Dethklok playing at major festivals

[SomeGuyDude]

I'd have to agree with this. I'm sure the guys behind Dethklok actually like death metal, but the whole band and their popularity just kinda stinks for me. Every Dethklok fan I've ever met has been the type that wears "And Justice For All" sweatshirts (without listening to the album of course) and listens to metalcore. For them, Dethklok is like a "haha i have a sense of humor about metal"-band even though they don't actually listen to metal which instead makes it a "haha death metal is silly"-band, as if any actual metal that isn't ____core is a joke. So I guess its more the fans that annoy me than the actual guys behind it. Also the music is terrible.

And it's not as if I can't have a sense of humor about the music I listen to, but it's more about who I share those jokes with. Whether its laughing at the cheesiness of the "Holy Diver" video or even making fun of 'more serious' bands like Agalloch, the people I can do that stuff with are people that love the music. So yea we can laugh at midget middle-aged Dio walking around with a giant sword or John Haughm's nasal, occasionally out of tune clean vocals, but we still love listening to it all, whereas I feel people that listen to Dethklok don't even know who Chuck Schuldiner was.

You know why? Because they find Dethklok and never have anyone help them dive further.

A good friend of mine never really listened to metal until Dethklok. He loved the show, saw them live with Mastodon and Converge, and said "dude what else sounds like this??" Now he's a gigantic DM-head and loves every band from old Morbid Angel to the new guys. Slam/BDM/tech/doom/grind, all of it. All because I said "okay let's take this show you like and go a little further."

But how is that the show's fault for when that doesn't happen? They are FULL of referential material to other bands, and for fuck's sake it's GENE HOGLAN on the kit. GENE MOTHERFUCKING HOGLAN. You talk about Chuck, well the drummer for Dethklok laid down the rhythms on Individual Thought Patterns and Symbolic. So you can't shit on the Klok for their dumbass fans.

 

[ASD]

Yes the legendary Gene Hoglan plays drums for them, but I doubt most Dethklok fans know that Hoglan is in fact a legend. So yea I certainly am shitting more on the fans than the band itself.

Granted I don't like their music either, but that's kinda irrelevant as to the type of "is Dethklok making fun of metal or not?" debate we're having right now.