Black Metal and Norway

Chula Vista · 05-09-2015, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I'm putting the ball in your wheelhouse and you're gonna cop out?

I want your perspective. In the last 6 months since I've joined this place my appreciation of extreme metal has gone up a ton because of you and some of the others here.

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I think that all of the extra musical events surrounding the scene like the church burnings, murders, and the occult related antics helped put black metal on the map.

Would the genre have survived without that ****?

The Batlord · 05-09-2015, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

I'm putting the ball in your wheelhouse and you're gonna cop out?

I want your perspective. In the last 6 months since I've joined this place my appreciation of extreme metal has gone up a ton because of you and some of the others here.

I'm ****ing lazy and that's a lot to talk about. Here's a Wikipedia article, just for you.

Early Norwegian black metal scene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also, a bit of an answer to a question you asked days ago.

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The Norwegian bands developed the style of their 1980s forebears as a distinct genre of heavy metal music. This was partly thanks to a new style of guitar playing developed by Snorre 'Blackthorn' Ruch of Stigma Diabolicum/Thorns and Øystein 'Euronymous' Aarseth of Mayhem, in which guitarists played full chords using all the strings of the guitar in place of power chords using only two or three strings. Gylve 'Fenriz' Nagell of Darkthrone has credited them with this innovation in a number of interviews. He described it as being "derived from Bathory" and noted that "those kinds of riffs became the new order for a lot of bands in the '90s".

Trollheart · 05-09-2015, 02:35 PM

Hey Batty! Why don't you do an "Unknown Soldier" on Black/Extreme Metal? A history of the genre with the best bands in a journal format ... oh right. You're lazy.

You're not really you know: when you're interested in a subject and there's a chance of showing off your knowledge you can really rock. I think this would be a great project for you.

Possible titles: Batlord of Darkness, A Darker Cave, Come into my web, God is not here, Out of darkness comes .... more darkness
etc

05-09-2015, 02:35 PM	#3 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Hey Batty! Why don't you do an "Unknown Soldier" on Black/Extreme Metal? A history of the genre with the best bands in a journal format ... oh right. You're lazy. You're not really you know: when you're interested in a subject and there's a chance of showing off your knowledge you can really rock. I think this would be a great project for you. Possible titles: Batlord of Darkness, A Darker Cave, Come into my web, God is not here, Out of darkness comes .... more darkness etc __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018