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New site? Maybe some day. 
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“Transcendental Black Metal,” a lecture by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, the young singer and guitarist of the Brooklyn band Liturgy, gave the Nordic black-metal tradition a stern challenge, and amounted to an artistic manifesto for his own band. He discussed how America represents “dignity, freedom, renewal and hybridization,” and suggested that these qualities could be represented in a new form of black metal. He proposed a new rhythm to replace the blast beat: the “burst beat,” by which rhythm can contract and expand in time, as in free jazz. He cited Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” and Ornette Coleman’s “Skies of America” as philosophical models, with their “joyful experience of the continuity of existence.” He talked of “life and hypertrophy” replacing “death and atrophy,” and in his own way he was as nonnegotiable as Ovskum: “Our affirmation is a refusal to deny.” |
wait, what? |
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I like how they managed to work in a shot of Immortal (for the corpsepaint-y cartoon angle) and then namechecked like every US hipster BM band. I'm surpsrised they didn't work in Sunn. |
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They also manage to praise US bands for stripping the music of "tribalism, violence or antireligious malevolence," and turning it into some tweed-jacket wearing philosophy trip. YEAH THANKS GUYS, GOOD WORK |
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Gaucher, "Tribalism, Violence and Antireligious Malevolence" should be the tag on the MySpace. We can replace "Negroid Excesses of Tempo". |
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that pretty much summed up why i hate everything post-1999. |
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ahahahaha.....so I should start writing lyrics about dignity, freedom, renewal and hybridization, life and hypertrophy, and quote Emerson? |
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| Tribalism, Violence and Antireligious Malevolence |
I like that. |
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It has a certain ring to it. |
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That's supposed to be leather patches on a tweed jacket. You've ruined a perfectly good jacket. |
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tweel
Is it a word? No, but your brain thinks it is. |
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Not like any other part of you would think anyway. |
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They quoted someone from the Decibel message board but not RTTP??!?! |
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Fuck that overhyped media darling band and fuck the over-thinking of black metal. Prententious, high-minded faggotry.
BLACK METAL IS DEVIL WORSHIP! |
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That illustrates exactly why bands like Liturgay are GAY. |
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I'm not even that big of a fan of the music, but the culture is my culture.
Awe of nature, rejection of civilization and organized religion, the individual above the nation. The tribe above the race.
It's like a combination of old Drudic philosophy coupled with a viking outlook on the world.
I mean, I have no idea what the fuck that article was trying to say.
Someone should interview Gorgoroth about said article. |
 
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