Ebay bans black metal

[judaskennedy]

they should also ban britany spears for turning little girls into whores

[Locomotive98]

None of the albums on that list promote racism or anything horrendously derogatory. Not even Burzum albums have Nazi tendencies despite him now allegedly being a Nazi. If these people took time to listen to the Burzum albums they might notice a theme of Norwegian folklore/myth or Lord of the Rings influenced lyrics.

To ban music only makes it more popular, theres no such thing as bad publicity.  I first got into Burzum cos I thought it was insane that you could actually get music like this by people like that. Not once have I decided that Id want to burn a chuch down, murder someone, be a nazi, or kill a homosexual. But fortunately amongst the Black metal scene there are so many gems that have made me the fan I am today, they also harbour musical integrity and dedication and belief in what they do - something sorely lacking in music today when everyone just wants to dive on the corporate bandwagon or sell themselves for a nanosecond of fame whilst having no belief in anything they do.

Its funny that you can have a mumbling prick like 50 Cent (No Cents more like) glorifying gun violence and drug dealing and the fact that doing so will give you untold wealth but you cant have someone worshpping Satan - an archaic concept that now manifests itself in the results of music that is endlessly promoted by the likes of the aforementioned Mr Cent, crime does pay, being a pimp crack dealer mo'fo pays. Whats more real or evil? Street crime and thuggery or people in corpsepaint writing about worshipping the Devil or their countries heritage and  mythology? We dont have gangs, crack and gun deaths every day in England because of Varg Vikernes or because somebody decided to listen to some Mayhem. Its fucking nonsense.

Finally, I use Ebay loads for obtaining Black Metal because they have all of those wonderful hard to find obscure stuff.

Recommended BM albums for those that want to listen to something more than GNR -

Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernal (or the Sham Mirrors)
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Enslaved - Frost
Vreid - Kraft
Anaal Nathrakh - Domine Nom Dignus
Ulver - Bergtatt

I love a good rant! 

 

[Skeletor]

^Great post!!

I just have to make the mandatory comment about genres though: La Masquerade Infernale is more like avant-garde metal, and The Sham Mirrors is closer to progressive metal, really (excluding the song Radical Cut). Of course both these albums came after the awesome black metal gem that is Aspera Hiems Symfonia (featuring lyrics dealing with Nordic folklore and wintry landscapes - nothing "advocating hate" there, who could have figured? )

[Walk]

http://www.burzum.org/eng/library/a_burzum_story07.shtml

Burzum is more of a paganist than a racist. He still hates people with brown hair, though, even other whites. In his book Vargsmal, he explains a lot of this stuff.

[Locomotive98]

^Great post!!

I just have to make the mandatory comment about genres though: La Masquerade Infernale is more like avant-garde metal, and The Sham Mirrors is closer to progressive metal, really (excluding the song Radical Cut). Of course both these albums came after the awesome black metal gem that is Aspera Hiems Symfonia (featuring lyrics dealing with Nordic folklore and wintry landscapes - nothing "advocating hate" there, who could have figured? )

I fully appreciate that the above albums are not strictly black metal but instead shows a progression of black metal that people on here might find more accessible.

Fucking brillint they are too!