FUCKYES!

DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING AT ALL.

it is really fucking annoying how all these indie rockers love black metal now. In the 90's they wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole but now it's cool, or at least has become increasingly viewed as such in the last 7-8 years.

These guys missed the wagon anyway, unless you think watered down shit like Wolves In The Throne is the 'real deal'. If not, the best black metal was made in the 90's, with the exception of 80's Bathory.

How do you know he didn't like Black Metal before now. Black Metal has been around as long as Sonic Youth, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think that Thurston has been aware of Black Metal, or even a fan, all these years.

Gimme a fucking break!

This guy gets a divorce from his bassist, Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth and has nothing to do. Why not play black metal? He's ass-out anyway!

Like the guy up the page said, it's weird seeing all these hipster-indie guys being into black metal now, seems to be the new thing.

Now the emo-douches will start taking over blekk mettle.
Time to play "A Blaze in the Northern Sky".

Thank Satan no one can take that away from us anymore!

New thing to like? What do any of you know about what Thurston's music collection. He is a musicologist, he knows all genres from softest to roughest.

Some of you wear your music taste as a badge of identity, this guy is living it. Judge your self first for being late to the game.

First day buyer!!!!!

[insert artist name here] rules!!!

\m/ \m/

Haha...Regardless of what he wants to do, this man has been into black metal before you guys were even born.

Correct, sir. Most likely these people knew nothing about Thurston Moore before this article. The man has incredible taste and always has. They should consider doing homework before they bitch.

That came out of nowhere ... he should throw on some facepaint.

where he was talking about black metal like it was something new to him. this was back in 2004 i think. He has not been into it since the 80's, no chance.

It's not about wearing taste as a 'badge of identity', it's about talking about how late these

Americans in general got to black metal late. sorry, that's the truth, even of metal fans. By the mid 90's it was all over Europe, whereas it was nothing in the U.S comparatively in terms of status. Most of the zines in the U.S covered death metal, and the big mags like Metal Maniacs were barely touching black metal. By constrast, black metal artists were on the front covers of mags like Terrorizer by 1994/95.

With this in mind, am i really supposed to believe that a guy like Moore, who isn't into metal really, esp when it wasn't trendy in the 90's, was into black metal before almost every other metalhead in the country? It's highly unlikely.

Anyway, the connection between black metal and some indie rock was picked up by Terrorizer journalists all the way back in 1995. There was a huge disconnect between the genres then. It's good that it's over but i do get suspicious of

Who cares when he got into it? It's not like your interest in black metal is only valid if you were in on it since the beginning. I don't think "hipster" and "indie" and "emo" or whatever have anything to do with anything of importance. There are plenty of musicians and bands who have been in on black metal since the '90s who are releasing shit albums anyway. The most important thing is that Twilight and Thurston Moore make some worthwhile music together. And if the album they make is shit, then they right deserve to be called out for it.

Intelligent and well thought out.

at what point did one need to discover black metal to be legitimately interested in it? If he didn't discover black metal until the 2000's is he not allowed to like it? That seems stupid.

cool news!
like to see him do something with Mike Patton!!!!!

I don't really care about whether he likes it or not. My original point was more general. I personally do not like indie kids that shitted on metal in the past and now love it. I just hate posers in general and can spot them a while away.

I don't think Moore is a poser, just a music geek--I love 80s Sonic Youth btw, and some of their 90s albums-- but the trend annoys me, just like any trend really, and I guess deep down I feel that, like death metal, black metal's cultural moment has well since passed, even if there are still good bands around.

I don't doubt that many indie kids knocked metal back in the day, but oh well. We should be happy that they've decided to appreciate metal. That kinda puts some of them in front of the metal crowd, who tend to loathe any kind of progression or open-mindedness in music. I know for a fact that they were rocking Slayer while making the Daydream Nation album. Kim Gordon said as much in the DN liner notes.

Seems quite a stretch to me. I can understand Dave Grohl doing a straight up metal album, but this?

Soon, Eddie Vedder will handle vocal duties for Napalm Death.

I can only assume you know very little about Thurston Moore or Sonic Youth

Awesome to hear!

...Sucks!

Thank You Lich King for that killer song!

Since when does Black Metal need Indie cred? This is some bullshit, now, I'll tell you.

Like when that turd Moby started his metal "Supergroup", and didn't that fuck Ryan Adams try some similar bullshit?

Bullshit. Black Metal sucks anyway. Ridiculous.

popularized a 7 inch single made up of stage banter of Chronos during the Venom days, to LAUGH at metal with! (At least thats the story I heard, will have to do more research). ONLY NOW he's actually into the music he once made fun of?

Cream.


Period..

was a HUGE death metal fan, loved Deicide, Obituary, etc. To think that he was unaware of black metal, and almost certainly dug some of it, is very, very hard to imagine. he has earned the right to do whatever he wants, in my opinion...

had emperor on their cover in 1997 or 98, so they werent as late as that previous poster said

Couple of douchebags defending this hipster eno douche.
He must pay you well.

You're a FUCKING MORON dude... Go back to your hole...

EMO??? Hahahah... Toolshed you are...

Why would anyone WANT to join a black metal band???

Stupid "anti-religious" crap is no different than the religion it criticizes (and I'm an atheist).

And with all the facepaint, these jokers look just as silly as the 80's hair metal bands, if not more so.

Sorry if I'm insulting anyone...just calling it like it is.

YEAAAAAAAAAAA!

I would say that now that he's a single dude, he's probably got his eye on boning a few metal chicks.

He'll also be sad to find out that this species went extinct about 10 years ago. But if he ever considered a steady diet of sausage, he's in the right fucking place.

Maybe he'll do a duet with Varg.

Black metal is made up of hipsters now? You all know that, by claiming to like black metal before it was cool, that in turn makes you a hipster, right?