Shattered hope became my guide and grief and pain my friends a brother pact in blood-ink penned declared my silent end Naked and dying under worlds of silent stone reaching for the moonshield that once upon us shone. In Flames, Moonshield (The Jester Race) Liner notes introduction: As a servant of light and defender of life, I’m proud to invite you all to the furthest horizons to fight united against astral chaos, the primordial enemy of the planetary wisdom.
Alexi Laiho, possibly the most gifted songwriter in the metal world today, is a clown with a guitar as he admits during their epic live DVD in Stockholm, “So you see, basically we’re a bunch of fucking idiots… [proceeds to launch into a passionate rendition of a typically brilliant, pummeling, yet melodic song].” melt everyone’s faces with flowing, glorious metal]”
…The important part of the story is that, devastated, I returned solemnly to my bunk, crawled in bed shoes clothes ‘n all, and fetched my disc-man and Marilyn Manson (c’mon, it was the closest to metal that I had).
a la Edmund Husserl, The Phenomenology of Internal Time-consciousness (1964) >Not merely a continuous stream, our experiences of the possibilities of the near future and the certainties of the immediate past exist simultaneously with the experienced events of the hair’s present…. The halo of possibilities that constantly lurk before us in the future are referred to as protentions, and experiences that have just passed through the now-point are referred to as retentions.
Unfortunately I don’t have much time to make this digital story into anything decent, or that I’d be proud of…. I’ve combined the following tracks into one song that is 5 mins 11 secs long (the outro is long for credits & such, so its really more like 4 mins).
Metal is a vague identifier that describes a subset of this multidimensional space, the boundaries of which are far from definite, and certainly not objective…. Sub-genres are sure to extend beyond this commonly held space, and not all sub-genres will occupy its entirety, necessarily (since some begin on the fringes and then continue into the distance).
(as posted to mefi and the ultimate-metal.com forums ) Image and Posturing : As fan of Metal, I’d like to think that it can be (re)defined in terms that isolate it from the [at-worst bigoted , at best hetero-male-centric ] behaviors and ideas currently associated with it…. To give some impression of the stuff that’s out in the cultural void, but not yet represented by traditional (or even non-traditional) media, we look at the bowels of the internet and what it has spit out over the years.
And there were a couple of responses that succeeded in getting me thinking about more than just why I was asking the question in the first place, which I don’t find so interesting.
…My professor distilled my question in an interesting way, she said I was basically trying to figure out, “How a nice guy like you listens to such violent, angry music.”
We would not go to this concert, we would only meet our comrade and go our way.My brethen and I arrived early at the concert and from our car we were able to observe the national socialist black metal crowd moving towards the concert hall.
…The vocalist/guitarist of the band Bathory admitted later on that he just wrote about Satan because he, being so young, didn’t have the experience all these other older bands had, enabling them to sing about being drunk, driving motorcycles and having sex with dozens of drunk sluts.
Their plastic noise is anything but music to me…. Switch off your brain and make sounds that dehumanize.
Our Jesper told us about the strict Swedish laws — that prohibited minors from publishing music, thus forcing the band to use a stand-in for the photos (and live shows?… 4 songs from 4 bands started it all: Iron Maiden with The Whicker Man , In Flames with Embody the Invisible , Kamelot with Nights of Arabia , and Sonata Arctica with My Land .
