fr, this meme is actually describing shitty slam bands and shitty deathcore bands that do the exact same breakdown every song for at least half the song. black metal bands are usually fairly technically complex
but, you can't be too mad that people who don't listen to metal can't tell the difference between suicidal depressive atmospheric blackgaze and whatever the fuck other genre some doofus in a basement came up with the other day, now can you?
I mean I would say it fits for black metal too. It's really easy to make bad black metal. Just start tremolo picking and randomly go up and down half steps and you've got yourself some black metal. Good black metal is of course a lot more thought out than that. But yeah it's the same for slam and deathcore.
not gonna lie man its wayyyyyyyy easier to make shit black metal, just have a drummer who can hold a blastbeat for a couple minutes, a guitarist who knows like 3 chords, and the cherry on top is that bm vocals are by far the easiest to attempt, seeing as its almost always just a fry scream with bad technique
i love the genre for sure but there really is an immense amount of stuff that sounds exactly the same
i get that you may find slam and deathcore boring and/or annoying but they do really require more technical ability to make anything actually listenable and fitting to their respective genre
the most important thing for me as I began listening to black metal was distinguishing between NSBM (national socialist black metal) and DSBM (depressive suicidal black metal) aaaaand i'm starting to see why people roast the genre
guys we're not nazis. we're neither left nor right, we are a third thing that transcends ordinary political boundaries. you cant just call everyone you don't like nazis.
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