What is Best in Life

Here is part two of my “why do I listen to the awful music I listen to” series. Part ONE covered Death and Thrash Metal, this time I look at the final genre in my “big three” of extreme metal, and my personal favorite, Black Metal.  

This is by no means an extensive history and most of the specifics are left out for brevity. But, quickly, because the opening sentence  of the next paragraph rankles me, Bathory was (in my book) the first Black Metal band years before the Norwegian scene and they were actually Swedish! (and, no, Venom and Mercyful Fate weren’t Black Metal, they were Thrash despite what everyone says).  But for the most part Black Metal Started in Norway, so I’ll end the Metal nerd rant!
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As a brief interlude before the second part of my “why do I listen to the horrible sounding music that I listen to” post (and because the lyric I made up for the earlier post intrigued me…and mostly because I already had the above picture) I thought I’d change a few minor words in one of my favorite Slayer songs to prove that it just wouldn’t quite be the same without good ol Beel Z. Bub.

Without further ado, I give you ALTAR OF SACRIFICE (Radio Edit)!
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Underground metal is right up there with hardcore gangsta rap and the works of Montgomery Gentry in terms of cringe-worthy offensiveness. Underground/exteme metal is a broad term, I’ll specifically be looking at Thrash and Death Metal (Black Metal is a special case that will be dealt with in part two of this post), some of the more extreme forms of metal from the early 80′s and 90s in this post. Lyrically and aurally there are few uglier forms of conventional music so I thought I’d take a look at the question “why in the world would anyone listen to that stuff?”
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Once again, from the pages of Goth Blog comes the second part of everyone’s favorite spinoff: SNOB Blog! Has that wacky high school english teacher who just wants the finer things in life…and for people to know he wants the finer things in life finally found love? Read on to find out!

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction; any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental)

Previously in Snob Blog:

Snob Blog 1- Our snob with no name meets what he assumes is a fellow film elitist and potential soul mate at a movie store.  But upon going to her film party he is horrified to find that her friends’ taste in cinema is not as refined as he had hoped.  After hijacking her party to disasterous effect it becomes apparent to everyone that these were not his people.

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