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I don't know if Sunn O))) fall into the realm of black metal...
The thing that turns me off from black metal is the whole Satanism thing...or really not so much the whole Satanism thing so much as the whole "look at us, we're so evil" thing-Slayer and Venom openly admit that the whole "devil worship" thing is for show only; the black metallers on the other hand, live and die by that, burning down churches and kill each other and shit. I saw this documentary on heavy metal and they had a segment on black metal where they were talkiong to this guy from the band Gorgoroth, and the interviewer asked him, "What do you think Gorgoroth stand for, as a band?" The guy just sat there for a few moments, before saying in one breath, "...Satan."
Another thing I don't like is the whole "once you have more than a small following you're a sellout" bullshit (of course you have that in other forms of underground music)...years ago, everyone in the black metal community loved Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir; now that they've become more popular, God forbid (or Satan forbid), everyone hates them.
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