We talked with Ihsahn of Emperor and he said the following thing to us: "Nowadays, people tend to see Black Metal as a more traditional type of metal because everyone knows what it is about and it is often defined by what it
should or should not be. This goes completely against what I always believed Black Metal to be. For me, Black Metal always represented the idea of musical freedom. Now that there are so many rules, it is no longer Black Metal. " Do you agree with his vision?
Ah, well. Speaking of rats...
First of all, Ihsahn wouldn't know what Black Metal was supposed to be. He was one of those death metal musicians who all of a sudden wanted to play Black Metal instead in 1992, long after Darkthrone and Burzum had released their first so-called Black Metal albums that year in February and March respectively, and this new thing was already turning into a trend in Norway. So his death metal band "Thou Shalt Suffer" changed name to "Emperor" and all of a sudden claimed to be Black Metal band instead. Okay, fine, they changed style, and of course were free to do so, but they didn't know the idea behind the concept, they didn't influence it in any way and they were just like the other followers – only they were very early followers; if that makes a difference.
Black Metal was a new concept. The name itself came from a Venom album, because Euronymous was a Venom fan, and the concept was named by Euronymous, but it had nothing to do with any particular music style (save any type of metal music in general, of course). The whole point with Black Metal was that each and every band should be differentfrom all other bands – in contrast to the ultra-trendy death metal bands who by that time all sounded the same. If a band didn't have it's own style, it's own originality and a special approach then it wasn't Black Metal. When the rats in Emperor and Enslaved very quickly dropped their death metal dreams and all of a sudden started to copy (!) Darkthrone and Burzum we – Euronymous and myself – were bloody pissed at them. They didn't understand anything! All they had done was to exchange their death metal icons with Black Metal icons, and all they did was to rip off and copy Burzum and Darkthrone and to some degree also Immortal instead of ripping off and copying Death, Morbid Angel and so forth, as they had done before, when they played in their worthless death metal bands.
So they turned Black Metal into an entire genre defined by and based on the music of Darkthrone and Burzum and to some degree also Immortal. From then on – 1993 when these followers released their first albums – Black Metal became a music style with a particular (ridicules) image linked to a particular style. They didn't do anything original, they didn't invent anything new, they just did the same as what we had already done before them. They were as anti-Black Metal as you could possibly get!
http://www.burzum.org/eng/library/2012_interview_radiometal.shtml
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