who else here lisens to this masterpiece of a genre i discoverd it bout 2 months ago when i was browsing through my grandmas music collection and i saw this album that caught my eye it was of course Alcest's Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde and i haven't looked back since she has also showed me other wonderful shoegaze classics like Amesoeurs's Ruines Humaines now get posting kids

Terrible, terrible "genre" with little use, barely even deserves the "metal" label. Worse are bands claiming to be "black metal/shoegaze."

Shoegaze is a fine genre, metal is a fine genre, the combination is not. In conclusion, I blame the crossing of the two completely on the French and will continue to use it as justification of my hate of said country and it's horrific language.

Pretty sure that's the only kind there is, and what he was referring to.

thats a bit ironic coming from a Cuban.

Wow.... you use music to condemn a whole country? Congrats! How about giving actual valid reasons for not liking it to make this topic worthwhile?

Personally, I don't think Souvenirs d'un autre monde is metal but it's still very good. I just loved the general atmosphere of the album. It still had that black metal "fuzz" on guitar but Neige made it happy-sounding, to a certain extent, which is what I found really intriguing.

Amesoeurs I just love them, I don't know why but I just completely fell in love with that MCD especially Faiblesse des sens. Audrey's scream on that song is magnificient

Bezerko isn't cuban. He's a crazed australian.

That said, casse-toi. French is beautiful.

Nope, I just hate their language with a passion and use such lame styles of music to further prove my point. In reality I have no problem with France of the French people, I just find their language annoying (a personal thing, I'm more a fan of the northern and eastern European languages).I find it humorous to exude an aura hatred towards everything France related though as it tends to piss off people like yourself.



THE DECEPTION HAS BEGUN.

Now, if we're discussing "shoegaze metal" primarily with Neige's bands of shitness in mind and therefore primarily this "blackened shoegaze" phenomena, I shall certainly give you reasons as to why I hate it. This crap is essentially a complete distortion of everything that black metal should musically represent, this whole "softening" of the genre that Neige and co. are doing is completely contrary to what black metal should be, gritty and anti-commercial. It's almost like saying "oh look we're black metal but we're also easy to listen to!" Why the hell should black metal be easy to listen to? Wasn't the whole point of the genre arising for it to be extreme in both sound and vision?

Well sorry if everyone isn't as kvlt as you and only listens to anti-commercial music i mean god forbid a band ever go against the grain.

I love Jesu, they definitely have their "shoegazing" moments. Don't know much else, besides that. Someone on this site has a great band I checked out awhile ago, but I don't recall who

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The problem is that with commercialization of a band comes a heavy "softened" sound which, while nice, often fails to hold up to the emotionally moving music the rawer forms of black metal tend to put out. The reason many people love the LLN is because they put out a different, horribly produced but emotionally strong and atmospheric form of black metal. Commercialize it and you've taken away a lot of the charm, as well as given their fanbase a heavy sprinkling of people who won't properly appreciate the music and spread it to an even dumber generation.

Well you know, in black metal it's all about opposition but every band needs to sound the same

Why do people always bring that shit argument up? Jesus Christ, thats so 1994.



On topic:
I'm interested in finding some Shoegaze BM bands now. Hopefully it isn't as terrible as this thread portrays it to be.

The archives reveals a total of 6 bands with shoegaze in their genre description.

Alcest
Amesoeurs
Encephalon
Heretoir
Lengsel
Sleepless

Heh. Well I'm sure there are a lot more bands with plenty of Shoegaze elements, like Caïna.

How is it shit exactly?

Bad music made by idiots and smelly Frenchmen.

But seriously, the whole blackened shoegaze thing is awful. It's like Easy Listening Black Metal. As a wise man once said, I might as well listen to Coldplay.

Because it's completely unsubstanciated. How the hell do you know what I, or a person such as The_Beast_in_Black listens to? Going against the grain is great, it's why there's such a diverse amount of styles of music around rather than just two or three genres of music, but going against the grain and making shit is not great.

I like this softer style because I like shoegaze too, but I think that shoegaze can be done in black metal and still keep the original idea of black metal. People just haven't tried it in a way that it would. There's nothing in the rulebook that says all shoegaze is happy crap.

He didn't claim that "all shoegaze is happy crap."

I never said he did.

I didn't say that you said so, either.

And I know that you didn't say that I said so...

I was referring when you said you don't like it because it's going against what black metal should be and is commercial not your music taste in general. I probably should have said anti-commercial black metal.

So you mean that commercial black metal is acceptable?

I guess I have to sell 80% of my records now, because it's a proven fact that I can only listen to raw underground black metal if I don't like some shitty homosexual French fad that will be gone and forgotten in two years or less.

What a massive strawman you got there. Be careful that it doesn't grab a girl and climbs up the Empire State Building.

My grandma would not be proud of you.

Well its not like back street boys fans will start listening to it

Your point?

As long as i like the music i don't give a shit.

What are you doing here if you don't give a shit?

I don't care if it's commercial as long as i like the music.

How does black metal become 'commercial'?

I don't care, either. But what does such a blank statement like "I like it, so I don't give a shit" add to the discussion?


I suggest that you read droneriot's review of In Flames's debut. It's not a black metal album, but the basic logic applies.

Because people have said in this thread one of the reasons they don't like it is because it's commercial black metal i mean if you just hate the music fair enough but i personally wont stop myself from listening to something just because its commercial

Read it. But how does black metal specifically become commercial? What are some examples of commercial black metal, and what is it that makes them commercial?

Surely if you were to change black metal so much in order to become commercial, wouldn't it no longer be black metal? I couldn't imagine 'commercial' black metal that was still black metal, the same way as I can't imagine raw and heavy pop music.

You're missing the point - I don't listen to commercial black metal not because it's commercial, but because it is shit.

I don't think anyone has said they don't like it because it's commercial. The fact that it's commercial is just a side effect of it being shit.

It's not completely commercial just more than your average black metal band.

So all shit music is commercial?

No, but a lot of music gets turned shit in order to appeal to the market. Shoegaze metal isn't shit because it's commercial, it's shit and commercial.

Pop can be heavy in a sense, like nu metal.

Anyway, commercial in this case means:

1. prepared, done, or acting with sole or chief emphasis on salability, profit, or success
2. suitable or fit for a wide, popular market

Of ocurse, the market isn't going to be that big, but relatively big.

It doesn't have to change the music drastically to be commercial (we're talking strictly about the music, right?). Satyricon's Nemesis Divina would be a good example. Some Swedish norsecore band or a generic symphonic black metal band (the black-metalness may be questionable depending on the case, though) could qualify, too. If we take the definition of black metal more loosely (as was the case in this thread), there are of course a lot more, like Dimmu Borgir.