Funny then how all the founders of the movement shared such similar ideas and views that they expressed their music... it's almost as if the ideology and the music were connected somehow - like maybe one inspired the other? Sure nowadays you don't need the ideology because you can just copy the sound from someone else, but the originators didn't have anyone to copy - it was their ideas that inspired the sounds that we now associate with the concept of "black metal." I find it strange how people try to separate lyrics from the rest of the music, it makes as much sense to me as separating the bass or drums.
The phrase has almost become synonymous with generic and stagnant.
If you think about it, anybody who's trying to copy something done 15 years ago is going to sound dated or boring, no matter what genre. Bands that imitate the older black metal bands sound crappy because they're imitators, not because they lack ideology. Originality is what matters and all the significant bands active in 1990-95 were original in some sense. Like many 16-22 year olds, I'm sure many of them were followers in terms of how strictly they adhered to the ideology of the scene, and I'm sure some of the best work came out of hangers-on, or people who just thought black metal was cool. A modern band like Velvet Cacoon can have no meaningful ideology and create a listening experience just as meaningful.Funny then how all the founders of the movement shared such similar ideas and views that they expressed their music... it's almost as if the ideology and the music were connected somehow - like maybe one inspired the other? Sure nowadays you don't need the ideology because you can just copy the sound from someone else, but the originators didn't have anyone to copy - it was their ideas that inspired the sounds that we now associate with the concept of "black metal." I find it strange how people try to separate lyrics from the rest of the music, it makes as much sense to me as separating the bass or drums.
Although it's funny how the bands these days that "don't compromise the Black Metal ideals" (s/a Gjenferdsel) are the ones that I can't even make through one song of on their MySpace page.
And those emo band names don't help either. Deafening Loneliness? Unholy Matrimony? Jesus fucking Christ.
