Controversial opinions on metal

[Sirjack]

ok am l thinking of Atheist? played with Pestilence but then toured with Atheist after Roger was killed?
l cant remember...good bassist tho

 

[Talos of Atmora]

ok am l thinking of Atheist? played with Pestilence but then toured with Atheist after Roger was killed?
l cant remember...good bassist tho

Yeah, he was on Testimony of the Ancients with Pestilence and then performed on Unquestionable Presence and wrote and performed material on Elements.

 

[Satanstoenail]

And then he joined a salsa band

 

[CF87]

yeah im pretty sure l voted leprosy for best death album in the poll but l ain't talking about that era.

Signature Rick Rozz

 

[Sirjack]

yep - Tony Choy - forgotten bass demon for multiple outstanding acts

 

[EchoForever]

No, it isn't. It's their best death metal album.

which incidentally is their best album

 

[EchoForever]

is this thread dead?

halford > dio

 

[Nate Skalman]

Let’s restart this...I think Varg is a pussy and only got the better of Euronymous because it was a total sissy fight...and I think the skull fragments/brain matter myth is total BS

 

[Der Morgenstern]

HOT TAKE BRUH.

 

[Nate Skalman]

Sick burn, kid

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Euronymous was clearly the genre's biggest talent. Ironic that a scene full of Nazis needed a commie to make it worthwhile.

 

[Nate Skalman]

What would be a good example of Euronymous’ talent? I mean definitely a pivotal figure and ok if he he just stuck to rhythm but his lead work was total ear assault

 

[Der Morgenstern]

He's probably talking more about what he did outside of the band stuff with his shop, label, whatever.

 

[Nate Skalman]

Of course the necklace story is played out...I was more angling at the Napoleon Dynamite fight, or if ‘Varg’ even did it- his story seemed pretty rehearsed

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Was he not the major songwriter of a lot of Mayhem's earlier material? And yeah, forging the black metal identity was largely his doing as well afaik, even though I don't personally value that.

 

[Nate Skalman]

True on both, but the late 80’s into the 90’s Metal had some serious guitar talent...Euronymous was a horrible guitarist by comparison, I think his leads easily topple C.C. Devilles’ title for worst solo ever. His songwriting style fit the intended outcome but the word ‘talent’ is a stretch. The Black Metal scene was just a different spin on depressed kids similar to a Norwegian version of Cobain followers IMO, and Euro’s image with the band and scene progressed in a Troma-like cheesiness...anyway people tend to think Varg is a badass or something and I’ve come to the opposite opinion in thinking he’s a total pussy -reminds me of a CSI episode where the killer was a weak pussy and it took 20-some hissy fit stabs to kill the guy who was like 5’5”...

 

[HamburgerBoy]

All I know is that no one else was writing songs like Freezing Moon in 1990. Varg was in some shit thrash band, Darkthrone was a fairly ordinary death metal band, and while Snorre contributed to the songwriting of DMDS, he wasn't a member of the band yet either.

 

[Nate Skalman]

I’ll give him the pioneering claim...I honestly think they were involved in some fruity shit- I’m guessing Vikernes and Snorre we’re lovers of some sort...who knows what went on but Euro was found in his tighty-whiteys and Snorre was so bugged out he couldn’t talk. I bet Snorre caught Euro and Varg in some lovers trist and killed Euro himself- Varg gets his wish of winning the evil-off...sounds like a crime of passion

 

[Nate Skalman]

If they were all gay for each other, the make up and church burnings totally make a lot more sense...I normally wouldn’t be getting on about something so hammered on already but an argument with a buddy raised the question

 

[Omni]

Ildjarn was the best Norwegian musician because he immediately disregarded the 1990s Helvete scene because he thought that Satanism was pretentious, and then he made garage punk black metal instead of joining Emperor with his friends and making carnival music.