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Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum Finally a DM band that lets their sound be shaped by their influences as opposed to being ruled by them. Love this record.
Another great band you should check out in that vein is Teitanblood. Similarly ritualistic and dark sounding black/death metal. That style is kind of exploding lately, but I haven't been able to keep up with all of the other bands spewing out new releases. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Burzum - Filosofem On a side note, I went back and re-listened to some of "Surgical Steel" last night out of a sense of duty. I can't stand it. The drums and the vocals sound good, but the songwriting is boring fucking dreck, dumb little Amott "riffs" over predictable chord progressions, and that an album like that can be "universally acknowledged" as some kind of great comeback, amidst all of the other actually great stuff that came out last year, is fucking sad to me.

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Burzum - Filosofem On a side note, I went back and re-listened to some of "Surgical Steel" last night out of a sense of duty. I can't stand it. The drums and the vocals sound good, but the songwriting is boring fucking dreck, dumb little Amott "riffs" over predictable chord progressions, and that an album like that can be "universally acknowledged" as some kind of great comeback, amidst all of the other actually great stuff that came out last year, is fucking sad to me.
I wanna check out Burzum more, but Varg and his beliefs really turn me off tbh. I get you should appreciate art as just art and all that, and the songs themselves don't really have much of a racist/fascist influence, but it's something I really struggle to get past; even with Mayhem's early recordings, which I actually really enjoy.
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I wanna check out Burzum more' date=' but Varg and his beliefs really turn me off tbh. I get you should appreciate art as just art and all that, and the songs themselves don't really have much of a racist/fascist influence, but it's something I really struggle to get past; even with Mayhem's early recordings, which I actually really enjoy.[/quote'] The whole Mayhem and Burzum story puts their music in second place. I don't find their music awesome enough to try to ignore them going psycho. I even watched that documentary about black metal where Burzum explains everything and talks about black metal in Norway (btw does anybody know the name of that documentary?) and there is something about him that bothers me.
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I've had the same problem with listening to Burzum' date=' so I can relate. The other bands, not so much.[/quote'] How so? From what I've seen these bands do (to an extent) share the racist beliefs. For example, I remember Marduk saying they were against immigration into Sweden and one of the Darkthrone chaps, Fenriz, has mentioned having a pretty racist past; although he may since have changed his position. I guess Varg is worse, though, given he actually killed someone.
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Re: What Are You Listening To? It would make more sense to me if people dodged Burzum because the music was filled with content that listeners found offensive or contradictory to their own beliefs, but the music is more personal. Additionally, I find it strange that the lyrical topics discussed in many metal bands involve dark and horrendous topics like murder, war, violence, etc..., yet they get a pass because their anger and hatred isn't directed at a race. I also don't hear of many people distancing themselves from Megadeth for Dave's ultra-conservative fundamentalism bullshit, nor from Judas Priest because their drummer of much of the 80's was convicted of pedophilia. I don't believe a line needs to be drawn, as I take from music (or any other art form) what speaks to and benefits me, if I ruled out art based on superficial criteria, I feel that I would be missing the point of expression. I can see why some would want to make this distinction, but then if it is to be made, I believe it should be enforced wholly, as opposed to only ruling out certain things you disagree with while accepting others. As far as Darkthrone and Marduk go, there aren't any racial messages in their music, nor have any of the band members been convicted of murder. Darkthrone's famed Norse Arisk Black Metal message was later declared a publicity stunt by the band, and while Marduk uses WWII imagery and lyrics, they are not used in support of the Nazi Party or white supremacy messages. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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