How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?
How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?
Societal alienation makes for the best art and metal is no exception. Metalheads trying to exclude someone for being different (NSBM excepted) have completely missed the point of the entire genre.
Shout out to Genital Shame and Lust Hag making excellent Transwoman Black Metal!
Based take, I'll have to give them a listen
Thanks for the recs, I was recently looking for queer metal and found some stuff but not nearly the nearly enough...
I had never heard over NSBM (nazi black metal) before and am actually kinda shocked, this exists... Fuck them.
Yeah, some genres have a large segment of people who struggle to fit in with the mainstream. I'd like to think that they pick up something about social liberalism vs traditionalism from that, but there's apparently also a significant segment who want as strict traditions as the mainstream, they just want somewhat different traditions.
I don't know where this is coming from because I grew up in the era of Marilyn Manson, the Murderdolls and Dir En Grey (etc.) Where gender was some fluid shit and everybody vibed with it.
Even though I don't like them, I also remember Rammstein playing around with gender expression.
Overall, my personal experience with metal since teenhood in the 2000s is that metalheads are extremely chill and open minded and the bigots are some fringe groups here and there that nobody likes to talk to anyways.
Metal was about challenging the status quo and trigger the sensitive puritans who wanted everybody to conform one way of living and being. Most metaheads and metal artists were social rejects who didn't fit in and weren't accepted and they rebelled against the social structure at the time for that very reason. A couple of examples of the artistic expression in metal at the time:
Pretty sure Manson even brought on a trans icon in his video for The Dope Show which itself was a critique of the creative industry and how it uses and abuses people and forces them to be someone they aren't.
I'll never understand why this is a divisive issue... let people live however they want, unless they bother others. How does it bother me if someone wants do get rid of their dick? Stop interfering in people's lives.
Deliberately used as the "enemy" by the fascist state as scapegoat and distraction. Queer people were also targeted by Nazis.
unless they bother other
Well, that's the thing. So many people are bothered when someone does something they wouldn't personally do, often because they were told their whole life that there is only one proper way to exist.
"...unless they are harming someone else." though, that is a pretty solid criteria.
Transphobic metal can fuck right off
Just gonna drop Cattle Decapitation here, tho (CW gore, and a lot of other fucked up shit):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvxVkF8lCAo
Making songs about torturing transphobes since 2013
I'll second with OG deathgrind veterans Brutal Truth and 1990 "Anti-Homophobe" :
I wanna downvote because you called metal shitty growls and screams, but I'm no transphobe so you get a comment >:(
Metal people are the most chill people always, have you seen Serj outside of musical videos? He's almost a hippie.
[OP] called metal shitty growls and screams,
To give the OP credit, even as a metal fan, they're not exactly wrong. There are plenty of bands/genres that I try to listen to and come away thinking something to that effect.
I'm a metal fan, Serj is fantastic.
I'm still going to mock metal :)
"23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams" sounds like a headline from far-right media, so...
Broken clocks and all that ;)
"Lifes for my own to live my own way"
If I die and go to hell and there is no metal genre playing then I know I truly went to hell.
And for those who say 'what about all the people before metal music was invented who died and went to hell'. To that I have to say that metal music is eternal and the history of music is a lie!
Is this referring to something Alabama has said recently? Just googled.
No, as a personal rule, I generally discount anything and anything from Alabama
Their Shakes are pretty good.
Check out Exuvia, "trans vengeance metal":