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Of all genres of music, metal is unique because the line between "acceptable" and "total failure" is very narrow. Making metal is easy, but making good metal… difficult. Periodically, metal bands either sell out or have personal problems, and they create metal failures. Here's a list of ten of the worst metal FAILs of all time.

The most epic METAL FAILs of all time

To make it clear, I'm talking about this site:

http://www.anus.com/metal

I know the name (ANUS) is sort of goofy, but it stands for the American Nihilist Underground Society and is part of the weird sense of humor this site has. Basically, they're trying to filter out anyone who gets offended, or is so dumb they think they're the first to notice "hay ur site is called anus."

Why I like it:

* Interviews with classic metal bands like Bathory, Ildjarn, Cadaver, Master, Amebix, Imprecation, Beherit, Blood, Autopsy, Cryptic Slaughter and Suffocation…

I don't care if you are a Nazi or have far-right beliefs. But NSBM is an abomination, and all Nazi bands tend to be really boring, and we don't want the politics involved in our music.

Keep Nazis out of metal (last.fm group)

PS - I have no problem with far-right beliefs; I have a problem with boring, droning, shitty music like Drudkh, Negura Bunget, all NSBM, and all WP bands except Skrewdriver and Landser. I hate boring music. I don't mind Graveland, Absurd, Burzum, et al. nor do I mind racialist bands from…

It gets really confusing fast. Troll metal, Viking metal, Pirate metal, gore-grind, ambient deathcore… what does it all mean? I'll help by dipping into past experience to show you some different metal subgenres.

First is old school death metal:

* What is old school death metal?

Interesting review:

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Something draws all of us to metal, and no one has asked yet what it is – until now. Two brave indie filmmakers set out to learn about the phenomenon of Norwegian black metal from the early 1990s, and explain to us why it happened. In doing so, they hope to show us our world in a new light: how modernity has made culture, history and even truth dubious and lost in a flow in chaotic information.

"Until the Light Takes Us" review

There seem to be quite a few of us metalheads who also listen to classical music. I find the two complement each other, and are composed the same way: interlocking phrases which together tell a story over the whole piece. After listening to metal or classical, I can't go back to the rock, rap, blues, jazz, etc. randomness: I find inner peace, clarity and a desire for virtuous moral aggression in both metal and classical.

Here are some last.fm groups for those of us who like both metal and classical:

* Classical and Metal
* Extreme metalheads loving classical music…

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This CD is probably not the technical best representation of his work, but does I think a well-qualified job. Arcangelo Corelli writes very logical, passionate and orderly baroque music that captures the spirit of an age when people did not second guess nature. Even more, it has an intensity that little outside metal has ever attempted. I can see now why this guy is a perpetual favorite for baroque and classical fans, but I think metal fans should check it out too.

For metal fans of: Burzum, Atheist, Gorguts, Necrophagist, Cadaver, Graveland and Bathory…

liberal environment without censorship or such things. There was no religious disapproval or anything like that. But early 80s metal didn't fit in this milieu, not so much for ideological reasons as for cultural reasons. The over the top imagery and sound of early 80s metal, its blue-collar earthiness, was a world away from the aspirational, educationally-minded, relatively abstemious environment of British Jewry.

Esoteriic: Interview with Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris, aka "Metal Jew"

You will hear people like me talking about hipsters, scenesters and other fakes.

Who are these people?

Simple definition: anyone who makes the art the means and themselves the ends.

An artist makes the art the end, and themselves (and anything else) the means.

The hipster is the inverse artist, who wants the cachet and cool of being an artist. They want to be unique, different, innovative, charming, etc. because inside they're ordinary.

That's part of their inversion… they turn themselves inside out to demonstrate to you how cool they are, and to justify their meaningless, modern lifestyles. They make…

Many zines mistrust Beithíoch because the music is free. It pays to be wary of freebies. They're usually either crap or have a catch (or both if you're really lucky).

Beithíoch is different. For a genre oversaturated with bands, giving away an album for free is a shrewd move for a new band. It puts you at an advantage instantly to anyone selling their demo/album - potential listeners haven't got to weigh up whether the album will be a waste of money, nor do they have to wait very long to get ahold of it. People can be introduced to…