It's Shoegaze week!

Mojo · 11-04-2010, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duga

I absolutely love the stuff. I don't quite understand why black metal fans have to be so opposed to this. Just don't listen to it. I'm sure there are still plenty of traditional black metal bands out there. I think black metal lends itself perfectly to shoegaze. Both are all about guitars and both are all about atmosphere. I thought about combining the two long before this started gaining any popularity, so I was very happy to see it actually happen.

Pretty much this. I may not be in the best position to judge because i like SOME black metal but I cannot claim to completely well educated with the genre as I can be very, very, picky when it comes to black metal.

However I love those three records and I've listened to the Alcest one inparticularly heavily. I guess I can see why black metal fans would take issue, as they are gaining a lot of popularity by branching outside of the genre. Their name will now be being dropped all over the place in "black metal" discussions even though they are not strictly black metal.

Personally I feel they are shoegaze but with light black metal influences rather than black metal fused with shoegaze.