sublimewreckage

sublimewreckage's top 5 albums (overall):
1. Eternity - ...and the gruesome returns with every night (399)


2. Eternity - Funeral Mass (315)


3. Vargsang - Throne of the Forgotten (267)


4. Vargsang - Call of the Nightwolves (264)


5. Judas Iscariot - Thy Dying Light (254)





I like whatever pleases my ears; I don't restrict myself from certain types of music. It's varied and it comes down to personal taste.. but most of it all it's never about trend, politics, or all else that affects people's judgment when selecting music to listen to.

That said, I don't care if bands aren't original; if an album has attitude, musicianship and well written material I'm going to enjoy it, derivative or not. Sacrificing production quality to hide the flaws in your musicianship or to create an atmosphere that isn't there is ridiculous. There are less than perfect production qualities that may well add to some bands' "atmosphere" (in turn their mystique), and that is great. But to deliberately sabotage your sound for some ideal which ultimately appeases in the eyes of the most narrow-minded seems whorish, not elitist (and therefore trendier than a band who, say, uses keyboards in attempt to tastefully, or intelligently expand the depth of their atmosphere). Certainly more whorish than a band that tightens sound quality over time (through maturity, practice, etc.) and garners a growth in fan-base or record sales as a result (not at some record label's behest or band's master-plan for pop-chart domination like some whiny faggots would have you believe). With that in mind, this isn't a declaration of love for all things Cradle of Filth or Dimmu Borgir-like either; or a justification for what I would consider poor taste... merely an observation into the stupid, memetic behavior of the self-proclaimed "free thinking", "underground" crowd.

Anyways, it's always been about the music; philosophy, politics, and popularity be damned.

BTW - If you feel it was hypocritical to cite Dimmu Borgir or Cradle of Filth before, allow me the chance to explain... that the truth, and miracle, is that people can, and do, independently come to their own conclusions... including one that writes a good portion of Dimmu, and pretty much all CoF, discs off as rubbish. For me Enthrone Darkness Triumphant and Godless Savage Garden narrowly escape being called rubbish (well, at least 10 years ago this was true... as my cd collection bears evidence of). What I'm trying to say is, its OK to like or dislike these bands, as long as you don't really give a shit about it and that your decision was based solely on whether those bands are "music to your ears". ;)

The truth is this "about me" could have, and should have, been easily avoided... these aren't revelations, just in need of an all-powerful, 50 foot hand to slap the sense back into people who someone manage to avoid the reality of such a simple tenet.