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There’s lots of “cliques” at black metal shows. The short Spanish crowd, the spiky goth chicks, the uh…white people (that’s me!), and the old farts. Well, they all came together last night, not just to see Satyricon…but as it turns out, you “grim” folk sure do love your baseball. I cracked up as a whole slew of you dudes raced down the stairs to watch the Yankee game in between opening bands. OHMYGAAHHH DID THEY WIN???? All the Facebook statuses and Tweets I’ve read since last night sure have made that unclear.
Anyway, the show was pretty great. Satyricon are “barely black metal” with catchy riffs, which is what I like about them. It’s feel good evil, as my friend, Seth says. I invite you all now to experience the seizure I had from the light show:
The band seems to love playing in New York, and it sounds like they won’t be back for a while, so I’m glad I went. The opener, Chthonic, are basically the Taiwanese version of Cradle of Filth, plus a bonus hot chick…if that means anything to any of you.
Did I mention Satyr is dreamy? I tried to go a whole post without mentioning that….oh well.
I’ve been checking out this Taiwanese black metal band, Chthonic, since they’re one of the openers for my black metal boyfriend at the end of the month, and I gotta tell ya…they seem a little cuckoo. I usually don’t read entire Blabbermouth posts, as they are typically quite boring, but something about this one kept me glued. Singer Freddy Lim explained the inspiration behind the band’s new album Mirror of Retribution:
“The first half of the story is how he went to hell and how level by level he tried to find the book of life and death and tried to rewrite it. But then the ghost kings, wizards and monsters in hell found out that he is not a normal spirit, he’s still alive, his spirit just left his body, so they, in the 6th song, all the spirits and ghost and monsters, they came from hell to the temple to try to put some seals on his body and suck his spirit back to his body and not allow him to escape from his body again. Then, he decided to kill himself as the only way to go back to hell. But he failed. The end of the story is that he is locked in front of the mirror of retribution for a billion years as his sentence. I think the most interesting part of this album is that we tried to group the same kinds of hells and put them together in one song. There are the mountain of knives and sword forests, different kind of sharp hells all grouped together.”
Jeez, it’s like having a movie explained to you by a four-year old. (My thoughts and prayers go out to whoever had to transcribe that.) I understand they’re just trying to blend their culture into their music, but a back-story that long and complicated is just laughable.
As for the music….that’s a bit of a headache, too.
Julia kinda beat me to the punch on this Satyricon biznass this morning. I gotta say, I am as excited as she is, but for slightly different reasons. (The RiB gals don’t always see eye-to-eye.) I know a lot of people aren’t into Satyricon, but I enjoy them as the fun, poppy-er side of black metal. Here’s why I think you should come party with us this ROCKtober:
5. Chthonic
Truth be told, I’ve barely listened to them, but since I know it’s mostly dudes reading this site, I might as well get this out of the way:
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