stand the vocals the vast majority of the time.

Still, I like a few songs by Dimmu Borgir and Soilwork, and Opeth's grown on me to the point where I desire to get a CD of theirs. (Are all those death metal?)

FoolThemAll · Post by **FoolThemAll** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:37 pm

(rather, black metal? damn sub-genres and their...their makeout parties.)

Kuroryuu · Post by **Kuroryuu** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:38 pm

Dimmu is black metal, not death. Im not sure on Opeth, I would say Death though.

Set_Abominae · Post by **Set_Abominae** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:45 pm

Kuroryuu wrote:Dimmu is black metal, not death. Im not sure on Opeth, I would say Death though.

Opeth is like a progressive doomy death kind of thing.

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 8:04 pm

Kuroryuu wrote:Dimmu is black metal, not death. Im not sure on Opeth, I would say Death though.

i call opeth black metal strictly because its gloomy, and the proficient playing.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 2:39 am

Don't be Dani Filth.

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:35 am

what flint said... x1000.

wtf is the difference between death and black?

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 11:20 am

Death metal: growled vocals, professional/balanced production, emphasis on mainly '4' time structures. More room for technical instrumentalism.

Black metal: screamed vocals, treble-heavy or deliberately incompetent ("necro") production, emphasis largely on '6' or '3' time structures. Heavier use of keyboards and extreme blastbeat drumming at the expense of guitar/bass solos.

Or that's what the definition used to be. Nowadays these kids got their goddamn Swedish melodic death and symphonic black metal and folk/viking/techno/polka crossovers and their goddamn Earth-Crisis-biting NSWOTM bands, and you cain't hardly tell up from down no more.

That's about it.

--K