What athlete do you think would make the most interesting black metal album?
I want to hear a Mike Tyson black metal album. I feel like the best black metal has come from the more unhinged of its adherents and I think nobody would argue with me that Mike is wonderfully unhinged.
That said, the best black metal has generally also come from the smarter and more thoughtful of the genre's true believers, and there have been some truly intelligent yet savage artists working in black metal that have handed us some of the genre's most timeless works. I imagine a Mike Tyson black metal album would be a cross between the nihilistic, suicidal, and misanthropic world view of a more thoughtful and introspective type like Xasthur mixed with the burn it down, eradicate everything and raze the earth energy of Gorgoroth's Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam.
Tyson is a warrior but not just a bludgeoning brute force. He's as intelligent, calculating, thoughtful and strategic as he is a full steam runaway freight train hammering into a concrete wall. Part introspective philosopher, part never ending nuclear explosion, I think Mike Tyson would make anything he touched compelling and now I need to hear this record, someone make this happen!
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Lance Armstrong has the ball to pull it off, but, Black Pussy Riot has potential as well.
There only one choice here, Robert Rozier. All others would be like a fun choice, but Rozier would encompass everything about black metal. Definitely would have some Oranssi Pazuzu vibes and probably would have some 70s choir in there somewhere.
Louis Hamilton would have the budget, and access to anybody on earth to work with, but he isn’t a musician that I know of. What about a cross-over artist like Boards of Canada or Aphex Twin, maybe his kid is into Metal!