Black Metal.

[cookiecutter]

Also because there's a whole lot more fucking white people in the US than black people.

And that rap is a popular style which has media attention.

 

[thisisaformicatable]

Metal is more popular among white people because it's largely anti-modern, and white people are closer to the processes of modernity that metal reacts against.

If Euronymous were to come back from the dead and survey the current state of black metal and see how it has developed/spread since his death, would he approve or condemn the genre as of present?

He thought the scene was gone to shit when he was alive, and given that it has declined exponentially since then he probably wouldn't change his opinion. That's Euronymous the character though, honestly I think he would be in some hipster band like Opeth right now if he were still alive.

 

[Wires & Waves]

Agreed...just as hip hop, rap, two-tone, etc., developed in African cultures, and their fan bases are predominantly African. The style is developed within a given culture with given cultural meanings and understandings, so when it is brought outside of the culture, it is unlikely that many will relate to it unless it becomes heavily diluted (as in mainstream music).

2 tone is white people influenced by jamaican ska though

 

[skeptik]

You obviously know more about shitty music than I do. It was just a term that I recalled used by a presentation given by a student in one of my classes. I really don't care if I didn't use the most applicable term.

 

[Mort Divine]

Ska isn't really shitty.

 

[Alter]

Ska isn't really shitty.

Yea it is.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

@ Nec

Considering metal draws influence from the blues...

 

[Alter]

@ Nec

Considering metal draws influence from the blues...

Everything draws from the blues. Every form of new western music has some amount of blues influence. It may come directly or indirectly.

 

[Mort Divine]

Yea it is.

No it isn't.

 

[skeptik]

Try that again without the Pain Of Salvation signature.

 

[KevenZ]

Has Varg had access to black metal to listen to while in prison? If not, I wonder what his reaction would be to the current globalized state of black metal.

Even bands that draw heavy influence from him, I wonder if he would praise or condemn them. Or would he be like the undead Euronymous: being apathetic to it and passing no judgment?

Varg is crazy and fucked up, probably due to prison rape and stuff like that.... anyway I don't think you could predict anything from him...... except he just won't ever live outside of his prison walls, he's too insane.

 

[Alter]

I hope they never let Varg out. A total asshole who can do only a few things good. Other than those things...he is a total waste of space.

 

[skeptik]

He will probably be released next year. I hope he is, it should be extremely interesting, even though he has claimed that he just wants to live a private, secluded life.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

He will probably be released next year. I hope he is, it should be extremely interesting, even though he has claimed that he just wants to live a private, secluded life.

On a the grim inverted frostbitten peaks of a very very very very very very very very very very very forbidden necro-cliff.

 

[Koude Haat]

he will probably record another black metal album if hes desperate for cash.

 

[Matt]

Which everyone will masturbate to even if it sucks (and probably will)

 

[Mort Divine]

Try that again without the Pain Of Salvation signature.

No it isn't.

 

[Matt]

Try that again with the Pain of Salvation signature.

 

[unknown]

Try that again without the Pain Of Salvation signature.

it's not

 

[Zephyrus]

Which everyone will masturbate to even if it sucks (and probably will)

Even if it sucks, most completists will buy it anyway. I wonder how a new Burzum album would sound; a cross between Filosofem and his ambient material? That could work if he gave it the focus he gave his early 90's material.