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TOPIC: What are youo listening rigt now?
[J.D. DIAMOND] Monday, July 20, 2009 5:25:31 PM 
Yeah me too....I first got into black metal in 1983 when I heard Venom's At War With Satan album......the term "black metal" as a genre and scene was also back in the early days when Venom created "black metal" and the album title...but 

in magazines and through word of mouth from Venom themselves...everything "satanic" in metal back then was considered "black metal"......Venom...Mercyful Fate....Slayer....Bathory...Hellhammer...Celtic Frost....

I didn't discover norwegian black metal untill 1994....late late 94' maybe...I know I heard Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas album in early 1995 and then Emperor,Darkthrone,Immortal,Gorgoroth..ect..

This was due to the death of  Oystein Aarseth AKA "Euronymous"......after he was murdered in the summer of 1993......Norwegian black metal hit metal magazines like Karrang,Metal Edge,ect.....

.....then the rest of the world got a look at true underground black metal......whats bewtter than 18 year old kids slapping on war paint spikes and blood singing 'hail Satan" at the top of thier lungs???!!!!!! LOL!

The scene has killed itself within the late 90's till now I think.......I don't think black metal was meant to have so many bands...and they just repeat themselves by copying Darkthrone's style ...ect.....

I remember back in late 94' when almost everybody I knew had not heard of norwegian black metal......and now its pretty much a house hold name......

Not saying I won't give any new bands a chance at a listen...but nothing seems to grab my attention these days because either the bands are afraid to do 

something different....or they do something SO DIFFERENT that its too far the other way...ect.... I think that the genre was not designed for an over crowded

black metal scene.  


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