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I thought this was a cute joke. Imagine how much effort went into this. People work hard for their posts these days. https://t.co/jZOO8CphvA

— Don Hughes (@getfiscal) September 19, 2023

voluntarily posting a tweet where you got cooked on twitter to be subsequently cooked on ilx is a total unforced error and extremely funny

Still, I haven't riled this many people up in a long time. It's exhilarating.

― read-only (unperson), Monday, 18 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Unperson loves this. Let's not worry about it.

they?

― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 4:30 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have no idea who unperson is, not wanting to make assumptions

hurrah to unperson for their courage in letting us know their pronouns. they / them it is!

If you're in a metal band, and it's picture day, you wear denim and leather, you scowl at the camera...

ok but then why did you post a pic of a band dressed up as 19th century detectives

Metal bands are entitled to Casual Friday

I'd imagine most people join metal bands because they're really into being told what to wear.

yeah i truly don’t understand why a band needs to show off except via their skills as a band.

Bowie wept.

Leave your corpsepaint at home and bring your skills to the battle

i dunno i thought it was all just a riff on this classic meme

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPxUzJoXIAckHJl.jpg

Ackercocke's early promo shots were indeed great, they had a very cool sense of presentation, & the Tomb Mold cover is kinda funny, but the generational divide between "seriously a resident evil 2 shirt to your cover shoot? you didn't even fucking change clothes" and "my man in his resident evil 2 shirt like the king he is. living his best life" is super fascinating. because I relate more to the former aesthetically -- you didn't even change clothes for the photoshoot? just got up, grabbed one from the drawer, and went to wherever they'd told you the photographer was? -- but that's actually, like, a complex choice, it says something just like "I got all dressed up" does.. for whatever it's worth, before I got too injured to run, I had instituted a policy of "I'm not changing clothes for photos any more, I look how I look" and it was liberating, but now that I'm struggling I gotta put on clothes that won't make me feel like shit when the pictures run

Maybe it’s an inversion of the “pop star wears Deaththrone tee in recent photo shoot” trope?

I actually love the cover, but hate the steampunk other photo— same band? I hate it

Choosing to wear a Fido Dido shirt is so specific that I don’t believe this was an art direction decision on the part of the magazine, but a “t-shirt is model’s own” thing

yeah, i cannot imagine this prob but i guess if my pose was "i'm street all the time even for poto shoots," my street clothes would need to become way more intentional

that’s a crisp clean t-shirt for a classic game. probably would command a hefty price in the vintage market if it’s official merchandise. probably a prized possession only worn for special occasions

what if taylor swift showed up to a concert in stained sweats. what then

people would start expecting her death metal album

but the generational divide between "seriously a resident evil 2 shirt to your cover shoot? you didn't even fucking change clothes" and "my man in his resident evil 2 shirt like the king he is. living his best life" is super fascinating

Is this as simple as a generational divide? I think wide swathes of Indie music and semi-associated styles like Grunge already displayed the latter attitude, partially perhaps as a conscious stance against "phony" "showbiz" stuff. And then every now and then you'll get some ultra glam band in those genres trying to stand out exactly because they're not just wearing t-shirts. Anyway I don't think zoomers or millenials invented this.

Anyway it's fine to dress up and it's fine not to, haranguing a band on social media for making a choice on that topic either way is sadlol.

if ms swift's theoretical stained sweats appeared in the midst of all her usual concert trappings of monumental set design, dramatic lighting, lots of dancers and costume changes, her fans would probably think the stained sweats were a clever bit of irony

yeah i truly don’t understand why a band needs to show off except via their skills as a band.

Bowie wept.

― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 19, 2023 7:00 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bowie also said he was a fascist!

_Come As You Are: How street fashion came to define Xers_ coming to a bookshelf near you xp

xpost Swifties would interpret them as a burn on Bieber or something

the generational divide between "seriously a resident evil 2 shirt to your cover shoot? you didn't even fucking change clothes" and "my man in his resident evil 2 shirt like the king he is. living his best life" is super fascinating

It is. In a way it's part of a larger transition from metal being for giant fucking dorks trying to seem cool and badass to metal being for giant fucking dorks, full stop.

"Trying to seem cool and badass" is kind of a key phrase there.

some of yall literally sounding like my 73 year old mother right now.

I still don’t know what the “good” photo is supposed to be.. aren’t death metal band supposed to wear jeans and t shirts, not Sean Lennon skinsuits?

looking at Decibel covers from the past year or so, this doesn't seem like a new thing:

https://store.decibelmagazine.com/collections/back-issues/products/october-2022-216

this tomb mold record shreds btw

I still don’t know what the “good” photo is supposed to be.. aren’t death metal band supposed to wear jeans and t shirts, not Sean Lennon skinsuits?

The "good" photo is a band understanding that you should look striking, larger than life, or at least cooler than your lamest fan in your band photo. The specifics are up to you, but the key is making an effort. Metal is pro wrestling. You create a character, and you show up in character. Like I said above, if you wanna be a faceless schmuck, indie rock is right there.

looking at Decibel covers from the past year or so, this doesn't seem like a new thing

Yeah, you're right, there's no qualitative difference between that photo and any other photo they've ever had on their cover. I'm just craaaaazy and don't understand metal.

this tomb mold record shreds btw

Yeah, it's really good.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Death_Mexico_06-89.jpg

What characters are these guys playing? They just looks like humans to me.

ok so how is the Tomb Mold cover more casual than the Ken Mode cover?

was not expecting this to be a multiple-day affair; glad we still have it in us

Ken Mode have a lot of tattoos and a dude making a fun face

And the girl has an interesting haircut, and the guy has a colorful shirt

But did they buy a video game shirt for the photo shoot? No.

one solution is to have a cool background a castle with lighting something like that

Yeah, that's not the band's job

Also, they are all in shorts which HAS to be a first for a Decibel cover

They could sacrifice a goat or something.

Those Decibel covers getting close to boring-ass Magnet mag cover territory.

Just remembered that when I was the editor of Metal Edge we put The Black Dahlia Murder on the cover (which was a whole thing unto itself, because it was still seen as a mag for hair metal holdovers and TBDM was too "underground" to qualify) and took their picture in a library because the original shooting location was unavailable:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vZcAAOSwb65ezejg/s-l1200.jpg

you know it smells crazy in there

As far as I can tell from a quick archive scan, the only Decibel covers to feature shorts are Deathklok in 2008 and Arch Enemy in 2005, and one of those is a cartoon

https://store.decibelmagazine.com/collections/back-issues/products/february-2008-040

https://store.decibelmagazine.com/collections/back-issues/products/august-2005-010?variant=32084108017766

I actually love the cover, but hate the steampunk other photo

otm

lol
https://loudwire.com/death-metal-band-backlash-over-decibel-magazine-cover-look-issue-response-tomb-mold/

JFC, metal fans are worse than Star Wars geeks.

godflesh cover is good!


not wanting to make assumptions

(got it - I was reading that as the “people” and couldn’t parse)

check out these indie rockers!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eejq3R9WsAAw5GW.jpg

Tomb Mold look like they're friends with Oozing Wound
https://i0.wp.com/chicagoreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Oozing-Wound-by-Evan-Jenkins-1.jpg

the other band look like dorks