While black metal is an exciting style - and definitely one of the most prolific these days, I have a few gripes with some of its fans.
I have been listening to metal since I figured out that I had taste in music, which would be like 15 years now. i go to talk to a lot of these "new" young metal heads who proceed to tell me that what I like isn't "real metal" because it's not black metal.
Excuse me? I like BM as much as the next guy, but Black Sabbath, Maiden, Metallica (well, some of it), Megadeth, Slayer, Sepultura, Corpse, Opeth, etc.,etc. are REAL METAL damnit! Not only that, but all of them have been at it a lot longer than most of the black metalers. Let's just smoke a bowl and spin a CD and forget putting everything in neat little categories.
I have been listening to metal since I figured out that I had taste in music, which would be like 15 years now. i go to talk to a lot of these "new" young metal heads who proceed to tell me that what I like isn't "real metal" because it's not black metal.
Excuse me? I like BM as much as the next guy, but Black Sabbath, Maiden, Metallica (well, some of it), Megadeth, Slayer, Sepultura, Corpse, Opeth, etc.,etc. are REAL METAL damnit! Not only that, but all of them have been at it a lot longer than most of the black metalers. Let's just smoke a bowl and spin a CD and forget putting everything in neat little categories.