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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
i read a good defense for liking absurd metal the other day
an interview with this chap, Wrest, from Leviathan, in Maelstrom Zine
Wrest: I love Celtic Frost. All the "heyyy!" I love that shit.
Maelstrom: Yeah, you can hear a lot of it.
Wrest: It's silly, but in that silliness, it's completely honest. And that's something that attracts me to metal. Everyone goes: "Oh, metal: the fuckin' dumb loner who's into his computer, or playing video games," or whatever. But I identify with that way more than I do with some bowl haircut, tight pants Nigel kid. [Metal]'s not hip. And I love it.
Maelstrom: I agree. That's what I like about metal too. I don't know about you, but I'm like one of the least hip people that I know, and it's perfectly fine with me.
Wrest: Yeah, but finding girls that are into it is kinda hard. |
Oh yeah, there's definitely a lot of space lately for metal dynamics to be a lot more 'experimental' (within a narrow, pop context) than indie is at present... I think metal now is where indie was in the 80's: SY, J&MC type stuff.
There's still a lot of gack out there, and I don't think I'll ever get RATM, but the Doom thing is largely outstanding.