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Vintage Flesh Comments On Alice Cooper's Connection To Black Metal

New Hampshire metallers Vintage Flesh have issued the following statement about Alice Cooper's connection to black metal:

"IF DOOM HAS BLACK SABBATH TO THANK, THEN BLACK METAL HAS ALICE COOPER AS ITS FOREFATHER. How can this be so? well since you are fool enough to ask, I suppose I can enlighten you.

"First comes the voice of Alice, right from the first few Albums Alice struck a warped chord with his unsusally, disturbing, deviant, and decadent witch like vocals. Scaring the fuck out of people from as far back as the late sixties till now. Not entirely unlike black metal vocal styling of today, when closely compared. Some of Alice's earliest leather and stud get ups even predate Rob Halfords so called introduction of leather & spikes to the metal spectrum. dating back to '72' for Alice. Alice did dabble with the Devil back before the man who created him decided to seek out the dirty hippy Jewish guy called Jesus. but that was many years later.

"Alice basically married horror and hard rock which when it comes together what do ya got kids??? HEAVY METAL!!!! ALICE'S first album came out one year before B.Sabbaths and it was called pretties for you. Perverted name and album art included. The sound is bombastic unpredictable and hard to listen to for most. sorta like, HEAVY METAL!!!!! In fact i personally believe you can trace the first true doom metal songs back to this very album by Alice. the song is called 'fields of regret' and it is arguably heavier then anything from Sabbaths first album that came out one YEAR later! ALICE-1969 B.Sabbath-1970!!! Look it up!

"Alice sang about fucking the dead on more then three songs. dead babies, serial killers, suicide, insanity, and Satan. All subjects covered by bands performing BLACK METAL!!!!! IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT SONGS I SPEAK OF, well that would partially explain why you haven't given Alice enough credit towards indirectly helping to form the music you live and swear by. B.M musicians usually need a shit ton of make up (white and black) to disguise they're other wise ordinary features and to chance at looking some what frightening, with the exception of few. Alice Cooper merely puts on drippy black make-up surrounding his eyes and dripping from the ends of his mouth, and he is instantly transformed into the death head horror of many a million of nightmares young and old. see heres the kicker, Alice like few other metal musicians has natural demonic features. needing very little make-up if any at all to increase the uneasy impact when applied. i listen to a lot of black metal and much of it is very frightening. still none of it comes any where near the fear induced when Alice decides he wants to run a chill down your spine. nothing yet has come as close to that for me yet.

"So next time you sit down to some Satyricon, Marduk, 1349, or Immortal ETC; please throw up the horns for the man that surely made this sound and many others so possible to enjoy. or better yet throw on some Alice and do yourself one better!!!"