Slightly OT but, Anyone seen Otto gotten charged for anti-semitism?
The show that has had so many direct blonde-jokes, it's extremely retarded imo.
so...out of curiousity...do any of these Black Metal type 'dudes' have any normal names?
Yes, the artist-names are for symbolism.
Varg = wolf and in the nordic mythology "varg in veum" is a concept.
Gaahl is probably from Galdr (crow) which is the name for shaman spellcasting, the more mascluline form of seid (healing/magic).
Hel is the godess of death etc...
Many of these are also lotr-nerds (before the movie), tho Tolkien based his world on nordic mythology.
From there you have Gorgoroth (a place) and Burzum (darkness) for example.
is just a Black Metal sort of thing to have the outrageous names to create the illusion that they are super naughty,super bad and eat people or drink blood?
Texts of killing infants, murdering priests, sacrificing virgins, chasing giants (troll/jotun) is just concepts with a distinct root.
Usually the bands just have an public agenda.
Not anti-social, roleplaying geeks like it can appear from some media-angles I guess.
Yeah, a bit dark chapter in music-history perhaps...
Yeah, sorry split-up.
I think the Gaahl/King band are the most relevant version for the mainstream audience-
-the most succesfull in taking it out to peeps at least.
But the propetitor of the name is a great writer too, can like both bands.
Enslaved are those with official support tho, meh.
Interview with Gaahl about the split (scroll down), and stuff.
http://www.faceculture.tv/index.php?cnti_key=11757993 He also sings in wardruna (not metal/about runes) btw!
The rune (from the kin of Freyr) he is wearing is for protection, for example in combat.
The Thorn is sharp to all,
painful to grasp,
uncommonly severe to those who rest among them.
A lot of norwegians are embarrassed, but it's the most successfull and it's real.
While other cultures got red wine and decadent cathedrals we got christmas-beer and suls, oh well.
Unless you're a nationalist Axl Rose is on us
Or was it celtic?