Am I the only one who listens to Black Metal here?

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Originally Posted by Rammsteinmad You should re-read my post you marooon. I wasn't talking to you, in fact I even quoted Kane Knight, whom I was talking to. But in response anyway, I only heard snippets and honestly, I don't care. They sound the same with the exception of Amon Amarth, but for all I know you've gone and picked out two songs from certain bands that are completely different and classed them as different genres. It's like if I played a song by Shadow Gallery and Opeth. Neither sound anything like each other, but both could easily be classed as Progressive Metal. And then I could go into the whole overcomplicated bullshit like 'Shadow Gallery are traditional Prog Metal whilst Opeth are more of a Death-Prog-Core band' or some bollocks like that.

Just because you stick your fingers in your ears and refuse to even attempt to listen, doesn't mean there is no difference. Or, alternatively, just because you haven't listened to enough of each genre, doesn't mean there's no difference.

Its akin to an old person coming into this conversation and saying that all these styles, in addition to punk rock, glam rock and anything with an electric guitar, has the same sound and is all the same genre and style called "Rock" music.

Black Metal, especially Norweigean, has its own atmosphere. If you just listen to it in passing, hell, if you listen to any genre of music in passing, it can sound like a bunch of noise. But if you put the effort to actually listen and absorb the music, you will see the difference right away. Black metal is about painting an atmosphere, an atmosphere of harshness, and desolate misanthrophy. Black Metal is raw, attempting to recreate man's primordial reaction towards a cold world. Its not only the music, the instruments, that create this atmosphere and aim to pull those emotions out of you, but also the vocals and the lyrics.

Death metal on the other hand, is about pure ruthless agression.

But...if you don't want to even attempt to discern the difference and only listen to the genres in passing, you of course won't hear the difference.