by Vitriola » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:06 pm
It might have been groundbreaking in UK in 1994. It is not now, or, at least, it isn't good to have that low of a production without music that is served by it.
Example, old-school Norwegian black metal was usually recorded shittily, was noisy, but they were, like, Norwegian black metal, and it kinda fit. They were doing this in 1989. Not much of an excuse to do it now, but, aside from low-end production, the music from Bone Awl was just shitty. Atonal noise is not groundbreaking, and hasn't been in over a decade.
The USA black metal bands are trying to recapture the old-school Norwegian sound, except even the USA bands stopped doing this years ago. Bone Awl just released the album I heard in 2007. USA is about 10 years behind what Europe is doing, and they're just copying, not writing anything new.
Even in black metal bands, there is and has always been a definite difference in sound between Norway, Sweden, UK, Poland, Finland, etc. They, except for maybe right at the beginning, did not exactly try and copy the sound, except for just being in the new black metal genre.
Norwegian black metal was very pagan, very atmospheric, very primitive. Then the French did their thing, and they were, unsurprisingly, angrier. Then Britain got into it, and did alot of experimentation with noise, just like they did with much of their extreme metal (the noisy bands I usually recommend are French or British). The Polish and Germans got even more racist, the Finns were very melodic and had wankering guitars, as they are wont, and the Oriental countries experimented with adding some of their own instruments in with the metal (Melechesh and the like).
The the USA bands full of wanna-be 17 year olds just thought that if they followed the same production standards, they were troo and evil. Except they couldn't understand or write black metal to save their lives. We're good at death metal (actually, so is Norway, but Swedish death is very mediocre, I don't care what anyone says.) We're fucking awesome at thrash, and even though the Swedish thrash scene is just as big, the thrash is different, and nobody was copying us, just doing thrash in their own way.
Holy shit, writing this post and seeing the underlined misspellings, did I ever know that it was spelled Britain? I have been spelling that wrong my entire life.
It might have been groundbreaking in UK in 1994. It is not now, or, at least, it isn't good to have that low of a production without music that is served by it.
Example, old-school Norwegian black metal was usually recorded shittily, was noisy, but they were, like, Norwegian black metal, and it kinda fit. They were doing this in 1989. Not much of an excuse to do it now, but, aside from low-end production, the music from Bone Awl was just shitty. Atonal noise is not groundbreaking, and hasn't been in over a decade.
The USA black metal bands are trying to recapture the old-school Norwegian sound, except even the USA bands stopped doing this years ago. Bone Awl just released the album I heard in 2007. USA is about 10 years behind what Europe is doing, and they're just copying, not writing anything new.
Even in black metal bands, there is and has always been a definite difference in sound between Norway, Sweden, UK, Poland, Finland, etc. They, except for maybe right at the beginning, did not exactly try and copy the sound, except for just being in the new black metal genre.
Norwegian black metal was very pagan, very atmospheric, very primitive. Then the French did their thing, and they were, unsurprisingly, angrier. Then Britain got into it, and did alot of experimentation with noise, just like they did with much of their extreme metal (the noisy bands I usually recommend are French or British). The Polish and Germans got even more racist, the Finns were very melodic and had wankering guitars, as they are wont, and the Oriental countries experimented with adding some of their own instruments in with the metal (Melechesh and the like).
The the USA bands full of wanna-be 17 year olds just thought that if they followed the same production standards, they were troo and evil. Except they couldn't understand or write black metal to save their lives. We're good at death metal (actually, so is Norway, but Swedish death is very mediocre, I don't care what anyone says.) We're fucking awesome at thrash, and even though the Swedish thrash scene is just as big, the thrash is different, and nobody was copying us, just doing thrash in their own way.
Holy shit, writing this post and seeing the underlined misspellings, did I ever know that it was spelled Britain? I have been spelling that wrong my entire life.