NokturnalBoredom

The problem with being a member of facebook is that you're then generating data that is enriching this piece of shit company and the turd that stole it from it's original creators. You're generating this data, and you're not being compensated for it whatsoever and then it is used by giant corporations to more effectively manipulate you into parting with your money. That's the main reason why I am not on there or any of the mainstream social media networks. I'm only on forums, and I make an exception for Reddit. I don't use that worthless echo chamber either. Do I not get to follow bands? No, I don't but it's a small price to pay to not be generating precious "data" on myself that will then be sold so I can be more easily manipulated into spending money on garbage that I don't actually need.

Agreed. My experience with metal fans is that they generally break down into three types: the aspiring musician, the teenage delinquent (me), and the partier. All of these three types are nerds about the music that they like & have no problem engaging you in long conversations about said bands and musical styles, it's just what the theme of the conversation about said music is going to be varies depending on which one you're talking to. The aspiring musician is usually the most knowledgeable one to talk to whereas the teenage delinquent simply wants a soundtrack for being a contrarian, hitting mailboxes with baseball bats from a moving car, so on and so forth; and the partier wants the good times and great tunes to keep on rolling. Facebook is a toxic piece of shit. I closed my account on there over a year ago and as @Parker has stated, would rather claw my eyes out than go back and get involved in that negative, bullshit, fundamentally phony scene ever again. The problem with Facebook is that it's a giant competition to see who can get the most "points" and most people are not at all honest about their lives on there. You see people whose lives seem perfect, and then you feel like shit because yours is not. Newsflash: neither is theirs, they're simply curating what they want to show to the world in an attempt to get points in the stupid, pointless game that is social media. I do not use Instagram, Twitter, or any of that nonsense either because it's all the same shit: people trying to dunk on each other and being nasty to one another over shit that really doesn't matter whatsoever.

Of course humor has a place in music! One of the silliest bands I've ever seen live was called Gardy-Loo and not only was seemingly every song they did about taking a shit, they had a guitarist dress up in a turd costume and play while they surfed a giant papier-mache turd around the crowd like you would with a beachball. They opened for Exhumed back in like 2006 and they even had a guy with a black executioner's hood on pretending to be El Duce (El Duce used to do their vocals until he died). All in all it was a great time. There are some joke black metal projects that I get a kick out of, because I don't take myself too seriously. Impaled Northern Moonforest (Seth Putnam of Anal Cunt) and The Black Satans... also Anal Cunt was pretty hilarious with their song titles and supposed "lyrics" that Seth claimed that he had written for their "songs" (If you can call anything that Anal Cunt did a "song") I also love the band Ween. They definitely have a sense of humor in their music, as most of their music is just making fun of other genres. The song "It's Gonna Be A Long Night" (about taking speed) was probably supposed to be taking the piss out of Motorhead (and I listened to that song religiously when I used to take speed, because I hadn't fundamentally understood that it was making fun of losers who take speed). Ween also did stuff like "The HIV song" and "Zoloft (and as someone who had been on Zoloft in high school, I got a kick out of that one as well). I definitely think that humor has a place in music. There's nothing worse than a band that takes themselves too seriously or thinks that their art is some grand, important political statement (I'm primarily referring to Varggoth's "Aryan Terrorism" project because I will never be able to get over how the leader of Nokturnal Mortum shit out an album that was simply that awful). Taking music seriously and putting out a good product is fine, but thinking that your music is revolutionary and that you as an artist are important and have something to say that everyone needs to hear, is kind of lame. So in light of this, I like bands that do over the top, silly shit like Immortal and Arckanum just as much as I like bands that are blatant about trying to be funny (In Defence, The Black Satans, Anal Cunt)

Cradle of Filth's best album cover, in my opinion, was Dusk and Her Embrace because of the green monotone thing that it had going on. It was also one of the first black metal albums I ever bought, and I was all about that record for a while in the 10th and 11th grade.

Not only did my green vinyl copy of Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk come the other day, but my Kroda "Selbstwelt" and purple Absurd 7" also came from Osmose, so I've been playing those three pretty heavily.

@GoatmasterGeneralThat's a gorgeous house. I wish that I could afford something like that to just hide in, listen to my black metal, and read my books. Maybe if there was a stream nearby, go fishing when the weather permitted it. I live in Florida now but barely do any fishing because I'll be honest: I'm not into saltwater fishing as much as I like freshwater fishing, specifically fly fishing for trout up in flats in the smoky mountains (which is where I would get a cabin if money were no object to me). My mom and I are moving back to upstate NY in another year or so once I get off of probation. I'm hoping we can get a decent house up there on the outskirts of one of the smaller villages or cities or something & that there is somewhere nearby that I can do some fly fishing at. I have not gone for trout in ages and I am looking forward to catching (and eating) some rainbow trout again. They're smart fish that spook easily, so you really have to play it cool in order to possibly catch one (unlike the dumbass saltwater fish that you can pretty much just yank out of the water at feeding time). @FatherAlabasterUndertow was the first Tool album I heard so it was (and still is) my favorite one. The guest appearance from Henry Rollins helps it's case a lot even though the longest track on the album is also the most boring/shittiest.

I've heard good things about White Death, but I've never checked them out. I generally like the Finnish stuff that I know.

I'm thinking about how I wish that I was working in construction again & wishing that I had more than one 30 minute break at work. The best job I ever had, which was in awning fabrication & installation for a small private company, gave us two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch. I do not get anything remotely close to that at my job now so I get one 30 minute meal break and then have to be on my feet for another 5 to 6 hours straight and it's a big deal if I need to take a piss or something. Granted I make more than a lot of the people I work with right off the bat because the job was hard up for workers, but I generally dread going to work each and every day because I know that I'm in for eight hours of bullshit, disgusting sand-pickers, and generally wishing that I was sitting in my room listening to music and chilling. The money isn't terrible, it's just the people and the nature of the work. The sad thing is that I'm good at it but that doesn't really say much because I'd rather be good at literally anything else (particularly some sort of construction, as construction is a rewarding industry to be in as you get to see the results of the work you do). I'm also thinking about how I want more than two days off a week. I don't need to work 40+ hours, I could get by on 32 and be fine due to the fact that I actually make a lot for the type of job and company that it is. I might need to tell them that my availability is changing, and that I'm only going to work 4 days a week in another month or so. I'm just quickly getting burnt out & I didn't think that it would happen this quickly when I started a few months ago. I needed a job and this was the first one I could get, so I took it. I'd much rather still be installing windows and sliding glass doors even though that was physically demanding work in the heat and I would come home filthy at the end of the day.

The Cure "Seventeen Seconds" That talk of Behemoth covering The Cure's "A Forest" inspired me to put this album on.

I'm a big fan of The Cure so I have to check this out at some point. I actually do not own any Behemoth albums and am not terribly familiar with their music, but I've heard positive things about them. Any band that does a cover of The Cure can't be bad as far as I see it, although I am not sure whether A Forest was the best cure song that a black metal band could cover (I would have chosen Object or The Same Deep Water As You)

I am not allowed to vote (and wouldn't even if I could), so my actions literally have no political meaning. They may have a cultural meaning, but definitely not a political one. I reject all of the nonsense that "Everything Is Political" because it isn't. Me going to the store and buying a can of Bang & drinking it is not a political action, just like my purchasing of music that people do not want me to be able to have is not a political action, it's me simply being a contrarian and wanting something that busybodies on a moral crusade want to try and tell me that I'm not allowed to have (just like it was when it was Conservative Christians trying to tell me in the 90s that as a "child" that I shouldn't "be allowed" to purchase albums by Deicide, Slayer, or Marilyn Manson). Same went with these same busybodies trying to ban Mortal Kombat 3 and DooM. Once those games were on the chopping block, I had to own them (and I did, and I still do). Joseph Lieberman doesn't get to tell me what games I am allowed to play just as Tipper Gore and Pat Robertson do not get to tell me what music I get to rock out to. When someone tells me that I am "not allowed" to have something, I have to have that thing. Especially if it's a book, music, or a movie. I was a big fan of reading "banned" books when I was in middle school and high school and it got me in trouble with the authoritarian administration at my school quite frequently. 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Long Hard Road Out of Hell... I read all of these books because these shitbags tried to tell me that I wasn't allowed to read them, and nobody gets to tell me what I am allowed to read, listen to, or watch. That's not a political action (remember that I cannot even vote, so if it was a political action, it would be a pointless one), it's a matter of right and wrong. I do not believe that anyone has any right to tell people what they can and cannot read, listen to, or watch because I don't believe in blasphemy or obscenity as it is all arbitrarily decided based on someone's personal feelings and more often than not, I do not respect that person. If someone wants to paint a picture of the Virgin Mary with their own feces, they are completely justified in doing so. Does a museum have to exhibit it? No. Just like if I don't like it, I don't have to look at it. I don't like mumble rap and think that it is irredeemable garbage music about getting one's penis fellated and taking dangerous drugs, so I don't listen to it. I don't try to actively prevent other people from listening to it, because I'm not a piece of worthless shit who would dare to presume that I have a right to censor what other people are allowed to enjoy. There are very disturbed, maladjusted people out there who have wanted to censor rock music since Elvis began swinging his hips around on television all the way up to a new generation of these church ladies wanting good music banned for no valid reason other than they don't like it because it's "not nice" or uses naughty words. Those people are my enemies. They are people who I do not respect and thus, do not care about their feelings. We have a lot of people in the world today who want to tell me that I am not allowed to listen to certain music, read certain books, or watch something as innocuous as a comedy special by Dave Chappelle. I am not going to let these people win and prevent me from experiencing media that I want to experience, because I am fundamentally a contrarian. When people tell me what to do, I do the opposite because I wholeheartedly believe that nobody knows what's best for me aside from me.

Trust me, you don't want to. It's basically Daudi Baldrs-era Burzum worship, and Daudi Baldrs was the worst era of Burzum, but Varggoth fancies himself a Ukrainian Varg Vikernes, so since Varg took Burzum in an "ambient" direction, Varggoth created Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra and like nobody who liked Nokturnal Mortum listened to it (since The Key to the Gates of Apocalypses was a single, 72 minute long track and nobody really has the patience for that). I tried listening to Midnight Fullmoon and lost interest three minutes into the opening 12 minute track. Luckily I downloaded it off of Soulseek so I did not get suckered into paying money for Varggoth's beeps & boops project.

I have two goals in life: one is to turn a camper into a tiny house for myself, the other is to own and operate my own record/t-shirt store, probably online since brick and mortar is not doing too well anymore. If I can parlay the record store idea into it's own label, I'd like to do that as well but that's a really big goal for right now. First thing I have to do though, is get off of probation. I have about $2000 & 10 months left to go before I can do that.

That's true. My family frequently embarrasses me with the stupid shit that they believe, but I'm the black sheep of the family because I was not a "success" in life. I never got married, never had kids (don't really want either though, because then I'll have something that the system can use against me). I've got a felony charge on my record, had drug problems in the past, and am mentally ill. I don't bother talking to my father or his side of the family because they are diametrically opposed to everything about me and what I believe and do & are generally bitter and resentful that I didn't "make them proud" (because apparently the purpose of life is to live it for the benefit of others rather than for the benefit of yourself). I don't give a shit though. I am largely happy with who I am and what I do. I never wanted to "achieve" anything anyway. I just wanted to be able to do what I wanted, which was rock out and generally get my kicks in before the whole shithouse goes up in flames. I did the college thing for two years, decided not to continue on because I didn't want to be strapped down to inescapable debt that wouldn't get me a job anyway (my former friend from high school has a PhD in English and is working hourly at a Starbucks. My sister double majored in musical performance and audio engineering and has to busk on the Toronto subway but she's fine because her fiancee makes like six figures as an IT guy). I stopped giving a shit about pretty much everything besides metal in the 10th grade. Then I found drugs and gave a huge shit about getting fucked up for many years, but no longer give a shit about any of that anymore because I see it as an obstacle to the few, small goals that I have. I just like to have money to get the things I want, enjoy my time off from my shitty job for a company I do not believe in, and enjoy good books, music, and old video games from my childhood. My overwhelming goal is to run an online record and t-shirt store. I don't expect to get rich, but I'd like to be able to support myself by doing so. Maybe start my own record label as well.

I was not aware of that. You learn something new every day I suppose. I do it because I like to have the large, physical copies of the music that I enjoy & the big piece of art that is the on the sleeve. Sometimes I display the sleeves on my wall.

Two of my Nokturnal Mortum albums have a screenprint on the D-side of the second disc. My Batushka "Raskol" EP also has a screenprint on the D-side as well. I used to have a lot more picture discs than I do now. I think the only ones I have now are a Smashing Pumpkins one and the Obtest 7" that I bought about a week or so ago. Like I said, I used to have Cannibal Corpse "Bloodthirst", Venom "At War With Satan", and even the first Rage Against the Machine album on picture disc but they all developed pits toward the edge of the disc in relatively short order that made caused a permanent, impassable skip on songs and that was a bummer. I was going to pay $27 and get a picture disc of King Diamond "Abigail" but decided against it because I overplayed that album in high school. I have the opportunity to get a Kreator picture disc, but I'm not sure whether or not I like Kreator enough to get a picture disc of their material. I am a complete fool for colored vinyl though. I have some amazingly pretty ones like Hot Water Music "Fuel for the Hate Game" and Varathron "Walpurgisnacht" that are among the prettiest records that I've ever seen. One of the 7"s that just arrived from Osmose is like a deep purple color that is the same color as my copy of Sleep "Sleep's Holy Mountain" and that's one of the reasons why I ordered it, because I do not have a lot of colored 7"s. Most of my Nokturnal Mortum ones are colored save for my copy of "To The Gates of Blasphemous Fire", which is black. I have a beer-colored galaxy of Twilightfall", a blue "Lunar Poetry", a green and brown translucent "Goat Horns", a white "Nechrist", a grey and white marbled "Return of the Vampire Lord/Marble Moon" and a black/clear galaxy "Voice of Steel". I have a lot of colored vinyl. Getting colored editions is a lot of what influences me to buy an album, since everything comes on black and blck is kind of boring color for vinyl. What I like about the colors is that it makes the disc itself stand out in my collection.

They have a pretty silly music video on YouTube called "Black Metal Mania" that I was watching earlier. But definitely check them out, they're pretty good. I got the album through Profane Existence distro when I was going though a big phase of ordering D-beat and crust vinyl.

Oh I'm 35 now, on the way to being 36 in about 6 months. I'm hoping that eventually I can get my criminal record expunged and maybe go for a job with career potential so that I'm not doing McDonald's in my 50s (If I even live to see my fifties as I have a pretty severe mental illness and that shit can take decades off of your life). I just quit doing ice, coke, drinking, and fooling around with pills at 31. I only quit smoking weed about a year and a half ago because I could still legally do it due to having a medical marijuana card. Believe it or not, just because you have a medical marijuana card it doesn't mean that you won't get drug tested to hold a decent job in construction or the like. I've been thinking about trying to finish college finally (I only need 3 more classes in math, but I have a math-related learning disability that renders math close to impossible for me) & then maybe get my felony expunged after probation and trying to get an actual career even though your mid thirties is far too late to start looking for a real career in most cases. I'm just hoping that with the money I make now, that eventually I can get my record distro going to the point where I can supplement my income off of that.

In Defence is good crossover thrash that leans more toward the hardcore side of the spectrum (think S.O.D. or DRI). I have the LP "Don't Know How to Breakdance" and I spin it ever couple of days because it's like S.O.D. in that it's humorous but the humor is more innocent and not toward the "offensive" side of things like S.O.D. was. They have songs about veganism (I Eat Kids), having your bike stolen (Bike Thieves Can Suck It), and other silly stuff (Veronica Mars, Bringer of War). I like them a lot but they are broken up now. The other band I'll recommend is a band that I recently discovered and have been crazy about since I got their album in the mail the other week, Colombia's Witchtrap. They're like a blackthrash thing but with more of an old school sound than say, Witchery. They are very much influenced by Venom, Kreator, and Destruction & their lyrics are standard early black metal fare (think like Hell Awaits-era Slayer). Some people have criticized them and said that they bite riffs off of earlier bands, but to be completely honest, if you're going for an old school vibe, you're probably going to be biting riffs in one way or another.

If that's the case, then I guess I like Overkill because I like the song that I referenced above. I first heard it on a comp/sampler CD that came with some album I bought back in the mid 00s when I had an incredible CD collection of death and black metal... that later was destroyed by Hurricane Charley when the roof of the finished garage I was storing them in collapsed. My vinyl collection is a second attempt at having a wide variety of music to listen to and I hope that nothing happens to it.

This reminds me of my story about quitting all drugs: I used to smoke a lot of weed. That was the drug that I used more than any other that I ever got caught up in doing. I had a medical marijuana card here in Florida for a little while, so I could go to the dispensary and buy marijuana products & I generally enjoyed them even if they did make me dumber, slower, and less motivated (they made listening to bands like Sleep and Acid Witch sound incredible). So why did I quit a year ago when I could legally go and buy, possess, and use marijuana products? A best friend of mine came down with really bad testicular cancer a few years ago. Like really bad where he had to have both of his testicles removed because they swelled up to the size of grapefruits overnight. Instead of trying chemotherapy or radiation, he decided that he was going to try and treat his cancer with cannabis oil. Needless to say, it did not work and the cancer spread to his blood and now he's gone & I'm still trying to get over it and navigate life without having him around. We played disc golf together, he would come over and we'd smoke weed and listen to black metal and stoner metal records, and we'd watch Dr. Steve Brule and laugh our heads off. Now I can't do any of that anymore because he has crossed to a plane that I cannot go. Maybe I'm in the wrong, but I blame the marijuana advocacy people (who I myself was one and did a lot to get medical marijuana approved in Florida) who incorrectly claim that cancer can be treated with phytochemicals in "whole" cannabis oil. My buddy was already into medical & nutritional woo, but had he just attempted chemo or radiation, he might have lived and I wouldn't always be hurting like this a year after the fact. He was a victim of bullshit, nonsensical information by people who don't know what the hell they are talking about (Marijuana helps with the symptoms of cancer, but it cannot cure cancer or send it into remission otherwise Bob Marley would probably still be alive). Because of this, I have stopped using marijuana even though I like it and I feel like I am better off as a result. I am more motivated, mentally clearer, and overall my attitude is better and my schizoaffective disorder more manageable. Besides, smoking weed just isn't the same without my buddy anymore. Instead of having fun and relaxing, I get paranoid and uptight, feel run-down and depressed when I do it now and oftentimes feel confused and "unprepared" for what life throws at me. I feel like quitting drugs and taking charge of my mental illness was the best possible decision that I could have made. Do I miss doing drugs? Sometimes... but it's not so much the being on drugs, it's the things I did with other people when I would use. So now I am living the SOBERTOWN USA lifestyle and I feel like it's been a net positive for me, I just wish that I had chosen to do it sooner than 31 years of age because drugs cost me a lot of good opportunities that I had in life, as I prioritized my use of drugs over things like careers, relationships, and personal responsibility.

That's just what I remember reading on a site that was trying to explain why vinyl offers a better, fuller sound than digital options. I do not pretend to know in reality why this is, science is not my strong suit (unless it's marine science as those were the only science credits I took at college). I was not aware of this. I always laughed at the stuff by Nuclear Blast that had a big sticker on the front saying "On BLACK vinyl" as if it was something special. LPs have traditionally been pressed on black vinyl & the fact that Nuclear Blast and Earache likes to pretend like it's something special is just funny to me as someone who prefers to collect color vinyl. I did not know that the carbon that was used to color the vinyl had anything to do with it's strength. The majority of my record collection is on colored vinyl but a lot of my LPs are between 180-200g so they are thick, heavy, and have a great full sound. Like right now, I am spinning Emperor's "In The Nightside Eclipse" and it's on dark blue vinyl and the sound seems fine... but then again I do not have the best turntable or speakers in the world. I have a $200 Fluance turntable and probably $150 Edifier speakers. So yeah color vinyl might be a gimmick, but that gimmick works on me and I have no problem admitting it. I have some really cool colored LPs: My green/brown translucent Nokturnal Mortum "Goat Horns", My dark green "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk", my camouflage-patterned Earth Crisis 7" and my candy-corn colored Acid Witch "Evil Sound Screamers". The different colors are one of the things I like the most about collecting vinyl LPs and 7"s. Having it on a color other than black just makes it feel more unique and special to me and makes me more motivated to purchase it.

That a fact? Like is there some sort of scientific data that can prove that claim? because I don't know why colored vinyl or picture discs would have a different sound quality than standard black. The gimmick works on me. I love having colored vinyl (not so much picture discs, as the picture discs that I had developed pits very early on which caused impassable skips on albums like Cannibal Corpse's "Bloodthirst" & Venom's "At War With Satan") I rarely listen to music on digital file because as I learned with CDs, you are getting an approximation of the sounds and missing certain high or low frequencies. The other reason I don't bother with digital is because I just prefer to have a physical copy of the media so that I feel like I truly own it.

I break stuff down into subgenres with my MP3s, but I don't break it down into what the bands themselves call their specific style of music (Like Nokturnal Mortum calls themselves "Lunar Pagan Black Metal"? Come on, man!). To me, subgenres are like: black metal, death metal, metalcore whereas the main genre is metal. Hardcore and punk are about as bad with the subgenre thing as metal is: I cannot count how many different variations of "core" I have heard of over the years (or subgenres like Youth Crew, Deathcore, etc). I generally do: Crust, black metal, hardcore, punk, death metal, power metal, etc. I don't get into ridiculous specifics and generally think it's kind of cringe when bands do this. To an extent I understand it: Melechesh and Arallu are "middle eastern/oriental folk black/death metal" and this is important to describe how these bands sound, but there really isn't a specific scene called "middle eastern/oriental folk black/death metal" just like there isn't a specific scene called "Lunar Pagan Black Metal" (and Nokturnal Mortum is my favorite black metal band of all time, but their self-description from the early 00s was cringe af) That's exactly who I meant. I saw them with Malevolent Creation, Origin, and an unknown local black metal band called Byam Klavor & they along with Byam Klavor stole the show as the openers. It was probably the loudest show I've ever been to and I foolishly did not wear earplugs and my ears rang for a week afterward. Animosity has always been one of my big bands and it's a bummer that they split up so soon because they were truly doing something great in the early to mid 00s by throwing a little bit of "core" into their brand of death metal, as I've always been a fan of hardcore like Youth of Today, Chain of Strength, Earth Crisis, and Chokehold. Are there other bands like Animosity that I could listen to? No doubt, I'm just not that motivated to seek them out because I'm not tremendously motivated to seek out different bands anymore. I'm still collecting vinyl for bands and albums that I already know and have a ways to go on rebuilding my former CD collection that was destroyed in Hurricane Charley on vinyl. The newest bands I've "discovered" lately are Vietah (Belarus), Obtest (Lithuania), and Witchtrap (Colombia) and I credit Hells Headbangers distro for introducing me to these three bands. What I mean when I say Slam, is that you have the children of Reddit now labeling any brutal death metal or hardcore band that plays mostly tough-guy breakdownz as "slam" now. I mean, you even have these same kids referring to Dying Fetus & Nile as "slam" now, because "slam" is the new popular term for a wider genre that already existed for nearly four decades now. The thing is: I say that it's "kids" but I can't really blame them because it's people in the music industry, label executives and A&R people, who are trying to do a repeat of what they did to hardcore and screamo in the early to mid 00s: they're taking a term that they don't understand and slapping it onto bands to try and market them to kids as being something "new" when what these bands are doing is not remotely new (and as I've said before, there is nothing remotely wrong with not doing anything new or groundbreaking in metal). It's the same thing that Victory records did to hardcore and screamo in the early and mid 00s: Hardcore and screamo were already well defined genres... but this pseudo-indie label realized that the terms had not been marketed at MTV level yet and began calling their insipid, late-stage Nu-Metal like Atreyu "hardcore" and their watery versions of mainstream-accessible post-hardcore like Under0ath "Screamo" and they did it specifically to cash in on the Hot Topic crowd. Now the same thing is starting to happen to black metal. The mainstream industry has realized that it needs a new youth guitar-music subculture to cash in on, so it's frantically searching for something to get teens jazzed up about and the only thing it really has left is black metal so it's working overtime to rebrand black metal as something non-threatening and "inclusive" that normal, well-adjusted suburban teens can participate in to "express their unique identities". At it's heart, it's yet another shitty, cynical cash-grab by the pseudo-indie culture industry of magazines like Alternative Press and corporations like Hot Topic and I feel like it's going to do an immense amount of damage to black metal.

Because it's confusing. A band that I went to see (Animosity) was "death metal" when I went to see them, but is now "slam" according to the trend-followers who retroactively applied the label to it in order to make themselves and their bands sound more original when in reality, they aren't doing anything remotely new... and there's nothing wrong with not doing anything new. These names are created as marketing terms so that bullshit pseudo-indies like Victory records who are always hunting for the "next big youth fad" to co-opt and market the hell out of can find bands to sign. They did it with the terms "hardcore" and "screamo" in the 00s and now they're doing it with metal bands & this leads to a lot of fashionable haircut kids infecting the scene in general and turning it into just another avenue for fashion and selfies. Genre names are important so you know whether or not you might be into a band. I'd check a band out if they were labeled as "death metal" because I know that there is some death metal that I like (Necrophagist, Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse) but I would hesitate to check out a band that called themselves "slam" because that reminds me of trendy bands that I do not like, such as The Acacia Strain and Whitechapel. Nowhere was this more obvious than in the time period I already referenced: Victory would put hype stickers on their CDs that said "YOUR NEW FAVORITE HARDCORE BAND" and the band wouldn't have anything to do with hardcore at all... their guitars just had a little bit of distortion and the singer would do that awful cryscream vocal style while singing about failed relationships.