I think Black Metal's sole purpose of existence in as a subgenre today is for a little comic relief. Heavy Metal needs that sometimes you know? I
just hope they don't do like Glam Rock did to the scene by pretty much killing it.
Black Metal or more specifically Norwegian Black Metal a complex thing, the separations and divisions in the genre are worth fighting over, and we
like to do that because it stimulates progress.
Like Triptykon / Celtic Frost is "Death Metal" not black metal...
I watched and met the guys from Red Fang not to long ago at a really small venue here in Denton called Rubber Gloves... Epic fun show and epic fun
band
Triptykon/CF is more like doom metal as far as I can see.
Extremely dark, very heavy, but sludgy. Black metal is a more strident, complex, and furious sound, take an Emperor album, and listen to it, and then
play some Celtic Frost, and the difference becomes obvious... Assuming that is, that one has an ear for our particular sort of music!
Aw really? I wouldn't call any of my favorite black metal bands comical, theatrical maybe on account of the corpsepaint, blood etc. Ever been to a
Watain show?
But the 'irony' crowd certainly has a thing for black metal these days.