Tim, I sent you a pm, did you receive it?
Btw, I want to aclare first that I prefer black metal.
Hmm... Black Metal totally owns Death Metal, because it takes more talent to write Black Metal songs than Death Metal songs. Black Metal is well written, because it takes more time and effort to make it happen. Death metal is all pretty much the same stuff, while Black Metal goes in depth with creativity, intricacy, emotions, nature, and lots of other stuff.
Wrong. The talent depends on the artists, there are a lot of bands of black metal that suck, just like it happens in death metal, and in every other genre too. A lot of times black metal is a piece of shit (mostly thanks to the whole new wave of "tr00 kiddies"), badly written, with shitty production made on purpose (becase remember, if you can have a bad production that helps to cover how much you suck, it's because you're getting "truer"), completely idiotic lyrics, and a sense of the word "emotion" that is nearer to a 15 year old gothic feelings than with real hate, sadness, darkness or whatever you want.
Death Metal just screams a lot of gore and hatred most of the time...
Yeah, specially bands like Amon Amarth or Nekrogoblikon, right?
First off - I'm not dead. Also, CI - what bands do you consider black metal? I don't get most of the original black metal bands (ex: Mayhem, Immortal, Emperor, Bathory, etc...) because they tend to be fairly simple, repetitive music recorded really badly. I understand people that like it for atmosphere, but to me, the throwbacks to paganism, deifying (not defying, but deifying) evil, and image (corpse paint, weapons, leather) are just silliness. Like, if you want to make your band really dark, that's fantastic, I really like shit like that. When I want to hear something genuinely dark, I'd put on some Opeth, Vital Remains or fucking Meshuggah. Those dudes set the mood better than any face paint or shitty production.
Well, like always, thats subjetive, I don't think black metal is dark because of the shitty production (like many morons do) but because of the atmosphere and feeling some bands can put in their music.
As far as black metal VS death metal, both genres are full of generic bands.
Sad but true.
If you're talking about the cream of the crop, there's more variety in death metal, because black metal is a narrower genre.
That's something really hard to determine, I listen to both genres and I can tell you that both of them are very ramified, with lots of subgenres, and different ways to play it (even in the black metal himself, not just in the sub-)
That doesn't mean one's better or worse, there's just more to compare.
Or even better, there's just no need to compare them, because they are two things completely different, it's senseless. If you like one, then listen to it and don't bother the others.
I, for one, can't fucking stand old school sounding death metal bands. However, I can't even tell old black metal apart from new black metal. So I guess... fuck black metal. It's as stale as country music. Abigail Williams tried and still sounded tired and old. My opinion only, obviously. Most of what I listen to is metalcore anyway, and you guys don't even think it's "real metal", whatever that means.
Well, that's because, since you're nmot a bm fan, you're not very deep into the genre, but look at it this way, it's just like when someone tells you he can't difference between old school, new, and melodic death metal. You can do it because that's something you like and therefore, you know about it, but if you don't even listen to it, of course you wont be able to do that.
I think most people says that because metalcore is more -core than metal-, personally I can't difference very well between a hardcore and a metalcore band, but I admit it's metal.
