Deafheaven Mosh Pit

IMHO - i really love a lot of atmospheric music, that is both metal and not metal at all - and all in all, i think it makes for boring as fuck shows.

I'm odd in the fact that I love post-rock, shoe gaze, blackgaze, or even stuff so progressive really that you're pretty much just standing there watching dudes bang away on instruments. Most of that stuff (not all, but most) i love to listen to with headphones or blaring in my house.

But when i go to a show... i go for a show. Then my love for entertainment kicks in more than my love for higher art. I tend to prefer Marilyn Manson, Ghost, Rob Zombie, Tool, System of a Down, Dog Fashion Disco, Steel Panther, even certain nu-metal or glam metal acts - shorter songs with a heavier lean towards a pop structure, theatrics, or something that inspires a pit like Meshuggah. I dunno - when i go to a show I just like something really high energy, or really theatrical. and i like the crowd feeling like a good mix of folks rather than just a bunch of dude bros nodding to each other, self assured of their own awesomeness in music choices.

Something like Opeth tends to work too b/c their changeups just keep you holding on and Åkerfeldt is such a charismatic front man overall. Standing there sipping a craft beer with my thumb up my ass just isn't my idea of a good time and for that reason alone i'll probably never pay to go see Deafheaven, Alcest, Ghost Bath, Myrkur, or My Bloody Valentine, or Mogwai, or Sigur Ros. Even watching vids from the Pitchfork Music Festival regarding deafheaven , they seem absolutely horrid to watch. Just mr hipster up there screaming his black metal vocals and overall the rest of the band looking like they're just there for the paycheck. I dunno - if i was to go to a black metal show, call me mr hot topic or whatever, but i'd rather see Dimmu or Cradle or something like that. Watching "serious" musicians just sit up there with a stick up their ass the hole time doesn't do anything for me than listening to their mp3s wouldn't do. I don't care if it's Deafheaven or Rush.

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