Quote Originally Posted by Avarice-ness View Post
OMG WTF IS THIS THREAD IT'S LIKE IF MY HUSBAND WAS ARGUING WITH HIMSELF OR SOMETHING. *headache*

I didn't read through all the angry-ness so listen to Kivimetsän Druidi, not viking, but folk. And folk is yummy.
Also, as for the whole "Educated in genre's" BS. It is truly BS, in this day and age, bands and artists are making up their own genres to be "individual" i.e. when Britney Spear and christina agular(what ever) showed up, everything sounding like them was "Bubblegum pop" years later Avril Lagibveeajshdjash(whatever) wantsto be punk but spunky, so she calls herself "Bubblegum punk" thus the rest of the world follows. Problem is, shes' the only one in this genre anyone knows of. w

SO WHO CHOOSES THE GENRE CERTAIN BANDS FIT IN?
The MASS public honestly. Hell if all bands existed and followed the.. well according to some of you, set in stone genre markers (IF YOU HAVE THIS IN YOUR BAND, YOU ARE THIS GENRE) then it can easily be said that some bands change Genre's MANY times throughout their existance.

Back in the 80's, Metallica was considered metal. Now we call the SAME 80's metallica hardrock, if not rock. Guess what though, Metallica still calls themselves metal.

With the opinions and ever changing factors that are placed into the whole concepts of genre's and band composition... no one can be right when it comes to who's in what genre. If 300 million people say blah blah blah is this, it'll prolly stay that until 400 million people say blah blahblah is that, and then it'll be that.

If I was in a band I'd do like 3 metal cd's and then a pop cd and a new age cd in between, only to screw with people who even CARE what's in what genre. "OMG THEY WERE METAL THEN THEY WERE POP THEN METAL AGAIN?!?! WHAT DO WE CONSIDER THEM?! METAL'POP?! OMZGZ NO WAY. Q.Q.QQ..QQ.Q.Q"
When you classify the music, you kill the music.

To be educated in something, you must be taught by someone who is considered a MASTER in the subject. Someone who works in the field they have MASTERED and have done so for YEARS. Reading wikipedia,watching TV, reading books, listening to the radio makes you an avid music fan, butnot someone who we should all take their word for because they consider themselves educated on a varying subject.
I am sorry, but you are wrong, and I have elaborated on everything that you have said. Because you have not read through everything that was said, you would not know that. I am not going to make a full response to your post because the text is very hard to go back and read over and over, and I am through arguing about this. It is clear to me that you have nothing to do with real metal, or the metal underground to begin with. I would not argue with Bruce Lee about martial arts, if he were alive. You should not argue with me about metal. I apologize if this makes me come off as pretentious, but I do not care.

P.S. Metallica's first four records are still thrash metal records, regardless of what you, or any other fool says.


Let's quit talking about this and get back to talking about Viking Metal bands.

Earlier on, someone mentioned Windir. Great band. I recommend them to anyone that is already into Viking Metal, but has not heard of them yet. 1184 is their best record, in my opinion, though everything is good.