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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Sorry to disagree, but that honor goes to Neo Yokio. Absolute masterpiece.

I've never heard of this! It seems like Production IG are everywhere now!

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

Were Darkthrone ever problematic, though? They seemed to be one of the few ones from that era that weren't.

Ah, well, there was that thing when Hunger came out where Fenriz was all like, "If you don't like the record, you're being Jewish", and Peaceville were all like, "wait, wait, they don't mean it like that, it's just slang", which, growing up in that time period, I can attest it was, then their next record was literally called Panzerfaust. People didn't like that. I never got the impression they meant it maliciously, they were just dumb kids, we were all dumb kids—if anything I think I caused more of a problem turning up for Shul every Saturday proclaiming myself to be queer, but I have friends who won't listen to Darkthrone because of this. I guess it's where you draw the line, and I wouldn't want to tell anyone where that should be as it's very personal. A lot of people tell me that Marduk aren't that bad, but I know that for me, that line is certainly there, and I don't want to deal with them so it would be wrong of me to tell them someone need to start listening to Darkthrone regardless.

Also, I'm literally awful and still own a Burzum shirt despite the fact that I am the last person our boy Varg would want listening to his music, haha.

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

This topic is going to get derailed so hard, and as much as we don't really want it to...you know you secretly do. Admit it. The box has opened and we're going to revel in every moment of it.

I can't help being overexcitable about music! This is my catnip, especially this horrible extreme noise, hahah.

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

I was never super into black metal, but I always appreciated the atmosphere of all that raw stuff. Actually, I don't really even enjoy the more modern, polished attempts at the genre, unless they cross over with other genres, like Enslaved, Triptykon, Deafheaven, etc.

I like a lot of modern takes on the genre. Literally the last concert I was at before lockdown was Alcest, and I think that black metal really works super well when combined with shoegaze. My true love is just pure hateful noise, but, you know, sometimes it's nice to listen to a band who are just like four guys in jeans or whatever, lol.

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

But even then, 90% of what I listen to is either mid-2000s emo bands or Asian rock and pop.

There's a beautiful black metal scene in Japan! I try and go out there once year, because it adds a little bit of spice to this silly little black metal fanzine I write, and there are some really amazing bands like Asunojokei, Ebola, and Hibari in Japan right now. Cataplexy, one of my favourite Japanese black metal bands, are like so authentic, when I first heard them I genuinely thought they were Norwegian, haha. There's also Coffins, who I think everyone should adore as they've been around forever and they blur the line so much between black metal-doom-death so much, and they're just so much fun every time I see them.

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

(By the way, Enslaved were one of the best concerts I've ever been to, and I highly suggest seeing them should the opportunity present itself.)

I've still never seen Enslaved, but they've been on my list for a while. One day maybe... whenever gigs actually happen again.

*ahem* back on topic.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Aggretsuko is pretty fun. Very enjoyable series. Still need to finish it up, though

I must admit I feel really stupid having watched the trailer and not having seen the show for so long as I really, really related to the office worker/death growling in karaoke after-hours angle... that... that brings back some memories, hahaha.