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Ah, that's black metal, which is deeply earnest. When I explain to people about my theory of earnestness in music death vs. black metal is a great way to show "not earnest" against "earnest". Can you tell me the story of the band and the sheep heads though please? I've heard a lot of stories from the black metal scene but not that one!

Here are some very earnest album covers lol:

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/06/13/the-worst-black-m...

That's not death metal.

Isn't that mostly black metal? The genre is also sadly quite infested with Nazis, but it seems to be getting better.

Yup. While metal nerds can argue about the exact musical difference between death metal and black metal, from a sub-cultural point of view they come from very different places.