1993... were you DEATH or BLACK?

Kojiri · Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:23 am Post subject:

Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, Alice N Chains, RHCP, Green Day, Metallica. Is that black or death?

The heavy stuff didn't come til the mid 90s, Fiona Apple and such. Wink

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lord puke · Joined: 06 Mar 2009 Posts: 195 Location: France

interessant question...

If i remember well, I was into BM with a higher interest to this style and i was into DM but with a less interest.....

Morbid Tunes Of The Black Angels part 1 came in 1994.....I was into it 1 or 2 years before.....

It seems 1993 is the link ! I was 22.
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Perverted Necrofucker · Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 355 Location: Germany Bayreuth

El Feroce · Joined: 21 Feb 2011 Posts: 1534 Location: Impero Romano

18 years old, tripping into death metal and brutal.

Just discovering the new 'phenomenon' called black metal of bands like Burzum, Darkthrone and Mayhem.

Good ol' days Cool

Laugh At Your Corpse · Joined: 29 Apr 2010 Posts: 265 Location: Scotland

Was in a DM band in '93

maniact666 · Joined: 28 Sep 2010 Posts: 885 Location: Germany

Black too besides the old finnish and swedish Death scene

Captain Retard · Joined: 09 Jun 2013 Posts: 798 Location: Silver City

got bored of DM in 1992/3 (except few exceptions)
2nd wave Black Metal came in the big stores
with the cool stuff of first Osmoses

also my intrest in industrial / death rock gothic starts in 1992/93
Current 93, Legendary Pink Dots, Rozz Williams etc...
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Climbatize311 · Joined: 22 May 2010 Posts: 156

1993...3 years old. Just transitioning from Raffi and Barney to heavier stuff like The Cranberries, Hootie and the Blowfish, maybe some Michael Jackson and Beatles.

bearsbearsbears · Joined: 17 Mar 2012 Posts: 1051

Late into the year of 93' I was somewhere around 3 or 4 months old, in those days it was nothing but ZZ Top and Stevie Ray Vaughn...

Proud to be a false. Cool

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Demoniarch · Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 5762

If I think back to it... I suppose I really never had or harboured any distinction between the two then... and now have come full circle again not giving a damn about black or death metal tags. I like what I like.

Back in 1993 though I would have been 16 or 17. The year prior to graduation and pre-internet time. Basically having only a familarity with bands I could buy from the HMV or recall reading about in Metal Maniacs.
However being located in North America it was bands like Metallica and Megadeth, Iron Maiden... Slayer, Pantera... mostly whatever Road Runner and those type of record labels were releasing was easily familiar, so death metal I suppose.
Wasn't until some compilation from Century Media on their Century Black imprint that I really was introduced to something along the black metal aesthetics. Emperor, Samael, Tiamat, etc etc
Still never really considered anything to be of a different mentality or genre based idealism.
However there was a hunger for darker and more sinister music birthed through that little exposure and thus sparked the beginning I guess to being slightly drawn towards more black metal.
With the help of some friends I slowly aqauinted myself with in the city via finally the birthing of the internet into my cave... I made the large leap into darkness and black metal totally consumed my interest.

Now again... it's everything, the path is no longer so singular. Everything from the goofy Ghost to the merciless brutality of Revenge plays and is enjoyed through my stereo. The only commonality now is violent reality and a penchant for occultish horror and deviltry, if the music lacks that I tend to have not much interest in it as bands with those themes seem to provide the sounds that catch the ear.

Captain Retard · Joined: 09 Jun 2013 Posts: 798 Location: Silver City

Instinct · Joined: 26 Jun 2011 Posts: 114 Location: England

93... I was already into the likes of Baphomet, Goatlord and Vital Remains having been through Obituary, Deicide, Death etc and I was pretty pleased with myself for that and thought I was 'cult' and shit, then I read about about Varg etc. I followed with great interest what was occurring over in Norway but the small amount of black metal I heard at the time really did nothing for me. I remember hearing Burzum at a party, forced upon me by a guy who was previously 'exclusively death metal'; I thought it sucked hard. I got the vinyl of 'Blaze... simply because of the magnificent cover art - it took a further two years for me to understand that album and black metal in general.

Fenrirsson · Joined: 26 Jun 2012 Posts: 271

Odd to think that the debut Mutiilation demo features hails to Obituary and Deicide...

Twilight Command · Joined: 26 Mar 2013 Posts: 313 Location: Baltimore, MD, USA

Neither. Hardcore. 1993 was the year I transitioned from the entry level stuff (Minor Threat, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys) to the--at the time--less entry level stuff (Judge, Integrity, Earth Crisis).

I was into metal before getting into hardcore, but it was all thrash, death, and industrial. It would be a few more years until I got into black metal.
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