Following a massive US tour and rising interest in its latest full-length, Grebbeberg, Dutch-German war metallish black/death band Sammath unleashes a re-issue of its 1997 demo “De Ruïnes Fluisteren” via Docs Production.
Featuring Jan Kruitwagen playing all instruments except keyboards by M.Gertzen, the demo shows the direction Sammath would take on its triumphant first album, Strijd, and foreshadows much of what would develop with the band as it developed further.
You can pick up your CD, cassette, or vinyl directly from the band via its store and blast it at noncompliant normies.
Tags: Black Metal, docs production, sammath
Fantastic band! They by far have the best logo in the business.
What do we call it? Does “Logo” suffice: that stylized calligraphy of music bands? Sammath really does look good. The “S” reminds me of a mounted knight proceeding with his lance. Many pointy letters and variable length of pointed letters reminds me of being well equipped with knives and daggers, suited with impressive armor that can maim an adversary through contact. The “H” seems to be the horse, having that flair of mane and if horses had beards, this one certainly would.
I like their logo because it looks like fish hooks, and I’m a fisherman! I gaze into the abyss all the time man!
The abyss, man, looks pretty deep. Think there’s some good fish in there? Probably demons man. Haven’t ever caught one of those but they probably taste like chicken.
Brett, I need your thoughts on something-completely unrelated.
I don’t always agree with you, but I respect your opinions.
How do you reconcile your political/philosophical/worldviews with artists you know are politically your opposite?
Artists that you love musically, but you abhor everything about them?
For instance-right or wrong-I love Tori Amos. From the moment I heard her first album. Loved.
I imagine she is a screaming leftist based on the little I know of her politics. And for some reason, that doesn’t bother me.
Yet I can’t listen to Celtic Frost/Hellhammer or support Tom G because he is such a little leftist douche. Everything about him is either hypocritical or just so left it makes antifa blush.
Now I was in 15 in 85 when I hear Morbid Tales and honestly, that band meant everything to me.
It shaped me. Yet now I can’t listen to it. I am not sure he’d even want me as fan.
I don’t know if I am being silly as old grown man.
Help me out. Is this something you even contemplate? I am sure there must be bands that have an agenda diametrically opposed to your beliefs. Do you still support?
Appreciate your thoughts
Part of it is genre appropriate. Tori Amos writes jazzy folk pop for young twentysomething women. If she was not Leftist, I’d be a bit shocked, although maybe over time she has drifted over to the Dark Side.
I generally do not read lyrics or know anything about bands. I just listen to the music and think about it. I assume that most of my favorite grindcore and hardcore bands are fairly Leftist or at least libertarian.
Then again, when you are me… almost no one is going to match my politics, which are really philosophy, which is really culture, which is really genetics. Monarchism, eugenics, Half Earth, hierarchy, capitalism, a transcendent goal; few outside the nineteenth century can even parse that.
I guess with Celtic Frost and Hellhammer, I try to listen to them as pure sonic art and figure the lyrics are there just to enhance the mood and contrast. I liked Tom Warrior’s book, but his childhood sounded hellish enough that I imagine he will be alienated from humanity for life.
The FAQ tells me something very different.
The fact that Rob Darken once made a statement about Graveland having nothing to do with politics was a relief for me. Not that I personally care; I just find it tiresome to defend a band to people who only look at the political side of things. The question remains if that statement wasn’t hilariously too late and if only a handful of people ever noticed it
…because it’s hilariously unrealistic. Nothing can be detached from politics; if you do not take an interest in politics, politics takes an interest in you. If you do not have a strong army, the Mongols come for you. Anarchy and the conservative version “I just want to be left alone” are fantasies for idiots.
Or you may just be compelled to accept that your existence is at least in many aspects inherently destructive and leave the value judgements to those who know better.
Which is nobody as far as I can tell.
The more I learn, the less I know.
In my view, it is all about finding a way to make existence significant. There will be destruction, yes, and creation too, but that’s sort of besides the point, since these things are inherent to the nature of time.
You rarely have anything nice to say, when I’m visiting this site I feel like I’m in some kind of depressing post-apocalyptic, dilapidated eastern bloc hellhole. Maybe instead of consigning others you deem unfit to Russia, to go and live there yourself, because USA is much too cheerful for you…
There’s some truth to thinking positive gets you positive, while just as true for the negative.
You rarely have anything nice to say, when I’m visiting this site I feel like I’m in some kind of depressing post-apocalyptic, dilapidated eastern bloc hellhole. Maybe instead of consigning others you deem unfit to Russia, to go and live there yourself, because USA is much too cheerful for you…
There’s some truth to thinking positive gets you positive, while just as true for the negative.
Thinking positive about garbage is more depressing than being honest.
Also the peanut gallery that bitches about me was concerned some time ago that I was too effusive in praise of Texas bands.
I haven’t heard that trope for awhile.
You know what deceptive thinking is? A thesis in search of a set of facts, not all facts in search of a thesis.
Yeah well here you come with the same bullshit, you’ve just proven my point to the uttermost.
Lots of funderground folks have told me — for thirty years running now — that there’s tons of great stuff out there, I just need to stop being lazy and start looking for it. Then when you press them for names, out comes the same shitty late hardcore droning hipster crap. It’s ludicrous.
Yeah I shit meaning know what I mean?
I respect your line of thought though I don’t share some basic assumptions which throws the value of your whole project into question for me
But u got a killer ear and that’s a fact
Thank you FRA. I am still a nihilist. However, reality does succumb to study in some areas.
I appreciate this sentiment. Although I find Brett over indexes on the importance of reality, the reason I have been coming back to his Metal site all these years is because generally, he is able to recommend metal that speaks to me that I haven’t found speaks to any of the other metal heads here locally. It has felt lately that is becoming a bit of a dinosaur and not being able to find new good metal, but to be honest, I haven’t really either so really I can’t complain too much. what I do also appreciate, is being able to find metal of the golden era of 1983 to 1993 that were not on most peoples radars. So while I can’t completely adopt a majority of Brett’s philosophy, I am grateful for his metal recommendations
Thanks for reading. No one has really asked anyone to adopt the philosophy, which is more of an ongoing discussion than a conclusion, but has always been with us since the original name of the site was American Nihilist Underground Association. As nihilists we are willing to look at knotty issues of gender, race, class, ethnicity, civilization structure, Darwinism, monism, agnosticism, and even paganism. This upsets the liberals, sure, but it is also unpopular on the Right, where most people seem to be fucking idiots clutching their guns and (Abrahamic/Arab) religion.
ANUA?
@#%$@%!
The distinction between “Burzum is to stimulate the fantasy of mortals” and politics happen as a side product of that vs. “our band is intended to specifically promote the policies of the NSDAP/CCCP/Democratic Party” is an important one IMO, and I’m not ready to throw shade at Darken for expressing where Graveland (and, I’d assume, Lord Wind) fall on this divide in an inelegant way.
Yes, art likes to stay out of politics, but art also delineates a perspective, if not a prescription. Art is philosophy, and politics is philosophy, so even though seemingly unrelated, they address each other.
What if you don’t “exist” and live like The Men in Black? We then need a redefinition of politics… because then you may very well say “what isn’t politics”?
Everything and nothing is politics. Since we’re in the supposed nihil-zone here, life is more or less what you make it.
(although paradoxically I don’t believe in free will because everything feels too staged to my well developed sixth rapist sense)
As for my view on art and politics: I don’t care as long as it’s good, whatever the fuck that means.
I think your definition of (prefered) politics is “pragmatism”, optimizing life and finding the most sensible solution to problems… but this sometimes becomes a religious death trap, because always remember the rule that you can’t have good without the bad. Perfection often means imperfection, because nothing is perfect.
You probably want something balanced, with just enough dirty in it, to make sense, like a fresh juicy asshole…
Wow, thanks for your insights, fellow 16-year-old. Together, we will rule the world.
16 is for pussies, try 1 year, the best number.
You know, when you know everything, life ceases to be interesting. Embrace idiocracy, be the worst fucking idiot you can be, or else Fake Stevens would be out of a job. We don’t want this guy quitting on us, he’s humanity’s most precious gift…
Time is open-ended, there will always be no lack of new adventures. Now go forth and stop listening to shitty thirteenthrate funderground bands.
Let me tell you a listen secret, I don’t even fucking listen to metal anymore, and the reason is because they’re so bad that pop musicians do a better job.
For most metal bands, this is true. The caste system prevails:
* Thralls (90%/under 115s): repetitive labor
* Karls (9%/115-125): patterned labor
* Jarls (1%/125+): cognitive labor
About 1% of the metal made has a chance of being good. The rest is either B material or the 90% that is a droning clown show.
Minor pedantry — 125 IQ is about the 5th percentile, not the top percentile. The top percentile is >135.
It’s a little bit of a fudge because in point of fact, I am measuring not just IQ but “nobility” i.e. benevolent sociopathy. 1% is probably very generous for this intersection.
You’re trapped like everyone else in the neverending cycle of what doing you deem as “good” for the sake of vapid glory.
But that’s what we’re all supposed to do after all, so mush on, dawg.
You… think… most people aspire to do “good”?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh my, I needed that.
You think I write for the sake of acclaim? Then don’t you think I’d write something that supports popular illusions?
(shakes head)
Yet Byruutzoom is championed here above these “funderground” acts? Even the “best” of Varg’s musical output has no structural merit, only ideological pretension that appeals to your aristocratic fantasies.
brb going to listen to “My Journey to the Stars” again
A strong army needed to beat back those who want to define human nature halting all development as an Earth included in a Kosmos.
Human ignorance, or otherwise, is in its hubris to separate Earth from Kosmos.
Very true, and most importantly: they share the same root.
Sexuality and Crime: A Neo-Darwinian Perspective
Front Cover
Anthony Walsh
Taylor & Francis, Jun 16, 2023 – Psychology – 134 pages
Written by one of the leading figures in biosocial criminology and evolutionary psychology, this work explores the tight relationship between criminality and indiscriminate sexuality within the framework of life history theory. The underlying thesis is that traits associated with a strong libido, indiscriminately expressed, are intertwined with traits associated with criminal behavior; that is, excessive interest in sexual adventures pursued in an irresponsible way is undergirded by the same individual short- run hedonistic traits that define criminality. While traditional criminology tends to view sexual and criminal behavior as separate domains, many biosocial criminologists, evolutionary psychologists, neuroscientists, and behavioral and molecular geneticists are not at all surprised that a link exists between criminality and sexuality. Research shows that the statistical relationship between indiscriminate sexuality and criminal behavior is stronger than for most other variables associated with crime, although most studies dealing with this relationship are from outside the dominant environmentalist paradigm of criminology.
Using life history theory as the theoretical umbrella for exploring the relationship between indiscriminate sexuality and criminal behavior, the book explores how and why criminal behavior is related to hypersexuality. Life history theory, which has a long and fruitful history of use among evolutionary biologists who use it to investigate the relationship between mating strategies and the environment among various species of animals (including humans) is particularly suited to understanding how an exclusive focus on mating effort is related to criminal behavior.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students in criminology, psychology, and sociology, and anyone interested in examining the interconnection between biological, psychological, and socio- environmental factors in relation to criminal behavior.
Hahahaha
I know
Naggers rape murder steal kill
But what if there is good rape brett?
What if there is good race mixing it is there no such thing huh?
OK GENIUS WHAT ABOUT MIXED RACE HUMANS WHAT IF THOSE WHO SEEK TO CREATE ONE?
ARE THERE NO HONEST RACE MIXERS AT SHIT AT ALL?
HEY BRETT FUCKER YOU MEAN TO TELL HELLO MAN THAT ALL ASS FUCKING IS WRONG AND TELLING ME THAT ALL RACE MIXING IS BAD NOW HUH?
ALL RIGHT YOU GONNA KILL MIXED HUMANS HUH?
CAN MIXED HUMANS BE ENSLAVED FOR HARDCORE XXX FUCKING RACE MIXING FOR THOSE WHO WANT MIXED HUMANS SPARED FOR SEXUAL ENJOYMENT HUH?
CAN WE BRING BACK SLAVERY AND TAKE MULATTOS AND SEXUALLY ENSLAVE THEM?
HOW ABOUT WE ENSLAVE THE MIXED POPULATION WHICH IS UPON THIS EARTH AND GIVE THEM TO BLACK MEN HUH?
DONT U REALIZE THAT FORCE MUST BE USED TO CRUSH OTHERS HUH?
WHY DONT YOU REALIZE THIS?
DONT YOU REALIZE HUMANS DONT WANT CONTROL AND MUST BE FORCED TO DO SHIT HUH?
SO BESIDES ACTING GANGSTER OR HYPERGHAMY OR BRAD PITTERY HOW CAN I CONTROL A WOMAN TO BE MY CUM EATING LITTLE SLUT?
DO I HAVE TO ACT NUIGGERISH TO GET SLUTTY BADASS GIRLFRIEND AND SHIT HUH?
ANSWER ME THIS MAKES ME SUICIDAL OK?
I think there’s a lady for you out there, and she probably enjoys Deicide.
She also used to be a man.
Same is true of the Statue of Liberty.
A giant mixed race penis oozing herpes placed in Ladyboy Liberty’s mouth would be appropriate.
I was just reading the millionth op-ed by a woman complaining about the dating market. Successful women are settling for less and less. And they’re right. But it’s no wonder. Women are in an historical situation where they are the good guys fighting patriarchy. Men, on the other hand, are has-beens, the bad guys, without any goals other than avoiding being bad. How is this supposed to turn men into anything other than manlets and school-shooters? Whenever we attempt to have a positive goal, we’re ridiculed.
Egalitarianism conflicts with all goals but “moar egalitarianism.” Feminism like LGBTHIVBBQ+ is just sexual egalitarianism, sort of like how socialism is economic egalitarianism, democracy is political egalitarianism, and emo is artistic egalitarianism.
God does a good job already in his own creation by creating the contrast between good and evil, already, Bratt. We don’t need a subhuman like you teling us what’s needed you fucking clown. The fact that you can’t see it, shows how low you truly are.
Assemble at the gate,
and we’ll be as one.
Reaches night, the end of dawn, evil.
GOD IS A LIE
When they say “individualism” and “liberty” they simply mean not getting roped into whatever ideological passion has seized the crowd. They do not want to be forced to fund the poor, failing, insane, retarded, minorities, women, legless orphans with AIDS, or whatever. They want to have the choice to engage in charity.
IN OTHER WORDS
HIP HOP RAP MUSIC KORN METAL RAP ANY C-RAP ANY WIGGA SHIT ANY JUGGACRAP
ALL HORRIBLE GHETTTTTO TRASH DUMB NOISE
ALL HOOD YOU MOZZY SNOOP NECRO HARD COREGAY NIGGHER SHIIT
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Metalcore to the ovens!
Benevolent sociopathy? What’s next? Benevolent idiocy? Benevolent pedophilia? Benevolent criminality?
Idiocy lacks agency, pedophilia is a paraphilia, criminality is a legal term. Benevolent xenophobia?
The point of benevolent sociopathy is to kill the stupid, weak, insane, corrupt, criminal, and Christian. Then you have a reset for your society and a chance to survive again.
so Benny who gets to choose who to “kill”…
what’s the criteria? I hope it’s someone smarter, more successful than anyone posting on here.
I’ve got Norge blood in my veins. I’m an American so that means most of us are mutts. But I’ve always treasured my norse line. My grandad used to read all of us kids the eddas. Sit around a bonfire, coco and feel the cold winter air as he’d tell us the stories of Loki and Thor.
I grew up with them. I am a pagan-I guess you’d say.
So is my daughter. Grown women going to college. A lutheran college. She went to a Lutheran HS as well. Mostly to avoid the public school leftist indoctrination system.
As she did in HS, she wears her mjolnir openly displayed. Never been hassled in anyway. They know she’s not christian, as do her christian friends. No attempt at conversion, no “going to hell”.
It’s a very warm and embracing culture. A little wacky with their timelines and their attempts to co-opt science, but still good people.
They accept her as she is. I am not saying all christians are like Lutherans, or every Lutheran sect is the same. They are not. Born agains, the cult of watchtower are as extreme as any Muslim or pink hair.
I am saying there are plenty of wonderful, kind and generous christians whose values align more with non-religious conservatives than any group of socialist/marxist.
So Benny, christians-at least a fair amount-are not even remotely at the core of any of contemporary problems.
Deicide said it best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH6GTw6rPJk
I listened to twelve hours of Deicide yesterday. First three albums on loop. Over time, Once Upon The Cross has grown on me, although I am fond of Legion, even more than the first album.
Just a technical note: some is not all, or even most. There were some good Communists too (just kidding, the only good Red is a dead Red).
the irony, Brett, the irony.
Much of what you espouse on here are the exact sentiments of Lutherans.
Interesting. You got there through “philosophy”. They through faith.
Are you for closed borders? Second amendment? That blacks are not oppressed”?
2 genders? 5 year olds should not be manipulated into “transitioning”?
You can’t possibly believe that Darwins answer to life is as simple as “evolution” do you?
You can say that many non-religious conservative people share the same views. Yes, they do.
But it is interesting, that politics, “philosophy” and religion dovetail nicely.
Spare me the dimestore nihilism bs.
Before you constantly rail on religion, you may want step back and think about how closely your thoughts resemble that of at least one denomination.
Catholics don’t count. They have an internal war. Half want to be hippies the other half resume the Crusades
We agree on Catholicism. What a mess! — but it’s a third-world religion now, so not really our concern.
1. Ethnonationalism works; polyethnicism is destructive.
2. Guns are part of life because bad guys have guns and guns are useful.
3. I think Blacks are oppressed by being thrown into a society not designed for them. Reparations-with-repatriation was always the only practical, realistic, reasonable, and moral option same as for all other non-WASP groups.
4. Two sexes, anything else is a private matter.
5. The transgender mania is the result of free govt healthcare. If people had to pay for this stuff themselves, the numbers would be far fewer.
However, these are only some of the many issues. The bigger issue for nihilists is that we are not interested in any morality that is not purely realistic, and we do not want to go to “good to the good, good to the bad” but favor the Darwinistic “good to the good, bad to the bad.”
You explained yourself. Regardless of the reasons, as I wrote before, you are on the same page on most issues of the day as a your average Lutheran.It is what it is chief .
The idea that christianity threatens anyone in this day and age enough to hate it is ridiculous.
They are on the “right” side of most issues that threaten normalcy.
A couple of thoughts directly on what you wrote
African countries with black governments are in the same state as American cities with black mayors, city councils, etc.
Corrupt and broke. The poor haven’t seen an increase of wages or more employment due to revitalization. Detroit is a prime example. No whitey to be found in Gambia. One of the poorest countries.
Blacks aren’t oppressed. And in any society, even the ones they are the majority-they struggle.
As far as the Trans–you’re right but also the mental health institutions and overall healthcare field that has pandered to many different groups to get asses through the door. And of course to project clinics, hospitals, as “caring” for PR. They want trans and these groups to pay their rent. If your goal is to create a place for people to “feel sage” and express their emotions for $150 nan hour, you can’t demonize them. So you don’t have anyone who actually works in healthcare calling a spade a spade. It’s not profitable.
But this is also true of me and the average Democrat or al-Qaeda member. Most people do not disagree on most issues. If all you look for is a few in common, you can project anything.
Half of the people reading Amerika.org think it’s far-Right, the other half think it’s far-Left.
After all we are pro-abortion, pro-eugenics, favor Half Earth, think LGBT should be left alone, want decriminalized drugs recreational and medical, wish for a pagan Europe and America, reject White Nationalism in favor of ethno-nationalism, are monarchists, etc.
You think the average Lutheran is going to sign on for THAT?
Lutherans are neoplatonists; how many would agree with a Platonist? How many would accept monism and aduality?
Half of my family is responsible for a string of Lutheran churches from Czechoslovakia to Copenhagen. Must I suffer on the Cross for this?
Yes, because government pays for it. Once there’s a billing code, it’s off to the races.
*** HIGH COLONIC OF REALISM FOLLOWS — DO NOT READ IF SENSITIVE ***
A thousand times fuck this. Blacks suffered under Jim Crow and White people not wanting them around for centuries, not to mention slavery and people subtly sniggering (see what I did there) while muttering racial slurs. Of course, if people were not retarded, they would have seen that remigration with reparations was the only fair solution, but I guess they got offended at the idea of paying money to people they scorned.
Personally I think this is bullshit. There are a lot of great Black people out there, decent folk who help keep America going, often for not much monetary reward. This does not change the fact that poly-ethnic societies are doomed, but that is ethnic, not racial… meaning that WASP America is our only functional future, and we would not just be sending back the Arabs, Blacks, Hispanics/Orientals/Amerinds, Indians, Jews, and Eskimos but also the wops, micks, frogs, spanes, bohunks, and Catholics.
This is not universally true. The farther Black people get from diversity situations, such as exist in South Africa, the more likely they are to take responsibility and improve their societies. Uganda is doing pretty well, and parts of Nigeria and Kenya are quite nice. There are more than this but my direct knowledge is not as extensive.
We cannot change this:
1. It is dualistic, positing a morality against reality.
2. It is universalistic, or against ethnonationalism.
3. It is foreign, which means it is from, about, and for another group.
All religion is the same, and individual religions differ only in interpretation, since we are in the same world and that means it has the same divinity everywhere.
No one cares about your fuckin life story or your fuckin forefathers or your fuckin offspring.
We care about fisting baby Jesus. That’s the big picture. A Christfleisch “Awesome Blossom”™ made of an infant corpse impaled on a hairy fist.
lol.
that’s some deep thought. Let me take it all in.
Actually it’s the kind of mindless reply I’d expect on twitter from some dopey leftist convinced trans men can menstruate.
Do better.
No, it’s not deep thought, you fuckin moron, because your masturbating to your peasant past doesn’t need a thoughtful reply. Sure, call me a leftist, the knee-jerk response by the average “pagan” idiot.
Hahahaha
the “mars-cop-septicon”
Mauisaurus prime raprockzilla
Medieval metal
murder hornets
Hey Brett what would plesiosaur death metal rap sound like huh?
My abomination shall kill rape kill the following ASSHAT humans
Korn
Cock teasing porn stars
Icp
Slipknot
Tool
Snoop
MOZZY
Eminem
Kid rock
Sabrina carpenter
Brittany Spears
NSYNC
Olivia ass…drigo
All spoiled actors
Asshats who drive fast
WIGGERS SPIGGERS GOOK RAPCRAPPERS
Andrew Tate
Alphas
Raiders
Oakland rappers
Juggatrash
Marilyn Manson
Necro
ill bill
People who tag dumb shit on walls
Hyperghamy obsessed bitches
Stuck up bitches
Black chicks still won’t leave me alone bitch?
Female metal sluts who don’t put out
Liberals
Latinos
Black males for not also leaving me alone
Asshats who laugh when I’m busy stressing out in public
Mean people
Micro aggressive assholes
Faggots
Lesbians
Ugly bitches
PREPARE FOR ETERNAL DAMNATION
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LISTEN TO INCANTATION OATH of ARMAGEDDON you loser vagina HOLES HAHAHAHA
And fuck amren give mongrels with tits to me…
I live in Sacramento by Baker Ave call hope tcore if you um:
Look like jew spic mud Savannah sellers and like fuking having bottomless sex on toilet seats
I’ll give you one hundred bill baby…
Thank you hahaha
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A good starter list for a Purge. Andrew Tate just decided that Christianity was more important than ethnicity or common sense. Varg is schooling his ass on Twitter.
that varg still has anyone pay attention to him is baffling.
that man has waffled more times than your local breakfast diner.
from music to murder to his personal beliefs.
He changes his versions of “truth” to whatever he thinks sells best that day.
I remember reading in the fanzines back in the 90’s his UFO fantasies. Just a nutter.
Married well though. Give him that. He was able to spout his dopey crap, make videos in his truck and pump out dorky d&d knockoffs while living off in-laws. And putting out “black metal” albums even though he hates BM and it’s fans.???
Called it “nigger music” to some writer. I know, it was probably taken “out of context” –vargs “go-to” excuse.
He is pretty smart about norse pagan history-in Norway-at least. Give him that. Early Burzum is special too.
But he is a chud.
He is correct about a lot of things, and so people are willing to overlook some glitches.
He’s clearly competent. His education was probably mostly homebrew and handrolled. However, he’s a 120+ upper middle class kid from an old Norwegian family.
Did you ever see the movie, speaking of chuds?
I’m not an NSYNC expert, but they seem better than most. Andrew Tate made a bad life decision? Who would have thought? And what exactly saved Marilyn Manson’s skin?
People still care about NSYNC? What you got posters of that shit in your room faggot?
If one metal band was responsible for the genre’s downfall who would be your lucky star?
Slipknot. Maybe Korn.
One man took a stand against Korn, and they jailed him for it.
Those are metal bands?
just stop. Are you cherry picking countries like Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa?
Every metric used to determine poverty ranks sub-saharan Africa as one of the worst on the globe
“The average poverty rate for sub-Saharan Africa stands at about 41 percent, and of the world’s 28 poorest countries, 27 are in sub-Saharan Africa all with a poverty rate above 30 percent”-Brookings.
Don’t believe them? Just google it. Every pub from the leftist “The Economist” to “WSJ” have article after article detailing the poor health care, poor education, poor economies in the sub-Saharan.
“Africa has long been known as a place of deep poverty. Over half of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) comes from only three countries, Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya, and there is significant disparity in the distribution of wealth in all three. As a whole, Sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP only contributes 3% to the global GDP, while being home to 1/8 of the global population. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, 1 in 5 people in Africa was facing hunger in 2021, and over 50% of people in Africa are facing moderate to severe food insecurity. The 20 least electrified countries in the world are also in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 78% of the global population without electricity access.” International Mission Board
https://www.imb.org/2024/01/16/sub-saharan-africa-defies-explanation/
Then you factor in the corruption, the territorial conflicts, muslim vs christian, the lack of education and 21st century healthcare. Yeah its wonderful Brett.
I imagine thats why so many “oppressed” American blacks don’t actually leave for the motherland. It’s better here.
Stick to philosophy and death metal reviews. You really aren’t as bright as you think are.
The Bell Curve fools many.
Just because a population is mostly people whose IQ averages in the 60s-90s does not mean that there are not intelligent people there; they are just few in number.
However, they end up in power when the other people want to have a functional society. Africa is still reeling from two millennia of colonialism by Arabs, Chinese, Indians, and now Russians.
There are nice parts and there is no reason to dis the whole thing any more than we should decide the wealth of the USA by East Houston.
I’m going to burst bubbles like the plethora of trolls did before me, in that most of the early 90’s black metal “classics” are pretty crappy and underdeveloped, with the exception of an obvious few that withstood the test of time. Like the rest of the 90’s, it was all hit and miss, as cultures were trying and experimenting with new things. Death metal though had much better success then, and rightfully so, because the music required more serious musicianship rather than putting up a corpse-painted clown show.
Many “funderground” bands have far exceeded since then, as did society in general. Of course you don’t want to accept that or else you’d be out of a “job”. I know the kind music you die-hards like, as it has to have a “logical” narrative progression, but that’s not how art always works, aesthetics, subjectivity and production quality play a strong role too.
I bet if something sounds like total farting garbage, but somehow makes sense, it’s a masterpiece in your book. That’s not how it always works – that’s just YOUR world.
Depending on what “classics” means, I totally disagree. They were ahead of most of what came before and anything since.
I’m going to call this “Prozak’s Guillotine”:
Name them.
Just accept you’re a filthy casual who doesn’t have the time to appreciate Burzum and first Immortal. It’s fine, not everyone has the time but don’t try and make out there’s all these better bands that came along later because that is just delusional and complete utter bullshit.
All will fall before Prozak’s Guillotine.
The “better bands that came along later” assertion must be met with: Name them.
Every time, they either (a) post a bunch of shitbands, get laughed at, and run away or (b) run away.
I have found the Holy Grail of the Black Metal Arts and it is not from the early 90s. Not even you, dear r/offmychest, are worthy of such knowledge.
#subjectivity
#productionquality
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The classics of anything hold up by definition and I don’t know about you but I don’t have much time for anything else
…yes.
I am an elitist; I want quality over quantity.
No point wasting your life listening to B-tier and below metal bands, or even rock music at all.
If it cannot be at least as interesting as the worst of Mozart, I really no longer care…
What’s the worst of Mozart?
It’s gotta be Rondo Alla Turca.
What’s the best of Mozart?
The later symphonies and operas, in my view.
I know for a fact that Brett is a huge Nickelback fan, and nobody knows it!
The problem with The Gloomy Reflections Of Our Hidden Sorrows is that you can’t hear what is being played. I agree production barely matters in most cases, but it does when the guitars are reduced to a noise.
Try smaller speakers… but not headphones.
https://codenames.info/operation/battle-of-the-grebbeberg/ Numbers upon numbers to read while listening to excellent death metal.
WW1/2 stuff makes me queasy. What a waste. I can read Vietnam stuff all day. Sat Cong!