Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
In a recent interview conducted by Radio Rock, Sven “Silenoz” Kopperud, the guitarist of the Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir, and Adam “Nergal” Darski of the Polish extreme metal ensemble Behemoth were featured.
Both artists are currently touring Europe as part of the co-headlining tour titled “In League With Satan” and addressed the issue of online detractors. This is what Nergal stated.
Well, someone way smarter than me said, ‘Hey, if I’m gonna pay attention to every dog barking at me, I would never make it home.’ That’s exactly how I feel about it. Plus, the other way smarter guy — I believe it was one of the great poets — said like, well, basically if you [attract] very polarized opinions on your body of work, your body of art, on a creation, it basically proves your honesty. And that’s exactly what it is. You can’t make a record or make a painting expecting, ‘Oh, I hope that everyone will love it.’ Of course, it’s cool if there is more people enjoying what I do, because I wanna go on tour and I don’t wanna play to empty places. And fortunately, for me, there’s probably… I’m not gonna guess, there’s 70/30 or 60/40, but judging by the numbers attending on this tour, I think we both must be doing something right. But also these days, it’s, like whenever they say there’s so much like criticism and hate, whenever they ask me, ‘Okay, so how much of that hate you meet on daily basis?’ None. Because people are only brave behind their keyboards. They never approach you saying, ‘Oh, you fucking sellout,’ or, ‘You wimp.’ They never do that. So if you don’t have balls to come and say things like [that] in my face, you can basically fuck off.
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