COMMENT: Two insights into why banning Watain from performing in Singapore is an overreaction.
We’ll just put this out there — preventing a prominent black metal band from performing here just to appease the loud concerns of conservatives who don’t understand the music genre is just plain wack.
The petition that gathered over 16,000 signatures to ban Watain from performing here clearly points out one thing — that a majority of folks here still severely misunderstand the metal music genre as well as its fans. “Isn’t that the same with all art and literature? Novels, poems, non-fiction, films, plays, artwork containing themes of death, suicide, subcultures, even satanism are in all our libraries and bookstores; far more accessible and prevalent than this little gig tucked away in an industrial building, rated R18, privy to only a select group of gig-goers.
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