Do you consider EUPHOBIA black metal?

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Do you consider EUPHOBIA black metal?
  • Yes
  • No
  • I don’t even know what black metal is supposed to sound like…
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after a few listens, they’re blackened deathcore…as they’ve been labeling themselves

idk why this is debatable, other than the makeup, which is quite misleading. it’s a bummer since they’re the first vkei band that looks like that :confused:

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I said no, which was a very obvious and easy decision for me, but i like them and i like their sound. Madman’s Esprit isn’t black metal either, i wouldn’t call them that, neither is deafheaven. I wouldn’t pick any of them to show someone who asks “what is black metal”?

But that’s deliberate; they’re all purposefully stretching and smashing up genre conventions to do what they do. Better that than having nothing but endless Nattens Madrigal clones!

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As a big fan of black metal It’s a hard no from me. Haha.

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No but they also sound like 99% of all bands marketed as bm in the last ten years so who even knows anymore

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I’m a believer that black metal ended, was concluded, all figured out, with the release of Ulver’s Nattens Madrigal.

Everything since has been some form of stuck in the past, revivalism, or forward-looking fusion.

Maybe that sounds stark but tbh i like all three!

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I dunno. That’s one thing ive always liked about black metal is how versatile it is as a subgenre.

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Oh completely same - in my mental model (and iTunes) i just like to annotate those bands w/ other genre tags i recognize as similar but different, descended from black metal instead of defining it

But if someone said Batushka was their favourite black metal band i’d say hell yeah and ask if they liked Liturgy too - only time i actually care about genre tagging stuff is in my iTunes & when someone on a forum says “what do you think about this genre tagging question”

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Yeah that’s fair tbh, totally agree. A little unrelated but have you ever been to Inferno fest in Norway? Great for black metal.

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Not black metal but at the very least parts of their music are somewhat influenced by the genre, though I’d label it mainly as deathcore. The music is good so I can’t find myself caring but it is a bit annoying seeing a band dress a certain way to appeal to a specific genre while their music is actually something fans of that genre would probably hate lmao, though I guess black metal already has these issues more than other genres.

I haven’t been interested in newer VK bands and I actually quite like this one so if they get a bigger following I hope them not being “trve kvlt black metal” isn’t a common point of contention.

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Black metal or deathcore, I don’t like their music either way :man_shrugging:

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Totally feel that. I dont hate their music but ive been listening to extreme metal of all kinds for absolute years so hearing and being familiar with actual good black metal or deathcore bands whatever these guys are doing feels very underwhelming.

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