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Black Sabbath might be a metal band, but it's not the concept of metal itself
^^ Was gonna say something, but Juan covered it. In terms of music, religion is only important to lyrical content, and it's not necessarily restricted to any genre, is what I'm saying.
On another note, I don't like Black Sabbath anyway.
On another serious note, I don't know how many people know or care that Black Sabbath is made up of Christians anyway, since it's not essential to their music.
Where do you think the name Black Sabbath comes from?
One of the big deals about Black Sabbath back in the heyday of rock was the occultism, which sent moral guardians into a rage. For the most part, this was an overreaction to religious themes in the music. For instance, Black Sabbath's self-titled track includes pleas to God for help against a creeping evil. Also, church bells.
This was done mainly for effect, I'd guess, but religion has always been a significant part of Black Sabbath's music -- even if it was just to take advantage of where the conflicting forces of traditionalist interpretations of holy texts and the exploding social progression of the era, and the place at which they conflicted in the internal thoughts of many.
Black Sabbath are probably the first "proper" heavy metal band in any case, although Deep Purple arguably hit quite close. Whatever the case might be, though, Black Sabbath no doubt rank amongst the most influential metal bands ever, and highly at that. And they were all about the religion in some way or another(when they weren't singing about weed or space exploration). And then Dio, God bless his heart, took it all further.
edit: ninjuan'd
^^ I could've sworn it was a reference to a Satanic parody of the Christian Mass, and the band's song by that name was for the sake of edge. Or at least, that's what I had been led to gather.
But seeing as I don't know much about the band, on account of I dislike old metal, I'll take your word for it.
But we're getting away from my original point, which is that "Religious" isn't really a music genre.
Well, it could be considered that way in terms of "theme" -- you do, for instance, get "Viking metal".
True enough; it's more an indicator of subgenre, than anything. I brought As I Lay Dying and iTunes up in the first place because I find it silly that iTunes would only categorize by genre (with exceptions that are at least somewhat intuitive, like Indie Rock and Alternative), and then have the genre "Religious", since that's explicitly a modifier and doesn't actually indicate what the music sounds like. So I guess what it comes down to is lol iTunes.
It's definitely one of my favorite episodes so far. I always like learning more about the characters, and it was a pretty powerful moment when Zuko offers the kid the knife and gets yelled at, even though he just rescued him.
Azula reminds me of my sister.
^ I don't know that much about Avatar, but I know enough that I'm terribly sorry if your sister is like Azula. :P Is it the same one that scoffs at speculative fiction?
I'm mostly exaggerating, but I could totally see her being kind of like that if she was in a bad mood and we were evil royalty and also firebenders.
yup
It was definitely one of the best episodes.
Charity event was a riot. Had to chase away a bum who was fresh out of jail for throwing a firebomb, transport a group of drunken band bros with my dad driving, the owner of the nearby sushi restaurant threw a spergfit about the noise by destroying equipment and got dragged away by cops, a couple of marketeer chicks used our event as a free advertising venue until we instructed our photographers to make close-up snaps of their butts and cleavage until they went away(after which we auctioned of the freebies they handed out), the male date sale had a crowd of gay people show up to troll, the afterparty in the local shitty disco was a flop, meaning that hellhole lost hundreds of euros of revenue and I now have several thousand euro in change stashed away in my fridge. Patronizing rehashings of White Man's Burden have never been this fun, though the sunburn is a bitch.
Sounds fucking amazing.
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Forzare: Where did you find the episodes for the first series? I missed most of them, so being able to just binge would be great 8D
here you go
>put Machine Head's The Blackening back on iTunes
>listen through some tracks
>goddammit did "Aesthetics of Hate" just skip
Also, I can't decide if I like Cannibal Corpse or not.
goddamnit guys don't watch korra watch the avengers
i watched the avengers
now i watch korra
unless you mean an avengers cartoon
in which case
no fuck you >
the avengers cartoon is great though. it has the wasp and like hulk and then then kapow and there's that bit with miss marvel where she goes woosh and then kang and then then captain america fights the gods and stufff~~~
you should try it
well i sure don't want to miss that woosh
woosh > good writing, yo
that woosh sure does sound like a thing
I don't think it's fair to say a band isn't religious just because of their genre.
Also, the Avengers cartoon has Rocket Raccoon in it. Avengers cartoon wins.
korra has the fire ferret though
he does circus tricks
the rocket cartoon also does woosh
welp
i have no argument for that
Are you referring to that thing between me, Alex, and Juan above? If so, I don't think anyone said anything like that.