eBay banning Death Metal.

[Dead Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Akamaz

look up Vengeance Rising, they're pretty good if you can find their stuff.

I'm going to download some of their songs later, maybe when I get back from school.

I usually like to listen to Dragonforce, Nightwish, Gamma Ray and Killswitch Engage, but if it's that great, that band is going to be added to my list.

[Lost in Time]

Most Death Metal bands I listen don't really bash religion like they are trying to say. But one band is pretty bad: Anal Cunt. They have sick titles like: You Were Too Ugly To Rape... So I Just Beat The Shit Out Of You, or I Drop Kicked a Pregnant Woman In the Stomach. That's just sick and extremely sexist I believe.

[Captain Hat]

Of course. A lot of death metal bands (usually, it has to be said, not the best ones though) use very offensive song titles deliberately in order to be provocative nd try to generate publicity for themselves. They aren't as good at it as Marilyn manson or Alice Cooper, though, in the main.

In fact, a lot of rock bands use violent-sounding or very weird song titles, like the grindcore outfit Narcosis, or the punk groups McLusky and the kind-of-punk-or-indie-I'm-not-really-sure-which Martini Henry Rifles. Narcosis song titles include "Just Because They Say Christ When You Walk In The Room Doesn't Make You Jesus" and "The World Is Your Oyster And I Am The Hammer", while the Martini Henry Rifles wrote "Gippo Kids Ate My Hamster and "Run Jimmy Run Run Run, You Fucker." McLusky are more or less King of Bizarre Song Titles as far as bands that actually write individual songs go, with titles including "The Difference Between You And Me Is That I'm Not On Fire," "Dave, Stop Killing Prostitutes" and the seminal "Lightsaber Cocksucking Blues." If you want really mweid song titles, though, you have to be prepared to gat a little prog, and venture into the realm of metal operas and even black metal storytelling. Ayreon have one or two good examples, but some of the best I've come across have been those of Bal-Sagoth.

Bal-Sagoth are just like any other roughly average black metal band (they're not particularly brilliant musically) except that where another black metal band would have a singer screaming all the time, Bal-Sagoth have a narrator, who basically tells stories over the music. Since each of their songs is in fact a story about some mythical past of the planet Earth and the Hyperborean Empire, their song titles are essentially the names of some exceptionally daft fantasy short stories.

For example, on the album "Atlantis Ascendant," there are "The Epsilon Excorium," "Draconis Albionensis" (a reference to a Dragon of Albion), "Star Maps of the Ancient Cosmographers," "The Dreamer In The Catacombs Of Ur," "In Search Of The Lost Cities Of Antarctica," "Six Keys To The Onyx Pyramid" and the jaw-droppingly fantastic title "The Splendour Of A Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath The Blazon Of The Hyperborean Empire (Part III)"

As a result, Bal-Sagoth are actually immense fun to listen to and I would thoroughly recommend you pick up an album if you like your metal black and actually posess a sense of humour..

[notasfatasmike]

Anal Cunt's entire schtick has always been their extremely nasty song titles. I don't listen to them, not because I find them offensive, because I think they're a terrible band.

And now, I have to find something by Bal-Sagoth somewhere. That sounds freakin' AWESOME.

[Lost in Time]

I wouldn't call Bal-Sagoth satanist at all, so they defiantly can't call all black metal that. They're lyrics it looks like, are mostly fantasy based, like Power Metal is.

I don't know what you would call Ayreon, probably just prog metal, but they have alot of those fantasy based songs. And what's neat about them, is that every album is linked together in one big story. And they have those long titles as well, but none of them offensive.

[ApathyMan]

Originally Posted by Lost in Time

Most Death Metal bands I listen don't really bash religion like they are trying to say. But one band is pretty bad: Anal Cunt. They have sick titles like: You Were Too Ugly To Rape... So I Just Beat The Shit Out Of You, or I Drop Kicked a Pregnant Woman In the Stomach. That's just sick and extremely sexist I believe.

You are aware that they are a comedy metal band, yes? It's all tongue-in-cheek.

... why do you think they made the album Picnic of Love?

[Captain Hat]

Originally Posted by notasfatasmike

Anal Cunt's entire schtick has always been their extremely nasty song titles. I don't listen to them, not because I find them offensive, because I think they're a terrible band.

And now, I have to find something by Bal-Sagoth somewhere. That sounds freakin' AWESOME.

Dude, e-mail me or something if you want to hear a couple of tracks.