Look Fred, I’m not judging or anything, I just think it’s quite OK to admit that it’s.. well, let’s just say that “more hipster than not”.

Besides, hey, I am familiar with bands like Abyssphere, Inverno Eterno, Naer Mataron, Phazm, Rhadamantys, Vondur, and probably 100 more bands that are fairly obscure and yes, some of them are good and sound good and whatever you want, but it’s not about that. There is some strange thrill to it to get to know bands no one else has heard about, hoping to find something you’ve never heard before, etc etc and that’s unfortunately kinda the same thing they call hipsters hipster for. You’ll either end up finding something you like, finding something unique, or finding out that it’s the same shit as that of the mainstream bands, but what I’m talking about is the will itself to go into the obscure realm to find something – that’s what I was roughly referring to when I brought up the term “hipsterity”.

I hate that this reply got so long, but let me just add one more thing. Speaking of Vondur, for instance… To my mind they are absolutely shitty. What they play is some random, inaccurate, stupid, stupid “music” that has never been composed properly, plus it sounds like my dog’s taking a shit in an aluminium bathtub or whatever – you see the point. But there are people out there, who absolutely admire what this band did, they love their sound, etc. They’ve only got one output as far as I know that came out around 1995 or so. Anyways, I think you actually have to be hipster enough to sit there and.. umm… well, get yourself used to this kinda music, there is no better way I can put it. You don’t go and just find out about them like that, the mere fact that you heard about them is an indication that you’ll probably like them, like you did with other bands that take a while to get used to. Didn’t work for me, cuz I think a lot of these underground bands are waaaaay overrated – mostly by metal hipsters. Take Xasthur for instance. There is a very, very small community who heard him in the first place, only those people who actually care about the lowest of low ends. Now, these people (I’d love to refer to them as hipsters again, but I’m sensing I’m gonna get some for that sooner or later) began to talk about it, praise it, all that, and now everyone says Xasthur is great, while in fact most of us couldn’t listen to it like we can listen to, say, At The Gates, or even Emperor, for that matter.

So, you’d rather not think for yourself when it comes to music. You’re content to just like whatever whatever some corporation tells you to.