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remember the jackalope
anyone remember that early 90s phenomenon of coating your joints with toothpaste? i never did it but kind of marvelled at this. they did this to cigarettes, too. supposed to destroy your face.
god this guy sounds pathetic, an utterly overindulged child.
well, of course. I think that goes w/o saying.
that is a big part of what makes it, & that entire scene, interesting - these utterly naive Scandinavians who didn't realize that Venom & more generally shock rock was, yunno, a put-on, a spectacle. & they wound up the dank basement of a shop in Oslo in corpse paint, then burning churches & stabbing each other. for absolutely no reason, really. rebelling against having nothing to rebel against. re-enacting their own private version of the Eastern Front of WWII in btwn covering Conrad Schnitzler songs & making 14 minute minute opuses about crying orcs & all this. the utter patheticness of it is what makes it interesting.
the other night, my cat turned on my stereo at 3 or 4 AM and i woke up to Ministry's The Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Taste (on cassette!) at an ear-splitting volume (interestingly, my first thought was that my water heater was knocking---and about to explode; it sounded like industrial noise in the literal sense). that album has given me the howling fantods since jr high; i have to say i had to pull the covers over my head that night. (dream song on that album is still so haunting)
no, you lot are talking about wicky sticks- joints dipped in embalming fluid & then smoked once dry. tho I've never been clear on whether "embalming fluid" is actually that, PCP (tho it is slang for PCP) or something else entirely. anyway, kids used to talk about them when I was growing up (I had the good sense to stick to proper drugs, none of this inhalants/weird chemicals shite), I think it's something of a Chicago thing. supposedly when smoked they'd cause you to "freeze up", be unable to move - I've never done K but perhaps similar to that.
formaldehyde itself is just a chemical compound. I don't think you can smoke it.
either way, smoking PCP or somehow getting "high" on embalming fluid, that is indeed some "brutal shit".
AFAIK "sherm" is just generic slang for PCP.
Sick Boy you must know - PCP is hella popular in Canada. especially in Montreal, in my experience. the runaways & street kids & so on are way, way into it, in place of crack or heroin or whatever. every time I've been there I've been offered PCP by some dude or another.
Ok, you should probably ignore that.
But the annoying thing about the mainstream, Norway-centric view is that there were contemporary scenes all over the world who WEREN'T doing idiotic shit, and were making music that was just as great and intense. The Finnish guys were crank calling the Norwegian guys!
The big thing about BM, and what Euronymous was trying to do with Deathlike Silence Productions, is that it's international, and came from this huge global network of tape-traders and letter-writers, with local scenes dotted everywhere.
Aarseth's dreams of DSP as an multinational underground organization are a little grandiose, the type of fantasy inexperienced young people often have...
i hate this thread, the world, and everyone in it including myself.
fuck you.
I say they're black metal cause they were calling themselves black metal and sound like black metal, and there are still bands that sound like them that the black metal "scene" accepts as black metal. I agree that earlier in the 80s it wasn't easily defined, but certainly by 1990 it had emerged as a definite style.