De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
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The nonsense surrounding the album and parties involved has no bearing on my enjoyment of the album on any conscious level, and I didn't even have a clue what Metal was in 1994.
Evil?
omghaxlol!1
I heard this album for the first time last winter. It was included in my very first Black Metal haul along with Immortal, Darkthrone, Enslaved, Satyricon, Kvist, and Ulver. I remember ordering them all very well, and to be honest I didn't like DMDS that much at the time, but at the time I didn't really understand Black Metal. That was with knowing all about the controversy. It did not add or detract from the album for me. Fast forward a bit and after listening to a fair share of black metal I can now say I love DMDS. It is a great album controversy or not.
circus_brimstone
Forest: Sold Out
Divine Victim
Embrace the Death
I wouldn't say the 'controvery' ever turned me away from the album, but it does make me want to hate all the people who have made such a big hype out of it and turned it in to the central piece of BM 'lore' that one is expected to have some pathetic opinion over.
It doesn't even cross my mind when listening to the album though, and I don't even agree that it adds to the "subconscious evilness" of the music either. It's a zero factor for me; I simply hear brilliant aggressive riffs, violent raw rhythms, a uniquely cold vocal style, and exceptionally good metal songwriting.
It doesn't even cross my mind when listening to the album though, and I don't even agree that it adds to the "subconscious evilness" of the music either. It's a zero factor for me; I simply hear brilliant aggressive riffs, violent raw rhythms, a uniquely cold vocal style, and exceptionally good metal songwriting.
General Zod
Ruler of Australia
That's not my argument for not liking it. My argument for not liking it is that it's utter crap. The "controversy" is my argument for people liking it.
Zod
Demilich
Remember
I can't stress enough how odd I find it that people commit any time/thought whatsoever to trying to discern how or why others enjoy certain bands. Hate it all you want, but the moment you start babbling on with shit about the people who do enjoy it, you've crossed a line into utter foolishness.
cthulufhtagn
Went Out for Smokes 13 Years Ago
i would go dig up some quote where you* bash people listening to pop music because they're stupid and lazy, but i'm lazy
*everybody, and justifiably so
*everybody, and justifiably so
Demilich
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Krilons Resa
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Demilich
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Evil?
omghaxlol!1
Oh Seraphim, I was going to tell you to post in RC more often, and you have to go and say something like that.
General Zod
Ruler of Australia
I don't hate it. I don't care enough to hate it.
Let me clarify a bit. To your point, I could care less why people like it. In my original post, I was merely wondering aloud if the controversy plays into how people view the disc. Whether it does or doesn't, has no impact on my own view of the disc. In my latest post, I was merely giving Necuratul a bit of shit.
Zod
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...Which is the same thing. "These people like X so much because Y, but I am intelligent enough to realize that Y is external to X and so I, in my glorious, intelligent nature, am able to discern the true quality of X without the biased influence of Y, which is, in fact, shit."
Demilich
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General Zod
Ruler of Australia
I never made any claim, implied or otherwise, that my ability to separate X and Y, as it pertains to DMDS, has anything to do with intelligence. Rather, I very specifically said, someone who listens to this disc in 2007, is far removed from the events that surrounded it. I'd say that's a rather fair assessment.
Additionally, to suggest that there's no correlation between X and Y, and that non-music factors never color how people perceive music, is rather naive.
Zod
NAD
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
Yes it does, but I still quite enjoy it. I think the best part about it is how it sounds and feels more than anything else, the organic 6th sense element of it all.
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