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By the time I was 16 I didn't even really get the hype around Marilyn Manson anymore.

I mean, he didn't even burn down churches or kill anyone.

He seemed so quaint compared to the Norwegian black metal scene.

The hype surrounding him was so silly. People were obsessed. I even remember his name coming up in sermons.

What’s the Norwegian black metal scene like?

During the '90s it was sorta what American fundies tried to pretend Marilyn Manson was like.

That gif of a guy smiling was the musician behind the band Burzum, as he was sentenced to prison for stabbing another musician to death. (Allegedly Euronymous was also planning to kill Varg...)



Of note: Burzum is a one-man band, he doesn't tour. This is claiming responsibility for some of the churches going up. He was tied to a number of church burnings, as were several other Norwegian black metal musicians. At least 50 churches were set ablaze by people associated with the scene.

This article is a pretty good summary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Nor ... etal_scene

Wow! I guess that does put Marilyn Manson in perspective. Well, it should’ve anyway…

Thanks for posting, I hadn't heard of Autoheart but I really like them.

well this was surprising,
or not?


don't forget ao, cliff R (&b.george)
or, see if there's a query into quincy yet

I love music. It's helped me a lot. I listen to a bit of everything. I listen to it a lot. Currently been listening to a lot of Steve Earle, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Morgan Wade etc. I collect vinyl. I don't have many opportunities to talk about music as my friends are a bit picky and one never listens to lyrics so it's hard to talk about my faves with them.

I'm trying to find a song that I used to listen to on my CD Walkman when I was a teenager, but I can't remember which CD it was on. The song was from the 70s or 80s (of the 20th century).
I remember its name as "Coming", but whenever I try to find it on YouTube I just can't.
I can't remember who sung it. But I know it has identical background music to the Grease Lightning song "Summer Nights".

Can anyone help me?

This might be the best technical/music theory explanation of the differences between death metal and grindcore (with an emphasis on goregrind over the punkier side of grindcore).

Stuff like:
how grindcore riffs stay simple instead of being developed like is typical in metal
grindcore riffs are shorter, often best understood in 2/2 time instead of 4/4 like most music
grindcore often makes use of off-time, funk inspired breakbeats (likely introduced from sass and skramz)
grindcore typically has simple structures, sometimes as simple as two movements; death metal tends to have a lot more sections as riffs develop, leading to much longer songs (more like the length of a regular pop song, even if it's played at twice the tempo); grindcore songs are often under a minute long