Immortal (2003)

totally memetic. i see this EVERYWHERE. not as much as i used to though.

Pretty much so, which is why it’s strangely difficult to find the proper history of it. I only got into black metal fairly recently, so I’m not sure where to start researching.

Wow. I’ve got a friend who’s been into Immortal for years, but he’s more of the dedicated fan who takes it all way too seriously. “Metal is the ONLY music” is basically his mantra. You know the type. I wasn’t even aware that there were people creating memetic stuff. Interesting stuff.

Indeedly. Funny thing about Immortal is that they’ve been making fun of themselves as well. I don’t know if it’s directly from the meme or what, but it’s worthy of note.

I see this kind of stuff specially when Christians try to say “Jesus is good and metal is bad”.

Funny fact, metal-heads use it among themselves, maybe because they are one of the few black metal bands that aren’t satanist?

is definitely a meme .

It’s not because Immortal aren’t satanist, but rather because Immortal shows that black metal isn’t all srs bsns.

I want to confirm this, but I don’t want to set a precident that all bands with remixes and image macros are memes.

Can anyone think of a way that we can differentiate this from other remixes and photoshops of other bands? Aside from the theatrics, what makes this unique?

I think what makes Immortal different from other photoshopped/remixed bands is that Immortal is representative of black metal culture in general, while other remixes just stand for themselves. That, and the band itself appears to be in on the joke.

I guess I’m just sort of surprised that Immortal is getting all the attention. Look at the band Mayhem. When Dead killed himself, Euronymous reportedly ate a piece of his brain and made a necklace out of the skull fragments. One would think this kind of thing would be huge amongst /b/tards.
I’m going to really dig deeper into Black Metal memes and see if Immortal really is the only band represented memetically.

Ah yes, I know all about Mayhem. It’s been confirmed that Euronymous sent pieces of Dead’s skull to other musicians he liked, but the thing about making his brain into a stew was just a rumor. Dead was even more messed up than Euronymous, though, due to his obsession with (obviously) death. He’d bury his clothes and starve himself so he’d look more like a corpse. Then there was his hatred of wimps and posers, leading him to stab random people at concerts to drive them all away.

But it seems that a lot of /b/tards nowadays are too young to even be concerned with all the black metal insanity. If it all happened after the internet became a host for memes, then it might be different, but since it happened in the early 90’s it’s all been buried. It carries a lot less shock value than something that happened very recently. However, Immortal managed to gain attention because their pictures were funny and easy to edit.

There’s only one other black metal meme I know of, but it’s another Advice Dog spin-off, with a picture of Varg Vikernes.

HackerOnHacker,

Definitely post the Varg pics. I think it makes a worth-while footnote to this entry.

I’ve been planning on updating this entry for a while but I’ve been waiting to find out why /b/ does so much with just one band, but I think you’ve explained it pretty well.

/b/ tends to latch onto current events rather than dig up old history.

I’m wondering if I should just expand this into a general cover-all entry for any meme related to black metal culture, or just leave it as is with Immortal and Advice Varg.

Ah i remember reading about mayhem, thats some screwed up s*** right there….

Anyway love this meme, the immortal guys and all the photoshopped pics are classic!

On second thought, I think this article might need to be just about Immortal.
You can find memetic materials for Finntroll, Burzum, probably any Black Metal band out there.

Alright, gotcha.

Strange… the Vargs aren’t deleting for some reason.

Don’t sweat it.

I got it.

My personal favorite.

Revising this article now.

Excellent. It looks great now!

I’m not quite satisfied with it. That good friend I mentioned in my first comment would be pretty ticked if I didn’t also mention all the photoshopping contests on forums that have been going on for years.
I’m off to find the earliest ones I can.

Best of luck with that, then. I’d be more helpful, but school just started for me, so… D:

confirmed.

Huzzah!

Confirmed.

Confirmed?

CONFIIRMED!

oh wait, now is different.

…

Actually, i’m impressed wit the fact that this meme seems more popular than the band itself on the internetz.

4ndre, I wouldn’t say that. The band is still more popular than the memetic instances.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22call%20of%20the%20wintermoon%22%2C%22Immortal%20band%22%2C&cmpt=q

Also the fact that the majority of people spreading the meme in the first place are fans of Immortal.

Immortal is a bit of an anomaly. A fair portion of their fans like them not because they like black metal (or even their music, for that matter), but instead for how unapologetic they are about the absurdity of their image. Kind of like Venom.

This meme needs to come back

^agreed

Immortal is Black Metal royalty.Nobody can take that from them.But…This shit is still freakin hilarious.