OTHER WEBERNET GOODNESS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 3:00pm by Axl RosenbergAlso quickly:
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Also quickly:
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Vince and I still don’t really understand the difference between “wigger slam” and “deathcore,” but Metal Inquistion’s Sergeant D does: he has (by his own admission) pretty much positioned himself as the world’s (or at least the net’s) foremost authority on the wigger slam genre, and, as such a scholar, was even interviewed for an article in Decibel on the subgenre (Which in no way, shape, or form clarified the difference between wigger slam and deathcore. Seriously. Someone explain it to me, ’cause I ain’t hearin’ it.).
One of the bands Sergeant D talks about in said Decibel piece is Waking the Cadaver (again, sounds like deathcore to me!), who apparently didn’t take very kindly to being called “wiggers,” even though one look at them would suggest that, yes, they are indeed white dudes who dress in a manner stereotypically reserved for black dudes:

