02/05/2026
EMPTY SLOGANS
The new header was created for two reasons. 1. obviously, to honour the legacy of P.K. and 2. because again, too many artists exploit the term “oldschool” recently, selling it like fashion. “Verwüstung” is currently pressed on LP, and it is rightfully considered an “oldschool Black Metal album” today. But show us an album released in the ´80s which sounded like “Verwüstung”! There is none. All the original “oldschool” bands of the early 90s have taken the influences of the 80s but transformed it into something excitingly new. What these “oldschool-cvlt" image-bands are doing is the same as if the whole 1991-95 scene would have repeated “Welcome To Hell” and keep on copying it today. Obviously, in the early 90s everyone had a different mindset. Yes, a few BATHORY and CELTIC FROST riffs were respectfully taken into the next decade, but still, nothing sounded like “A Blaze In The Northern Sky” 10 years earlier. “De Mysteriis Dom. Sathanas”, “Det Som Engang Var”, “Pure Holocaust” - if we may just look at Norway - all sounded radically fresh. These albums were unthinkable in the ´80s!
Conclusion: repeating 35 years old visual and sonic formulas is a fake and despicable way of dealing with art. It´s neither “cvlt” nor “oldschool” - it lacks originality in music, extremism in mindset and radicality in content. Oldschool Black Metal means to respect the tradition and march ever forward!
