(07-28-2013, 06:48 AM)drosales Писал(а):

(10-04-2012, 09:30 AM)SorgensK Писал(а): Generally my infatuation with metal began at the age 8 years old. My father used to listen to Iron Maiden, Nazerth, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and other bands flowing with the "Rock" and "Metal" at that stage. At school, my friends listened to the more extreme. So, that is where it became for me. High school it became more aggressive, that wanting, the urge of having and listening to the most extreme possible. Discovering bands like Goatwhore, Gorgoroth, Marduk, Behexen (omg awesome band), Behemoth, Xasthur, Satyricon, Burzum. Black Metal became a part of my living, existence, structure of life. Now I listen to anything that has good beat, metal preferably.
My style in Metal changed, from Pure Black Metal, to Death Metal. Goregrind, Grindcore. I do not look like a metal head though, just a great supporter of the bands, their instrumental capabilities and willingness to share it with the world... It is hard to find that others appreciated it as much as you do? Or you have never met them before. =) that is pretty much my story in a nutshell.

Are you the kind who likes to analyze and dig deeper into style and lyrics? My discovery of extreme metal came later in life after having been raised with classical music, prog rock and some latin american folk. So my journey through extreme metal came later and a little different. I share your admiration for some of the bands you mentioned such as Burzum. Yet I hold others in contempt for how superficial they are, such as Marduk. They are limited to an unoriginal (yes, they just copied a fast-bullet style from others) approach and have lyrics that are utter nonsensical crap. I found myself unable to admire bands with so little intellect. I contrast this to Burzum.
So going back to the previous question, how seriously do you take what you listen to? I ask out of curiosity because many metalheads seem to only look for "oh this sounds fast and aggressive and extreme, yeah!!" and that's it. Or "oh, this sounds old school, it's great", and there is little regard for a band having its own voice, for QUALITY of the lyrics or songwriting.

I also share yours admiration for Burzum, but I don't share the last opinion about Marduk. First of all it's only my opinion and maybe a matter of taste that can be different inside the same genre, but, althought for some album you are right, they have composed some album that I found original look like opus nocturne first of all and nightwing. Also panzer divsion, that's true, there are similar albums from others band but I found it very well constructed if you look for an album of that kind, in the end I found you right in your opinion about re-making more ep in this style due to the album success by Marduk themselves. And since mortuus enjoyed the band they tryed to create something new...in my opinion they can do better but they don't remained completely in the same style..!

For your second opinion I agree totally with you! I think most of the band are influenced each others, but for some bands this is not synonymous of coping each others, they just listen, appreciate athmospheres, concepts, riff, but after that they try to make its own album with its own thinking and riff...for this band listenig others albums is just making his experience, ability to compose ecc more large and not copying! But for others band, expecially with the standard phrases that you expose, the situation is different and they remain in a style (or better in a way to make a kind of music) that is always the same quite as if a genre were dead and there aren't possible others way to play it but just that way...! But I think there are always ways to play a genre!

In the end I speak about the main tread, I begun to listen metal at 14 years old. Before that I used to listen hardcore punk and oi, because my brother (5 years older than me) collected a large number of that kind of cd. I liked it but althought I still enjoy it, is not a genre that I can call "mine", but maybe it prepared me to look for something that I will really appreciate and that was metal. At 14 I begun with the classics (slayer, iron maiden, blind guardian) and some nu metal (slipknot, rob zombie) and also I looked for other band/genres of metal, which in some cases I enjoyed and in others not. Now since more or less 5 years I am listening most of all black metal! That's because I like extreme music and because I think that black metal have a large sub-genres variety and to found the best (for your own taste) in this genre, you have to spend time, but in that way you can find very good band!