Has any one lost respect for Nile, Behemoth, Amon Amarth etc?!?

[lurch70]

they are compact "discs" after all ... but thinking about it ... "discs" is a Jersey thing

 

[Reign in Acai]

The term "Jersey" annoys the fuck out of me. I just can't explain it.

My cousin from Jersey fucked a dude from Jersey while wearing a jersey, jersey jersey jersey!!!!

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

eat it jerry!

 

[dorian gray]

The term "Jersey" annoys the fuck out of me. I just can't explain it.

My cousin from Jersey fucked a dude from Jersey while wearing a jersey, jersey jersey jersey!!!!

 

[Reign in Acai]

SLAYER and MARILYN MANSON will co-headline this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival tour, which is scheduled to kick off July 10 in Sacramento, California.

The festival billing is as follows:

Main Stage:

SLAYER
MARILYN MANSON
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

Hot Topic Stage:

WHITECHAPEL
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
JOB FOR A COWBOY
BEHEMOTH
CANNIBAL CORPSE

Jägermeister Stage:

GOD FORBID
ALL THAT REMAINS
TRIVIUM

These lads are no longer even trying to mask their intentions.


Court is adjourned.

 

[dorian gray]

haha Hot Topic

 

[Dr. Pete]

I know what I will not be doing on July 10.

 

[lurch70]

i'd go to this ... fucking Cannibal Corpse is doing a US Tour before this one but are skipping NYC.

want to see CC and Slayer before Corpsegrinder's neck turns to stone and Araya really turns full grey

 

[General Zod]

These lads are no longer even trying to mask their intentions.

Court is adjourned.

I see it differently. The goal of a tour is to play for as may people as possible, in the hopes of winning new fans. If I was in the blackest of the Black Metal bands, and Manson asked us to open his tour, was going pay us well, and put us in front of 20,000 people every night, why would we say no? If you go to the trouble of actually recording songs for sale and touring to promote those recorded songs, why wouldn't you want the biggest audience possible? Is it imperative that everyone attending one of your shows be tr00 and kvlt? Bands should judged by their music, not their clothes or who they tour with.

Zod

 

[Hell Mike]

I see it differently. The goal of a tour is to play for as may people as possible, in the hopes of winning new fans. If I was in the blackest of the Black Metal bands, and Manson asked us to open his tour, was going pay us well, and put us in front of 20,000 people every night, why would we say no? If you go to the trouble of actually recording songs for sale and touring to promote those recorded songs, why wouldn't you want the biggest audience possible? Is it imperative that everyone attending one of your shows be tr00 and kvlt? Bands should judged by their music, not their clothes or who they tour with.

Zod

How about artistic integrity and all of that? (metal) music isn't a moneymaking business for everyone. I suppose this argument is stillborn though... If everyone was in da game to make as much money as possible, there wouldn't be much extreme metal at all.

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Which again begs the interesting question, are Behemoth making extreme metal because they want to, or because it's the only thing they know how to do?

The internet has made me (more) cynical.

 

[lurch70]

How about artistic integrity and all of that? (metal) music isn't a moneymaking business for everyone. I suppose this argument is stillborn though... If everyone was in da game to make as much money as possible, there wouldn't be much extreme metal at all.

i don't think anyone on that tour was forced by any label to play the music they play to make money (which is pretty much the only way to compromise ones artistic integrity)

heck, even Manson is a true rebel in every sense of the word.

its just happens there are a lot of shitty bands on that bill that most of us despise.

otherwise, I rather admire an underground band that tries to push themselves to gain a larger audience than forcing themselves to deliver music only for the select few ...

ahh who gives a shit .. go enjoy the show and see the "hope" thread

 

[Reign in Acai]

i don't think anyone on that tour was forced by any label to play the music they play to make money (which is pretty much the only way to compromise ones artistic integrity)

Touting the virtues of Paganism before a bunch of white washed suburbanites in Affliction apparel is a compromise of their original intention as artists, I'd most definitely surmise. Performing live shouldn't be about promotion, rather than an intimate expression to those who share a connection and appreciation of your art. Nergal's forehead is so big he should rent the space to Nike for use as a billboard.

Fuck these kikes in irreligious clothing. To the Lions!

 

[Dr. Pete]

heck, even Manson is a true rebel in every sense of the word.

No, Manson is a 40 year old cross-dresser whose onstage antics far outshadow anything he has come out with musically...ever.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

Bands should judged by their music, not their clothes or who they tour with.

ah i see your argument and yet how many people who would otherwise love to see one of these bands in concert would rather shove a red-hot poker up their ass than go to this festival?

bands have the right to do whatever they want; it's their band. i reserve the right to respect them that much less for associating themselves with bands that co-opt our subculture for a big label paycheck. i'm curious, does it piss you off much when people hear you're into metal and ask, "what, so you like slipknot and stuff?"


don't mean to sound harsh at all, but imho it's pretty lame to tour with shitty bands in the name of "exposure".

 

[EVERLOSTINDEADETERNITY]

You guys take elitism to levels that go beyond my minds capacity.

 

[swizzlenuts]

lol at people who think elitism is bad.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

lol at people who think elitism is bad.

I agree, I enjoy the fact that I consider the average member of the masses to be a worthless hunk of flesh that should be eliminated

 

[Krilons Resa]

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Hmm, how does that old Nietzsche quote go again?