No, he says as much with "Perhaps we writers should have been more careful with our words — I can own this, and I may even agree." That's the only honest moment in the whole response, and you can tell how uncomfortable it makes him to even concede that much because he immediately pivots to "Songs are divinely constituted organisms," which is some of the lowest-grade mystical bullshit I've ever read.
There are perfectly acceptable justifications for not going back and changing decades-old song lyrics, but this isn't it.
Rather than more or less calling people today snowflakes who can't take a joke, how about just saying "When I wrote these songs I wouldn't have stopped for a second to think about whether the specific language I used would hurt anybody listening to it. I've improved since then, and the last thing I would ever do is go back and edit the record to make myself look like a better person than I was at the time."
This will raise some hackles I'm sure but as an American I'm so proud of us for taking the black metal genre, which, as practiced by its originators, had nothing to recommend it, distilling out all the cheesy stupid Viking shit and making it good and interesting. American black metal is cultural appropriation's best-case scenario
He's credited as co-writer on a few tracks, but isn't the rumor that he wrote/performed/produced pretty much the whole thing a la every Pumpkins record?
How the hell did you write a review of this record and not even mention "With Every Light," which is unquestionably the album's highlight and one of the best songs the man ever wrote
Also MACHINA II is a mess but I'll go to the mat for "Dross" and the full-band version of "If There is a God." Come to think of it, if he'd swapped those two in for "Ghost Children" and "Heavy Metal Machine" Machina I could have stood with the consensus classic Pumpkins records
The importance of Black Sabbath lays ≥95% in who they inspired to pick up the sound/aesthetic they pioneered and do something interesting with it. I'll leave Paranoid on if it comes on the old man rock station but I can't imagine going out of my way to listen to them, the songs just aren't that good.
I'll never get tired of saying "the Bloodhound Gang did it first" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/BloodhoundGangOneFierceBeerCoaster.png
Oh for sure dude, gonna be telling my grandkids about the moment when, no shit, there I was, front row, six beers in, rockin out hard, when all of a sudden my eyes twitch stage right, squinting like "Is that ... no, it can't be ... could it? ... Jesus. Holy Fuck. MARK MCGRATH"
- Sets up a giant sign reading "A polyrhythm-heavy record that WON'T bore the shit out of you"
- Parks across the street from Fear Inoculum
- Blasts REVERENCE at max volume
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