(Not) Very Metal

[freeport_pirate]

I read a review today of a movie called Until the Light Takes Us. It's a documentary about black metal. I did some internet searches to find out more about it and so ran across a British documentary called Murder Music: A History of Black Metal. I ended up watching most of it on YouTube and it was interesting. It occurred to me midway through that

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[wizardru]

Man, you DO NOT want to play Brutal Legend. :)

[armadillo_king]

Sometime ago, while driving back from Houston, I listened to a station that was playing a countdown of classic metal hits.* The misogynistic themes ran through song after song. Despite having heard these songs for most of my life, it was revealing to hear them all grouped together like that.

* For a city its size, Houston must have the worst radio in the country, and its been that way for decades.

[mdingler]

BOC incorrectly labeled as metal? The term was coined for them, by their manager, if I remember correctly.

And I'd argue that Death/Thrash/Black Metal are actually closer to punk than to the hard rock music heavy metal grew out (or is a part of, depending on where you draw that arbitrary line). Mosh pits = pogo. Kept me from enjoying the genre for quite a while, as the mindless, aggressive stuff with the sucky vocals dominated during my youth.

[josephbrowning]

Hrm... well my experience has been kind of the opposite. I listen mostly to metal and other stuff like Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. Listening to metal right now as I'm working on a 1e adventure for GenCon. I find punk to be generally boring, but I also find most metal to be generally boring. It's only the good bands that are worth listening too and there's so much good metal that I can't imagine writing without it.

Listening to Therion right now. Lemuria/Sirus B, the song Quetzalcoatl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWSvZ0_qhbE if you'd want a listen.

[doccross]

As far as I'm concerned, pretty much every metal band after Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath was just a weak & pitiful imitation of them.

I never really considered BOC a metal band, despite what their management might have said and Rush was never metal by any standard.