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This sounds super weird, but think of mostly soft black metal with feminine vocals that is actually really pleasant to listen too. Honestly, check her out, personally i really enjoy her music so i thought id tell you guys - enjoy! 

(Some of you may find this very strange due to her appearance and the themes of her music, but give it a chance, this woman is one of the most talented musicians i have found in a long time)

 

 

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My take on "M" as a whole is that her clean voice is great, her screams are alright, the medieval folky parts are generally really nice, but the instrumental parts are weak. They sound like placeholders. I don't find that there's a single inspired or memorable riff on this. That has the unfortunate effect (to me) of making the vocals come off as a gimmick. The heavy-handed marketing and media presence didn't help in that regard either. I'd be more interested in hearing her front a better band, or get much more involved with the music. 

This song in particular annoys me because of the first vocal part's unavoidable, extreme similarity to a song off of Ulver's "Bergtatt". Makes it seem like even more of a gimmick to blatantly bite a phrase from such a classic album. I know Garm produced "M", so maybe he even had a hand in writing this, but that doesn't make it feel like less of a rip-off. 

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What the hell is supposed to be black metal about this? It sounds like a Leaves Eyes outtake. Why did the original poster say it "sounds super weird"? It's the most mundane crap I've heard in ages. 

As I was listening I checked out wikipedia to find the Garm and Teloch are involved, which just blows my mind because this was really paint by numbers and below both of them. I haven't heard any other songs so I can't comment broadly, but I'm just going from this weak sauce song. 

The only thing I got out of that track was a right chuckle as she runs into the surf at the end and gets swamped by a wave. Maybe that looks cool to a Scandinavian, but in Australia that looks really lame and awkward. 

The reason I'm being super cynical is because this has been posted here by an obvious imposter/record company stooge and the project is apparently some sort of cutting edge star. Maybe she's amazing, but this song doesn't really show it, does it? 

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1 minute ago, natassja7 said:

I enjoy her vocal, the instrumental doesn't move me on this track and I don't know what her appearance has to do with anything. 

The whole original post is sinister.

The suggestion that "you may find this very strange due to her appearance and the themes of her music, but give it a chance" just reeks of copy/paste from a pop website or something.

Why would anyone on a metal forum find a regular looking person singing a fairly mundane song strange? Why would anyone find her appearance strange at all? 

 

 

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What the hell is supposed to be black metal about this? It sounds like a Leaves Eyes outtake. Why did the original poster say it "sounds super weird"? It's the most mundane crap I've heard in ages. 

As I was listening I checked out wikipedia to find the Garm and Teloch are involved, which just blows my mind because this was really paint by numbers and below both of them. I haven't heard any other songs so I can't comment broadly, but I'm just going from this weak sauce song. 

The only thing I got out of that track was a right chuckle as she runs into the surf at the end and gets swamped by a wave. Maybe that looks cool to a Scandinavian, but in Australia that looks really lame and awkward. 

The reason I'm being super cynical is because this has been posted here by an obvious imposter/record company stooge and the project is apparently some sort of cutting edge star. Maybe she's amazing, but this song doesn't really show it, does it? 

 

Shit, that does sound like Leaves Eyes! I can't say that I'm a fan of that band, and am also wondering why this would ever get a "black metal" tag unless it's from someone that doesn't know what the fuck black metal is. I'm guessing that's the case, as it often is these days. Everything about this reeks of pretense and gimmickry, I can't get into it at all.

 

As far as Garm goes, let's keep in mind that he hasn't even been involved in anything metal related since his last Arcturus album 15 years ago. Of course it's sad to see him endorsing this piece of shit, but it's not surprising TBH.

 

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3 hours ago, Requiem said:

Why would anyone on a metal forum find a regular looking person singing a fairly mundane song strange? Why would anyone find her appearance strange at all? 

It's really a subtle implication at the false accusation that the majority of her critics have a problem with her music due to being a woman. Honestly, if a man were to have written the first album, at least half of the criticisms would be that it was essentially Bergtatt-lite. 

As for my opinion of her music, I'm similar to @FatherAlabaster in the sense that I like the folk sections, her cleans are good, her screams are...there (I guess) and that the instrumental sections are utterly bog-standard. The song on the OP just sounds like a crappier version of Troldskog Faren Vild. 

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Honestly what we're dealing with here is "black metal for people who don't like black metal". It's got the hipster quotient of Zeal & Ardor and Deafheaven. Some fans of this stuff take umbrage at the "legitimacy" argument. IMO they should be looking at the marketing decision to try and ram this stuff through as "the new face of black metal" rather than getting upset with the fans who don't swallow it. I don't think the problem is so much that it's adulterated beyond recognition, it's that the black metal elements themselves are rootless and generic. I don't even hear any untapped potential aside from the vocals.

Ultimately the legitimacy argument has nothing more to do with the music than the misogynistic bullshit does. Some of that's very real, and it fucking sucks that this woman has had to deal with sexist vitriol over her music, but none of that makes this stuff good black metal, and if I wanted to listen to the folk stuff, I'd put on Trio Mediaeval's "Folk Songs". 

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Honestly what we're dealing with here is "black metal for people who don't like black metal". It's got the hipster quotient of Zeal & Ardor and Deafheaven. Some fans of this stuff take umbrage at the "legitimacy" argument. IMO they should be looking at the marketing decision to try and ram this stuff through as "the new face of black metal" rather than getting upset with the fans who don't swallow it. I don't think the problem is so much that it's adulterated beyond recognition, it's that the black metal elements themselves are rootless and generic. I don't even hear any untapped potential aside from the vocals.

Ultimately the legitimacy argument has nothing more to do with the music than the misogynistic bullshit does. Some of that's very real, and it fucking sucks that this woman has had to deal with sexist vitriol over her music, but none of that makes this stuff good black metal, and if I wanted to listen to the folk stuff, I'd put on Trio Mediaeval's "Folk Songs". 

 

I agree with all of this.

 

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