Black Metal Quotes

• Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only to mark distance. That's how we ended up calling ourselves Satanists, despite the fact that we absolutely were not. There was not a single Satanist in the whole Black Metal scene in Norway in 1991-92.

  Varg Vikernes

  Distance, Opposites, Black

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• Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it.

  Mick Barr

  Black, Way, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

  Brie Larson

  Beautiful, Dark, Black

  "Brie Larson Talks SHORT TERM 12, Rupert Wyatt’s THE GAMBLER, Receiving the 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Virtuosos Award, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2014.

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• If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

  Geezer Butler

  Music, Boys, Poison

  "GEEZER BUTLER - 'The '80's Were The Worst Period For Metal'". Metal Exiles Interview, bravewords.com. March 24, 2005.

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• All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Music, Strong, Smart

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• I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

  George Clarke

  Black, Kind, My Favorite

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.

  Colin Marston

  Black, Musical, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Black, Found

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For years I wouldn't listen to black metal from anywhere but Norway.

  Mick Barr

  Years, Black, Norway

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.

  Mick Barr

  Art, Black, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level.

  Kristoffer Rygg

  Creating, Numbers, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

  Blake Judd

  Hate, Hands, White

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the record industry has collapsed and started to rot, things are livening up a bit again.

  Mat McNerney

  Black, Tools, Records

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.

  Colin Marston

  Thinking, Black, Done

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

  Mat McNerney

  Hate, Thinking, Essence

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Yeah, sci-fi is definitely a big influence on Fear Factory. I've had people tell me we always sing about the same thing but it's like well, if we were a black metal band we'd sing about Satan, you know? What if we were a Christian metal band? All the songs would be about how much we loved Jesus.

  Dino Cazares

  Christian, Song, Jesus

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands.

  Mick Barr

  Black, Band, Contact

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted.

  Colin Marston

  Goal, Black, Pseudonyms

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about 1920. I try to write everything down at once, in one sitting. The longer stories in this collection are divided up into sections. Each section represents a different sitting, a different idea for the same story.

  Arthur Bradford

  Writing, Typewriters, Ideas

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Your mama-akra sent that to you, akri, to hurt the heathen-god. Now it’s Dimonique time. The Simi can’t be bothered we no Greek god messing with the one who pays the plastic bills. Can the Simi have that black metal card she loves so much? (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Greek, Black

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