Death metal is a severe offshoot of heavy metal, a reaction to the superficiality of eighties popular culture. In the early nineties, bands that played death metal considered themselves part of an élite vanguard. They tuned their guitars in unconventional ways, and some, influenced by classical musicians, composed songs that required high degrees of discipline and technical virtuosity to play. Onstage, artists often wore sweatpants to demonstrate their athleticism and lack of pretense; the genre’s signature vocal style is a heavy growling chant. (“We like it when it’s simply rotten,” one musician told me.) It is a subculture in love with its offensiveness, and obsessive about guarding its artistic purity.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070122fa_fact_khatchadourian

Look for quotation from S.R. Prozak (death/black metal writer from anus.com/metal) halfway through article.

anus.com is gay

Theory: when you have ideas. Idealogy: when ideas have you.

Another weak and confused geek looking for something to give his worthless and pathetic life meaning

I can see how him and Infocunt were buddies

The two of them could not get in laid in a whorehouse with a fistfull of twenties

Nerd Bombah

Why do people suck alot of poll?

miscegenator said:

I highly doubt this is true. People wear sweatpants because they're comfortable, not to make some artistic statement.
If anything, death metal band members probably wore them to show that they're not using a flashy image to sell records, the music will speak for itself.

"Onstage, artists often wore sweatpants to demonstrate their athleticism"


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

i just demonstrated my athleticism into my sweatpants