When did Doom Metal/Black Metal and the like become "hip" and why?

Listen to the Muddy song. Don't read it.

we missed the black metal symposium ii
http://blackmetaltheory.blogspot.com/2010/06/black-metal-theory-symposium-ii.html

markers is hosting the 3rd one in 2011 with Metallica playing their new Arena BM album ... And Bandwagons For All in full

oh man so many good times in this thread

contenderizer's slim moon post & slim moon posting here - thanks, thread!

hah, i forgot all about that.

I've heard stories about Prof Scott Wilson. I'm confident that guy is True Metal.

also i wouldn't call myself an indie kid! i may be deluded but i wouldn't call myself an indie kid.

― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic),

lol

markers is hosting the 3rd one in 2011 with Metallica playing their new Arena BM album ... And Bandwagons For All in full

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, September 18, 2010 8:06 PM (50 minutes ago)

irl smile @ this

All metal has become hip now. I'm convinced of this. Everywhere I go I see metal people.

Nate, it's just you; you have the 666th Sense.

Nate lives in a metal club.

with King Diamond and Joey DeMaio

demo tape limited to 3

jyou have the 666th Sense

irl

[loling implied]

when does the unhip get added to the title?

when they figure out how to give you mod powers on any ilm thread with "metal" in the title ;)

there is probably a better thread to bump than this one but w/e this is the best thing ever http://scrapyardmagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/h-creates-bizarre-marketing-scheme-to.html

Monday, March 23, 2015
H&M Creates Bizarre Marketing Scheme to Sell Punk and Metal Inspired Threads
I spend a lot of time on Twitter, and while much of it fades into the background, this caught my attention.

Apparently, H&M hired a team of people to make metal music, metal logos, band histories and a distro AND post online about the legitimacy of said music. Why? To sell a new line of metal and punk inspired clothes, of course.

But it wasn't enough just to doodle some made up band logos and slap them on some pants. No no, H&M is going whole hog. They created a fake label page that happens to sell all of these bands! Here's the facebook page for "Strong Scene Productions." And their website! Yes, it's supposed to look like that. All of this was created super recently too!

If that wasn't weird enough, there's a bunch of corporate sponsored accounts on Reddit saying that these bands are TOTALLY REAL. While it's not uncommon for major corporations to create accounts on social media to sell stuff, H&Ms dedication seems oddly bizarre and specific.

THEY PAID. H&M PAID to have a song called "Vaginal's Juice Dripping into Cadaverous." By a band called Yvaeh (subtle), a "Malaysian" band. It's like they took a page from Ghost Bath. Only, WEIRDER. This YouTube account was made yesterday, by the way. They PAID to invent fake NSBM bands, LANY and The One. (Although The One is really a band, but no idea if this is the same band or if they're NSBM/Nationalists.) Regardless of everything else weird about this, it is definitely BAD MARKETING tocreat fake racist bands. Bad, H&M. Bad.

I'm not one to be all "METAL SHOULD STAY UNDERGROUND, POSERS!" but I do wonder why H&M didn't pay actual bands. Or just invent fake logos without the elaborate backstory.

the Facebook page is just next level

Wow. The guys behind the campaign aren't idiots though, and clearly know their stuff. Pretty sure H&M never expected to be paying for a mocked-up Xerox demo cover with a gun being inserted into a woman.

Right... so this was an art project of fake bands based on the patches on H&M clothing but nothing actually to do with H&M? Seems like a lot of effort to go to, but it got publicity because of it so worked, I guess. Website is down.

prefer the idea of H&M doing it but that's good too

Mingering Metal Mike

Are you on drugs? We love H&M!

http://youtu.be/0z7sRasK9tM

Some rumours it's one of the guys from Moonsorrow.

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/you_can_finally_own_action_figures_of_sleeps_dopesmoker_dudes