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Metal and punk

Yeah, in regard to the topic title. What the hell does misclencious mean? It is not a word. Did you mean miscellaneous? C'mon, learn how to spell. You might as well write miscell-anus then, duh.

• • LOL, word up dude.

I think there's an interesting article on this site regarding the connections between Black Metal and Punk. However, it's impossible to link directly to it. (The article is called "Punk'd", just scroll down) http://basementbar.com/EditorialN1.asp?ID=30

WTH

I removed your quotation from the article. Wikipedia is not supposed to quote other sites, and is not a place for everyones views on the article subject. I moved the links you provided into External Links, however i havent checked them, so please edit their titles if they are wrong. Leyasu 07:23, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Roger that

Obviously all of metal past about 1976 (when Motorhead released a punk album) has been punk-influenced; punk hardcore in the form of Discharge is the immediate ancestor of modern black metal (listen to 1982's "Hear Nothing, See Nothing, etc"). Most metalheads don't acknowledge this, in part because of what happened with emo. www.anus.com 03:23, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes because Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, Symphonic Metal, Power Metal. These are all really influenced by Hardcore Punk. Leyasu 16:31, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Hardcore had a major influence on early black metal (listen to A Blaze In The Northern Sky by Darkthrone and tell me that there aren't direct roots to punk there) and deserves a mention in the main article.

I think there's an issue of confusion here as i don't find many similarities between Hardcore Punk and the present-day Hardcore as part of the alternative genre... maybe i'm wrong, but i think it's the same as the conflict between the old use of "Speed Metal" ( to describe old Metallica, turned to Thrash later on )and the new meaning to describe a faster version of Power Metal. Ulfednar 06:39, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Thrash metal

It must be said that anybody who believes that Venom 'invented' black metal has no idea what they are talking about. Venom influenced, or perhaps even inspired, black metal, but they definitely were not themselves. It is fair to say that Venom started thrash metal, but not black metal.

Leyasu, what did you mean with "Thrash metal originating before Black Metal"? Venom released the first Black Metal albums, and Venom again inspired Thrash Metal bands (as well as other Black Metal bands). Which Thrash Metal band came before Venom released "Welcome to Hell"??

See the history provided by the article. If a consensus is reached that the history is wrong, then it shall be changed. Leyasu 07:23, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Venom was a heavy metal band; it has little in common with what was later called black metal, and there was nothing done in the genre until the early 1990s. At the time of Venom through late Celtic Frost, there was little differentiation between death and black metal among the majority of fans.www.anus.com 03:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, there is a consensus that 1. Venom was the first Black Metal band and that 2. The early Thrash Metal bands like Metallica were directly inspired from Venom. This means that Thrash Metal was inspired from Black Metal.

Here's a quote from Malcolm Dome that hihglights this: "But Venom started it all. Without them thrash may never have existed" "Whatever they say about us, Venom were the first in the field. They started the whole thrash movement" - Lars Ulrich, Metallica Both quotes from the book "Thrash Metal"(1990, Omnibus Press) I see from the Thrash Metal article that there were some metal music before Venom that did have some Thrash riffing, but this was not bona fide Thrash Metal. If Black Metal really derived from Thrash Metal, then this needs to be substantiated. WTH

A band giving themselfs credit for starting something they didnt is common place. You repeating it doesnt make it fact. There has been no general consensus, other than what ive found by asking about that Venom has given themselfs credit for not only starting Thrash Metal, but Death Metal and Gothic Metal as well. This is on par with Evanescence's claims of writing Nirvana's song Smells Like Teen Spirit. This is a claim only a few fans of the band seem to back up. Until hard proof and general consensus is reached against what is common history, the article shall not be changed on this point. Leyasu 16:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

What I just quoted was not the band giving themselves credit but journalist/writer Malcolm Dome from Metal Hammer and Kerrang! as well as Lars Ulrich, drummer of Metallica. At Allmusic.com, they're called "A seminal influence on the evolution of thrash and black metal" See Allmusic.com

This is very much hard proof while I have yet to see proof of any known Thrash Metal band inspiring Venom.

Instead of deleting information that I provide proof for, you may take your time to provide facts stating otherwise. WTH One band doesnt define a genre nor its roots. I will also point out that Metallica made outrageous, untrue claims about Napster users, and Kerrang has made outrageous claims such as Mortiis being a Gothic Metal mastermind and Linkin Park being Death Metal. I suggest you find less POV, less inaccurate, less market the band that pays us most, sources. Leyasu 17:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I rest my case, for now(as editing back and forth s futile), but I have to point out that you are not able to provide any proof that Venom was inspired by any Thrash bands at all. (Contrary to what you seem to think, I will take notice if you provide proof). Neither do you seem to recognise the name Malcolm Dome and I suggest you google his name and his bibliography. (starting with the link above.)

WTH I am not being funny with you WTH. But this argument has gone on several times had has been part of vandalism many times. My intrest is only in making the better article, it isnt personal. If you find more sources, and give the links here so all can read them, the article can be changed easily. It is simply a case of trying to protect against vandalism, that is all. Sorry if i come across as making this personal between us. Leyasu 00:13, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Here's the truth as is written on Lord's of Chaos by Michael Mohnihan and Dodrik Soederlind: The primary sources Euronymous(Mayhem) based his music on was the name and grittines of Venom's Black metal album (which by no means is black metal, it is only a gritty NWOBHM album) and the late Bathory (a band that can jump to any genre they want to, but considered Death Metal) secondary sources are Mercyful Fate(king diamond), Hellhammer and Celtic Frost among other bands. In no way did Venom invent black metal as it was only their album's name so they need to be removed from the originators of black metal along with the rest of the bands for only one of those bands actually played black metal, that band being Mayhem.

I don't know where all this discussion about Venom being thrash came from, as they are simply the first black metal band (even though, musically, they are NWOBHM). Oh, and the authors of Lords Of Chaos are idiots for calling Bathory death metal.

- This is ridiculous. By black metal, we mean the style of music which became popular amongst certain Norwegian bands in the late 80s/early 90s (Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, etc), and derivates there of. Venom did not play in this style. Venom played thrash metal, and though they, along with bands such as Mercyful Fate and Celtic Frost, had some influence on black metal, they were definitely not the first black metal band. If any band should be credited as the originator of black metal, it should be Bathory.

Euronymous cover

Hi, just a question. It is said in the article that Euronymous planned to use the picture he took of Deads corpse as an album cover. AFAIK it was stolen by a guy from a label Euronymous had trouble with. This guy used it as cover for a black metal sampler. I have this information from a german blackmetal magazine called Ablaze. I still have it and can look it up, starting to search for it later. But maybe they were just misinformed... Overall a well done article!

If you can provide a source or three that says this, then it shall be included in the history. Leyasu 07:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Dawn of the Black Hearts Bootleg used this image. www.anus.com 03:24, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Using a site you advertise is disallowed as a source. Leyasu 16:31, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll confirm that the picture was indeed used for Dawn Of The Black Hearts. Check it on the metal archives if you don't believe me. It's the only bootleg allowed on MA, and that's for historical reasons.

Isengard

Hey, sorry to wake you up, but what the heck did you mean by putting Isengard into "Tolkien Metal"? I know that the name Isengard was taken from Tolkien, but Fenriz plays something more folkish than Tolkienesque. Or did you mean the other, less known Isengard from Sweden? If that's the case, then it's okay with me, heh.

Tolkien Metal isnt a form of music, it is actually an encompassing term like Goth Music (see the gothic music article). This means it encompasses any metal band with Lord Of The Rings based themes. If the band takes its lyrical theming from Lord Of The Rings, this is probally why some fans use the term Tolkien Metal to describe them. Leyasu 07:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Racist?

Removed "racist" bit, as it is opinionated. Added more information for band: Immortal. Section on Slavic bands is a bit misinforming about the major bands, will consider changing Oligopod

• • Oh, really? How is that "opinionated" when these bands espouse white supremacist ideology?
  • Only some do. Get a clue.

• • Get a clue? what are you, in third grade?

Not all black metal bands use white supremacy issues. This is mostly associated with NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) bands. As of late, NSBM was merged into this article, so please look for it. Leyasu 07:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Face paint

What about the face paint?

The face paint is called 'Corpse Paint'. It should be mentioned in the article, if not, then please let me know. Leyasu 07:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, actually Corpse Paint was used only by some Black Metal bands ( Marduk ) and included white skin, black lipstick and black/gray shade around the eyes, all messily applied to simulate the dead look. Other bands ( see Immortal ) used what they called War Paint which was much more oppulent consisting of big black drawings applied around eyes and mouth. And sure enough, there's the third cattegory of bands who wore the make-up for no other reason but the show or because of the trend... regards! Ulfednar 05:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Subgenres

Do we really need distinct articles about subgenres of a Metal subgenre or is it better to describe them in the main article? Expecially since Vikings, battles, middle ages and Tolkien's works are quite a common theme in most Metal subgenres and therefore the names could be misleading. Valhalla

I do think we need separate articles. You describe everything thats common to Black metal and its sub-genres in the Black metal-page, and then on each sub-genre page you describe what makes this sub-genre uniqe. sandos

I certainly haven't heard titles like "Tolkien metal" or "Suicidal black metal" being used to describe cohesive and musically distinct sub-genres outside of Wikipedia. In the cases of troll metal, Tolkien metal and the like, they seem to refer to the lyrical content of the bands in question, which is a tad absurd since rock bands have taken inspiration from Tolkien's works ever since Led Zeppelin's first album. Black Sabbath were lyrically inspired by Dennis Wheatley, but no-one ever called them "Wheatley metal" did they?

NSBM seems a slightly less unnecessary distinction as it is a cohesive musical movement, particularly in eastern Europe, and it is a generally unified ideology (however immature and unsound that ideology may seem to yours truly), but I'd still strongly suggest that it be merged with the main article on black metal. belzub

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It's the nature of modern rock music that it propagates sub genres. given that, having separate pages for each subgenre makes sense because each one could itself become a source of other sub genres.

Just combined the old and new material.

Here are the major deletions and my reasoning:

creating musical harmonies deemed impossible by many music critiques of the

early 1980s.

irrelevant and meaningless.

Helvete (which translates into Hell) also served as one of the economic foundations for the movement, but the main one was the label "Deathlike Silence", who refused to sign any band that wasn't purley evil.

vague and silly

If you are just getting into the genre than here are some recommendations according to preference (there are many subgenres i will only name the most notable)

advocacy

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Gothic Influenced Keyboard dripping Black metal - The Sins of Thy Beloved, Tristania, etc. The interesting thing about this sub-genre is that it is the easiest to find.

http://www.tristania.com

http://www.tsotb.com

-No, the interesting thing is that neither of them are Black Metal.-

Black influenced gothic Metal or "Norse-core" - (this genre has notable been mistaken for black metal because the bands that are in it have black elements but they are not really totally black metal) this genre features Dimmu Borgir, and the like.

http://www.dimmu-borgir.com

Please see the Gothic Metal article for how your information is wrong. Leyasu 07:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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Grim Black Metal - This type is becoming the most common usually with little or no keyboards, it is also the most overlooked and underated subgenre. Som enotable Bands are

Frozen Shadows - Quebec Canada

Hellacaust, Nova Scotia Canada - http://welcome. to/hellacaust

Darkthrone, Norway - http://www.darkthrone.no

Burzum, Norway (R.I.P) - http://www.burzum.com

Immortal, Norway - http://www.immortal.nu

Mayhem, Norway - http://www.thetruemayhem.com

Emperor, Norway - http://www.emperorhorde.com

more information can be found if you search using yahoo or google as this list is massive, so i compiled some of the most notable that i have ever heard.

-What is this crap? There is black metal. Symphonic black metal could possibly be considered a sub genre to it, and melodic possibly as well, but essentially there should be no sub genres of black metal.

-"Grim" is an adjective. Not a subgenre. Do try to keep up.-

-Emperor, grim? No keyboards? Mayhem, who had a whole track on GDoW that was nothing but keyboards? Get a clue! There are a slew of lo-fi, no-production albums out there but they are usually by little-known, low-talent bands who are ripping off early Darkthrone. Most of the classic bands you mention have long since evolved past "grim." Emperor and Immortal R.I.P. also, BTW.-

-I guess it's people like this who are responsible for the absurd of pointless sub-sub-sub-sub-genres on Wikipedia.-

-On a side note, bands have been known to call themselves or be called by others as "grim" or "necro", that doesn't really make a subgenre! Ulfednar 05:50, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

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N.S. Black Metal or National Socialist black metal - This Genre is a very touchy one because it involves the radical ideas of racial seperatism and upholdence of the Aryan race, being applied into the music of black metal. most bands of this type of black metal are fueled by the conservation of pagan beliefs and traditions from total oblitheration by the christian beliefs.

In this genre some very notable bands are

Absurd

Graveland

Infernum

Kataxu

Legion of Doom

Order from Chaos

Thor's Hammer

Thunderbolt

Veles

and the like

for more info on these bands go to http://www.paganfront.net or search using www.google.com or any other search engine

NSBM already is mentioned on the article since its merger. Leyasu 07:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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Viking Metal - This style is not really totally black metal but draws upon the same, pagan, wilderness influence as most black metal does. Vintersorg, Norway - http://www.vintersorg.com Finntroll, - http://www.finntroll.com alot more information can be found here http://www.vikingmetal.cjb.net

Viking Metal already has an article. Leyasu 07:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

- Well Viking Metal is a term used to describe bands by lyrical content rather than sound. While it's true that so called Viking Metal bands use northern folk influences in their music it still doesn't make for a valid subgenre, imo. Viking Metal bands play from Black Metal to Power Metal. Also, some bands are referred to as Blackened Viking Metal, which would mean that Viking Metal is not Black Metal to start with! Ulfednar 05:50, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

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Of Corpsepaints' origins:

The German article about corpsepaint on http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpsepaint should be translated and added to Black Metal section. It presents the hypothesized origins of corpsepaints through history. I add another remark: in the French film called "L'Odyssée de l'Espèce" ("The Odyssey of Species") which deal with the first hominids' origins, shows in a reconstitution of a Homo Sapiens tribe in Europe corpsepaints really similar to those observed on Black Metal bands. (http://www.dinosoria.com/fondespece.jpg)It is noteworthy to say that this movie was realized by Jacques Malaterre with the help of anthropologists (f.i. the famous Yves Coppens) and this shows how this reconstitution is scientifically relevant and, maybe, very close to 'truth' ( look at pics in 'Gallerie' section http://odysseedelespece.france3.fr/). Some further information could be found in scientifical publications about the scientifical relevancy of the use and importance of these paintings in early Europeans. Therefore, there may be a connection between prehistorical corpsepaints, the later Northern cultures (Scandinavian and German), some Medieval burial practices with dead corpses, with the nowadays corpsepaintings (mainly 'face-paints') worn within Metal culture: Thrash, Black or Glam (look at German Wiki article, linked just above). It SEEMS POSSIBLE that this practice of corpsepainting, with white colour on face and black colour on eyes (and mouth sometimes), had been an early European prehistorical tradition, conserved later mainly in Northern Europa and merging again today in Metal genres' aesthetism. It hasn't been discussedif other cultures have the same make-ups. But, due to the fact that mineral or vegetal substances used for make-ups are linked to a certain ecosystems, this tradition MAY be a European specificity. It is just an HYPOTHESIS. But, this hypothesis should be mentionned and discussed in the article. Why? For if it may be linked with early Europeans traditions, it would echoe the common "anti christian", "pagan" claims of Black Metal. In this way, it could be viewed as an 'pagan', pre-christian (and anti-chrisitan) symbol, but far older than Black Metal.

Very interesting! Ulfednar 06:36, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

References

if you wish to find out more information on black metal bands or record labels than here are some references

Belongs elsewhere, disjointed, some of these genre's have sub pages already, and I think that's the way to go.JFQ

from Talk:Black Metal

This part has been moved from Talk:Black Metal:

not a bad overview of the genre. removing some of the more enthusiastic and opinion based statements. JFQ

Blind Guardian and Skyclad

Can't see how Blind Guardian or Skyclad are related to Black Metal, except for that they also use guitars ... --Zenogantner

So why? --Zenogantner

I don't know about Battlelore, but Blind Guardian have absolutely nothing to do with Black Metal, they don't even sound similar. If you consider Blind Guardian to be Black Metal then bands like Rhapsody, Nightwish or maybe even Iron Maiden would also be Black Metal! - Nightfall

Thanks

Thanks for this page, I think its great, and I agree that sub-genre's deserve their own pages. thanks again! --JackLynch

Very limited history

While venom is mentioned as one of the key black metal bands, in the history, everything preceding the explosion of black metal in norway is left out. I believe Venom and Bathory deserve mention in the history before the rest of those artists because they were the first two black metal bands. Also I think Dimmu Borgir should not be listed as a notable black metal band. The person that discussed it here (which for some reason I can't seem to respond to) said himself that Dimmu Borgir was black influenced gothic metal. Well being influenced by black metal doesn't make a band a notable black metal band now does it? The rest of the list is very good. Sanctum 02:05, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Venom is in fact not black metal at all....they coined the term but that does not make them BM anymore then Deep purple is Heavy Metal because they coined the term...Venom is Thrash through and through Redleaves 03:42, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, Steppenwolf coined the term "Heavy Metal" in "Born to be Wild"

OK. lets sort things out: 1 wave: Venom, Bathory 2 wave: Mayhem (could maybe be in the 1st wave also), Darkthrone etc 3 wave: Immortal, Dark Funeral etc

my understanding is: first wave- Bathory, etc (whether it's actually black metal is debatable); second wave- Mayhem, Emperor, all those Norwegian bands caught up in the whole church burning thing; third wave- any black metal bands formed during and after the mid-90's marnues 22:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Fake black metal

I'd like to add that a lot of bands are very fake black metal, in the sense that they are not what TRUE black metal is. Black metal originated as an attack on God, and the belief that Satan is the true ruler. The bands went back to their pagan roots.

• correction: black metal was considered an attack on God, however, that does not necessarily mean it has to continue to be an attack on God. There are lots of different messages within Black Metal.

Now a lot of new black metal bands claim that "God doesn't exist, christianity is a lie," which is absolutely not what real black metal is about. Bands like Emperor, Mayhem, and Burzum BELIEVED in Christianity, but they chose to worship Satan, not God.

Err because I messed up my original post, I'd like to say the bands did not go back to their pagan roots, because paganism has nothing to do with christianity (paganism is a polytheistic, naturalistic religion).

I feel that genres are about the musical style, not the politics. While the social and religious issues might mean a lot to the genre, any band that adopts the style belongs in the genre, pagan or not. Sanctum 07:07, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Black metal is a term. It is not place of Wikipedia to explain that it is a style which includes and excludes certain bands, nor is it the job of Wikipedia to explain that black metal is a lifestyle, religious choice or anything else. The job of this article should be to explain what the term black metal can be used to refer to. If there is a possible dispute over the meaning, the differing ideas should be explained clearly, with different opinions attributed to different persons who hold them. This is part of Wikipedia NPOV policy. Tuf-Kat 08:19, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC)

I pretty heartilly agree w TUF-KAT, and caution anyone looking to be particularly opinionated about precise musical definitions that there arn't many. In my experience the people worst at catagorizing music are the artists themselves (they often invent some ludicrous title for their individual style, like "gutter funk", or who knows what), immediately followed by their fans. The best judge of what style a particular band or song is in is from a musically literate "outsider", i.e. somebody who has heard many different types of music, and is something less than a gushy mega-fan. Also usually the broader the catagory (like say "rock music"), the easier to find a fit, and the more specific, the more vague things are. While were on the subject (and I know its off topic for black metal) does anybody know what style Primus_(band) is? ;) Sam [Spade] 11:49, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hypothetically speaking, this outsider might not be the best person to write a definition for a genre, as they may not be well versed. If we wanted to say solely what the term 'black metal' means then the definition would be rather terse. If we are going to include the history of black metal, it ought to be written by someone who is very involved in the genre. Sanctum 18:26, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

"Musically literate" is key. I stand by my POV, which incidentilly I extend to all wiki topics. I think those w a vested POV are less capable than a knowledgable, impartial outsider to create factually accurate, NPOV articles and definitions. A gushy mega-fan of a particular anime would be far less capable of accurately describing the program than an outsider who happens to have seen the program a number of times. Not that the otaku couldn't be an important contributer to the Sailor Moon article, I just don't think he'd be the most objective. Sam [Spade] 18:56, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

"I feel that genres are about the musical style, not the politics. While the social and religious issues might mean a lot to the genre, any band that adopts the style belongs in the genre, pagan or not. Sanctum 07:07, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)"

That depends entirely on the genre itself. National Socialist Black Metal and "Holy Unblack" Metal are usually stylistically identical to their parent genre (except that the former usually has Punk/Hatecore/Oi! influences), and are therefore entirely defined by their ideology, for example.

I agree. And if Christian black metal cannot be labeled black metal because of Christian beliefs – which I think is a pretty much universally accepted view – then I also think it is valid to accept that black metal, at least partially, is defined by ideology, and not only music. I don't think black metal is necessarily Satanic, but at least opposed to Christianity (or whatever the current religious belief in the band's area). Mr. Death 08:01, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Not all Black Metal bands are neccessarily satanic. They might have some pagan influences (which isn't really satanic) and they're still considered Black Metal. Take Immortal, one of the most famous, for example. Their entire body of work usually revolves around their fictional fantasy world, and satanism has pretty much no part in it.

I'd like everyone here to note that Burzum frontman/only member Varg Vikernes is a known Odinist and therefore, is Pagan and not Satanic. Even Burzum's lyrics had much to do with occultism. I'd also like to add that orginally Black Metal was a revolt and a breaking off of Death Metal. Satanic lyrics and influences have been found in older Death Metal bands and just went with the influences taken from older Death Metal bands such as Possesed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 165.139.123.17 (talk • contribs) .

Black metal and influences

Could I add a note about how black metal is very open to incorporating some aspects of other genres into black metal to create new and original sounds? I've always felt black metal was an amazingly open-minded genre when it came to music (let's not go into racism please). Bands such as Windir, Summoning, Xasthur, Burzum, and Void are prime examples of how black metal bands take on influences. Sanctum 07:11, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Is there any style of music which isn't "open to incorporating some aspects of other genres"? Sam [Spade] 11:41, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Yes there are several styles of music that shun any influences at all. Take a look at any other genres of metal. Take a look at punk rock. Take a look at hip hop. Black metal is very geared towards influences, moreso than most genres. I felt it should be mentioned, since so many bands take on influences.

Perhaps you aren't familiar with the kind of influences black metal takes on, and how often. It's easy to sit back from your passive point of view and say how all genres are open to influences, but you really have to see just how open the black metal scene is to influences before you can understand why it might be worth mentioning. There are musicians who go out and look for new styles to adopt into their own, not just an occassional random artist that decides to fuse two genres together. Sanctum 04:50, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I don't know particularly much about black metal, but I disagree with your assertion. Comparing the openness of genres is inherently subjective. Take a hypothetical genre X popular in Y location. If, in Y, X is by far the most popular genre, it will likely remain fairly untouched by other styles, irregardless of its level of openness. How do you propose to measure openness?

WRT to hip hop specifically, there are styles with long histories and numerous practitioners who have fused hip hop with rock and roll (rock rap), thrash metal and punk rock (hardcore hip hop), other kinds of metal (contentiously, rap metal, nu metal), soul (nu soul), funk (G funk), jazz (jazz rap), techno (ghettotech and others), doo wop (Swingbeat), house (trip hop, hip house, others), highlife (hip life), pure teen pop (pop hop, J-rap, much of Mexican hip hop), merengue (merenrap), reggae (recent ragga), salsa (timba, and others), mbalax (see African hip hop), waila (see Native American hip hop) taarab (see music of Tanzania), Turkish music of various kinds (see Turkish hip hop), South African pop (kwaito) and dancehall (reggaeton), just to mention those explained in the 'pedia, which doesn't go into extant fusions with everything from zouk to flamenco to cumbia to kaseko to sega to punta to samba to mariachi and traditional music from Ireland, India, France, New Zealand, Greece, Sweden, Japan, Australia, Finland and elsewhere. My point is not that hip hop is more open to influences than black metal or anything else, but that it is highly debateable.

As another well-known counterexample, reggae has been fused with dozens of styles of music in non-Caribbean areas it has taken hold of (as well as almost every kind of Latin or Caribbean music out there), including all of Africa, Palestinians, Australian Aborigines, Maoris and Native Americans -- this, I think, makes it more open to more diverse influences than black metal, which appears to be influenced almost entirely by Northern European and Anglo traditions (with some exceptions, I know). Tuf-Kat 19:37, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

I see some of those links are broken -- nevertheless, my point still stands. Tuf-Kat 19:37, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Maybe now you can write up a bunch of articles on those obscure music styles ;). Do you work at a music store by chance? To be honest, you strike as as the archtype "musically literate outsider" I was refering to above :) Sam [Spade] 19:58, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I used to work at a record store, but that one is now closed, and there is little available except at Tower Records and the like, and they don't pay enough to even consider. Instead, I'm a kennel technician at an animal hospital, plus various other things. I suppose I would qualify as "musically literate" in general, and am certainly an outsider on most any metal, especially black metal. Tuf-Kat 21:01, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Sam has a good point -- music is a fluid thing, and tends to take on components of whatever is around it. Bizarre fusions like polkasteady are perfectly common. Certainly, a section on how black metal takes on other influences is fine, but any comparison between how often black metal does so vs hip hop, sout or Corsican polyphonic choirs should really be annotated with who believes it, and why. Tuf-Kat 15:37, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC)

My summary is in perfect union w tuf-kat, a section on how black metal takes on other influences would be great, but saying it does so more or less than any given genre would likely be POV. However, if you can find some sort of expert on the subject to quote saying Black Metal is especially prone to fusion, that would be ok, so long as it is verifiable, and expressed as one POV among many. Cheers, Sam [Spade] 19:58, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

In my opinion, Black metal isn't more easily influenced than any other kind of music. Black metal could actually be said to be especially hostile to change (For example the much famed and respected Darkthrone who have stuck to the same style since the early ninties, shunning change). There are a few progressive Black metal bands (Enslaved, Windir, Mörk Gryning), but this isn't any different from changes and developments in other styles of music. That the changes Black metal have undergone might seem more obvious than evolutions in other styles of music could be contributed to the fact that Black metal started out as an extremely specific and simplistic genre, and has with time gained other influences from other areas. Today, Black metal is a very wide genre. Darkthrone stay with the roots, playing "Grim" Black metal, Enslaved evolve and use uncommon song structures etc (Progressive Black metal), Dimmu Borgir use orchestral elements, ("Symphonic" Black metal), Ulver has become an electronic outfit (Have stopped being Black metal all together) and so on. Shandolad 15:53, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Black metal definitely has a very strong attitude against influences, but what they say and what they do are very different things. Since 1995 there has been a large number of very experimental black metal bands, it's in some ways necessary to be somewhat original to gain acceptance in the black metal scenes these days. I think at some point people stopped saying "true black metal" and started saying "tr000 black metal" (as in they say the same thing but now they are being sarcastic). It would be hard to say how much of black metal is experimental since it's now a grassroot genre and by the very nature of grassroot genres necessarily has a lot of imitation bands. But for the bands that exist beyond a grassroot level (if we were to somwhow arbitrarily define this) there is a trend towards experimentation.

I'm disappointed that so many people seem to be resisting adding something about this section when a few of them are not even familiar with black metal. Yes, all genres have experimental artists, but black metal, believe it or not, is a very experimental genre. It's not a handful of artists, there is a trend for black metal as a whole to experiment. We have seen the incorporation of folk, neoclassical, ambient, avant-garde, hell even mayan music has been brought into black metal. I'd just like to write something about this, it's a very real phenomenon. Sanctum 02:05, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Why did you remove Dimmu Borgir tho? Sam Spade 09:05, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

See "Very limited history." For some reason I couldn't edit above that where the person made the comment about adding Dimmu Borgir. Dimmu Borgir themselves have said they are not black metal, the person who edited in Dimmu Borgir also said they were influenced by black metal but not black metal. So why, I ask you, were they listed as a notable black metal band when they are not black metal? Sanctum 01:53, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

You can write about black metal taking on influences, as long as it's sourced and written specifically (who takes which elements from what?). Tuf-Kat 21:08, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Sanctum, where have you seen Dimmu Borgir members categorizing themselves as not BM? Because I remember reading an interview with Shagrath following the Death Cult Armageddon album, where he claimed that the new album was more BM than ever. (I'll try to dig up the interview.) SpectrumDT 01:39, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

I found the interview I had in mind, here.

added samples

I've added musical samples for BM: 30 seconds each from Bathory-Woman of Dark Desires, Burzum-Ea, Lord of the Deeps and Immortal-Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms. I believe these musically pretty much represent what most people agree to be black metal. I was tempted to put a sample of Venom-Black Metal, but it would be useless for genre identification processes. Could someone maybe format the sample box better? I'm hopeless. (sorry about lateness, my net went down as I was posting this) --KharBevNor 16:49, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Concerning "faggoth"

I have written a page for faggoth. Can someone please take a look at it? (It is one of my first articles here at Wikipedia, so I am not sure if I am doing everything right.) SpectrumDT 21:55, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

It would probably be best to post any comments on this matter on the discussion page for faggoth. SpectrumDT 01:36, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

I think this topic should be deleted from Black Metal, because by your own definition it's used by black metalists to refer to non-black metal music, and besides I for one have never heard the term in my life. (I am also posting this here and not on the discussion page for faggoth since these two section have been merged for a while.) Mr. Death 08:17, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I deleted the faggoth entry. Faggoth is not a subgenre of black metal. It might be used in a degrading way to "untrue" bands, but it's definitely not a subgenre. I suggest starting a new section explaining ways to insult other bands if anyone wants faggoth mentioned. Mr. Death 16:11, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

A good soloution, but deleting the section with your reasoing comes across biased. Perhaps you would like to draw up a section on insults commonly used by the black metal scene, and others can copy edit it as appopriate? Leyasu 16:25, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I though about that too, at first, but I really didn't see how that served any purpose. It's really far fetched, I think, to include such terms in an entry of an encyclopedia. But it's still my opinion that there is no subgenre to black metal such as "Faggoth" and I think it's misleading and incorrect to keep this entry, that's why I removed it. But I'm fairly new here and I'm unsure how to go about removing this piece of disinformation from the Black Metal entry. Mr. Death 17:04, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I myself also know this is not a subgenre of metal. However, deleting the section directly is a loss of core information. I am however also unsure of the best strategy for documenting this information, as Troll Metal and War Metal are also not forms of black metal, but more references by the scene's members. For the mean time, i shall leave this be, until a better header for the section can be submitted. Leyasu 17:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

This does not to be on the black metal wikipedia page. It's obvious that it isn't an actual sub-genre. It's biased and it serves absolutely no purpose, and it is not in wide enough use to be even considered to begin with. I don't think that a section of "black metal insults" (so to speak) would be too terrible a idea, since some people are obstinate about having this mentioned. You can add things like "Norsecore," "White Metal"...--Astrosa 02:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Then make a section on common derogatory terms used by the black metal scene and its fans, moving Faggoth to it. Once ur done, myself or another editor will copyedit if needs be. Leyasu 03:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

"Faggoth", "Troll Metal", "insults in black metal" etc. have no place in an encyclopedia. "Insults in quantum-physics" would probably not be even considered a topic in Wikipedia, so I don't see why it should apply any more to black metal. There is about as much purpose to such a section as there would be to a section called "Jokes told by black metal fans". And saying "troll metal" is a sub-genre of black metal is like saying "Lord of the rings" is a subgenre of books. I don't understand why this discussion is still going on. Not everything that is ever written on Wikipedia has to be preserved, especially not when it misleads people as much as these topics do. I think a delete is justified in this case. Mr. Death 10:46, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

MOst of these were voted for Deletion. The reason they are here is because they voted to be kept and merged. Thus, the consensus is to keep them. The better option now is how to implement them into the article effectivly. Leyasu 19:06, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Then obviously they were voted to be kept by people who knew nothing at all about black metal. I could get a lot of people to go in on any arbitrary page on Wikipedia and vote some nonsense topic to be kept, but that doesn't make it true. You yourself (Leyasu) obviously understand how much nonsense these topics really are, but tries to keep some democracy into the process, I understand that, but I remind everyone that democracy is Wikipedia's weakness, as well as strength, as it lets people with no knowledge whatsoever to "destroy" serious topics, like in this particular situation. Ok, so the question is how to get rid of these nonsense topics. Is there some way to arrange another vote now? These things were voted on quite some time before I became a member. Mr. Death 08:23, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Dont need to delete it as its mentioned in the Gothic Metal article as well. Just have to find a better way to house it within the article, which would imply revisiting original ideas which means forming another part of the article. If yew spend more time here, i will happily work with yew to find a soloution that works for the benifit of all. Ley Shade 08:47, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I deleted the redirect from faggoth to this article per the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Since that page was merged in this article, the history needs to be preserved, so I moved it to Talk:Black metal/Faggoth (and the corresponding talk page to Talk:Black metal/Faggoth/talk). -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 23:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Faggoth is not a subgenre, its a simple swearword pertaining to the subjectively perceived "softness" of emo and goth in general. Get that right, leyasu, and stop reverting the edits - lev

Firstly the term is used to mean anything associated with Goths, wether directly, indirectly, in reference, in inference, or in assumption. It does not mean only Gothic Rock and Emo.

It isnt a subgenre, we know this. Perhaps, one should be putting it in a 'common slang' or whatever section, rather than trying to directly insult specific music genres. Ley Shade 06:18, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

This isnt leading anywhere, leyasu. Stop being such a snide bigot and face the facts: "Faggoth" isnt a genre. Im neither "attacking bands and fans" nor am i "vandalising" when i point out the fact that "faggoth" is used to insult gothlike attire. Look at the word: faggot + goth = faggoth. If you cant bear the word being defined properly, as you obviously cant (reverting my edits with your arrogant snide remarks), delete the entry. Protecting wrong information for the sake of quantity at the cost of quality is wrong - lev

POV pushing isnt correcting anything. Your blatantly using the section as a mean to make attacks at Goths and Emo's. The term isnt used soley for the purpose 'you' use it. Your argument is the equivalant to say that Gay is only used to mean happy, and not also used to mean Homosexual or Queer.

If the section isnt perfectly worded, then request that a user such as Cardinal Wurzel, Spearhead, Metamagician3000 or WesleyDodds rewords it, all of them are Experience users who are good Wikipedians.

As for protecting it or being biased to it, im not for or against it. I am however against you using it as an excuse to attack certain groups of people, when it is used to insult far more than just one set of people. Ley Shade 21:00, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Imo the whole "faggoth" section can be removed. It doesn't add anything to the article. If you want it in there anyway, it can be in the general genre description where CoF and dimmu borgir and the likes are discussed - who btw aren't but should be as a more commercial output of BM. Spearhead 21:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I vote that Spearhead gives the article a massive Overhaul, as both an experienced user and part of the Metal Wikiproject. Ill give my opinions when Spearhead has done this overhaul. Ley Shade 22:57, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

The entire section "Subgenres" is nothing else than mere trolling in itself. Adding "Faggoth" as a subgenre of Black Metal is a prime example. There are only two actual subgenres of Black Metal; NSBM and Viking Metal. Everything else is just a flavour of Black Metal, such as War Metal (Marduk etc) and Symphonic Black Metal (Hecate Enthroned, Old Mans Child etc). But they still remain "classic" Black Metal and do not represent additional subgenres. The question that remains is: how to categorize a band such as Amon Amarth - Death Metal because thats how they sound, or Viking Metal because the image they to convey. Id say Amon Amarth is Death Metal, we´re talking about music, and because of that the music itself should be considered when trying to link a band to a certain genre, not its lyrics - lev

the whole subgenre thing in metal-related articles is way out of control and needs a serious cleanup. But anyway, I am not gonna re-write the BM article as it is not my main area of expertise nor interest. Spearhead 15:55, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Faggoth is being moved to the bottom of the subgenre list - it is blatantly NN and should probably just be deleted. Big in albania 14:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. I think enough people have expressed their opposition to this section, and I simply cannot unserstand that it remains here at all. It scores a miserable 682 hits on Google (!!!!!!!!!!!!), and is unheard of by many metalheads, apparently. Honestly, if no-one gives me a valid reason to keep it I'm going to take it into my own hands to delete it, and rather sooner than later. After we have had all these disputes about coining terms, and some sub-genres have been completely disregarded despite over 13 000 hits on google (I'm thinking of Pirate Metal), we decide to keep this ridiculous entry?! It simply doesn't make sense, and it's confusing to anyone who reads the article, not to mention insulting. Honestly, Ley Shade, we wouldn't lose any core information by deleting this section. Also, you seem to have an unwaving faith in voting, but may I remind you that voting is evil, and Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a democracy. I would point out also that if you follow your faith in voting and democracy, you are the only one who wants to keep this section. --IronChris 16:21, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Faggoth is banished to the third circle of hell as of now. Big in albania 17:30, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Someone had to do it. Now we can focus on improving this article that is still pretty bad. Is anyone planning on rewriting it or something? --IronChris 17:46, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

this section has been repeatedly reverted by admins as page blanking. there really is no possible rewrite of this or the pakistani section. Call it "contructive deletion" if you will, and get rid of faggoth again. Big in albania 01:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Does any one feel the need to keep this or the Pakistani sections? They should definitely be deleted and kept that way. I just looked at the faggoth vote and there were all of 4 votes with 2 of the merges taking the middle road because they didn't know what to do with it. But this is not the place for it, nor is this the place for band advertisements (which is all the Pakistani section is). marnues 03:10, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed... --IronChris 05:00, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed Big in albania 17:31, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I give up. I am tagging this page for a complete rewrite. Everytime i get rid of faggoth and pakistani metal someone replaces them. IronChris, you have inadvertantly replaced them again! Basically, i'm taking this page off my watchlist and you guys can do what you like with it. i spoke too soon. Big in albania 17:58, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah sorry about that Big in albania, my apologies, there was a edit conflict there, it wasn't intended on my part.

But WTF??? Someone has put it back and didn't even justify their actions!! I'm not going to revert again as per the WP:3RR (though I only reverted once, second time was a mistake), but honestly, the anonymous person doing these reverts would be nice to explain themselves after the discussion we had above. If no explanation is given, I will remove the faggoth section (682 google hits, I'd like to remind everyone, and nothing to do with Black Metal, certainly not a subgenre) again. Same thing applies to the Pakistani metal section. --IronChris 18:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Still no real progress in the Faggoth department? It's been 2 months since I last checked this page out because I got tired of certain people's obsessive reverts to display this inaccurate piece of "information", and it's still here although it's clear that the majority of people involved in this discussion are clearly against this stupid article. How do we speed this up? For fuck's sake, I can ask any person on any black metal gig if they know what "faggoth" is, and my (in my own opinion) rather qualified guess is they would answer "no" with devastating majority. Mr. Death 20:56, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Current proposals are to move it into a criticisms section on either Gothic Metal or Gothic Rock. We cannot just delete it due to AFD, though their is mention of it already on Gothic Metal so it will probally be moved there. Ley Shade 12:26, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

It seems that every one but you here seems to agree that it can be removed from the black metal page. Move it to your user space if you like, but it deserves no place here. Unfortunately we cannot propose sections for deletion. Spearhead 15:58, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Poor Revamp

The edit made by 64.217.25.42/Jackliddle seems to come from someone who is novice to the subject. 1.) Black metal is not related to "Doom Metal". Black metal is more related to death metal as both started around the same time and came from the same influences (Thrash Metal). 2. There is no reason the original introduction should be reworded, since it is basically redundant as to what the original one said - that defining the genre is often subjective. While 64.217.25.42/Jackliddle's edit is certainly not vandalism, there is little rationale behind it, and the mention of the subgenre being "related" to doom metal is certainly misleading. Danteferno 00:31, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

I can accept the difficulty with the doom metal association, fair enough, personally I never claimed it was. The most recent revert you made (as of this talk page edit) has nothing to do with the doom metal claims. It is not just the introduction that is being disputed here. What are the problems with the "Characteristics" section where the majority of the edits by 64.217.25.42 were made? There was no reason to reword to original introduction, the recent edits were neither misleading nor false, that doesn't mean that it can't be reworded does it?

Can we only revert what is being disputed and not just throw out all the edits that went with it.

Jackliddle 02:50, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

A majority of the "Characteristics" section is also misleading, and still misleading, even after 64.217.25.42 made the corrections (which I will correct in a jiff). It seems this article has gone downhill since its original edit a couple months ago.Calling black metal guitars/instrumentation more focused on "melody and atmosphere" is again taking a simplistic and inexperienced approach to the genre - being that there is also the side of black metal in which the songs are supposed to represent the most raw, blatant, visceral form of hatred, and not about "melody and atmosphere". The black metal genre did not evolve from Dimmu Borgir or Cradle of Filth, and some recent edits seem to make it look like that. Please, let's not make this look like it was written by some

misinformed Entertainment journalist.Danteferno10:22, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

101 rules of BM

I did an article for the 101 rules of black metal, which included the complete list of rules. The article was speedily deleted due to being copyright violation.

The deletion was probably justified, I suppose.

I have now resurrected the article as just a paragraph on the black metal page. It contains only an introduction; it does not list the actual "rules", but has only a link to them.

Is this OK? SpectrumDT 03:31, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

The section I made was deleted. Since no explanation was given in the edit summary nor on the talk page, I assume that it was an accident (a side effect of a revert). Therefore I have put it back in. If the deletion was intended, please explain why. SpectrumDT 18:22, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

I was not the one who made the removal, but I suppose it had to do with concerns over advertisement and/or tone. If you condense that whole section in a single, summarised, paragraph, I assume there will likely be no complaints. --Sn0wflake 19:54, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Seems pretty caustic and obnoxious to me. For example "1. Don't be gay" and "3. All people who aren’t "true" are gay" are both sound like ordinary and typical homophobia and they are at the top of the list. Possibly if this were to be taken as humor then it might work on another page about black metal humor, but even that is a stretch. This really isn't crucial to a real comprehension of what black metal is. M0llusk 02:31, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

It's quite obviously a play with the homophobia of "true" black metal fans, which is a fact. The whole list is humorous, these particular instances shouldn't be taken seriously simply because they talk about gay people. --Sn0wflake 16:17, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Let's be honest, this has no place in a serious article about black metal.

The list is a must. Its a humorous how-to for the "kvlt" and "true" fan of black metal. Its a famous list, everyone knows its sarcastic.

Suicidal black metal

This article has been suggested to be merged with the main BM article, and it should, I've certainly never heard this term, and many of the 'distinctions' it has from traditional BM are infact similarities. Merge it.

Seconded. Leyasu 17:25, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

It should be merged, but given it's own subheading. Suicidal BM is in fact a known and growing genre. It generally refers to very depressing black metal, with often some crossover with Dark Ambient. Bands include Silencer, Xasthur, and Leviathan. Still, it deserves a merge.

No merge. No mention either. Do these bands talk about suicide exclusively? They obviously do not practice it or they'd be dead. The term suicidal is too useless and specific to make an entire entry or section out of it to essetially promote bands.

Suicidal Black Metal bands often promote the listener's suicide, and not their own. So there is no paradox or conflict in the term Suicidal Black Metal. I have heard it many, many times and think it is probably starting to be accepted as a subgenre of black metal, defined as someone earlier wrote, by slow, depressive, doomy and/or extremely monotonous elements, and lyrics promoting depression and suicide of the listener. Besides the bands mentioned (and I don't know about Xasthur or Leviathan, as I don't know enough to comment on them), I would definitely add Shining and Abyssic Hate to the list as being of the more notable suicidal black metal bands. Mr. Death 08:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

There are about two suicidal black metal bands --- well technically there are a few hundred but they all fellate Xasthur and Leviathan.

Sucidial BM should be given it's own subheading. Silencer started the genre, modern examples would be Leviathan and Xasthur, and perhaps some black/doom bands such as Nortt or Forgotten Tomb. By the way, Silencer's Death - Pierce Me is fantastic, just so you know.

Suicidal Black Metal? What, do they play their veins using razorblades or what? Use their heads as drums and hammers as sticks? This makes no sense to me, not even as a "by lyrics" cathegorisation, since many oh-so-many bands ( Black Metal or not ) spoke of suicide in various contexts. And if it's about a depressing sound or whatever then let's transform Doom Metal into Suicide Metal and get it over with! Ulfednar 06:03, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

These new merges

These merges are absolutely stupid.

NSBM should have an article of it's own since it wasn't really that much of an effect on black metal and people who look up NSBM (not knowing what it means), should be able to find out and not think that all black metal is inherently NS.

NSBM should be merged into the article, and mentioned in the same way as Gothic Doom is mentioned in the revised [Metal] article. That way people can find out what it means, and, its relation to normal Black Metal. It also makes both articles more comphrensive. As form of Black Metal, it warrents being on the Black Metal page.

NSBM can be a redirect No prob finding it then. Spearhead 15:50, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Troll Metal is not a significant part of black metal, therefore no merge, if it's even a genre in the first place (because other than Finntroll, I've never heard of it).

Agreed, i have never heard of this either. It seems more like bands that use influence from Black Metal. and come inheritantly from Electronic music and Folk Metal. Also, most bands that focus on Troll Metal's lyrical content get their influence from Power Metal or Folk Metal.

Troll metal states "Troll metal is black metal music that deals with trolls, goblins and other related subjects." Not that I have heard of it... it doesn't warrant an article on itself. So delete or merge with something else...Spearhead 15:50, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Delete it altogether. One band does not a genre make.

I agree, delete it. Also, I have serious doubts that Arckanum that is mentioned as being one of the leading Troll Metal bands has ever even labeled themselves/himself "Troll Metal" in the first place. Mr. Death 08:37, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Suicidal Black Metal is not a significant movement either, and shouldn't be merged or mentioned.

It should be mentioned in the Black Metal article as minor movements, if its mentioned at all. It doesnt warrent its own Wikipedia article, at all, and if not deleted, should be most definatly merged into the Black Metal article.

Acoustic Black Metal seems to be a band plug rather than an actual movement, don't add it.

Agreed it does sound like one band. Should be mentioned as something new to Black Metal, as in the usage of accoustic guitars? Or is that simply more bands borrowing from Gothic Metal again? Leyasu 13:16, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

There is at least an a AC sideproject Impaled Northern Moonforest that mentions it Spearhead 15:50, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Acoustic Black Metal does not exist.In 1995 Ulver recorded an acoustic album "Kveldssanger" which some call acoustic black metal.But this was only an acoustic album played by musicians that recorded black metal music in past.Beside Ulver there are some black metal bands that have one or two songs that are played on acoustic guitars.Then it came time when acoustic black metal was mentioned on few places but this was only a joke.There are many "bands" that go under the label of acoustic black metal but they are all a joke.One of them is Impaled Northern Moonforest. From that point acoustic black metal is a joke.Beside all that, in 2002 a band called Strevlosh recorded a three song demo.A raw recording played on one acoustic(classical)guitar. From this was born Strevlosh Zvezda which got closer to ABM than anyone else. In 2004 new demo was recorded in the studio with real drums, classical guitar and black metal vocals. At this point the band doesn't use drums anymore.There are now two classical guitars in use and black metal vocals.And at this point this is the closest anyone got to the label of ABM. Here is a page with some info for Strevlosh Zvezda http://www.audiostreet.net/strevloshzvezda

Pakistani Black Metal? Geez give me a break...--aenimated

Sounds most like a few bands that use accoustic guitars in the same way as Gothic Metal. Which if you read, says what they have described. Nothing special really, better worth mentioning that more Black Metal bands are taking influence from Gothic Metal bands? Ie: Cradle of Filth and this Impaled Northern Moonforest? I think it shouldnt be listed as a genre, more a note that more bands are using accoustic guitars found in other Gothic Metal. Actually, the more i think about it, the more bands seem to be crossing different genres together all the time =x Leyasu 06:41, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Why is it so important to mention a joke band like Impaled Northern Moonforest?

For the same reason its important for you to sign your comments with four tildes (Leyasu 09:51, 17 December 2005 (UTC)) and give us reason on how they are a joke band. Leyasu 09:51, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Don't get me wrong when I ask you this: What is wrong with you? Read on Wikipedia about Impaled Northern Moonforest. You will get to part where it says "The two decided to start a joke black metal band..." Go on INM fansite and click on ABOUT and there you will read beside everything else also "they were bored and decided to make a true (joke)..." Is it so hard to get it? When a person says for his band that it is a joke, why can't you get it?

Is it just me, or does from that description, Suicidal Black Metal sound like a mixture of Black and Doom Metal? Leyasu 06:09, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

And it probably is a mixture of Black and Doom Metal. If a band sings about a certain topic it does not mean that it is inventing a whole new genre,subgenre or whatever. If a band is coming from some Asian country and sings in their language about Asian mythology and with all that plays Black metal it does not mean they are playing Asian Black metal. It takes much more to invent a new genre or subgenre or whatever.

True, but the variances of such things bear mentioning at least. Perhaps menitoning that many bands are singing and writing lyrics in their national tounge? Also would it be worth making an article to explain about bands that fuse two different, establish forms of metal together? Ie: Black/Doom, Black/Power, Doom/Power, Gothic/Death, Etc etc? I think someone there should be a place to discuss this issue. Leyasu 17:26, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I have not personally heard pakistani black metal, but I would like to say that 1) if Pakistan has a metal scene, could it really be exclusively classified as black metal, and 2) if Pakistan has a metal scene, then it deserves it's own page. If a small region in the US consisting entirely of white people developed a small subculture which performed traditional Pakistani music, it would probably not be considered a part of the Pakistani traditional music 'scene.' zmbe 19:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

A valid point you make, but let me ask this. Would bands that play Black Metal that use pakistini themes be considered Black Metal?. This i think warrants not so much a merger, but perhaps mentioning in the article that Black Metal has grown large, and expansive, so that many regions have added in elements of their natives culture to their performance of Black Metal? Leyasu 09:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

The entry for Pakistani Black Metal is better fit for a magazine article. Good for Pakistan, they finally have black metal. But how does that affect or further the entire genre of black metal? The title is referencing a specific scene not a genre. That would be like me saying "you know what, I'm making a new genre.....Maryland Black Metal." The location of a certain number of bands does not necessarily mean it's an entire new genre. US gets the USBM distinction for its well established scene and ethics, as does Norwegian Black metal for its enormous influence on ALL black metal that has come out since. But without an established scene, credibility, influence on the rest of the genre and future bands, or a very specific and completely original sound, all Pakistani Black Metal is is a bunch of Pakistanis playing black metal.

This comes back to the first of my two points. Should heavy metal coming from pakistan really be classified specifically and exclusively as black metal? How many ethnic or other outside influences are required for it to become a separate genre? Again, I have not personally heard this music. But I do find it remarkable that Pakistan could possibly have a metal scene that is so musically similar to black metal that it cannot be separately classified. zmbe 21:41, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

The sentence with the parenthetical reference to NSBM currently makes no grammatical sense. It would be fine without the parenthetical bit, but that bit is so compressed that it is not even grammatical and certainly conveys nothing to me. Given that NSBM seems to be agreed by everyone to be a small part of Black Metal, I think the author of this sentence, or someone else who understands what is being said better than I do, is going to have to tease the ideas out into more than one sentence. Metamagician3000 12:32, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

All right, I've had a go at this. If I've harmed the intended meaning in fixing the grammar, I'm sure the next editor can straighten it out. Metamagician3000 00:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I added what I felt was necessary for basic information, and then added a link to its own page.--Astrosa 03:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Kosher Metal Okay, this is even more irrelevant than Faggoth. Not only is one of the two bands that I'm familiar with (Melechesh) not a black metal band anymore, but how can this possibly be something worth mentioning on a *general* black metal website? If you want to make an independent page on it that should be fine, but don't include it here. I'm deleting this.--Astrosa 03:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

War Metal was an entry that I wrote separate of this page. I didn't intend to, but there was already a site for it with terrible content, so I wrote a decent blurb on it. Somebody merged that into here. I'm not quite certain on whether it ought to be--if anything, it can be merged into the Blackened death metal page which would be much more appropriate. Thoughts?--Astrosa 03:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Kosher Metal was deleted i believe? And War Metal is obviously a grouping term for a subsidary of Black Metal bands, hence why its been merged into this page following a AFD. Thus it keeps its place here. Leyasu 03:34, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Acoustic black metal merged here

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Acoustic black metal. Johnleemk | Talk 09:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

history

anyone else think the history needs more on the first wave of black metal? (venom, bathory, and stuff) --Eel 21:09, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

As long its NPOV written, then go for it. Anything that isnt in the article already can be added, if it makes the article more comphrensive, and is accurate. Leyasu 02:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC) I think more should be written about it's roots in Hell, but that's just me.

pakistani metal

i am a radio DJ and i have been using the country specific music pages, in this case the pakistani metal page to find bands from certain parts of the world. this page is very helpful in finding international bands, please keep it as a separate page.

Bands can be found internationally by clicking on the articles and noting the countrys. If you wish for a place to find bands by nationality, their is several good metal band datebases on the net. Leyasu 20:34, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Would there be a reason why this information couldn't be on Wikipedia? Hyacinth 12:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, Non-Notablity. Leyasu 13:13, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

What would be non-notable? The countries, the bands? The supposed genre created? Hyacinth 13:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Superfluous. Pakistani black metal does not have enough relevance to be put on the main black metal page. Ask yourself the following: if you were to insist on having this on a *general* black metal page, wouldn't you also be committed to write specifically about countries more relevant to the genre insofar as evolution and contribution is concerned--eg. France, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Australia... the list goes on; i don't think there is any argument in saying these are not more black metal relevant countries than Pakistan. The reason they aren't on there is because they're not necessary for a general black metal page. Origins, evolution, content, diversity, influential bands, contraversy... these are things to be discussed. Not the ins and outs of a country's black metal scene that is superfluous to black metal in the broad scheme. --Astrosa 02:48, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I thought that pakistani black metal was a joke when i first heard about it

I concur. Frankly, it's rather ridiculous that someone would want to merge them. PhilC. 19:21, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Don't you dare merge them.Even having the sign concerning the merging above the article is a disgrace to black metal.What do those pakistanish animals have to do with black metal?(erebus)

How many people here can actually name a Pakistani metal band?

Pathetic trolling, basically. why not add kenian or aztec black metal, too ? or how about black metal from the farside of the moon?

Japan has a rising metal rock scene, black or heavy metal rhythm combined with Japanese Imperialist lyrics. Anti-western and anti-Christian, along with State Shinto messages, this new type of black metal commemorates Japan as a fierce nationalist warrior. They sing about Japan must revert back to a time when war gods and military shoguns ruled the country. A high volume of words and messages on Eastern pantheism, the majority of religious adherents in Japan belongs to Buddhism, Shintoism and some "new religions" may preach Japanese imperialist ideology. Note that prominent Nazi Heinrich Himmler and later Varg Vikernes of Burzum took some interest in Eastern religion of the "Aryans" of India and compared pagan theology of Europe with those of East Asia. The Nazis were allies with the Japanese in WWII and both countries sent anthropological expeditions to the Lamainate of Tibet in the late 1930s. Neither found proof of the "Aryans" contibuted to Tibetan society and religion, after anthropologists examined these theories. The far fetched Nazi Aryan-European Pagan-Eastern religious connection is present in some black metal bands. It sure caught the interest of Varg Vikernes in his creation of an unique religious ideology of "Aryans" enriched the Eastern world (India, China, Persia, Mesopotamia, Japan, etc), such as the evident linguistic roots of Indo-European with South Asian (Indian) languages. + 207.200.116.132 00:24, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Troll Metal

-Troll metal should be removed from black metal be moved to folk metal i do think troll metal a valid subgenre and their enough bands that play what i consider trollish (Otyg , Troll bend fir , Finntroll , Troll Fest , Funeral Dust , etc..) but they use Fiddles , Flutes , Tin Whistles and other very unblack instruments plus their upbeat-

We should really remove the "Troll metal" section. It's not a legitimate subgenre, and it's not used by anyone who is into metal (black or otherwise). Also, Finntroll and Mortiis have musically nothing to do with black metal.

We have just merged this from another article. We didnt merge it very well, but we merged it all the same, which shows it is used by some people. Leyasu 16:32, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Troll metal doesn't exist. It never has. Calling something "troll metal" is a description, like "fire metal" or "cheesy metal." It isn't an actual subgenre of black metal. I think this requires a primer in reality. First of all, reality exists outside your ego and desires of importance by contributing some irrelevant material. Secondly, reality requires observation, not invention; while you can edit wikipedia pages, you can't edit reality. Finally, reality probably hates you and wishes ill of you. When you keep these rules in mind, you're realize that troll metal is an invention and has no places in being in an archive of material floating in the objective world.

reality is what i say it is, mofo! Dont forget that

I hope this helped you. Get to deleting that nonsense about troll metal!--Iconoclast 18:28, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

They shouldnt be. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Ill remove the bands and keep an eye out for other such edits. Leyasu 05:24, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Take into account this. A user contributed the article. Several more users edited it. I nominated it for AFD (deletion) and several users who hadnt come into contact with the article voted keep and merge. More users then merged it. More users then reverted your removel of the article.

That is hardly me doing anything more than reverting vandalism. Wikiepdia's NPOV policy dictates all POV's must be represented, thus yours will be as well. However, it remains, like it, or not. Leyasu 19:21, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Listen, I really don't care what wikipedia's policies are, Troll metal does not exist and whether or not people think it does is irrelevant. It does not, hence, it should not be listed. The only people who care about keeping it are people who want to role-play bureaucrats on their favorite online encyclopedia.

Break a rule; keep your sanity. It is a fair trade, I think. If you want to defend a paragraph that you know doesn't belong in there, then why defend it because the community of unqualified teenyboppers said it should be? It makes me wonder if you take pills....

This POV thing is nonsense. It isn't about what people want to think, it is about what is real. Troll metal does not exist, hence it doesn't belong. Screw the morons who think otherwise. They make my nappy hair soggy with sweat from anger and frustration. --Iconoclast 21:04, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Regardless of what you think, the policys stand for encyclopedic purpose. This is not about your personal views on fans, editors or policys. A large consensus has been reached that it shall be kept as part of the black metal article, that is that. Further removel will be considered vandalism, and excessive vandalism will cause someone to report you to an admin, which can result in being banned from Wikipedia permenantly in extreme cases.

I like how, on Wikipedia, if a group of uninformed people think something is true, it becomes the gospel truth and reinforced through systematic and dogmatic tyrannical groupthink. This is why I will never take Wikipedia seriously. 129.110.241.254 22:14, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

If you proclaim it isnt a part of Black Metal (i also agree, it isnt a subgenre, but is a term obviously used), then find something that says that, or implies it at least. As your word vs a large consensus isnt going to give you reason to remove it. Leyasu 21:25, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't mean to jump into the middle of a hot debate really, but I tried to delete bands like Opeth, Nargaroth, and Velvet Cacoon from the "troll metal" section. These bands are certainly not "troll metal"; Opeth isn't even black metal at all! The person who reverted my edit said that these bands were troll metal because they are bands of "internet trolls". I believe that's a bit ridiculous, as (aside from that statement being utterly POV) wasn't it established that if troll metal does exist, it's something akin to Finntroll – black metal music themed around the Scandinavian mythology of trolls? If so, then these bands absolutely do not meet the qualifications for being "troll metal". Why are they listed here, under a subgenre of black metal? -Night 05:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

It is because "the community" decided they should be kept. It was voted on democratically, after all. Are you suggesting that democracy is an unrepentable evil? Fascist!

Since troll metal is a description, not an actual subgenre, bands of internet trolls are allowed since they fit the description of "troll metal". If a band can be called "troll metal", then they belong under the umbrella of troll metal. Understand now?

It takes maturity to understand that sometimes, some things are true simply because most people believe them. If you feel otherwise you have maturity issues you need to deal with before contributing to this democratic, open-for-all encyclopedia. --Iconoclast 20:44, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Since when is the truth "democratic"? Anyone with a clue and real understanding about the history, evolution and current situation of black metal, and heavy metal in general, knows that "Troll metal" is not only not a real genre, but not even a commonly-used description of music groups like Finntroll or Mortiis. It especially has nothing to do with black metal, which is what the article is about. I love Wikipedia to death, but content-free disinformation and nonsense like this can be quite infuriating. -- Morri 19:14, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Morri. For the 13-something-years I have been involved in Black Metal there was a time around the mid-1990's when everyone made up new labels for every band out there, Troll Metal being one of them, but these "labels" quickly disappeared again when people realized it was black metal all the same. Some of these "Troll Metal" bands that are spoken of on the page are black metal bands with trolls in their lyrics (at varying degree), but there are black metal bands out there who also uses porno film sounds and naked women as part of their image. That doesn't make Porn Metal, Playboy Metal or Titties Metal anymore of a genre than Troll Metal. Mr. Death 08:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

"Troll metal" is something very different from black metal. It should be removed!

Again, the vote on the AFD was merge, and that has been done. If someone provides sources that discount the argument of Troll Metal, then it can most likely be removed. Until then, it stays. Leyasu 22:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

No offense, but I'm not really shure what black metal bands do you listen to. I would find it funny if someone who is listening to, for example, Immortal or Darkthrone, would say that 'troll metal' is a black metal subgenre?!? 'Troll metal' is a term accepted by the newcomers and people who generally listen to black metal for a year or two; it is not reckognised by people who listen to classic black metal bands. Do you get my point?

Felt that this interview was appropriate for the section. Its an interview with Mortiis by Nikki Neil. I found it here.

Nikki Neil:"I recently read an article, which stated that your are credited with starting the sub-genre of "Troll Metal". What the hell is Troll Metal?"

Mortiis:"I have no idea. I think the whole idea is pathetic. I never started or intended to start anything remotely as cheesy sounding as that. I think it’s a textbook example of lazy and ignorant journalists/album reviewers not having the faintest idea of what to do with a Mortiis album."

It seems to me that Troll Metal better describes Finntroll than Mortiis. marnues 02:09, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Websites interviews seem made up. The person who interviews the various people always seems to claim they are 'Nine Inch Nails'. Taken from the Static X interview on the site:

• Static-X fans - - you followed them through the Wisconsin Death Trip and even took a ride on the Machine. Now it’s time to jump into the Shadow Zone and discover a whole new realm of extreme metal.

Yes because using the word Cold as many times in every song they can is really extreme. The interview seems fake, and nothing else relating to Mortiis i can find supports the interview being done. In fact, non of the bands claim to have been interviewed by this person. Its also no suprise these sites can be done overnight, due to it being a free website provider.

Please find a better source. Leyasu 02:22, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

TROLL METAL IS DEFINITELY DEATH METAL, AND ALL WHO DISAGREE WILL PERISH!

Why do kids have to spam all the time? Mr. Death 11:13, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

The differences between Troll Metal and all other forms of Metal are as profound as those between ragtime and bebop - and Finntroll are the Charlie Parkers of the form. O'Zebedee April 14th

black thrash death core dark grind metal

...hasn't been invented yet but pretty soon one of you goofballs is going to apply that term to some new band. Seriously, from an outsiders perspective (although i am a fan of what i call "heavy metal music"), it is laughable at how this type of music has inspired so many sub-genres. Don't you people have anything better to do than to try and categorize every band into it's own unique musical style? Just call it all "metal" and be done with it. People must look at these pages and just laugh and laugh at your lot.

okay, i kinda agree that some of the sub-genres are kind of questionable, but calling it all "metal" would really make no sense. I mean, it's an extreme example, but Cacophony and Electric Wizard are both metal, but they're almost complete opposites. ALSO, even in less extreme cases, it's a helpful way for a fan of one band to find similar bands. And besides, if people actually use the different terms, wikipedia should mention them. And people DO use a lot of the terms.--Eel 01:08, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

After studyinf musical genres as comphrensivly and thoroughly as i have, and still am, doing. I would like to explain to our anomynous user friend, what a genre does in its exstance.

Genres start as small terms, to explain a certain small amount of bands in another genre of music, who do something that isnt akin to that music. in this case, Troll Metal is predominatly a fusion of Black Metal with Power Metal and Folk Metal aspects. This is known as a subform. The bands listed are inheritantly black metal, however due to the genres high density of bands within it, it is helpfull for fans to break it down into subgenres/subforms, for the sake of explaining different approachs to the music.

Over time, these subgenres often devolp their own scene, and a larger quanitity of bands performing that paticular style. At this time, as such, when this scene grows large enough to support, moniter, and become inclusive of itself all around the world, to the point it seperates itself from the genre it was part of, in this case black metal, it becomes a subgenre.

If, and note that i said if, a genre gets so large it is recognised all around the world, even by name to those that do not understand what it entails, and, if it inspires several forms of itself, it becomes what its best called a master genre for this exercise. Master genres in typicallity are Rock N Roll music and Heavy Metal music. Master Genres, become so large in density, that their scene and music is completely indepedent of other scenes, also inspiring several versions of themselfs, while keeping what makes it what it is. For example, and i am using a fictional crystal ball here to come up with a fictional prophecy, imagine this:

• Black Metal emerges, and grows big, with several subforms and groupings being used to group the expansive selection of bands within. Troll Metal grows past Black Metal and encompasses several subforms of itself, including variations of lyrical styles, troll types, and musical composition. Troll Metal gets so big, that its name is recognised throughout the world as an everyday form of music, and its subgenres/subforms grow their own sizable scenes, mostly independent of each other, while remaining synergetic with each other, and adopting the guise Troll Music to refer to them all. Troll Metal has become a master genre.

Do you see how this works now? I hope you do, as i explained it clearly enough i do believe. If you have questions for things you dont understand, ask and ill try to explain. But please, realise that just because you havent heard a term, doesnt mean it doesnt exist when so many more people are using it than yourself. Leyasu 03:09, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

The original "poster" is an idiot. He listens to music like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit and calls it "metal". Since metal is much more diverse than his nu-metal he has trouble forumulating thoughts within his small collection of neurons called his brain. Plus people of intelliegence are able to distinguish the metal genres quite easily. The OP needs to commit suicide.

This is slander and will not be tolerated on Wikipedia. Also, you are assuming the poster listens to Nu Metal, the fact he has made a distinguishment in the Black Metal scene would say otherwise. The section stays and you personal attacks will be noted. Leyasu 22:41, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Grow up, cyber yuppie. --Iconoclast 01:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Faggothic section and Norsecore

Someone fix this entry; Faggoth only refers to wanna-be black metal bands that add an excess of gothic metal shit.

Also, I haven't checked to see if Norsecore has it's own page, but if so it should be merged in the section explaining what faggoth means, and if not it should be mentioned, for reference as a derogative term.

Faggoth is a term that fans such as yourself use as a Neoglistic insult. Gothic Metal fans disappreciate the term as many other fans do. Both sides of this veiw are represented. Leyasu 22:28, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Many bands have been disputed about their belonging in this category, such as Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir... They have been called "Faggoth" due to their excess of the "gothic" look. The fact is, however, that these accessories used by these bands are purely show, just to draw in a unique audience. Among these looks are:

• spiked boots
• corpse make-up
• piercings
• long hair
• leather
• fishnet clothing
• finger armor
• spiked wristbands
• black nail polish
• black lipstick

These bands have also been disputed for their use of high-pitched guitars and shreiking vocals... many true black-metal fans are aware that the sound is not what is important, it is the message, otherwise popular "death-bands" such as Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden would not have cemented their names into black-metal history. The sound just makes the band more unique, searching for a special kind of audience.

Firstly. Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath are not Death Metal. Secondly, the above list are all used by many Black Metal bands for show, so their is no real difference between 2 bands doing it and 30 more doing it. Leyasu 02:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I find this treatment of the term 'Norsecore' as a serious genre by Wikipedia to be absurd. Norsecore, as known by all those involved in the metal scene, is simply a derogatory term for what is essentialy death metal or grindcore with a thin sheen of black metal layed on top. Not to say it's bad; Panzer Division Marduk is fucking awesome.

As a BM fan I have never heard of Faggoth, concerning Noisecore, this IS a serious genre in its own right, The artist Dan Doormouse mixed a compilation of Noisecore on Digitalhut Sounds a few years ago, consisting of fast noisy distorted droning techno, nothing to do with Black Metal. A.Grace 01:00, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but they were talking about Norsecore, not noisecore. Mr. Death 15:18, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

My mistake, never heard of norsecore (A.Grace 22:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC))

I've heard of Faggoth bands - we have quite the scene here in Akron, Ohio, mostly playing in basements. O'Zebedee

Black Metal Nick-names

Black Metal has plenty of nicknames. Below are a few:

• Satan Rock
• Goth Metal
• Dark Metal
• Demonoid Metal
• Death Metal
• Unholy Metal
• Possessed Metal
• Fear-Embedding Metal
• Blood Metal
• Termination Metal
• Pagan Metal
• Sacreligious Metal

The term Goth Metal has affiliation with [[1]], not Black Metal. Leyasu 02:08, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I have never heard anyone who knew anything about Black Metal refer to it as any of the following: Goth Metal, Demonoid Metal, Possessed Metal, Fear-Embedding Metal, Blood Metal, Termination Metal or Sacreligious Metal. Where do these terms come from? Besides, Death Metal is a music genre of its own, and the term Dark Metal I first heard coined by the German band Bethlehem, although I don't know if they did intend it another genre than Black Metal or just another alias for it. Mr. Death 09:02, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

This list seems to be comprised of real and made up genres, Fear-Embedding Metal?? and who the hell refers to black metal as death metal!! Here's some more made up BM nicknames.

• Jewellery Theft Metal
• Prison Guard Metal
• Spaghetti shapes in Tomato Sauce Metal

any more? A.Grace 01:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

• panda-paint metal
• Bowel-loosening metal

Big in albania 14:58, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Semitism in Black Metal Merge Proposal

The Anti-Semitism in Black Metal is short and doesn't have a very good NPOV. Perhaps a section could addressing anti-semitism (or criticisms) could be created? James084 23:28, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

With a blurb on National Socialist Black Metal added, I don't think this is necessary anymore.--Astrosa 03:29, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

troll metal and its profound effects

personally, i enjoy troll metal more than any other type of death metal. The plight of the trolls aren't expressed through music enough today, and to this day they are underapreciated, especially by those weakling Christians. I desire nothing more than to consume their flesh. If it were possible, I would be a troll and stalk the forests stalking my next victim, claiming my rite to the race, as Grendel dominated the humans of Herot

well, i hate to disagree, but i myself feel very partial to the cause of the dwarves. they are the true spawn of satan, and where as the trolls are hulking brutes, the dwarves are the great industrialists. they are the perfect symbol of my hate for humankind as they work behind the pictures, undermining human civilization. and they have awesome names. i wish i was born a dwarf. trolls suck

my name is schlomo lebowitz and i was just wondering why there aren't more jewish trolls?

Because the trolls ate them all

How do trolls mate? Just wondering

Can dwarves and trolls mate with each other? I think it would be awesome.

they can mate, but stories tell of frightening birth defects do to this.

Is it true that trolls constructed kingdoms with structures built out of pure hate? Or was it some sort of hate-concrete mixture?

Hey guys, in case you're interested in trolls. A great place to check is your local Mormon Temple.

Do trolls wear underwear or does it all hang out European style?

For the most part Trolls despise clothing, excluding, of course, battle armor.

In futrue, if you wish to practice your comedy sketches, please do so in your own home. Leyasu 12:10, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, Ive been reading the stuff these guys wrote, and I think its hilarious. C'mon, it's not like the rest of topics are actually that serious. Are you going to tell me troll metal is a serious topic? I'm glad to see some people have better things to do than talk about metal-- like make a parody of people who do.

This is serious discrimination, you know? I mean, i like Dark Elves, a friend has an avatar of a Drow, i know people that i'm pretty sure they are Goblins... what about our metals, eh? Seriously now, unless it has something to do with Abbath's tummy, Troll Metal makes no sense to me! Heck, maybe it's my fault but i never heard of this term 'till i came here! Ulfednar 06:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Pagan Metal

I suggest merging this section into subforms, in the same way we have done all of the other 'pet names' for bands due to their slight variance on one specific aspect of Black Metal. If there is no objection to this, i shall merge and redirect the article by tomorrow. Leyasu 13:16, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree completely; the article is extremely short and it would be really easy to merge the article. The only long part would be double-checking that all of the bands on there are on the list of black metal bands.

Edit- Pagan metal merge complete. -ilmets31 19:32, 6 February 2006

Just to clarify, the term Pagan Metal has about as much creedence to it as troll metal. Invented subgenre with nothing to distinguish it.

Somewhat like the term 'Torture Doom' that yew tried to make up then? Ley Shade 10:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Yet another classification by subjective terms. And if "pagan" refers to lirycal content, then there you have the Black Metal genre alltogether, i think! Anything satanic is part ( or entirely ) pagan, as satanism draws it's lore from ancient/pagan forms of religion. Ulfednar 06:16, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Pakistani black metal merge

Pakistani black metal isn't a stub. Hyacinth 13:49, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

and?

And so it doesn't need to be merged in with this article. It would be out of place here. Hyacinth 10:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Besides, regional scenes are treated separately. See for example {{World rock}} and {{Worldhiphop}}, although Pakistani black metal looks like it needs a cleanup, the merge is completely unjustified.

Considering that there is a World rock template, I would vote for keeping the Pakistani article, but it's terribly POV at the moment. Hopefully someone (who also has some knowledge on the subject ;)) can clean it up a bit. -- Mystman666 ^(Talk) 06:41, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Someone make the article longer, less POV and more article like, and then we shall hold a vote AFD style for what to do. Leyasu 07:52, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

No need to merge those two articles, since it is regional information. I am removing the merge template, since a merge is simply not feasible for reasons mentioned above. And users who say that Pakistani Black metal is joke, irrelevant, etc., i ask you what do you know about Pakistan ? So, from now on don't mess with metal's popularity. Gothic Hero 09:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

And by the way, check the regional scences under the infobox, United States black metal scene redirects to USBM, which is US Beaureau of Mines. What a joke ! Gothic Hero 09:05, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Missing a great article

Hi ! For those here who speak french, just to inform this article is lacking of the objective description we can see on fr.wikipedia.org :-) http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_metal#Caract.C3.A9ristiques_musicales

quote :

"on peut même parler d'"anti-musique" car les compositions du groupe ne sont que des bruits stridents et oppressants posés les uns sur les autres, le tout accompagné de cris démentiels et psychopathes." (trying to translate : One can even regard that as "anti-music", for the group's compositions are nothing else than strident and oppressing noises put together, with demential and pyschopathic shouts)

Controversy in Malaysia

I think That This Article Should Be Moved To The History Section Frenrir1 02:35, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Complete rewrite

Holy crap. Troll Metal? This whole article needs one good re-write. I'ts quite simply terrible at this point. I think that the auhtors who first wrote about rhese subgenres decided to overlable things a bit.

They were kept after AFD, and said to be merged here. Thus they have been. The article is in a state of disrepair, however. The article doesnt need a complete rewrite, but does need an overhaul. Overhaul it if yew wish Nargos, but make sure not to loose any information. I suggest doing it on a temp page, for instance Black Metal/Temp, should suffice. Ley Shade 18:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. While I have very litte trouble with the chracterisitics/history section, I think that this whole subgenre section will need a good revamping, which I will do on a temp page when I have the time. --Nargos 22:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Articles that should be merged into here are

• NSBM
• Blackened death metal
• melodic black metal
• all regional BM related articles
• maybe some others

Spearhead 16:15, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Blackened death metal should be in the Death Metal article. The rest are all fine to merge here. Ley Shade 22:21, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

This is a great idea. Good luck to those who do this. marnues 01:14, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

merge with pakistani black metal

In accordance with the AFD this pakistani black metal article was merged. Dunno if this is the most appropriate place, but serves as a place holder for now. And it needs a good cleanup too. I merged some parts into the pakistani music article tho. Spearhead 16:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Having an article that focuses exclusively on black metal in Pakistan isn't the best of ideas. What's to stop a section about black metal from Norway, Sweden, USA, Finland, Poland, Ukrain, etc, where the black metal scene is much bigger? It feels like the person who wrote the section on pakistani black metal did so mostly because of the giggles it would produce: black metal in a predominantly muslim third world country. I don't think the merge was a good idea, nor is it a good idea to devote such a large chunk fof this article to pakistani black metal. Of course, I see no harm in mentioning in this article that black metal is present even in Pakistan, but not that much more. --Nargos 18:06, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

The AFD chose what to do. This article needs a overhaul anyways, so someone should be improving it. How about yew doing it, Nargos? Ley Shade 19:02, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I plan on doing so when my final projects are handed in. Until then, the most I can permit myself to do are minor edits here and there. I also need to do some work on a proposal for the heavy metal section.--Nargos 21:44, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I totally agree that this section is out of place. Unfortunately I wasn't aware of the AfD. I mean, I was skipping through the article, was very perplexed by the section on faggoth (???!!), mildly surprised by the troll metal section and fairly intrigued by the war metal one (are these seriously 2 of the most important sub-forms, whereas symphonic black metal or folk black metal don't even have a section?)... But when I got to the pakistani metal bands, that really blew me away.

I tried to find info on those bands. I could find neither Miasma nor Void in the Metal Archives, Taarma doesn't even have a full-length album, and I couldn't find any info on Northern Alliance's discography (either in the metal pages or on google). In fact, Taarma are from Afghanistan, not Pakistan ([2],[3]).

I don't think this information should be lost, but it clearly shouldn't be here. If someone wants to learn more about black metal and visits the page, they might think that either these bands are really famous, or it is somehow a big deal that a couple of bands are recording demos in Pakistan. If someone with some knowledge of black metal visits the page, they'll just be really surprised to see such a big section on something they had clearly never heard of and will probably not hear of again unless they go to live in Pakistan. In either case it really doesn't make the article better quality. I don't suppose anyone wants to AfD the section again as it has already been done, but for my part I don't see why this can't be on a separate article and have a link on the black metal page.

I don't really feel comfortable with doing the overhaul, but if it was up to me I would thoroughly change the subforms section, adding some more important ones (as I mentionned above). And seriously, there's all this deal about pirate metal, but troll metal gets even less hits on google (9760 vs. 13900/ "troll metal + music gets 685 hits vs. 11700 for "pirate metal" + music!!!!). Does the fact that a band sings about something (ie. Trolls, pirates, sci-fi, Tolkien, etc.) define their genre? Why not have a sci-fi metal and a Tolkien metal? Well, that's just my opinion anyway. --IronChris 00:05, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Because firstly, Folk Metal is here, and the Symphonic Black Metal is listed here. We understand that the article needs a copyedit, which also means losing no information on it. Like agreed, Nargos has been placed in the position of copyediting the article on a temp page like, this one, with the supervision of myself and Spearhead. Ley Shade 09:45, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't major sub-genres at least be mentioned and linked to? It doesn't seem like justice is being done when Symphonic Black Metal(arguably the most well known sub/cross-genre) isn't even mentioned. marnues 23:04, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

speaking as a newcomer (don't bite please!) and wishing to throw my 2 cents into this discussion, i think the best option is to get rid of the pakistani section completely as non-notable. Big in albania 18:58, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Difference between black metal and thrash???

What's the differnce bewteen thrash and black metal? It seems so much similar...will someone please explain it to me? Thanks! :)

Actually, what is known as the first wave of black metal is basically a form of thrash. Bathory is musically very similar to thrash. However later bands moved further away from thrash. I'm not a musician myself, so I can't tell you what it is musically, but there is generally a greater emphasis on atmosphere and the lyrics are considered evil for one reason or another. Of course there are no hard set rules, but most bands who are distinctly black metal follow them. marnues 04:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh yeah, obviously Satyricon's Nemesis Divina and Tankard's Kings of Beer albums are identical! Come on! Ulfednar 06:19, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

"Black" Metal

Why is this genre called black metal when most of the people in this scene are racists and fascists?

• Because black has other meanings than this one. Same thing goes for Black comedy. Denis C. 19:55, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Calling people racists and fascists is a serious insult. At least if you had any arguments to back up your theory I might accept talking this over, but you obviously know nothing about the subject. So please, don't talk about things you don't know about. Obviously there are racists and fascist black metal bands, just like there are racist and fascist pop bands, racist and fascist classical composers, rascist and fascist rap artists... but this is a minority. So please, look at the facts before being insulting. --IronChris 20:20, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Not every hiphop group is also unfriendly regarding women and preaching male domination over the femal part of mankind (pimps and hoes), although sometimes it may appear as such. True, there are racists and fascists among black metal groups (National Socialist black metal), but won't you find these also elsewhere? Black metal and it's sub-genres often deal with paganism (turning into anti-christian and satanist tendencies) and ancient history of the Nordic countries, but being proud of your national or religious heritage is not automatically a racist or fascist act. Brynnar 12:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

With regard to racist attitudes being the in the minority view, it is worth mentioning that prominent bands such as Darkthrone and Mayhem have racist comments and attitudes attributed to them. Fenriz caused a stir when he challenged that anyone daring to criticise a Darkthrone recording should be "patronised for their obvious jewish behaviour". The same recording also featured the slogan 'Norsk Arisk Black Metal' (Norwegian Aryan Black Metal) on the back. Hellhammer, drummer of Mayhem is also purported to have stated in an interview reprinted in Michael Moynihan's 'Lords Of Chaos' that Black Metal is for whites and the prime movers within the Norwegian scene despise black people and felt that the arson incidents would have served a better purpose if mosques or synagogues had been burned instead. Emgee 7 April '06

The term black metal is a pun on black magic, and in no way refers to black people. Though there are a prominent amount of racists within the black metal scene, it is unfair to say that "most of the people in this scene are racists and fascists".

First off i'd like to state that any person who considers there are more than one type of humans on Earth ( that being, obviously, PEOPLE ) is a racist! As long as idiots don't see that and try to "fight against discrimination" we'll have nothing good on our hands. Now that i got that off my chest, the fact that there are guys out there who, by their own persona, have something against something should have no effect on their music ( not saying lyrics, just music) and much less so on the genre they approach! I might me a gay-bashing mysoginistic racist xenophobic church-burning sonuvabitch, but if i just pick my guitar you won't be able to see that, will you? And "most of the people in this scene are racists and fascists?" is just another crappy invitation to unnecessary fucking-up of other human beings. More people like this and i'll get stabbed in the street for wearing my Satyricon shirt, thus showing off my alegiance to Satan, Nazis and The Ku Klux Klan! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Mhrrr! Ulfednar 06:27, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Reverts?

Will people kindly stop replacing the faggoth and pakistani sections in this article without good reason PLEASE. Big in albania 00:38, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

• Those sections were removed to improve the article, not as page blanking vandalism! Big in albania 00:52, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes this "faggoth" business is getting tiring. If you have any comments about its deletion, please put them above, in the section Concerning "faggoth". --IronChris 01:11, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

The section of Cyber Metal has been created by a user who openly admitted to coining the term Cyber Metal and creating an article for it. The article was deleted and then recreated by that user in violation of AFD. The article was then speedy deleted, so the user has tried to force it here. That is why its been removed, because its in violation of AFD and WP:NOT.

OK, I wasn't aware of that. Although he probably didn't coin the term himself as I've already seen it in magazines and it scores over 36.000 hits on Google, 3 times more than troll metal (12.000 hits). However if there was an agreement to delete it then go ahead. I don't agree with that (maybe the black metal page isn't the right place for it, but cyber metal certainly is notable and passes the Google test easily) but if there was a discussion on the subject I accept that. Someone will have to explain to me why troll metal and war metal are kept while cyber metal is not though, that just isn't logical. --IronChris 18:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I think all 3 (and maybe even Pirate metal? I don't even know if this is a BM sub-genre) should be discussed though in a much less important capacity than currently. They certainly don't each need a subsection. Plus the whole sub-genre controversy could be given some detail. marnues 19:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, I understand that we can't go around coining terms and creating names of genres for every little variation in lyrics, melody, rythm, etc. Think of someone who wants to learn more about Black Metal and who visits this article, just what are they going to think? They're just going to be confused because they'll read this long list of subgenres they had never heard of before and will probably never hear of again. I, for instance, have never heard of "faggoth" or "war metal" anywhere else than here. I have heard of cyber metal (though not often) and definitely I've heard about -and you probably have too- folk black metal (which includes most of troll metal) and symphonic black metal, but they aren't featured in this article. So we definitely need everyone to agree on what's important to include here and what isn't.

As for pirate metal, some people believe it is a valid subgenre of power metal as it scores 14.100 hits on google, but this is open to debate. I would like to point out that this is more hits than troll metal (12.100 hits), but pirate metal is not even mentionned anywhere in Wikipedia except on the article of the main "pirate metal" band, Running Wild. Also, "pirate metal" has 22 times more google hits than "faggoth" (652 hits), "cyber metal" has 57 times more (36.800 hits), but faggoth remains and the other two are deleted. We need some form of concensus here, and fast, if we want to prevent edit wars and raise these articles to a good quality standard (they are just too confusing in their present state and get edited and reverted constantly, which is ridiculous).

Why don't we just discuss all these different subgenres on the same page, for example, the Wikiproject Metal talk page? --IronChris 20:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I started a discussion about subgenres on the talk page of the WikiProject Metal. Please discuss the issues about keeping or deleting the controversial sections there. Don't just delete or restore them without explaining yourself, or this will go on for ever. You can add other controversial sub-genres there if you like, and we can discuss them too. Let's reach an agreement at last, or this page will be condemned to endless reverts. --IronChris 21:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Why is "faggoth" back?

Leyasu, can you explain why you restored the "faggoth" section? What AfD are you talking about? There has been a discussion going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Metal#Faggoth (on the black metal page), to which you are of course welcome to participate, and for the moment there is unanimous opposition to this section (and several of the following ones). Restoring this section is therefore completely illogical. --IronChris | (talk) 19:42, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Because its article went through AFD and was voted to be merged here, thus removing it is a violation of AFD. I already explained this on the talk page for the Wikiproject. Ley Shade 19:54, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Well obviously that AfD was not representative of most people's opinion, as shown by this discussion. Besides, next to no-one voted on the AfD, which also makes me think that it was not representative. It is obvious that if that AfD took place now, the outcome would be very different. I guess this is one of the reasons why voting is not encouraged on Wikipedia, and if we follow the guideline that discussions are better than polls, then this section should be deleted. Your commennts would have been greatly welcome in the discussion on the WkiProject Metal talk page, too bad you didn't think of drawing our attention to the AfD so that we could have taken it into account. --IronChris | (talk) 20:22, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually at the time i was banned and couldnt post, otherwise i would have. Im not stupid, so dont talk down to me ¬¬ Ley Shade 21:17, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't know you were banned. I never said you were stupid, it's just that it would be a great deal easier if we could work together and not in opposition on this. I was in a hurry yesterday and may have appeared harsher than I wished to. I will not delete the faggoth section right away as I want to avoid edit wars (hence the discussion on the WikiProject page),but when I close the subject something will have to be done, AfD or no AfD. --IronChris | (talk) 22:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Please get rid of this unsightly section. Faggoth is a derogatory term hurled at people who dress up goth and listen to trite. --Lone Isle 15:54, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Varg Vikernes and Nazism

I should bring to the attention of this article that Varg Vikernes of Burzum no longer considers himself a nazi. In his article "A Burzum Story: Part VII - The Nazi Ghost" on www.burzum.org, he claims that he foolishly used the term Nazi in his youth to discribe his views. However he feels it no longer an accurate discription of his political views. He has been using the term "odalism" to discribe his views sence the late 90's. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.174.66.206 (talk • contribs) .

Can we finally get rid of the subforms sections?

These are totally terrible. I think (nearly) everyone agreed to have them deleted on the Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Metal#Faggoth_.28on_the_black_metal_page.29 page. If no one has strong objections, I'll remove them in the next couple of days or so... Spearhead 21:42, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Please do so. marnues 02:23, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely, that would be great. --IronChris | (talk) 02:37, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, please. dbtfz^talk 02:39, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, go ahead. Votes are nearly all unanimous, save for Cyber metal (which has 2x keep, 2x merge and 1x delete). Perhaps we can put this item to merge with industrial metal, but I suspect that there will be another dicussion about this :-) Any suggestions? Brynnar 13:05, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

please discuss it if you like but under a different heading (start a new one if you like). I am in particular referring here to Faggoth, Troll metal, War metal. Spearhead 13:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

i have rewrote alot of stuff from the war metal section. it is a perfectly reasonable sub-genre with a large number of bands playing it. Info such as "troll metal" should be deleted, and probably "faggothic". but it might be worth mentioning that the term "faggothic" has been applied to a lot of bands, though is not a genre, usually an insult to the more melodic, gothic sounding black metal bands. what it says about 'faggoth' now is pretty accurate.

pemission to remove the 'disputed' banner from the war metal section? if anyone has any problemswith what it saya at the moment then post here and it can be discussed. but it most certainly is a sub-genre rather than just a pointless label. unsigned comment

I deleted Faggoth and Troll metal as per agreed above. I guess we can also safely a some undoing this is an act of vandalism? Since someone took some effort to re-write War metal, what do we do with this? Spearhead 15:04, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Good job. OK for removing the dispute banner for war metal. Any reverts can safely be considered as vandalism I think. Thanks! IronChris | (talk) 16:05, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi. i re-wrote the war metal article a few days ago (see above post) and its all be reverted to what it said before and is wildly inaccurate (to the point that i believe the person who originally wrote that has very little knowledge of the sub-genre at all). i was going to add quite a bit more because what i wrote last time was kind of rushed. why was it reverted? is what i wrote inaccurate? i know for a fact that what i wrote was a lot more bloody accurate than whats there now. e.g. "War metal is a black metal offshoot sub-genre that, since the release of a now infamous split between the bands Black Witchery and Conqueror, has been used to describe a certain sound". that split came out in 2001 and the term has been in use for much longer than that, as well as a large number of war metal bands existing prior to that!

Ive changed it back to its previous form (what i wrote) and changed a few parts but ill probably re-write a lot of it as its a bit poorly-worded. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.219.131.2 (talk • contribs) .

Yeah, well considering the amount of vandalism/blanking/restoring on this page, I think many people have become a bit "revert-happy". Maybe you should consider getting an account (that might make things easier for one thing). I couldn't see your previous edit, did you use another IP? Anyway I know little about war metal so I wouldn't be able to check if it was right anyway. But I think that now that some of the most controversial sections have rightly been removed, we should chill out on the reverting sometimes (though as I couldn't find your edit I don't know if it was justified or not). Regards IronChris | (talk) 16:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Faggoth has been cleared coz its noted on the Gothic Metal article now, instead of here. As for the other one that was deleted, i am readding it due to violation of AFD, and whoever deletes it again i will report to the admin noticeboard for violation of that AFD. Ley Shade 14:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

How difficult is it to understand that it is not wanted on this page. I have removed this again. Store it on your user space if you value it. Spearhead 15:19, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Wether you want it or not, you cannot violate Policy, that is Vandalism. If you want it gone, you will have to author an AFD and/or an RFC on the section. Undermining policy is vandalism, and i dont stand for it. In my view, the section can go to the deepest realms of deletion, but if it gets gone, it gets gone the proper way. That means, not violating Policy just because you want it gone. Ley Shade 15:25, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Go report it and see what happens.... Spearhead 15:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Done. And last time someone violated AFD they got a one week ban, for the exact same thing as youve done. General good faith doesnt excuse you vandalisng. This is something you need to realise.

Ley Shade 15:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

"Vandal, vandalism, violation of AfD, block, ban"... Are these the only words you can come up with, LS? I thought that Wikipedia was based on discussion, but it's obvious that for you it's based on threatening other people. I think I've read 3 or 4 messages today from you saying "don't do this or I will get you banned". Which, considering the number of times you got blocked yourself is some heavy irony. PLEASE stop this annoying conduct, if you have a point, give your arguments. If there's a policy you cite, give the link. We're all ready to see your arguments and weigh them up like we do for anyone else.

About the AfDs, I haven't seen any policy that says that they are the final word. On the contrary, it seems to me that an AfD only serves to try to reach a concensus, and if no clear concensus is reached, it can be overlooked. You are so fond of citing WP:NOT, so I think you should re-read the section WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy about how wikipedia is based on discussion, not voting, and certainly not threats. If you followed just that, it would make things considerably more easy and enjoyable for yourself and for everyone else.

And please don't say "IronChris, WP:NPA!", because there is no personal attack to be found here, just advice. IronChris | (talk) 18:30, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Troll metal: Where next?

• I think we've hit a loophole in policy here guys, Ley (wb) is right in asserting that Troll metal was "kept" (VfD here), which means there is a place for it on WP and it shouldn't really be merged to one article and then quietly slid off the face of WP through the back door after discussion on another talk page. However, when topics like this are kept it is up to interested parties (e.g. WikiProject Metal members) to find the right place to put it. Consensus rules, but AfD consensus overrides talk page consensus. I think that we should either a) agree to create an odds and ends page of Minor heavy metal scenes and sub-genres or at least b) discuss this further at WP:HMM, where members should be about where Troll metal fits best, not who will get the better of hanging this up on the admin's board. Deizio 16:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

the AFD states "keep" maybe recreation of troll metal then is a good temporary solution (and perhaps put it up for AFD again). Spearhead 16:37, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

concerning minor genres I don't think that they deserve any place on WP - they're not minor for nothing and hence not notableSpearhead 16:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

"True black metal"

Just a little question, should there be a mention of "true black metal" in the article? It's an expression that's quite widespread (85200 google hits for example) for bands such as Emperor or Abigor. I think there should be something about it in the subforms. Tell me what you think. IronChris | (talk) 16:08, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

true black metal is probably very POV and not a proper subgenre, nevertheless it can be mentioned somewhere as some BM seem to think it is important. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spearhead (talk • contribs) .

I don't think it should be a subform. But the article should definitely reflect the fact that there is a large number of people who are black metal purists and resist any sort of change from the early 90's black metal bands. Then it should probably be said that all bands which originally made such music have either moved on or disbanded. marnues 22:50, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

NO. There is no such thing as true black metal, it is simply called Black Metal. It's the new black metal that is different (modern black metal) and there are other similar genres of black metal, like symphonic black, necro black, etc.. People may use the phrase "tr00" or "kvlt" when trying to look cool or describe the age of certain black metal, but it's not a genre or any kind of classification. The genres are so overly messed up in metal because of people who are uneducated, or new to the scenes. --Oinkness 23:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

It remains a fact that lots of people use the term. Maybe this should be pointed out and explained, even if it isn't a subgenre. You say it isn't a subgenre, Oinkness, but I don't think "battle metal" is a genre at all. But that's just my opinion ;-) On this subject, did you check out epic metal? Though I think it's not a very good article (not at all in fact), there is a section on battle metal.

Although I originally introduced the subject of "true black metal", it was just an idea, I don't have sufficient knowledge about it to write something. So if someone can write a few sentences to explain it that would be cool (unless the concensus is to ignore "true black", then that's cool too). Take care, IronChris | (talk) 00:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

The concept of "true" Black Metal is so widespread i think it warrents a mention, though i don't think you can really consider it a subgenre as such. There are certain aspects of BM that are frequently used by bands claiming to be true - harsh, lo fi production for example. There was a BM special in Terrorizer a few months ago that listed a few unique practises of BM, i will have to dig it out and read it again. Big in albania 13:43, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

True in Black Metal means pretty much a band that is considered so by someone who cosiders him/herself true... One big tail-chase imo. Like yeah, i believe TRUE BLACK would be a band that plays Black Metal out of passion for it and finding that particular genre fit for expressing whatever it has to express, but i have been contradicted on this before, so maybe i'm wrong. But definitely NOT a genre and/or subgenre! No more than "KVLT" could be considered a genre! Ulfednar 06:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

True, but the terms "Kvlt", "Necro" and "trOO" etc are still unigue to this genre and carry certain conotations - just look at the number of bands using the "True Norwegian Black Metal" slogan on their albums, or variations of it. This info would be useful to the article for laymen to understand the genre better through understanding some of the slang used by fans. If you knew nothing of BM, would you know that Kvlt basically = hardcore? Big in albania 13:10, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah "true black" does mean a certain type of black metal, not just "the kind of BM I like and think it's true stuff". If someone with limited knowledge of BM, but who likes symphonic BM such as Dimmu Burger (no offence, I like it myself :P) sees the term "true black metal", they should know that it is very different (and that they might not like it!).

But all this is kind of hollow talk as the section/paragraph (/sentence!) doesn't even exist yet; someone should create it and we can refine it afterwards. IronChris | (talk) 00:21, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Sentence has been added. Big in albania 17:30, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Why don't you guys actually try to find out about the history behind Black Metal and the Black Metal scene in the Scandinavian? Somehow the article in Wiki that talks about it is only true to a certain extent. Why must we actually care about "True Black Metal"? Everything in this world can be true. You can lie but it's true that you have lied. What more about Black Metal being so true? And yes, Black Metal is not cool. Their terms and signs are not cool. Black Metal enthusiasts should not admire Black Metal just because it's cool. This is not the correct way to appreciate music. Black Metal is just a sub-genre out of many other Metal sub-genres. But please, don't mix Pagan Metal and War Metal with Black Metal. Black Metal may contain certain elements of the other two genres, but Black Metal is just purely a genre itself without other major influences from other genres[not even Death Metal].

-Young metal-listener Singaporean. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 219.75.92.106 (talk • contribs) .

As debated above, "True" in Black Metal carries certain connotations specific to the genre that warrents mention of the term in the article. Big in albania 13:34, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Lack of Comprehension

Every time I search for a subject to find information on, there is a discussion going on about wrong information, debates about relativity between genres, and all kinds of crap. Seriously, I looked for battle metal and it brought me to the black metal page. Black metal and battle metal are NOT THE SAME or similar at all, despite any possibly influencial relations between the genres. Thus, they should not be grouped into a single wiki... Battle Metal shouldn't be stuck on the black metal page, just as progressive metal is not the same as progressive rock.

I know, sometimes it can be confusing all these different metal genres, but it's really not that hard to figure out. There is no influence on black metal from punk, that is an ignorant statement. There may be punk influence on INDUSTRIAL BLACK METAL, but that's a completely different genre.

Thanks for taking the time to read. :) --Oinkness 23:53, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

I think it's quite an ignorant statement to say that there are no influence from punk in black metal. Of course it is. Celtic Frost, Venom, Slayer, etc. They are probably all very punk influenced, and so in extension punk have influenced for example Darkthrone, and those influenced by Darkthrone, and so on. But anyway, who cares, there are too many genres as it is. Why not just say there's Black Metal and be done with it. Oh my god (i.e. Satan), I hate genres... Mr. Death 15:23, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

What is Battle Metal anyway? Ulfednar 06:34, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

War metal

Does this section warrant inclusion. Methinks it is made a minor, or even a made-up genre name that has no place on WP. Spearhead 22:32, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

I think it's minor. If that proposition of creating a page for minor genres leads to something, I think that would be the place. Of all the bands named, only one has an article on Wikipedia (Axis of Advance), and not even a very good one.

There is also a snide comment on Troll Metal which is totally out of place ("has become more accepted as a genuine sub-genre (as opposed to a meaningless label applied to a select group of bands such as 'Troll Metal')"), and POV such as "Many even consider it a more relevant sub-genre of black metal than National Socialist Black Metal or pagan metal ".

Even if it stays (for which I see no reason), it should be greatly improved to show notability, a better tone and NPOV. IronChris | (talk) 23:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

It IS a minor subgenre of black metal, but it isn't made up. I'm surprised you people don't even know what it is. War metal is a brutal combination of black, death, thrash. Some examples of war metal would be Black Witchery, Conqueror, Impiety (Skullfucking Armageddon-era), Sarcófago (early), and Ouroboros. Pasajero 21:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, if you say so. It's still sad that none of those bands have an article so that we can see some examples. IronChris | (talk) 02:05, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't know where you are from but in Australia bands like Battalion have a large presence in the black metal community. Their music is a mixture of black, death and speed metal and consist of members from BM bands which are some of Australia's best (even though there is not much BM in Aus). http://www.dbmagazine.com.au/339/iv-Battalion.shtml this article is pretty good at explaining the relationship they have between war metal and black metal. \m/

If in doubt, ask on metal archives forum about the following points.

1) is war metal more of a genre than NSBM? (because nsbm is a genre with only one specific characteristic, the bands political ideology, which is irrelevent to the music especially seeing as many nsbm bands do not use NS-orientated lyrics. graveland for example. whereas war metal has specific MUSICAL characteristics.) 2) "troll metal". what i wrote wasn't a snide comment towards the "sub-genre of troll metal", but a fact that war metal isn't dictated by lyrics, but by musical factors. try asking for 'troll metal' reccomendations on a forum and see what responses you get. then try asking for war metal reccomendations on a forum and you'll see the same names come up on any metal forum (i.e. blasphemy, conqueror, AoA etc) But as far as im concerned you can delete the whole war metal part of this article. i added some info (which ive been meaning to make more detailed), but ive used wikipedia as a source of info long enough to know that its wildly innaccurate to the point of being worthless.