how do people like this get their hands on opeth?

[illidurit]

there's no way he isn't foreign

 

[stole_my_bike]

seriously.

 

[An Absent Friend]

You are both retarded kids. Put a knife somewhere and run through it.

 

[illidurit]

hahahhahahahahaha

 

[stole_my_bike]

hahahhahahahahaha

.

 

[Endar]

According to how he talks, that guy might have been fired from Opeth's forum by Mike himself. Lol.

 

[stole_my_bike]

According to how he talks, that guy might have been fired from Opeth's forum by Mike himself. Lol.

?

 

[illidurit]

wtf is going on in this thread

 

[stole_my_bike]

wtf is going on in this thread

its an invasion of ppl who can't speak english

 

[illidurit]

oh

 

[Id]

Aingew hwerp gwf imo

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

haha i think its funny to read his posts. this guy is hilarious, and yes im being serious. read the first sentence in his response!


\\PigIronMudCasket should be beaten and shot. Slayer is the greatest band of all time. Never once did they do an emo or nu metal song. Slayer has always been thrash metal. If you dont like Slayer, Kill yourself. PigIronMudCasket , go back and listen to your Opeth records. Opeth sucks and they arent gods. You dont like metal at all. Opeth is more overrated then The Beatles. I'm glad im not one of you Opeth sheep. I actually listen to REAL bands that play REAL metal instead of some shit that you all have a boner for. Opeth are terrible. They arent gods and you can stick a cock in your mouth you stupid fucking faggot. Opeth are not even that heavy. They are prog death emo. Their fans are usually idiots who think Opeth are gods when they havent even made any important albums. Now go back to your Linkin Park records you pop loving queer.

 

[Prognostic]

 

[illidurit]

how long til some twat puts that in his sig

 

[stole_my_bike]

imo this thread is foreign

 

[Ten SiSi]

and pointless, synonymous

 

[SethCohen]

I've said it before and I'll say it again....


Dennis doesn't give a shit because he's so full of shit.

 

[Dreadful]

Some people on this forum, really, really need to educate themselves on what 'emo' really is and its not the sub-pop rubbish that lazy journalists began calling emo that we have today.

Even just a quick search on Urban Dictionary will tell you what emo actually is.


"Emo" is not short for "Emotional." "Emo" does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. "Emo" is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. "Emo" is not the use of diluted, meaningless metaphors and similes such as "My arms are like pinecones," and most definitely is not the rampant use of words such as "autumn," "heart," "knife," "bleeding," "leaves," and "razorblade."

I just thought I'd clear that up after all of these "definitions" in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou bullshit. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."

Now, onto the real definition.

In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. That's right, "Emo" was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don't quite follow that philosophy.

Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so - that's nothing to make an issue of, since well shit, at least it's close.

Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, fuck, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."

Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.


Hope that helps.

Taking Back Sunday, Senses Fail, and My Chemical Romance falls under the "horrible pop rock" genre, not the emo genre.

Rites of Spring is emo."

I read that with openness as I'm sure everyone here would like people to read through all the doom, black and death metal sub genre history/labels.

 

[Powers]

haha i think its funny to read his posts. this guy is hilarious, and yes im being serious. read the first sentence in his response!


\\PigIronMudCasket should be beaten and shot. Slayer is the greatest band of all time. Never once did they do an emo or nu metal song. Slayer has always been thrash metal. If you dont like Slayer, Kill yourself. PigIronMudCasket , go back and listen to your Opeth records. Opeth sucks and they arent gods. You dont like metal at all. Opeth is more overrated then The Beatles. I'm glad im not one of you Opeth sheep. I actually listen to REAL bands that play REAL metal instead of some shit that you all have a boner for. Opeth are terrible. They arent gods and you can stick a cock in your mouth you stupid fucking faggot. Opeth are not even that heavy. They are prog death emo. Their fans are usually idiots who think Opeth are gods when they havent even made any important albums. Now go back to your Linkin Park records you pop loving queer.

This guy is actually retarded. I know little about Slayer, since they're rubbish and all, but even I know they better as a hardcore band.

 

[phagist_]

Slayer is the greatest band of all time
Opeth are not even that heavy.

Haha, and Slayer are heavy?
We don't listen to Opeth just because they are heavy, so you close minded fuck can piss off and continue to worship your music, and we will worship ours.