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rogerthat
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Posted: December 31 2008 at 12:04 | |||
Of course. But it's not always the kind of good, clean, harmless fun that you make it out to be, my friend's platinum bracelet got stolen in a moshpit once , of course he was stupid to wear a bracelet to a metal concert, but just saying that undesirable elements do creep in and spoil the fun for the rest of the crowd.
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WinterLight
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Posted: December 31 2008 at 12:13 | |||
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rogerthat
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Posted: December 31 2008 at 13:35 | |||
The business of life, yes. Art - how much does art relate to real life? It is a fantasy, an escapist trip, all said and done. It may be a way of life for the artist, but it is at best an obsessive, desultory pursuit for the audience, can never be any greater part of their life except where the audience may be artists themselves. I spend serious amounts of time on music and fiction, which could perhaps be better spent on accounting theory, being my domain of specialization but I never take the artist's message to heart. I may heartily applaud the way he has conveyed his thoughts, however repugnant, but whether they are repugnant or not in a practical context is of no bearing to me. Of course, this is a contentious point, which is why censorship enters through the back door under the pretext of making art "socially responsible".
While I would surely note the presence of a repugnant message in a work of art, I wouldn't hold it against the artist. I am only interested in what is his mastery over his art.
Yes, to the extent, they don't conform to even the loosest definitions of art. But if they do, then what does it matter if it is distasteful because taste is again a matter of perception.
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Failcore
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Posted: December 31 2008 at 15:29 | |||
That's a really astute analysis of "vulgar" arts in general. People aren't just a blank slate that are ready to be programmed by the first horror movie/death metal song/rap song they here. But can the right thing push the right person over the edge at the right time. That's a tootsie pop question imo. But this is more of a moral quandary aimed at the purveyors of such arts rather than the listeners. As far as I am concerned you can listen to Chuck gib ppl all day long as long as you aren't doing it too. Edited by Deathrabbit - December 31 2008 at 15:32 |
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DavetheSlave
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Posted: December 31 2008 at 16:00 | |||
Hello Guys!!! Personally I enjoy uplifting music!! Or depressing concept music!!! Dependant on mood. Symphony X doesn't need to depress me with I love Satan lyrics or Death is a beautiful thing lyrics!! Why don't they - because they are very good musicians -that's why!!! Oh and Metal - I love Black Sabbath, Dio, Judas Priest, Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation!!!! I do not like some wokko guy telling me all about death and his Satanic or Christian feelings about death!!! War Pigs by Sabbath I love - it is an anti war epic!! I don't want some bloke telling me that the Dark master is the way to go to enjoy death!!!!!!!
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WinterLight
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Posted: December 31 2008 at 16:58 | |||
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mithrandir
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Posted: December 31 2008 at 19:23 | |||
aw man, I miss out on all the good threads!
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topofsm
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Posted: December 31 2008 at 19:38 | |||
Sorry, couldn't resist. Being a bit contradictory aren't you?
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rogerthat
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Posted: December 31 2008 at 21:14 | |||
Yes, I concede that that is all it is to me. I could get cynical and say it's a rather cumbersome means of amusement, but the only one I know of - I could be "normal" and just join friends and acquaintances in a discotheque after work but that kind of life doesn't interest me, so instead it's got be non-mainstream music - in general - and early 20th century authors in the solitary comfort of home!
Well, is content in music only lyrical? This is a question to ponder over. What of the effect musical movements have on one's moods and feelings because I find that far more appealing. Again it may be only my opinion, but what is the relative importance of lyrics and well the actual music in music? Your thoughts..
In principle, I agree but in practice, this can lead us back to another form of censorship. There is a formal body of music theory, knowledge and rules and every work of music must at least broadly adhere to it. But what happens if we start imposing aesthetic standards? The problem is aesthetic appeal is too subjective to be universally understood and followed as a standard. My city has many 19th century and early 20th century buildings which look beautiful to my eyes but not to the little kids who will be architects years hence; they would rather have the gaudy, hideous glass monsters for which these relics are more and more making way. In the same way, if we imposed aesthetic standards on music, I have no doubt that eventually everybody would subscribe to people like Davetheslave or PROGMONSTER that extreme metal is just noise and growls cannot have any emotion.
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DavetheSlave
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 10:24 | |||
Hi Rogerthat - I love Horror movies and have a large collection of them! Amongst those movies are some pretty extreme ones and I find little merit in those movies other than to severely shock the watcher. I have them in my collection today because they are there but I would rather not have ever seen them - if they had been denied to me because of an artistic standard in the movies then I would be no poorer! Hi topofsm - those lyrics nearly put me off of Dream Theater until I listened (on advice) to the track as a whole and it isn't a praise of Satan - it forms part of a story where Satan is not the victor. It aint a prayer or praise of Satan!!! |
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 10:45 | |||
Death Metal does not necessarily carry a religious message - but of course sometimes it does. It's not always satanistic though ... there are even Christian Death Metal bands. Personally, being an atheist myself, I have a very neutral position on the subject ... which means that I can go from Neal Morse - One to Celtic Frost - Monotheist without any problems.
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WinterLight
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 12:33 | |||
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crimson87
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 14:16 | |||
That's hilarious because I picture a harmless guy as LaBrie singing those lyrics!
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toroddfuglesteg
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 17:52 | |||
I am sorry to inject some sanity into this debate, but let me clear up where Death Metal originated from: In the beginning, Death Metal was called Black Metal. There was even a couple of compilation albums called Black Metal. Those only included Death and Thrash Metal bands. Death Metal originates from: 1. A song on a Possessed album. 2. The band Death 3. Or both. Black Metal was pushed back down into some basements. It then emigrated to Norway. It then rose again with a murder and some arsons. Well, numerous arsons in fact. Even I got an meat axe deposited through my bedroom window.......... after I had vacated that flat three months before. This is according to the mythology. The Death Metal scene swapped place with the Black Metal scene in the dingy basement and the Death Metal scene disapeared from the face of the earth for a while. Today, both scenes are alive and well. |
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mithrandir
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 18:18 | |||
1) there was never a compilation called "Black Metal" in the 80s, perhaps you're thinking of the Death Metal comp on Noise Rec that has Hellhammer, Helloween, Running Wild, and Dark Avenger ?
2) in addition to Possessed, in 1985 Onslaught and Vulcano respectively had songs named Death Metal, 3) Death, Black, Thrash, indeed all came from the same primordial stuff, although in the early to mid 80s those terms were bandied about quite liberally, in addition to Power, Speed and Doom, 4) not sure how one can say BM emigrated to Norway? Blasphemy, Beherit, Samael, Profanatica, Mortuary Drape, Master's Hammer, Root, Sabbat (jap), Necromantia, Tormentor, etc all from several different countries and all were playing BM long before the BM trend in Norway Edited by mithrandir - January 02 2009 at 18:20 |
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topofsm
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 19:24 | |||
1. You can use the quote box if you find it necessary. Makes it easier for conversing with specific people.
2. I think you're condemning all death metal for it all being a prayer to satan, at least that's what you're implying by saying the DT song isn't a prayer to satan. In fact, there's plenty of death metal nowadays that doesn't focus entirely on death or satan. For example, there is a death metal/metalcore band called Becoming the Archetype that are Christian, you may want to try them out.
As for me, I find some lyrics about death intriguing, and they offer a new side of perceiving life that can be refreshing. For example, Tool's lyrics in "10,000 Days (Wings Pt. 2)" about his dead mother passing on to the other side I find very cool, and that happens to be one of my favorite songs.
And if you're a fan of Dream Theater, then you should realize that they couldn't possibly have made Metropolis pt. 2 without singing about death.
And just realize that you don't always have to pay attention to the lyrics. There's far too much good metal out there to pay attention to the embarrasing lyrics that go along with them.
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toroddfuglesteg
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 19:27 | |||
Hi. I stand corrected on point 1, 2 and 3. On point 4, you should had added your country's very own Shub Niggurath. That was a good band. Black Metal was underground before we Norwegians added petrol and lighters together. The scene then became commercial and pretty much mainstream. Today, the youth has to declare themselves Christians to shock their parents and the society. |
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rogerthat
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 21:41 | |||
Aw, as if they could have imagined something like extreme metal becoming a form of music!
You did not quite grasp the concern I was addressing. Once you have aesthetic standards, the next step is for a self-anointed cultural police to emerge and turn up their noses (or ears) at anything that doesn't SOUND pleasant to them. The point is, it is not necessary for music to sound pleasant according to SOME conventions laid down by SOME people. That music needs to sound pleasant is itself a very limiting restriction and only believed in by those who cannot visualise the scope for depicting different emotions through a more abrasive or inaccessible approach to music. I am not really being paranoid in talking about a cultural police; in my country, unless you move in dandy circles, you cannot escape cultural policing right through your childhood and teenhood and if you are in really bad luck, even in adulthood, be it teachers or elders, every effort is made to wean the child away from any activities that said elders did not indulge in thier childhood.
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rogerthat
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 21:51 | |||
My dear sir, you surely realize that mankind would be no poorer in a prosaic sense if the arts did not exist! Have you never met anybody who does not read or listen to music and does not paint or appreciate paintings but is extremely successful in his chosen walk of life, because I have. Art is an indulgence and in no way required to forward "progress" as we know it but the appreciation of art can enrich your experience of life immeasurably. And therefore projecting your perceptions of art on a subset of art - in this case, extreme metal - and wondering why it need exist - when like any art form, it perfectly need not exist at all - is coutner-productive.
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The Pessimist
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Posted: January 02 2009 at 22:10 | |||
And by the way, are your "1" and "SHIFT" keys broken? |
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