Depressive Suicidal Black Metal (also known as DSBM) is a slow-paced, bleak, introverted side of black metal. The main themes of DSBM songs are hate, death, suicide, misery, pain, depression, sorrow, nihilism and loneliness of human life. Unlike
regular black metal, DSBM isn't based around Satanism or philosophy.
DSBM isn't the kind of music we play at parties or listen to when we're
down. The core of the true DSBM experience is a misanthropic and restful
voyage through ourselves.
The purpose of music is cathartic expression - suicide is seen as an emotionless and comforting release. Get acquainted with this point of view and try to meditate on it.
As we listen to the music, we dive deeper into ourselves. We will be calm but tense. If it's troubling for us to get into this sort of state, imagine meditating outwards, giving and receiving but only within oneself.
Involve hatred. What you need is hate without a subject. Imagine hating, but not hating anything specific. (Note that the hatred may be drawn from a particular experience or episode.) Now expand this hatred to everything and use it as a perspective instead of emotion.
The tension will disappear and we will go deeper into ourselves with a slight hint of ecstasy.
Realize that we are calm, completely focused inwards, and content. This is the pinnacle. From this point on, we will find the music soothing and purifying.
This previous state will fade and we are left somewhat tired, at peace with the world, and emotionally enriched.
Recommended records:
The band emerged in 1995, when guitarist and bassist Andreas Married, under the pseudonym Leere ("empty" in German) invited Mikael Nilsson, industrial Markaryd musician, who adopted the pseudonym Nattramn (a bird name of the Norse mythology that carries the soul of suicide and unbaptized babies), to sing in his band. In late 1998, they launched with drummer Tomas Mattsson th demo Death, Pierce Me, limited to 40 editions, with a single 11-minute track, which reached the ears of the German label Prophecy Productions, which closed a contract with them in 1999.
In 2000, drummer Steve Wolz joins Silencer and record an album: Death - Pierce Me.
Soon after, Nattramn publish a letter which revealed his admiration for Swedish serial killer Thomas Quick, ending the letter saying he wanted to kill young girls as he had done. In the same year, he would try to attack a girl of six years with an ax in a park at Vattentornsskogen in Ljungby. He tried to escape by bicycle, and, when caught, asked the police to kill him. He was soon admitted to a mental hospital in Växjö. There are rumors that he escaped from the psychiatric hospital, returning afterwards.
In 2001, the album was released by Prophecy, which was highly acclaimed in the midst of black metal scene. What drew much attention from the media in general to the band was the fact that Nattramn had mutilated his own hands and face with deep cuts during the recordings to produce realistic screams and the shocking picture he would get in the middle of the recordings, where his face is wrapped in bandages and his hands are hidden for pig's feet he tied around his wrists, the bandages and the body very bloody.
While staying in the mental hospital, was suggested to Nattramn to write to vent his feelings and to divert attention from mental rehabilitation therapy and deep cuts on his face in his hands. As a result, the book came out in 2011, Grishjärta ("pig heart" in Swedish). In 2012, the album dark ambient album Transformalin was released from his new project Diagnose: Lebensgefahr.
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The purpose of music is cathartic expression - suicide is seen as an emotionless and comforting release. Get acquainted with this point of view and try to meditate on it.
As we listen to the music, we dive deeper into ourselves. We will be calm but tense. If it's troubling for us to get into this sort of state, imagine meditating outwards, giving and receiving but only within oneself.
Involve hatred. What you need is hate without a subject. Imagine hating, but not hating anything specific. (Note that the hatred may be drawn from a particular experience or episode.) Now expand this hatred to everything and use it as a perspective instead of emotion.
The tension will disappear and we will go deeper into ourselves with a slight hint of ecstasy.
Realize that we are calm, completely focused inwards, and content. This is the pinnacle. From this point on, we will find the music soothing and purifying.
This previous state will fade and we are left somewhat tired, at peace with the world, and emotionally enriched.
Recommended records:
- Silencer - Death - Pierce Me
The band emerged in 1995, when guitarist and bassist Andreas Married, under the pseudonym Leere ("empty" in German) invited Mikael Nilsson, industrial Markaryd musician, who adopted the pseudonym Nattramn (a bird name of the Norse mythology that carries the soul of suicide and unbaptized babies), to sing in his band. In late 1998, they launched with drummer Tomas Mattsson th demo Death, Pierce Me, limited to 40 editions, with a single 11-minute track, which reached the ears of the German label Prophecy Productions, which closed a contract with them in 1999.
In 2000, drummer Steve Wolz joins Silencer and record an album: Death - Pierce Me. Soon after, Nattramn publish a letter which revealed his admiration for Swedish serial killer Thomas Quick, ending the letter saying he wanted to kill young girls as he had done. In the same year, he would try to attack a girl of six years with an ax in a park at Vattentornsskogen in Ljungby. He tried to escape by bicycle, and, when caught, asked the police to kill him. He was soon admitted to a mental hospital in Växjö. There are rumors that he escaped from the psychiatric hospital, returning afterwards.
In 2001, the album was released by Prophecy, which was highly acclaimed in the midst of black metal scene. What drew much attention from the media in general to the band was the fact that Nattramn had mutilated his own hands and face with deep cuts during the recordings to produce realistic screams and the shocking picture he would get in the middle of the recordings, where his face is wrapped in bandages and his hands are hidden for pig's feet he tied around his wrists, the bandages and the body very bloody.
While staying in the mental hospital, was suggested to Nattramn to write to vent his feelings and to divert attention from mental rehabilitation therapy and deep cuts on his face in his hands. As a result, the book came out in 2011, Grishjärta ("pig heart" in Swedish). In 2012, the album dark ambient album Transformalin was released from his new project Diagnose: Lebensgefahr.
Tracklist:
- Death - Pierce Me (10:34)
- Sterile Nails And Thunderbowels (06:19)
- Taklamakan (8:36)
- The Slow Kill In The Cold (11:38)
- I Shall Lead, You Shall Follow (8:50)
- Freeble Are You - Sons Of Sion (3:03)
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Hah! Awesome :)
ReplyDeleteI was looking for DSBM images on Google, and I found this!
The top picture, the drawing of that figure staring in the distance - that's a drawing I made ages ago, about 2007-ish I think :D
Where ever did you find it? I uploaded it to my deviantart account which is deleted now
NVM, it still has my handle appended on the filename (Metallic_Art) - looks like it's straight from DA.
DeleteSay, we didn't know each other, did we?