Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24077689-20140322030813/@comment-24460632-20140404203047

Noothgrush wrote: The Bitter Cold wrote: I haven't heard anything from Asunder, but I've heard of them. I'll have to give them a listen some time. Although I thoroughly enjoy doom and black metal, my favorite genre of metal has to be folk. Bands like Doomsword and Bathory are the best of both worlds for me, though I'd have to say Moonsorrow takes the cake. Ever heard of any of those bands? Hahaha, yeah, I have. I almost went to see Moonsorrow one time but ended up not making the trip.

Asunder actually came out of the ashes of an Oakland based Crust Punk band called Skaven, you can find most of their shit on Youtube, but they did a lot with sampling Hellraiser, dirty lo-fi, misanthropic lyrics about drugs, death, decay. You know, everything a crust punk band should have.

The titular song on A Clarion Call is fucking amazing, heavy, deathly, it's killer.

I went through a big time Bathory phase, then moved onto Darkthrone's later punk releases. There are very few black metal bands I'm really in to. You might make fun of me for it, but I actually really like some of these newer black metal bands that aren't "true kvlt". Like Wolves in the Throne Room, they get a lot of slack from the community because apparently if you're not Norwegian and you decide to play atmosphere black metal on a little commune in the Pacific Northwest you're a filthy hipster or poser of somesuch. This weird so-called "transcendental black metal" might be fucking self-righteous and silly but some of the releases are pretty good. You just have to look past the pretentious frontman. Yeah, there's a lot of new Black Metal bands forming around the world who get ripped on because they aren't Scandinavian.

I for one don't really care, probably beacuse I am not Scandinavian but I think they really don't like it because it's become quite popular around the world. However, most of the new bands and even some of the older ones are accepting that Black Metal has become a universal thing.