why did this give metalfags an aneurysm?

>>127266915 (OP)
Because they didn't wear corpse paint.

Because it's listened to by the worst people imaginable, it's not metal, and it was bad.

>>127267989
Why isn't it metal?

>>127268009
maybe listen to it and find out yourself?

>>127268021

>>127268045
I repeat

>maybe listen to it and find out yourself?

>>127268063
I listened to it and it sounded pretty metal to me, so why the disconnect?

>>127268063
I'm approaching it objectively, rather than subjectively.

>>127268084
it's screamo / shoegaze / post-rock. It's not metal.

>>127268063
You're a fucking faggot.

>>127268142
black metal + shoegaze is indeed metal , same way metalcore is metal

>>127268189
it's not black metal though lol

>>127268234
why

>>127266915 (OP)
the lyrics are gay af so there's a major mismatch when borrowing signature black metal aspects. plus it was conveniently grouped with the so-gay-he's-trans-now Liturgy even though they didn't really have any association

>novelty genre fusion (though blackgaze wasn't even a new thing)
>overstated black metal influence
>greatest dilution of extreme metal musical language yet seen, beyond heavy/alt metal banality into something unrecognizable
>given excessive limelight by hipsters, tourists, marketers, "alternative" music people
>>127268045
>>127268104
>da website said so
Sickening hive brain.

>>127268021
>>127268009
>because it just IS okay!

>>127266915 (OP)
I like it, it's pretty metal

that a metal album metal's scene leader played metal genre of tree when recording drum tracks for it

>>127268437
thank you austin

>>127268189
>metalcore
not metal

>>127266915 (OP)
it was too good and they aren't used to

>>127266915 (OP)
people who wouldn't normally listen to metal due to not liking the aesthetics of metal listened to SUNBATHER because they liked the aesthetics of the album and band, then mistakenly treated it as if it was musically groundbreaking
to people who do like the aesthetics of metal and regularly listen to all kinds of metal this was seen as insulting

>>127268282
because it sounds nothing like black metal? Black metal is also an ethos and a lifestyle and deafheaven is just a bunch of trust fund idiots from california.

>>127268189
it's blacked metal

It was in an Apple commercial for fucks sakes. Gone were the days of trve underground black metal.

a better question is why hipsters who don't even listen to metal so desperately needed this shitty album to be considered black metal? metal or not it's totally unremarkable. it also just goes to show how image obsessed people who hate on metal are. black metal was seen as stupid and cringe until some brooklyn hipsters wearing flannel started playing it and had a pink album cover. wow so groundbreaking. also the band later went on to just make tepid indie shoegaze crap which is exactly what everyone knew they wanted to do anyway.

>>127268653
in brooklyn, the metal venues are all in those hipster neighborhoods

>>127268653
They want to give off the impression of being different from normalfags by being "into metal" and edgy music but they also don't want to be seen as a "cringe" metalhead so they stick with stuff like Sunbather that's been deemed socially acceptable to like on the internet so they can show it off on their fag charts and rym profiles. It's just poseur contrarianism.

Deafheaven was formed by two failed metalcore kids who jumped on the next trend

>>127268736
and the metal that comes out of Brooklyn sucks ass and is riffless garbage

>>127268838
>metal that comes out of Brooklyn sucks ass
That Blood and Crescent scene is a fucking joke. Can't believe posers pay $100 for the most soulless AI inspired black metal.

>>127268920
I actually am not at all familiar with that. I immediately associate Brooklyn metal with Krallice and Imperial Triumphant some the most egregious poseur garbage out there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPs3xQQ439k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZK4yKisDE

the guys hating on this metal album because it became popular are so pretentious and cringe

>>127268988
You're just upset you'll never be a real metalhead.

>>127268713
reminder

>>127269474
t. nu-male

>>127268964
Imperial Triumphant is gay as fuck but Krallice has some really good shit. Don't really care if Fagtano happens to like them. Years Past Matter is one of the best metal albums of the previous decade

>>127266915 (OP)
>Why do people who listen to a musical genre designed to alienate themselves from others dislike a band that broadened the appeal of that genre

kind of explains itself....

>>127268556
so what