Tuesday, May 29, 2007
I watched a documentary called Death Metal: A Documentary yesterday, and I kept laughing at the absurdity of some of the death metal acts and their antics in music videos. Some of them try so hard to be scary that they come off as parodies of themselves.
Despite the silliness, as well as the really poor audio and video, the documentary offered some insight into the minds of death metal musicians and their reflections on the scene from the early years on. Even Peter Steele (of the death metal band Carnivore and now of Type O Negative) made an appearance to give his opinions.
Perhaps the thing that made me laugh the most is the inflated egos of some of these guys. They seem to think of death metal as this intelligent music for intelligent people. A couple of them even compared death metal to jazz. Huh?
Of course, maybe I'm just not the target audience for the music, so that's why I find some of it so funny. I have a handful of death metal tracks in my iTunes, but frankly, I think most of them all sound the same. There's not a lot of variation between the different music of the various bands.
Despite the silliness, as well as the really poor audio and video, the documentary offered some insight into the minds of death metal musicians and their reflections on the scene from the early years on. Even Peter Steele (of the death metal band Carnivore and now of Type O Negative) made an appearance to give his opinions.
Perhaps the thing that made me laugh the most is the inflated egos of some of these guys. They seem to think of death metal as this intelligent music for intelligent people. A couple of them even compared death metal to jazz. Huh?
Of course, maybe I'm just not the target audience for the music, so that's why I find some of it so funny. I have a handful of death metal tracks in my iTunes, but frankly, I think most of them all sound the same. There's not a lot of variation between the different music of the various bands.
// posted by Chris @ 9:07 AM 
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