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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:56 AM
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OK, I'm in love with Norwegian black metal.
It is a twisted, perverted kind of love, and rather resembles my threadjackings with Rev_Acts (:hide:), but love nonetheless.

a. Am I a bad person? (If so, and you are female, please dispense a few :spank:s :evilgrin:)
b. Am I going to hell? :shrug: :P
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:58 AM
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1. ?






I knew you were hot Bart.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:59 AM
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2. I'm sorry...but that picture just cracks me up, in a really creepy way.
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 01:59 AM by ZombieNixon
:rofl:
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:06 AM
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3. You know what? I bet you like redheads, don't ya?
This is Ginger, she's a gymnast.

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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:08 AM
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4. Åååååååh! My eyes!
I like redheads when they're (in ascending order of importance) a) natural b) non-smokers and c) female.
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:10 AM
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5. But she's a gymnast, doesn't that count for anything?
:shrug:
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:12 AM
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6. Sorry babe, "she" ain't a "she".
Now stop trying to make me look at other "women." :loveya: :P
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:57 AM
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7. It's wacky stuff, isn't it?
At least it beats the snot out of that endless stream of teenybopper crap that spews out of Sweden.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:00 AM
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8. Once you've translated the lyrics from Norwegian Death Grunt to
English Death Grunt to English, they can be pretty deep...for example, I'm listening to a great Dimmu Borgir song about the Holocaust right now.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:01 AM
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9. Are you sure it's not WP music?
:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:08 AM
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10. Yes, I'm very sure.
If there's the slightest hint that I might not like a band's ideology, I do in depth research before declaring myself a "fan."

They've explicitly stated that they're against all forms of racial superiority movements.

A look at the lyrics will show that it's definitely not a pro-Nazi song.

I do my homework...don't want to get mixed up with WP types...:scared:
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:12 AM
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11. Most excellent!
:patriot: :popcorn:
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:51 PM
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27. I usually don't look too deeply at personalities or politics.
The two frontwomen for Veruca Salt are annoying as hell ("Daddy! I'm bored! Buy me a rock band!"), but I like the oxymoronic combination of perky female vocals over crunchy guitars à la Shonen Knife.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:01 PM
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28. I do, for some reason.
Just me, I guess. :shrug:
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:07 PM
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29. There's nothin' wrong with that.
Very early on I read a lot of pop lyrics and decided that the less I knew, the better, and from then on just concentrated on finding sounds that I liked (which probably explains my eventual migration to industrial).
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:13 PM
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30. The vocalists ideology counts for more with me.
Which is why I don't feel guilty listening to the Ramones, since Johnny Ramone's guitar wasn't the conservative one.

For some reason, I see the voice as a tool for spreading ideology, and when hate speech (or shit I just plain don't like) would come out of that same mouth, I couldn't listen to that.

Just my weird psychosis, I guess. :shrug:
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:17 PM
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31. It's not psychosis
There's nothing wrong with wanting to know and refusing to give your money to assholes. It's just that long before I started to care about politics, I found out that many of the bands I liked were idiots as evidenced by the preponderance of 4th grade-quality lyrics in rock music, so like I said, I stopped paying attention.
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:15 PM
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12. No on both counts
Nordic metal is just better than any other, IMHO. I'm a huge In Flames fan, in fact, just saw them live last week
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:19 PM
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13. Time for me to dust off this old gem:
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:51 PM
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17. HAHAHAHAHA!!!
:rofl:

Really, I find that hilarious, especially because, much as I like the er..."music", the outfits and shit are really fucking stupid...which is why I don't watch the music videos. :thumbsup:
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:30 PM
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14. Not fond of some of it...
German fantasy power metal is more my style. Windir's Arntor album is excellent though. Also, where are you finding a translator for Norwegian to English online? Or do you just speak Norwegian?

Arntor, Ein Windir

Da va i Kaupanger syslemennedn hildt ti,
han Ivar Dape å ain svikar ti.
Han Sverre Sigurdssån dai sverga ti, henta inn skatte,
aojifte å maira ti.
Støao ti Saongdøledn va'kkje hjao svikaren Kong Sverre,
men han Magnus Erlingssån berre.
Han Kong Sverre va redde fø å møssa Sågn,
ti Magnus dan ekta kongssån.
Like før Jol i edlevaaottitri, kravde syslepakke ekstra yting,
ti jolavaisla fø seg sjøl å nåken i.
Blobade skolde trast skji.
Arntor frao Kvaole i spissen, me Isak Torjilssån, sønedn has Arnjeir prest,
Gaute å Karlsshåve.
Dissa staute karadn, Saogndøle,
Aisbyggje å Kaupaongsmenn, gjikk mot syslepakke kvitmessedag.
Arge å fodle ao hat.
Eplekjekke Ivar Dape ba om grid,
Arntor å karadn lyste ut krig.
Itte at øks om håve has svinga, va'kkje da mykje grid atte i bringao.
Aover midnatt va mannadrape, pao tjuvpakk å kjeltringa,
svaiti å han Ivar Dape aover. Å Jol da vart i Saogndal
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:50 PM
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15. I speak some Norwegian.
Most of which I actually learned from reading CD inserts. :shrug:
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:51 PM
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16. Well I really love Spanish steel.
Makes great swords.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:52 PM
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18. That is does.
I likes me some Spanish steel, too. :P
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:01 PM
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19. Some of that stuff seriously rocks.
I have no use for the pseudo-Wagnerian stuff, and that Burzum dude's a fucking crackpot, but Dark Funeral, Ulver & Immortal have made some amazing albums.

Cradle of Filth, OTOH, could seriously use to go the hell away...
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:05 PM
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20. Mostly I like it because of how strange the music sounds.
There are more than a few asylum-worthy folks on the scene and let's face it, no one listens to the stuff for the vocal quality, anyway. :)
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:15 PM
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21. Ever read "Lords of Chaos?"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0922915946/sr=8-1/qid=1141243909/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-9121889-4162236?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Excellent chronicle of the massively antisocial behavior of the early Norwegian black metal scene - like when they were all murdering each other and burning down churches. The book digresses into some irrelevant (and frankly boring) tangents towards the end, but for the most part, it's an informative, solid, good read. It's just incredible how utterly batshit nuts some of those guys were.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:17 PM
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22. No, I haven't read that.
Yeah, some of those guys were just fucking insane! :scared:

OTOH, I've always wondered what it might be like to sing black metal songs about stupid things like sex and drinking instead of death and Satan. :shrug: Maybe I'll start a band. :P
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:24 PM
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23. Ha - yeah, you basically mean Venom!
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 03:25 PM by asthmaticeog
They were an early '80s Satan-metal band that actually just cultivated the "Satanic" image for laughs - a lot of their songs were pretty much just about partying and/or fucking. The Norwegians nicked the name "black metal" from one of Venom's albums.



Fuckin' SILLY. :crazy:

edit: spelling

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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:26 PM
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24. Shit! I can't believe I forgot about Venom!
x(

I'd want to dress in bright cheery colors and speak with a Minnesota accent on stage, just to throw off the fans. :P
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:47 PM
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25. Oh yah, jeez, the lord a' durkness is a hekuva ting, yah?
:rofl:
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:48 PM
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26. Uff da! Don'cha knooo...
:rofl: :thumbsup:
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eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:52 PM
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32. Ahem, that'd be
Oh ja, geez the lord a darkness is a heckuva tHing, ja?

(we can handle the "th" sound don't y'know!) ;)
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:05 PM
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33. Apologies.
My only real-life reference for that accent was my friend Joe, originally from Rochester, MN, whose accent you could cut with a knife, and who would invariably say "heckuva ting." I just assumed that his the universal MN pronunciation.

So, Satan, then, huh? Oh yaaaaah! :headbang:
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