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Wow guys, how coincidental. We're talking about the two bands I logged on wanting to talk about.
I recently got back into Wolves in the Throne Room. I didn't listen to them for a whole year, mostly because I spent a solid two months in 2008 listening to nothing but Diadem of 12 Stars and Two Hunters. After all the honorable mention of the latter in recent months I decided to listen again, especially considering my love for post-BM. It was damn good. Been listening to it occasionally for two weeks now. I still need to hear Black Cascade. I think WITTR is probably on the middle tier as far as post BM bands are concerned, because it's hard to compete with bands like Alcest and Fen.
I really dig Vertebrae. It's soft-sounding. The clean vocals are integrated more smoothly than in Ruun and Isa, and Enslaved has really demonstrated their understanding of the mechanics of both post metal and black metal.
Pumped to hear the new Fleurety.
I was thinking the exact opposite of Heavy is the crown's post yesterday. I think that raw black metal is far less mature in musical and lyrical content than post black metal and that its fans are better suited to genres like punk and hardcore. Let's get in a fukin fyt over stupid shit like race and religion, woop woop. I despise the purposeful sloppiness of Bestial Black Metal, it's everything I stand against. I can connect with some NSBM musically (Graveland and Besatt, for instance), but the lyrical content and vocal approach usually has me rolling my eyes. They're so caught up in being true that they neglect to discover themselves. It's the ultimate conformity, conforming to an anti trend in a genre based around individuality. Probably one of the reasons Satanism didn't work out for me: conflict of tradition and the individual.
I'll accept Heavy's aggregation of the genre "Atmospheric Black Metal" if he acknowledges that there are different schools of thought within the genre. Leviathan, Farsot, A Forest of Stars, and Negura Bunget can all be grouped in this genre and are all very different bands.
I recently got back into Wolves in the Throne Room. I didn't listen to them for a whole year, mostly because I spent a solid two months in 2008 listening to nothing but Diadem of 12 Stars and Two Hunters. After all the honorable mention of the latter in recent months I decided to listen again, especially considering my love for post-BM. It was damn good. Been listening to it occasionally for two weeks now. I still need to hear Black Cascade. I think WITTR is probably on the middle tier as far as post BM bands are concerned, because it's hard to compete with bands like Alcest and Fen.
I really dig Vertebrae. It's soft-sounding. The clean vocals are integrated more smoothly than in Ruun and Isa, and Enslaved has really demonstrated their understanding of the mechanics of both post metal and black metal.
Pumped to hear the new Fleurety.
I was thinking the exact opposite of Heavy is the crown's post yesterday. I think that raw black metal is far less mature in musical and lyrical content than post black metal and that its fans are better suited to genres like punk and hardcore. Let's get in a fukin fyt over stupid shit like race and religion, woop woop. I despise the purposeful sloppiness of Bestial Black Metal, it's everything I stand against. I can connect with some NSBM musically (Graveland and Besatt, for instance), but the lyrical content and vocal approach usually has me rolling my eyes. They're so caught up in being true that they neglect to discover themselves. It's the ultimate conformity, conforming to an anti trend in a genre based around individuality. Probably one of the reasons Satanism didn't work out for me: conflict of tradition and the individual.
I'll accept Heavy's aggregation of the genre "Atmospheric Black Metal" if he acknowledges that there are different schools of thought within the genre. Leviathan, Farsot, A Forest of Stars, and Negura Bunget can all be grouped in this genre and are all very different bands.
