Aesthetics Quote by Colin Marston

“Black Metal just makes sense; its melodramatic Satanism transformed into an angry lament for human folly. But it doesn't just mourn. It also aims…

— Brenda S. Gardenour Walter

Black metal - especially from the '90s - contains a certain production aesthetic that keys you into the emotive content. You feel it more…

— Jorge Elbrecht

Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.

— Chuck Schuldiner

Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it.

— Mick Barr

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

— Blake Judd

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from…

— George Clarke

Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the…

— Mat McNerney

As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any…

— Colin Marston

“Today you hear people saying that we invented heavy metal with the song ‘Black Sabbath’ . But I’ve always had a bee up my…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I really don't want to be associated with the low-brow Black Metal genre. If you want to know what I mean when I say…

— Varg Vikernes

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

— Eddie Trunk

There's a lot of music out there that's like, 'I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black,' and…

— Phil Elverum