I wanted to go over DSBM in a video essay format, going over some of the more philosophical and deeper meanings of the genre instead of solely focusing on the music as I've done in the past. What're your opinions on it, though?! Whether you enjoy it not, I'd love to know why! But for now, cheers, rock on, stay heavy and have yourselves a fantastic rest of your day or night, depending on when you see this!!!!!!! A Rough Guide to DSBM, if you're interested: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lq5nsMiiYMKWfKw.htmlsi=Sx4D9N34nGzd2A3C

@blankwavemessiah

2 ай бұрын

Would be fantastic

I like this guy. No clickbait, no fancy editing tricks designed to keep your attention. Just a cool dude talking into the camera while Undertale music plays.

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

And this, my friends, is my favorite comment I've gotten on this channel. ❤

@Dudenobody

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT I’m glad you appreciate it, boss 🫡

@natharoonytoony6632

2 ай бұрын

THIS, THIS. RIGHT. HERE.

it's Lo Fi for Metalheads

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

Oo I definitely get that!

@blankwavemessiah

2 ай бұрын

For sure!

Thats a good point - sometimes its not the lyrics that convey the emotion but its the instrumentals that do that

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

❤ writing this comment while listening to my ambient playlist. Some of the strongest music (for me at least, can of course be subjective in the end hehe) has no words but speaks volumes and tells a whole story in its own right.

DSBM is right up there with my favorite shit. Lots of late nights alone with booze and cigs, just thinking of my next steps. My regrets, my future, life and death. Memories and old faces. It might sound cheesy, but it REALLY does burrow into my mind and change me for the evening sometimes… Shining, Abyssic Hate, Hypothermia, Xasthur, Trist, etc…. The main issue with DSBM for me, is how infectious it becomes when you get into it. It can consume you. Hours and hours can go by like a trance. 3:00am on your 16th beer when you last checked the time and it was 6:00PM yesterday. My KZread Ads on my living room TV have even been suicide advice and disclaimers due to the algorithm. But I’m a huge fan of The Beatles, Aesop rock, The Mountain Goats, even Bo Burnham, etc. So sometimes other shit breaks it up and snaps me out of it…. Long story short: Like you said… It REALLY should be in doses. You have to have something else too. Its dangerously infectious and thought-provoking. It can easily push fragile minds over the edge. Great video

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

God I love this comment. I related a ton to it...bringing about those feelings deep within you. For me that's always been ambient music and dark ambient. You don't ask for a genre to embody you, it simply speaks to you. You really hit the nail on the head with burrowing into your mind. When you're vulnerable and searching desperately for an outlet it can truly wiggle its way into your very being and warp your senses, only hopefully temporarily. Thank you a ton for sharing your story and the support.

@blankwavemessiah

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT you got it!!! Cheers

I have BPD and severe abandonment issues, like I've self harmed many times over stupid shit like not getting a text back. I also have a hard time connecting with people, especially if they're around my age. I feel like such a freak for being that way. But dsbm (Blade and Bath is my fav atm) feels like a hug and it gives me a healthy way to cope instead of hurting myself. Plus the instrumentals are fascinating to me, I love love love music and one day I wanna figure out how to include my primary instrument (tuba lol) in dsbm idk it'd be interesting but overall dsbm has been wonderful for my mental health

Huge dsbm fan here, i can say it literally saved my life. I appreciate this video

Thank you, I literally am the person you’re talking about. DSBM actually helped me so much and I will forever love it. I listen to other things, but at my worst DSBM gets me back up so I can be better and listen to other banger songs

really great video and points!!! one of the best things I've seen about this genre.... also, one thing from dsbm I resonate with is my own feelings of being sad AND angry... to the point that I want to rip out everything in me and expose the uglyness for whole world to see. dsbm saved me on many occasions and helped me sleep during my anxieties

it's one of my favorite styles of black metal, and I am always trying to find more artists that do it

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

Same here! I've tried to dig a bit deeper into it. What're some of your favorites you've found?

@xtransxcorex

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT Lifelover, Morphine, Lunar Aurora, Hypothermia, and Glass Coffin

@Blankroom182

Ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT listen to decalius my fav songs by them are loneliness, shotgun, and hated by life itself, (and “inside…” is a really good one revolved around this school shooting)

@redkoboi__

4 күн бұрын

and also try listen to Nocturnal Depression they're makin such banger! ​@@TheMetalTempestYT

Fnf sticker on the microphone. Its very surreal to see how big my buddy cam's game has gotten

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

LMAO, I definitely have my fair share of quirky stickers scattered about both on and off camera 😭

Dude I have Asperger’s, Bipolar, ocd, adhd I spent most of my childhood, and life up till now, suicidal. Half of it anyway- that’s how bipolar works. I could not have summed this up any better than you have.

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

I truly hope you are in a better place now. You rock and I'm happy you're here. ❤

What really opened my eyes and found me liking dsbm was hanging garden and nocturnal depression. I found dsbm really understanding me and its just good peaces of art and should be more respected. It really help me in the past and still to this day and im so happy i found it, its a really good coping mechanism and it helps me forget. 🖤

Great Video! Discovered Dsbm around high school years and I have to to say I am so glad I can find a genre that I can relate to.

This is a great video. I have to say that you were spot on when you said, that people who listen to that has been through shit and this music is a way how people can finally understand their feelings and let something speak for them. I listen to it because all the screaming and depressive music feels like the pain I have inside. I finally found something that really shows how I feel and it`s comforting.

i haven't really listened to much DSBM but i do find some of that effect coming from listening to bands like My Dying Bride and other bands whos themes deal with those darker aspects of the human condition. i often find most pop music to be rather saccharin in its presentation and not reflective of the human experience rather it to me speaks of a thin vainer that people put on to seem "normal"

I found an album within this genre by a band called goodboy and the album is called leap of faith it’s very different from any other dsbm I’ve heard. Check it out if anyone is interested. Edit: the band seems very inactive And they are on bandcamp and from Ohio

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

Oo, not too terribly far from me, then. I'll definitely give them a try thank you for the suggestion!

DSBM is definitely one of my favorite metal genres and it really helps with my anxiety and depression cause it's like it conveys how I feel ig

100% I listen to and make DSBM because I've been through sh!t and it gives me a cathartic release.

Sometimes I feel like depression or mental health issues can lay over you like a heavy drape, and nothing really manages to slip through and offer you anything. But truly melancholic music makes the drape shake and float around a little, and lets you breathe better!

I love dsbm/sad music because it just makes me think what i think i should be thinking, just looking into myself with pure emotion sadness or straight anger with myself. With dsbm those shrieks and sometimes melodic and harsh tones just gets me hard

Dsbm fucking saved my life

2021 I was severely depressed during covid. I felt alone, isolated. I talked to literally, LITERALLY no one in 6 months and felt how it eats me up. Too shy to find new friends online and even didn't want to get to know to new ones. I wanted my old ones being my old friends. At this time I was trapped with this feeling. Every day got harder, I cried almost every day out of spite until I even almost killed myself. Just out of fear of the future, out of fear of living. Even though it's edgy af, DSBM's sound and very brutal and "uncensored" lyrics sounds so natural to me. So realistic. It's all the voices I had in my head in some kind of an order I couldn't really understand. It's like the music said "yeah, I understand you. World is shit, so are you." and it felt so "good" being accepted as this miserable self I was. The music didn't tell me to "just be better" or that "I should seek help". I knew that already, thanks I try. The music confirmed my feelings and THAT felt SO good. I am way better and over that time btw.

Been through a lot of mental health struggles myself for the past nearly 2 years. Attempted suicide, lost some friends due to letting my mental health slip, and overall just hating everything. Now do I listen to much DSBM? Not really, I find bands like Today Is The Day to be WAAAY more depressing/maddening both sonically and lyrically than Silencer, but I still have a lot of respect for the genre. And, when I’m tired of the Today Is The Day style depressiveness, which is depression mixed with some anger, I miiiiiight just turn on Silencer for some somewhat calmer melancholy. Both of which are great to listen to when life just feels like hell.

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

I truly hope you're in a good spot now. I'm stoked you're here and I appreciate your story. We're all swimming around in the same fish bowl at the end of the day so let's make the most of it.

@SSPGwemlin

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT Thnx. Also, just curious, thoughts on Today Is The Day?

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

I'm not familiar!

@SSPGwemlin

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT Go check em out sometime. Steve Austin of that band produced the first 2 Lamb Of God albums, and Bill and Brann from Mastodon were in the band back in 1999.

As someone who was m*lested as a child, DSBM connects to me and helps me. I love this video because I can tell you truly understand DSBM lovely video.

There are two types of people in DSBM. The listeners and the artists. And yes, you can be both. I'm a DSBM amateur producer, and i do it to express myself. I'm speaking for myself, i do it as a form of therapy, since i can't express my feelings in words and therapists are useless to me. I have a song where i say "aint gonna make this one" and then i added the sound of a pistol and ambulance. But its all figurative, it's not "su!c!d@l" in the literal sense, it's not the body that dies, but the soul, as in "i quit fighting against whats making me sad, just accept it and learn to live with it" - and as a listener, i listen to it when i'm feeling melancholic, depressed or anxious. It helps to deal with those feelings. I mainly listen to Sadness and Psychonaut 4, 2 artists/bands that have their own style within DSBM. But i do listen to other music genres, like japanese metal, psychadelic trance, hardstyle, some good old pop music and jazz, even though i like the "heavier" genres/sub-genres of music.

I struggle with seriously bad anxiety being on the Autism Spectrum i completely understand listening to relatable music. When I was going through an intense Anxiety episode I listend to Motion City Soundtrack. Yeah it's not DSBM but the lyrics are the key their to songs. Justin the lead singer was very open about his struggles with Depression and anxiety. The song Everything is alright is a great example of that. My listening scheduale got all fucked up because it took me like 2 months to listen to aggressive music again. Anxiety makes you lose interest in the things you love

Just started listening dsbm and it has help me out a hell of a lot

based on my experience with this kind of music, i've always found it to be its own genre entirely. i've also always found it to be more appealing to goths than metalheads. i guess it's not hard to see why honestly. there's something about listening to dark music when you feel depressed that's more uplifting than listening to happy music. it's generally goths, and people who don't normally love metal who tend to listen to it. myself included. i'm a goth/industrial fan primarily. and i generally am not big on metal, yet DSBM i've been able to get into.

You should listen to the debut from Moonshadow’s Slave called “Pantagruel’s Dreams”. Came out some days ago and it really encompasses what the genre represents.

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

Ooo! I'll have to check it out--always looking out for new stuff to look into, especially new drops. Sometimes feels hard to keep up with everything so comments like these are dope ty

@Harrow_

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT no problem. Hope the music speaks to you

I have bipolar disorder type 2 and i feel pretty much of what you said. It's funny bc is not that fast to realize that your mood changed, I don't usually listen to DSBM when I am not in the depressive mood, but I do enjoy a lot when I am. It isn't a choice tho, it's kinda with the flow subconsciously.

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

Oh absolutely I don't know of course what it is like to have bipolar disorder. But I struggle with low manic spikes and disassociation and sometimes I completely blank out and don't realize how music has made me slip into a specific mindstate of zoning out until I'm in it fully.

Black metal has been my favorite genre for most of my life, and while my tastes within it have evolved over time, for most of my 20s DSBM plus a bit of Japanese pop-rock was almost all I listened to. I was a strange guy, but always remained pretty upbeat, happy, and nice throughout that time. Maybe it was the Japanese pop-rock?

For me, a lot of DSBM I find relaxing, especially more long-form stuff. It's so low-fi and strangely meditative that it often makes me want to go grab a mocha than a noose and can make a good mood better. The pure rawness lends itself to be appreciated from many angles

@helloface001

2 ай бұрын

Also a weird side-tangent about one of your comments regarding people not listening to music to feel worse- sometimes that is actually the case, but not necessarily to have some sort of contrived emotional state. I've gone into some records knowing they would make me feel like shit (i.e. understanding the artist's perspective), and in rare instances listened to things specifically to make myself feel worse. I have difficulty expressing and experiencing emotions, so amplifying negative feelings can help bring them to the surface in a constructive way

i got in and out of my DSBM phase back in like, 2008-2013. Its kinda funny seeing it start to pop up again.

I struggle with mental health issues so i understand how DSBM migh help people, but personally i stay away for it, because I'm the type of person that would be negatively imapacted by that. I don't only listen to happy music, i love death and black metal, some atmospheric or ambient stuff but DSBM is like that border i do not cross for my own sake xd

Because it is nice. I am not a connoisseur of the genre yet I have listened to fair bunch of bands in the genre and it is just nice to listen to. And I don't have depression or other mental health issues yet I simply enjoy the music.

i am not a big listener of DSBM however i do listen to it from time to time Austere's album To Lay Like Old Ashes is one of my favourite's along with Shining's Halmstad, makes me feel less alone in my own feelings, less isolating, even listen to Silencer from time to time, it is a genre easy to drown yourself in but in small doses it can really help, hell i dont speak Swedish but Shining get their point across just fine without me needing to understand Swedish

Dsbm was basically the only genre I listened to throughout 2021. I really resonated with it and it made me feel like I was less alone with my feelings. But after a while I felt like it started to enable my negative thoughts instead of relieve them. I try not to listen to too much dsbm nowadays

I do think DSBM has some good bands in the genre, it definitely has bred some interesting personalities in the scene. I’ve gotten some insight on the black metal in general from Reuben Christopher Jordan, of Benighed in Sodom and multiple other projects. I do feel that “DSBM” is between bands that are genuine in what they write and play, and then there’s others that trying to sell you things. Making completely empty music just to make a buck, and putting on a complete façade to make themselves seem more than mundane. Overall, I like bands that real with their music and don’t need to label it as DSBM.

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

Fully agree with this. I think if you truthfully have the heart to be making this type of music genuinely, it bleeds through. Vapid music absolutely feels vapid and you are always going to feel that, like you said perfectly, emptiness. You can't play pretend. It's simply lifeless and will always catch up to you. That's sick you got some inside scoop though

@cyjin.

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYTOf course, keep up the great content!

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

thank you! ^_^

Awesome video !

Because I am mentally ill (Bipolar 1 Disorder ECT... DSBM is my escape from all bullshit in my life. I'm into DSBM since 2013 as vocalist and lyricist. DSBM term was invited by Niklas Kvarforth Shining vocalist. He invited in the 90's the term to be different from another black metal bands back then. Well, dude. Interesting video.

Years ago, i said to A friend Only the crazy one would listen to black metal. After this i discoverd dsbm and it become my fav. Genre ❤ also i listen to funeral doom

While I haven't always said it, since adopting this adage my ability to deal with media has improved considerably: "'Display' does not equal 'Endorse'". Metal music has often been instrumental (heh) in diffusing negative emotion instead of engendering it. Not a lot of people understand that. Maybe it was more than just slowness that made Metallica's fans hissy whenever they played Fade to Black live--that the crankypants types merely refused to examine fatal stab wounds through eye sockets. In the same vein, I never even heard of the genre of DSBM until now, primarily because I wasn't into seeking out this kind of music since I don't want to dwell on depression. I'd rather do something with music playing in the background--all kinds, not just metal, many things, often revolving around a small business. It's no offense, but I handle depression by making sure there is something purposeful that I am doing at any given moment. Can't dwell on meaninglessness if there's no meaninglessness to go around, right? While dissecting a bad mood is every bit as important as confronting it somehow, I don't often hear about metal bands that lighten the mood, particularly with buffoonery. I never hear about bands that embrace a humorous tone beyond tongue-in-cheek slyness other than Psychostick--and they've been at it for years with nary a competitor. Do you know about other bands that manage to take the piss out of metal at large, along with everything else in the vicinity, and still rock out on a technical level?

Bands to listen to when down (That i know of) Apati. Trist. Lifelover. Xasthur. Abyssic Hate. Shining. Happy Days. Agalloch. Nargaroth. Decalius. Sår. Blade and Bath. Malum Mortem. Forever Lassitude.

after ive went tru some shit i didnt ended up on listening to dsbm, it became moslty as background music, to silence the world and let my thoughts shine, and well...sometimes it works as catarsis, or just a reminder of that emotion that im not afraid of now

Given that i don't speak english (or any other common black metal language) daily and can not comprehend lyrics on the fly, especially in extreme metal, it was always musical aspect that i enjoyed in black metal.

I like to listen to DSBM from time to time. It’s therapeutic for me. I have depression that gets worse in spring and summer because wildfires have left me traumatized. The music allows me to feel understood in my anger, grief and fears. Most people want to challenge the anger I feel towards the world or my circumstances, most people undermine my grief and don’t understand my fears. DSBM doesn’t challenge any of my emotions but allows me to find comfort in the fact that someone else feels and understands my emotions.

In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I spent a bit of time with DSBM, and quickly learned that it wasn't really for me. I loved Leviathan and Xasthur (I still do), but other than those two, I didn't really connect with the genre. Forgotten Tomb, Shining, Nocturnal Depression, and a few others were fine to me, but yeah. I get why people like it, but I resonate more with funeral doom and even noise and ambient for when I'm having tough times. I still think "The Tenth Sublevel of Suicide" is one of the best black metal records ever, though

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

God, Leviathan is so good 😭 I agree personally though. I have a fond appreciation for it and am fascinated by the community. It's always been far from a genre I'm critical of and I can always understand the appeal but sometimes it's just a bit..much for me? But Leviathan and Xasthur are classics and it shows the talent levels that both projects are loved by non-DSBM fans, too!

you look so cute like for real great video bu the way, I do agreee a lot, I'm mostly into Electronic music like Tekno and Psytrance or Dub but indeed DSBM Is very much a music of our sad century, very meditative

@TheMetalTempestYT

26 күн бұрын

I love this genre, but if you listen to it all the time, it doesn't make things better, you can get really caught up in it and it drags u down

Frumos steag Pup :))

Dsbm helped me calm down when my parents were going through the there devorce and is the reason i didnt kill anyone

watching this drunk as shit and idk the mf undertale ost in the background j sent me into a fit, good ass video tho, enjoyed very much.

A moment of silence for all the dyslexics who clicked on this video thinking it was about BDSM

1 i love the band shining and leviathan. - ( i have had dark times.) i am generally usually happy- i suppose those bands articulate and cleanse. Also it is interesting seeing what outsiders think… its also why i question core/nu … if more extreme genres exist… 2 i used to listen to korn … but i was too young and it gave me toxic mental things. Later i listened to slayer , pantera and testament- they were didactic and affirming - Pantera changed me over night - i became mentally healthy. Testament also did this. Slayer was like a translator for BS . 😊

Completely random and offtopic here... is that a Romanian flag in the background?

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

haha no, it's a pansexual flag :] have had quite a few people ask that though!

@lionlissauer7104

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT Hahaha fair enough! Well my best friend was over earlier and she's Romanian. We both noticed the flag in the background so that's why 😄

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

Ooo that makes sense

@lionlissauer7104

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT Nah dude, the flag is perfect as it is haha 😄

DSBM & CULT black metal was my go to in hardtimes both had the emotions I felt in a religious environment & extremely violent city

I love dsbm so much

I know one obscure dsbm band called namaah

I honestly thought you mixed up the letters for BDSM so KZread didn't whack you. As a cynic and someone who enjoys dark things I don't know if I could listen to something depressing for too long. Even as someone who has gone through quite a bit I find it just wears on me

I have dated women at certain points of my life who would basically give me the whole "Oh, be happy, WOULD YOU?!", in response to my depression or melancholy. Hearing happy music when I'm feeling that way feels exactly like that. It feels dismissive, it feels like I'm just being told to bottle it all up and pretend to feel good. I can't do that. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm just too honest with myself and others.

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

Anyone who thinks happiness and being content is like a lever you can pull up or down at any point you want clearly is privileged enough to not properly comprehend that there is no such thing.

@comradefreedom8275

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT I feel that.

Idk I really can describe it but i know why I like it

Catharism is definitely the right word, for me at least.

Can somebody tell me the album names in the thumbnail?

DSBM fits my personality and mental state. I've had depression, anxiety, CPSTD, since childhood. I'm a survivor of a suicide attempt. I've been a metalhead since I was 10 years old and I'm now 63. DSBM and doom are the subgenres that speak to me. I do listen to other metal subgenres, and other types of music other than metal. But DSBM never made me depressed. I was that way long before DSBM before it was a thing. I'm just glad that it's there for metalheads like me. I think that's why I've never liked glam/hair metal or pop, or music like that. I can't relate to it.

Autism and PTSD coupled with political events that made my home country of Russia an unlivable hellscape again and forced me and parents to move elsewhere years ago. Listening to dark or melancholic music like DSBM, Funeral Doom, Post-Rock, and various other genres helps to get through the day a lot. It’s the similar effect you get from reading Cioran or Mainlander. Think of it as your friend approaching you and saying “Alright man, your life is miserable, let’s talk about it. Without excessive romanticizing, without showing needless pity, without showing the vain compassion. Let’s simply talk about it as it is.”

XASTHUR is hard to listen to. (In the best possible way) Nocturnal Depression seems To be even harder for me to listen to. (But I can handle 20 minutes at a time)

hello friend what country is in the back?

@TheMetalTempestYT

Ай бұрын

That's a pansexual flag!

What I don't understand is why allot of black metal bands (nor just DSBM) arnt just satisfyied with pointing a finger at all the evil but instead worship that which is negative to the point of wanting to cause it. Bands that I think of when I write this include mayhem, xasthur and shining.

I love Dsbm my cousin put me on

Fuckin hate when I say I listen to DSBM and people say OOH BDSM?!

because my arms and thighs hurt

Shotgun by decalius ugh

We are depressed

I listen to depressive black metal, but dislike most of the "community" as it looks like a lot of them are romanticizing depression. I am stuck between depression taking me down or taking meds that practically make me an NPC and I eat 4 pills a day already. Is that something appealing to those romanticizing the condition?

Are you Romanian?????

DSBM 🩶

gay

I don't like DSBM I like NSBM

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

fair enough!

@user-se6kk2wi6x

2 ай бұрын

​@@TheMetalTempestYTit's nazi black metal

@TheMetalTempestYT

2 ай бұрын

lmao yee ik, I've done a lot of content on it and think it's gross as fuck and dangerous but to each their own 😭

@JayVITG2000

2 ай бұрын

I agree there are some really good gems in nsbm but there is also ALOT of really bad albums/eps/demos out there.

@aeriswolfe

2 ай бұрын

No. Gross. I'm actually very much in favor of not letting people enjoy things. Please go back to whatever dank microwave noodle bowl ridden corner you crawled out of.