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Originally Posted by SearyxTZ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've never considered Bathory to be black metal (they don't sound like it, anyway).

Don't care for the genre much either. It's a little too crazy and there are stories of some bands actually being so fanatical or anti-christ that they (literally) murdered people/bandmates over dumb crap.

The way I see both black and death metal is there's a whole lot of really shitty "underground" bands in those genres. It's not like the gothenburg / melodic death movement where I felt like almost every band had something to offer (In Flames, Dark Tranquility, At the Gates, etc).

Thrash also has a pretty good ratio of listenable-to-crap.

Dead of Mayhem blew his own brains out and left a note 'sorry about the mess'. Some black metal artists were given necklaces made out of pieces of his skull.

Varg Vikernes of Burzum murdered Euronymous of Mayhem after Varg received threats that Euronymous was going to kill him. Varg served his sentence and is back to making music (go figure...1st degree murder in Norway is apparently not a life sentence). The music he composed in prison, such as Illa Tidandi, is just...weird.

Varg was also serving a simultaneous sentence for burning churches with members of Hades Almighty.