emperorblackdoom wrote:
Pillars of Geph wrote:
If the lyrics are about raping women and butchering snails with handgrenads chances are the band is really fucking extreme. Even if the lyrics are incredibly hyperbolic over-the-top nonsensical its still preferable to the warm and fuzzy bullshit written by Agalloch, WITTR, Liturgy, and all of the other hack bands polluting the black/death scene.
The Agalloch I remember uses lyrics that involve a lot of natural landscapes. Sentimental sometimes, sure, but a lot better than some shit about raping nuns or whatever.
Yes we need more lyrics about running naked through the forest, especially with sappy overlong ballads about how their hearts are breaking because the polar ice caps are melting. There is a reason why this band is derided by the black/death scene as pussified hipster crap for the vaginas who can't fathom actual intensity in the music, so they have to have a goff band dilute the formula and introduce these hipster elements thereby making the music more palatable. Oh well, shitty band is shitty.
Find me one lyric about polar ice caps melting. And I'm not sure how Agalloch's meditations on nature are any different than some of the stuff contained in early Norwegian stuff that embraced the frigid climate of the region. Cascadia just happens to be a much more serene and majestic place. Emperor probably wishes they had covers as beautiful as Panopticon's.
