[#181] GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XXVI, Part Two

I am absolutely begging people who don't like metal to refrain from the stupid screaming impression and galaxy brain explaining why it's *actually* dumb art, it just feels so fucking youth pastor at this point. I completely understand that you can detail how it's logically bad or whatever to like it and after hearing the same arguments for 20+ years I still just don't give a shit.

ampgorky

Omg u guys I was leaving my friend’s place the other day and this random dude complimented my outfit, saying, “nice fit. It is very CRADLE OF FILTH,” I just said you know thank you, kind of thing, not knowing who this group was. Pretty shocked to discover the images and that my presence would evoke a comparison in any sense, but excited to share the anecdote in sj comments nonetheless.

Shoe Manghorn

Loving Khalid's WHAT??! at 56:21 (section starts 55:39)

Mr.E (Yahya)

On American culture, a native proverb: you cannot wake someone who is pretending to be asleep

NYCM&AHole

lol fan death. I did not expect that.

creetch

dsa meetings are fucking excrutiating

every man a kong

thats one ep of opperman worth revisiting is hugh turley talking about his book on thomas mertons death

Jacob Mead

Loving this episode, especially the latter bit. Great work boys❤️

Katherine Moss

I like MAKC. Dude seems to go into many issues that aren’t being dealt with in any real way.

Jasper

on the non profit counterinsurgency shit this recent interview with Hiram Rivera goes into a lot of that really comprehensively https://www.youtube.com/live/e0Cdt_1cW94?si=BGySkokpD8PMPUqf

Worth

Imperial Triumphant as well. . .

Worth

Dimitri’s comment at the start episode requires me to mention Ashenspire - they’re a great black metal in the same sonic vein as DSO but thematically focus on anti-fascism and industrial decay and entirely avoids any woo-woo satanic nonsense

James Cascao

This is the most condescending khaled has ever sounded

Ashay Guevara

Yes please

NYCM&AHole

Love the chainsaw tone intro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

NYCM&AHole

For the non-metal guitar players out there: https://youtu.be/fI_yJvNV5bY?si=UWzJF34UZ69Rk91-

NYCM&AHole

Preemptively commenting to piggy back of the prior ep’s comment about all shall perish being deathcore - ASP are definitely not black metal but I shove them under the umbrella of melodic death metal even if that category is also shared by lots of Swedish medal bands. Idk I never got into stuffing everything into a core subgenre. The only heavy music I can see deserving a “core” is metalcore (five finger deathpunch, I guess? I’m not big on what’s current). Anyways whatever you guys stuffed in the outro to the last ep just sounded like generic black metal (uh oh here comes the haters). It had a higher quality version of the Swedish chainsaw sound.