And if you thought the video below was weird...
Someone with a lot of spare time has posted Far Side Reenactments . Thanks to Elayne Riggs , who checks out this stuff so other people don't have to. I owe her some black metal links.
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Okay, I'm scared to say this...
But the video below, combining the Scissor Sisters' quasi-disco and three goofball black metal videos, works, in a seriously perverse way. I originally discovered this in the Facebook group Any Picture Can Be Improved by Adding Immortal to It.
Speaking of black metal...
This has got to be the most ridiculous idea since grunge fashion. If Abbath Doom Occulta starts appearing at runway shows, you'll know civilization has truly gone to hell in a handbasket. Via The Daily Swarm .
What's the matter with Scandinavia?
Seriously, that part of the world has produced one of the silliest musical movements in recent memory. No, I'm not talking about Roxette or Ace of Base. The movement in question is black metal , one of those fringe genres consisting of super-serious corpse-painted wannabe-demonic metal acts trying to convince the world how eeeeeeeeeeevil they truly are. To be fair, a handful were involved in church burnings during the 1990s. Black metal even has its own Charles Manson in the person of Varg Vikernes , who's now doing time for murder. All in all, however, black metal tends to outdo even Marilyn Manson in terms of unintentional humor. The dudes in the picture above are Horgh and Abbath Doom Occulta of the band Immortal. You can see how black! metal! they really are, can't you? I guess posing for pictures with your fly open is also really black! metal! Right, Abbath? Both pictures are taken from this list . It's NSFW, but definitely funny. If you're hankerin...