I've always found it weird that extreme forms of metal such as black metal, death metal, speed metal, and even some of the more intense thrash metal haven't really seemed to be ingrained in the history of skateboarding the way other music has. There's obviously countless instances of hardcore punk like Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, etc being an important part of skate culture, and obviously Metallica and Slayer got lots of love from skateboarders over the years, but I'm surprised you don't see more severe metal as part of our history.
The first wave of black metal was started with Bathory's first album came out the same year as the Bones Brigade Video Show in 84. The first recognized death metal album, Seven Churches by Possessed came out a year later. Slayer's Show No Mercy, which was the most extreme album ever made at the time was 83, Venom's first two albums (which many recognize as the foundation of black, death, thrash, and speed metal) were 81 and 82. So really the genre developed simultaneously to skateboarding as we know it, and it would stand to reason that some skaters out there would have been bold enough to be listening to some gnarly shit. Yet, I've never really seen any documented evidence of it. No Bathory, Kreator, Sodom, Sepultura, Possesed, or Death shirts. Not to mention a complete absence of almost all types of extreme metal from early videos. Even Slayer wasn't used in videos until sometime in the mid 90s perhaps?
Anyone remember or have any documentation of any skaters rocking extreme metal in it's heyday? Should be an interesting conversation. Feel free to talk about people using it nowadays but please avoid obvious bullshit like "Erik Ellington skated to Slayer in Misled Youth", "BAKU uses black metal", or referencing bullshit music like Dragonforce or Children Of Bodom. That shit is fucking garbage. I'm talking strictly old school here.
Topic: Black/Death/Speed Metal In Skateboarding Culture (Read 13018 times)