Same with the Nutella, but jeez this guy is just… no. Also, I never knew hipster black metal was a thing and now I am sad.

I know, right? He wouldn’t bother me so much if he wasn’t so damn vocal about his own magnificence and originality. For fuck sakes! This whole Sonic Youth-esque minimalism in black metal is nothing new or revolutionary, just look at Krallice and its ilk, they’ve been around for years.

What really, really annoys me is how he likes to throw in a fancy term like “transcendentalism” and claim how European/Scandinavian black metal (or should I say Hyperborean Black Metal?) is utterly purposeless, whilst his version of black metal and USBM (black metal from the United States, which you probably could’ve gathered regardless of my explanation) is vastly superior because it will reach some kind of Walt Whitman-esque height of exaltation, a glorious catharsis and how it will make you one with the cosmos and whatnot.

Fuck him. Fuck him hard.

Also, what the fuck happened to the black metal scene in Indonesia, or Japan, or the countless other black metal household names in Latin America, Africa, Australia and whatnot? What kind of a self-centred, Eurocentric/American-centric view does he have of this scene? It’s a huge global thing with bands from vastly different ethnic/cultural backgrounds doing their own thing in a way that other genres could only ever dream of! You can’t just ignore that.

I’m hardly ever offended. When I am I just suck it up, I don’t need to let the uncaring internet know my personal frustrations. But I do find it can be insulting, not personally, when someone’s blatant ignorance just pisses all over something that should be common knowledge—or which could easily be known if only you bothered to do a little research—and thus attempt to validate your own existence and your band’s supposed uniqueness by acting as if your music is some unexplainable, immaculate conception borne from the brilliance of your mind.

Fuck off!

I’m sorry, ohabutt ;_;