Um–a super-sharp dresser with excellent hair?

My real interest is in the bands themselves. While people of
style such as yourself will be stylish no matter how much bands
try to urge you by way of example to dress like unemployed janitors
I still think bands are setting poor examples as per the article,
robbing themselves of an avenue of artistic expression, and not
exactly offering audiences in these shit economic times a very
pleasurable visual show.

I am not a christian at all. the opinion that are conservatives are devoutly religious is a false stereotype.

Fact is, there are a gillion better ambient BM bands than Burzum–why give this hate-infused asshat degenerate any money?

Finally–at this point, there is no intelligent conservative metal band or movement. But you can guess how they’ll dress, can’t you?

I’m in NYC–‘conservative’ doesn’t relate to the neo-Know Nothings of the newly anti-science, Chrostianist GOP.

It’s about a whole world of serious, sincere conservatism that, in the US at least, has no party of national forum.

The more nerd-some the better, is my argument. :)

I think assuming their black metal was bogus is another iteration of that Troo Dude obsession with being ‘authentic’. Then again, there *are* indie hipster douchbags who’ve glommed onto metal as the style of the month.

‘We’re Not a Hipster Metal Band…That’s Fucking Bullshit.’ Laura Pleasants, Kylesa. And whose gonna argue–you ever get hit with the body stock of an old Les Paul? :)

It’s not a class thing. Or rather, it only becomes a class thing if bands decide to fetishize
blue collar blah-ness as part of that kneejerk ‘authenticity’ fetish.

Because fashion is *totally* serious. Hitler certainly knew that. So did Franco.

Heck–fascists *always* know how to dress.

>”A few years back, a crossover between hipster music and metal would have been >unthinkable, but after Alcest, Nachtmystium, Twilight and co., that isn’t anymore the >case. This is true mostly for the American scene.

In particular, scenes like that here in New York, in Brooklyn to be particular. It was fascinating. And since everything plays out on the street, there was no missing it.

Kids wearing old Iron Maiden and Poison tee shirts ironically show up.

At the same time, you had actual metal bands starting to form, many of them in genres that you could make sort of ironic or post modern-y—the foods of choice for hipsters, of course.

Those bands went to the area vintage shops, which sell vintage *designer* stuff, or local designers doing versions of hard rock’s past, which, for whatever reason, was also becoming very trendy.

At the same time, you had bands actually wanting to look metal, less irony please, but
they also didn’t want to look like crap. I mean, if there’s one thing we Americans know how to do is to *sell* shit and looking right sells. So thought goes into how to look ‘right’ and metal.

At the same time, an actual Brooklyn metal look springs up from all this, which is kind of hot and gets straight guys laid.

This causes guys to forget irony entirely while females start their own metal or metal-influenced bands (think uber-shredder Marnie Stern.)

In some cases, Animal Collective is even forgotten.

So:

Ironic tees–>new kinda ironic bands–>vintage classy “rock” designerwear–>urge to look less ironic appears–>less ironic-looking, cool-looking bands get laid–>Animal Collective forgotten/Nachtmystium sell out local venues.