just discovered Norwegian black metal...

[Corvus]

...my mind has been blown. It's actually...rather good. Now if only half these geniuses werent batshit crazy...but then the music would probably suck lol

Now this literally just happened,so maybe when i dive deeper I'll realize that for me personally this stuff is trash, but Mayhem is pretty good!

[TronRP]

...my mind has been blown. It's actually...rather good. Now if only half these geniuses werent batshit crazy...but then the music would probably suck lol

Now this literally just happened,so maybe when i dive deeper I'll realize that for me personally this stuff is trash, but Mayhem is pretty good!

Got any links to share?

[Corvus]

Got any links to share?

a documentary on netflix called Until the Light Takes us...its good...yet the sociopathic nature of some of them is really disturbing

[Corvus]

ok the more i watch the less i like this music. i like dark grungy metal...but their political and relious views are polar opposites to mine. As a metal guitarist, I'm a showman. I put on a macabre spectical, but at the end of te day no ones hurt and inside im still justin, im the guy who when hes sad wants to watch queer eye for the straight guy, eat chocolate, and have a good cry lol

[TronRP]

ok the more i watch the less i like this music. i like dark grungy metal...but their political and relious views are polar opposites to mine. As a metal guitarist, I'm a showman. I put on a macabre spectical, but at the end of te day no ones hurt and inside im still justin, im the guy who when hes sad wants to watch queer eye for the straight guy, eat chocolate, and have a good cry lol

Got any visuals of you in concert...

[the_fairy_gothmother]

I put aside their views and enjoy it anyways. If anything Symphonic Black Metal is especially one of my favorite Genres. Dimmu Borgir might be more your taste even with satanic imagery and occult/pagan themes I cannot deny the epicness of their use of real symphony orchestras and have even performed with the full orchestra and choir. It is a genius combination. And one of the former members of Apoptygma Berzerk is now in Dimmu though I prefered Mustis There is Black Metal like Immortal that are more theatrical and for show. The singer of Immortal Abbath said in an interview he does it for the music and show. He isnt into the church burning or politics. I am hoping the Extreme Metal documentary is completed soon. The same guy who did Metal Evolution and Headbangers journey is completing a documentary on Extreme and black metal which will only be on DVD since the network did not want to pick it up air it since its full of alot of disturbing stuff. As far as when it goes for music I always take things which have opposite views for entertainment value. If theres music I like that has a message I like great but if its they sing about things I would otherwise say WTF or not my thing it just becomes music with little meaning but enjoying the craftsmanship or creativity/techniques. I think you might also enjoy Progressive Death metal DJENT and Technical Death metal. Periphery, Meshugga, Tesseract, Textures, Between the Buried and Me, Animals as Leaders are more driven on abstract ideas and engineering and performing music that is more on an intellectual level believe it or not. They blend clean vocals in as well and Periphery even has some spacey geeky video game themes to some of their music. Animals as Leaders is purely instrumental. As much as I am a goth I am also deep down a metal head too. Oh and you may have heard of them but Gothminister is a good band from Norway. They blend theatrical goth/industrial music with heavy metal riffs and put on quite the show. :D