09-08-2005, 07:55 PM
Nightbreed Wrote:Spoon CoB is powermetal with harsh vocals, not Black Metal.
Hmmm... Favourties... seeing as it all originates from my country there are so many... Abyssos, Bathory, Myahem, Emperor, Darkthrone, Stormlord, Graveland, Satyricon, My own band Kaldur, Imperial Crystalline Entombment, Marduk, Taake, Haatstrijd, and Many Many Many more.... i think im the only real black metaller here. Bah.
I beg to disagree. It is wrong to say that "it all originates from my country" (Norway I presume You mean), because if You look at the bands that were the "starters" of black metal, (Darkthrone, Mayhem, Emperor, etc), then You would be surprised to find out that they all had their outside influences. Euronymous of Mayhem even said that the music, style and especially appearance of Mayhem was greatly influenced by Sarcofago (surprise surprise, they're Brazilian). I recently managed to get hold of a tape of Sarcofago and if You listened to that You would understand what I mean. Darkthrone said that they were heavily influenced by Celtic Frost (Swiss). Even the more so when You look at whence the termin "Black Metal" came. Black Metal was the name of an album by Venom (British) and was originally a description for the lyrics in the music, not for the sound itself. The elements of "sound" that we are used to calling Black Metal nowdays were present in many other bands before Mayhem or Darkthrone.
"i think im the only real black metaller here."
I think not.
Personally, I listen to a lot of metal, except for Nu. My favourites are probably Darkthrone, Satyricon, Mayhem, Emperor, The 69 Eyes, Behemoth, Morbid Angel etc, and also lot of bands from my own country such as Loits, Meinardus, Metsatöll, Must Missa and Bestia.
By the way, I think that Children of Bodom is one band that cannot be given a subgenre, because it just has so many different elements, however I have always stuck to the desciption "Progressive Black Metal" (Personal choice).