I love death metal but hate so many of the vocals. If an instrumental version of “none so vile” existed I would pay good money for it.
Death Metal English (2013)
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Re: Death Metal English (2013)
#62I once tried to start a reverse dictionary, an obscurantorium: look up a normal word to turn it into caliginous locution. I didn't get far, so I'm glad to see other people have brought it to grotesque heights.
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#63I'm a bit confused about most death metal, are they trying to appear (as the cockney's say) "hard men" in the way that gangsta rappers are trying to portray street-level gangs?
Some really tried hard, with actual murder, arson of 1000 yo church in Norway and rehearsing ( not live show) surrounded by sheep heads on spikes while throwing up because of the smell.
Isn't that mostly black metal? The genre is also sadly quite infested with Nazis, but it seems to be getting better.
Re: Death Metal English (2013)
#64I once tried to start a reverse dictionary, an obscurantorium: look up a normal word to turn it into caliginous locution. I didn't get far, so I'm glad to see other people have brought it to grotesque heights.
ChatGPT does a nice job of this.
> [Prompt]: Let's create a reverse dictionary, an obscurantorium: look up a normal word to turn it into caliginous locution.
> [ChatGPT]: Absolutely, that sounds like a fascinating endeavor! Let's turn a few everyday words into some delightfully arcane vocabulary.
> Water - Aquatic Adamant
> Sun - Celestial Candescent
> House - Domiciliary Edifice
....
> In the spirit of our obscurantorium, the sentence "You have been automated" could be transmogrified to:
> "Thou hast been actuated into automatonian existence."
Re: Death Metal English (2013)
#65I'm a bit confused about most death metal, are they trying to appear (as the cockney's say) "hard men" in the way that gangsta rappers are trying to portray street-level gangs?
It's a line of progression from old metal stuff, which always had social transgression and horror elements as key themes. Because the genre is more extreme musically, the lyrics are adjusted to be more extreme, too. "Death Metal English" is actually not that common.
Serial murderers have always been a lyrical topic, for example, and you can see the progression directly if you look for songs about them. From Judas Priest and Iron Maiden writing about them existing, to 80s bands like Slayer writing about them more individually, to death metal bands in the later 80s and 90s very graphically describing their acts.
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#66> Normal English: “Commuting to work” > Death Metal English: “TRANSPORTATION OF THE WAGEBOUND UNTO THE NEXUS OF PERPETUAL QUOTIDIAN ENSLAVEMENT” I can see that one play out very well in a job interview after realising that the job isn't as remote as promised.
I need something for the opposite (WFH the majority of the time doesn't really work for me, the company is officially “hybrid” but with all the people I work with almost always elsewhere I'm just remote but in an office with a couple of people on other teams).
Re: Death Metal English (2013)
#67I'm a bit confused about most death metal, are they trying to appear (as the cockney's say) "hard men" in the way that gangsta rappers are trying to portray street-level gangs?
It definitely depends on the band. Some of them are while others try to portray themselves as prophets or elevated beings.
Prophets? Which bands, exactly?
Re: Death Metal English (2013)
#68I once tried to start a reverse dictionary, an obscurantorium: look up a normal word to turn it into caliginous locution. I didn't get far, so I'm glad to see other people have brought it to grotesque heights.
ChatGPT does a nice job of this. > [Prompt]: Let's create a reverse dictionary, an obscurantorium: look up a normal word to turn it into caliginous locution. > [ChatGPT]: Absolutely, that sounds like a fascinating endeavor! Let's turn a few everyday words into some delightfully arcane vocabulary. > Water - Aquatic Adamant > Sun - Celestial Candescent > House - Domiciliary Edifice .... > In the spirit of our obscurant…
Nice find.
More death metallic: the occupation of your putrified soul was annihilated by a myriad of matrices, incinerating your banal enunciations in Envidia's convolution.
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#69I'm a bit confused about most death metal, are they trying to appear (as the cockney's say) "hard men" in the way that gangsta rappers are trying to portray street-level gangs?
My perception is that there’s 2 schools of what they’re trying to appear like:
- lovecraftian cult leaders, talking about esotericism, religion, forbidden knowledge etc etc
- narrators of horror stories, talking about gore and violence
In both cases, the singer rarely sings about themselves as a person. If they say « I » it’s usually impersonating a character (a murderer, a god, a sorcerer…), not literally them
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bolt Thrower never gets old.
Absolutely not. The last album, Those Once Loyal (2005), was a masterpiece and while I respect the band for not making another album just to make another album.. I would really like another album!
Go listen to Memoriam, it's a sort of a successor band to Bolt Thrower. Even the name is a direct reference to Martin. Karl Willetts does the vocals and the sound is pretty much the same. It has/had other members from BT, then the rest come from Benediction and Sacrilege
They've put out five albums in six years (!), one recently