Children of Bodom

[rwx]

Children of Bodom is a finnish ???metal¹ band that may be using a heavy metal ß. wacky.



¹???metal: almost all metal sucks so much that fans argue about fine subdistinctions in genre so as to avoid having to listen to the music,

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

So it's like electronic music, except with guttural screaming.

[rwx.livejournal.com]

more badly played guitars, less badly programmed synths.

[agentsteel53.livejournal.com]

what is a heavy metal beta? At least, that's how my firefox rendered that character.

and a lot of metal does suck; but plenty of it is really really good.

[rwx.livejournal.com]

it's an eszett -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F

i'm postulating something like a heavy metal umlaut, but with the ß being randomly replaced by a B when written.

[agentsteel53.livejournal.com]

hah.

okay yeah that is an SS; took me about four zooms of the font to differentiate from beta.

[rwx.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's a festival of ass typography here.

[brassratgirl.livejournal.com]

HEAVY METAL ESZETT

should be added to this section as soon as possible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_Umlaut#Other_characters

[geeklibrarian.livejournal.com]

Heavy metal (and probably most of its subdistinctions) is HUGE in Scandinavia. I was quite shocked when going cd/record hunting over in Stockholm just how much heavy metal there is still out and about... kind of crazy or scary (or both ;-)

[neflm.livejournal.com]

I invented the Children of Bodom live in concert drinking game. Every time the lead singer/guitarist flips his hair, you take a drink. You're Captain of the Carpet Ship by the beginning of the second song.

[xtingu]

We used to do that whenever Nancy Wilson from Heart would kick her leg on an emphatic downbeat.

[neflm.livejournal.com]

Yup, same principle. Like when Metallica uses "Hey!" as a key lyric.

[lilmartini.livejournal.com]

I think that was a group creation there buddy. :P

[wasta.livejournal.com]

My LJ friend Creatrix777 turned me on to C.O.B. I'm not a fan of "metal" per se, but I thought they were pretty good.

[spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com]

Dude, have you caught Metalocalypse? As someone who spent most of the eighties in a leather jacket trying toi cripple myself from the neck up, this is the funniest shit EVER! Lots of in-jokes for people who know headbanger-trivia. ;-)