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WIGGER SLAM!

 Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at 3:27pm by

The otherwise respectable reporters over at Metal Inquisition have had a hard-on for Wigger Slam, a metal sub-genre of dubious origin (see: Wikipedia), for… Well, pretty much since the site launched early this year. I can’t say as I get what all the hubbub is about — to these ears, wigger slam is basically just another, less cringe-inducing name for a genre we’ve all grown to hate — deathcore — with an occasional nu-metal influence — as if this is supposed to be a good thing.

So… What the dillio? Am I missing something profound by failing to see the appeal of suburban white boys in sideways painter caps and ridiculous gauges in their ears who site both Napalm Death and Korn as influences? (see: the Deathcore feature in the most recent issue of Revolver). Or am I too old to understand?

-VN

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  • DeathMetalDave

    Reading all those Wigger Slam posts at Metal Inquisition usually makes me piss myself with laughter. I actually cannot tell if the posts are meant to be sarcastic, or if they really do like that music. Most bands I see in those posts are pretty generic. However, some bands that apparently qualify as Wigger Slam that I do like are Internal Bleeding and Vomit Remnants, neither or which are Deathcore (I assume you mean bands like Despised Icon).

  • 36Thoughtless

    This sub-genre is ridiculously stupid. It’s shitty death metal with an ironic hip-hop aesthetic.

    • chad

      you hit the nail on the head dude.

  • myke

    lay down those funky breakdowns son!!!!

  • bob fossil

    that makes a lot of sense-all I can think of when i see that winds of plague video is limp bizkit-oh you americans and your hats!

  • John

    i can make edits in wikipedia as well…doesnt mean Im going to try and invent another metal sub-genre. For all who are confused, remember theres two things you need to know…metal or hard-rock…thats it!

  • http://cultclassicmoviereview.blogspot.com You Don’t Know Me

    i’d rather get the plague than listen to Winds of Plague.

  • Sammy

    In answer to your question, No you’re not too old to understand. Too intelligent.

  • Fritz!

    YES!! I LOVE IT! Now this is entertainment! Could somebody please hook me up with links 2 mo vidz up in this biatch?! It’s just not the same without the visual aspect!
    Ah….. and Bob Fossil? Next up must be “crack fox slam metal”, now that would be something! Peace out.. brieebrieebrieeeee!

  • metalAC13

    Isn’t this just Deathcore? Or did I miss something?

    If you were gonna name this, wouldn’t Wiggercore be better?

  • Dude Manbro

    That Wikipedia entry is hilarious. I dunno, some of this stuff is pretty cool, provided you have a sense of humor about the whole thing. It’s not something I’d want to listen to exclusively, but in small doses, I can dig it. “Pit riffment” LOL!

  • Abyssal Creation

    Worst genre ever.Anything having to do with Waking The Cadaver=EPIC FAIL!

  • kvlt

    I’m still trying to figure out if Waking the Cadaver is a joke or not. Worst band ever.. eerr. one of them. Talk about a gimmick.

    This needs to die, along with hardcore dancing

  • KB

    I don’t get what makes these guys wiggers? Their hats?

    What the fuck is “slam metal” to begin with?

  • NiggaPlease

    Wigger Slam (Death) Metal predates deathcore. Two different forms of fail. Wigger slam metal is a white trash variant of what many would interpret as porno grind, but less oozy and etc (if you generic metal fans hear can put down your Lamb of God DVDs long enough to even understand that description). Basically, remember all the huge breakdowns on “Effigy of the Forgotten”? About 12 or so years ago entire albums with just those riffs started being made.

    Deathcore =/= Wigger slam metal.

    None of you know anything about anything, by the way.

  • Steve

    KB, go to Devourment’s myspace, and listen to the song “Babykiller.”

  • Steve

    Anyways, I just love reading the posts on metal-inquisition. Wigger slam is really good for comic value.

  • Mark

    *Yawn*…I’m going to take a piss.

  • Kye

    This is just dumb

    Really dumb

  • http://www.conorschaefer.com/blog/ Conor

    I too see a substantial difference between deathcore and wigger slam. Job For A Cowboy aren’t trying to be Dying Fetus last time I checked. They’re fucking up in their own special way.

    Regarding Metal Inquisition’s obsession with them, I’m pretty sure it’s because it’s a font of material. Their writing about wigger slam never fails to make me laugh, actually laugh, and so they can write about it all they want, regardless of whether they actually hate it like any Homo sapiens sapiens should.

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  • hegster

    so what bands are defined as this “Wigger Slam”?

  • http://myspace.com/uptotheminutemetal Natalie – MetalSucks Intern and Lovely Lady Lumps

    THIS IS HYSTERICAL. Because they all look like… wiggers. And i’ve always thought that. Can we call Emmure “Wigger Slam”?? PLEASEEEEE??!?!?!

    PS- i, too, would rather get the plague than listen to Winds of Plague.

  • Malacoda

    The only thing that makes it better than Nu metal is the fact that they don’t use turntables. It’s just sludgy deathcore with gurgles. However, I must say that the most ridiculous band in the world is Brokencyde. http://www.myspace.com/brokencyde. They use pig squeals as well as rap and techno. It sucks.

  • http://www.myspace.com/shortbuspileup ShortBusPileUp

    There has been a huge misunderstanding…obviously due to my fucking band merch being shown in the picture. Wigger slam is not a genre…its a nickname that that has been given to poserific douche kids who think they know metal cuz they can now play a slam chug instead of an open breakdown chug…much like how scene kids are now known as “emos” despite any actual connection with real emo music. The definition of a “wigger slam” band is obviously Waking the Cadaver…they’re from new jersey(where wiggers are prevalent) and all they care about are chugs and a vocalist who sounds like he’s doing inwards into a bong. Music? I highly doubt it. There are a few other bands that ripped of the well known Devourment (speculated creators of slam death metal…I personally think dying fetus would be a better example as stated above) and do no sort of technical guitar, or drums for that matter. I’d name some but I really don’t feel like looking up how to misspell a death metal sounding name over and over again. My band Short Bus Pile Up considers ourselves a form of slam, but it surely isn’t wigger slam. We printed those hats that say slam on the underside of the brim because its supposed to be flipped up like the crust punk and thrash kids wear them…not the stupid wigger tards who have 40 dollar fag hats that don’t fit. Our shit is printed on a mesh trucker hat! WE WANT YOU TO BEND THE BRIM AND TAKE OFF THE STICKERS! And we only made like 15 of them. The point I’m trying to make is, I’m a death metal guitarist and apparently am getting looped in with a shitty genre. You wanna hear some good slam death check out Cephalotripsy, Devourment (not the song babykiller!!!! that song sucks…listen to the other shit), Digested Flesh, Aversion to Life, Condemned, Stabwound, Corprophemia…etc. We aim to get kids to enjoy our set when we play. We want push/circle pits and kids banging their fucking heads. If I wanted people to watch me play my guitar for 20 minutes I’d make a tech death band, but thats boring. We incorporate death, grind, thrash, and goregrind into our songs to get people interested in a groove instead of musicianship. Thats for when you’re at home listening to Necrophagist.

    And I read something up above about Internal Bleeding being wigger slam…man those dudes have been around for god knows how long doing the same shit. The only reason some bands are getting looped into this “genre” is because of the way they dress. Internal Bleeding is from NY! The majority of the population there wears baggy “wigger-esque” clothing. Not to mention…black people have been ripping off metal head’s outfits for years! We were wearing baggy pants and work boots because we had just got off work as a carpenter or something…not cuz our record went triple platinum and it looks good with our gold teef.

    Moral of the story…wigger slam is NOT something that should be made popular…but bands who use slams in their music should be. Slams are not the new breakdowns cuz they’re easy to play.

    -Tyler
    Short Bus Pile Up

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  • NeverStopThis

    I too, would like to know what makes them all wiggers? Is it the hats? That is all anyone ever mentions when referring to them as wiggers. I’ve worn my hat with a flat bill tilted to the side forever. And I have my little league baseball pictures to prove it. And I listen to METAL. A lot of metal. From Pantera to Lamb of God to Emmure and yes, even Winds of Plague and Despised Icon. To me, all of the sub-genre’s are bullshit. It is all still metal. The only fucking difference is some people like some of it and some people dont. Who gives a fuck? If you don’t like it don’t fucking listen to it. That’s stupid. You don’t like it but you listen to it, just so you can talk shit to all the people who do like it…Grow the fuck up, arent metalheads supposed to stick together?

    But anyhow back to my main question…Since I have worn my hat the way “wigger slam” fans do, and I listen to “Deathcore”, does that make me too, a wigger? Or at least would that make someone refer to me as a wigger when seen?

    Whether or not, I like what I like and I am who I am. So fuck all of you who dont like it.

    (Not specifically anyone at MetalSucks, I still love this site)

  • Nate

    Hahaha. I love the word wigger– I’ve honestly been using it for a while before this awesome moment.

    But yeah, w/e it is, I think it’s a funny way to describe stupid poser fan-boys and such.

    Also, since when does everyone hate death-core? Despised Icon, Winds of Plague, All Share Perish? Seems pretty solid to me…

  • yourbitterend

    why are most of you fuckers being such fags about deathcore or this stupid made up word “wigger slam” you guys are so fucking stupid. there is no such thing as wigger slam. if the member look like wannabes then who gives a shit. if they have good music with some brutal breakdowns, then who gives a FUCK

  • Cam

    I completely agree with Tyler from short bus pile up.

    What you gys dont get on this site is that Deathcore and Slam Death are completely different.
    Deathcore is an amalgamation of death metal and hardcore, its basically metalcore with a bit more distortion, and its fucking boring as hell, Technical parts to make money, pit shouting to keep the scene kids happy and gay lyrics with metalcore screams.

    Slam Death is brutal death metal, extremely down tuned, bass drops, jangly, out of time slams and deep gutteral vocals with an emphasis being on a groove then speed. Slam is, IMO one of the finer aspects of death metal.

    Get your shit right, dont be so damn ignorant.
    And i want that hat.

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  • levi

    geeze who cares what label a group of people have bestowed upon us. deathcore…whats so bad about merging 2 great genres of music? who cares? why does everybody have to get in such a pissed of mood when deathcore is mentioned? its metal dude bar none…its evolving….let it be…i have heard ALOT worse than any deathcore band in existance….pretty much everything aired on the radio for instance. the way i see it if there is some doublebass action, some blast beat action, some mind exploding screams, who the hell cares what people on the internet are labeling it? i can find a video of a man being penetrated by a horse…i was going to make a point with that but it makes no sense.

    deathcore is metal like it or not so if your saying its gay or whatever then your kind of saying the child…deathcore…. of the mother…metal…is gay. so thats pretty lame considering the mass of metal heads that bash deathcore.

    i like deathcore….i love death metal…i love metal….i like punk too…and i like some hardcore…hey i even like rap and pink floyd and bob marley and muse and the blues and classic rock.

    dont be so close minded gee whiz….

    this is pretty much pointless, me typing all this, no one will care or if they do they will say im a fag and go back to class cause the teacher caught them in the library and chewed their ass out.

    enough of the deathcore flame wars people….ITS ALL METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Eat Me

    when have you ever seen a wigger or their original counterpart wearing a guttural secrete tshirt? waking the cadaver members aren’t rocking velour sweatsuits or fucking phat farm garbage. whatever i’m not arguing your right to have opinions but can someone clear this up for me… is it the fitted hat that denotes “wigger” & furthermore has anyone lately seen anyone anywhere wearing a hat that WASNT fitted? NJ is not full of wiggers, yes we have them, but you’re wrong in assuming thats all we’ve got. Dont bash Nj because you’re in some Po-Dunk (fuck your cousin)-town in Idaho or Nebraska. IF it’s not the metal t-shirt, the fitted hat, it obviously isnt the hoodies – what is it that makes these people “wiggers”?! Clear this shit up for me cause i’m lost. seems like you’re all just looking for shit to bitch about. get off your fat lazy asses, get outside and get some excersize so you can actually find your dicks & then we’ll see if you still have all this time to waste bitching like little schoolgirls about “the cute little outfits” these guys are wearing. shits weak…

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  • Andrew

    YOU guys all are fucking stupid! this is nothing like deathcore, deathcore is gay!!! slam metal is spawned off of suffocation and dying fetus, you guys are iggnorant fucks

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jimmy-Li/1133066504 Jimmy Li

    it’s beyond funny how the deathcore guy deny the fact that they are playing deathcore and claim they are playing death metal. read the revolver or guitar world articles on it. then again we all know it’s gay and they all need to kill themselfs so the world can be a better place like all the emo, scene, and core kids should do.

  • steve

    jesus fuckin’ christ all of these fucking bands think theyre so fucking original. how fucking conceited, especially that fucker from short bus pile up. sure, you can go on about how labeling is terrible and your band doesnt belong to any one genre, but it doesnt change the fact that youre completely unoriginal and derivative. seriously, people didnt start to name sub genres for something to argue about, they named them BECAUSE THEY FUCKING SOUND DIFFERENT !!! i dont ever wanna hear somebody say its all just metal anyway again. because we all know that progressive power metal, technical death metal and atmospheric black metal sound the same right ?

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