mosh pits & dubstep

[Today]

my personal opinion, and i'm sure it isn't shared by everyone, but --

if it isn't being played on electric guitar and drums, and you're moshing to it... you are a fucking dickless twat piece of shit
moshing to electronica. Fucking losers.

[fiveone]

meh i've been to reading/download/global/bestival/cable/fabric ect ect and it's really not that big of a deal... i can see why people mosh to some elements of bass music. but then again, everyone is getting annoyed with moshing and some people are claiming the "younger generation" have forgotten how to dance. sorry, i didn't realise bopping back and forth and then pretending to shoot with yr gun fingers was classified as "dancing"

it's quite funny really when a lot of artists in the dungeon sound/darker dubstep spectrum are the people who enjoy and support it. it's an expression of yr love for the music just as bopping back and forth is. if you don't like it, move away to a different spot, it's not as if moshes happen all over the club area is it?

maybe those who go out to these events and have a good time are the true supporters of the genre, not the people who are quick to criticize anyone who doesn't fall into their version of what should be called for you sad-o's out there, "dubstep etiquette"

[Today]

moshing to dubstep is never appropriate
the clowns who mosh about to bro and complextro at raves, i understand they're expressing their interpretation of the aggressive music through slam dancing or moshing or whatever, but IMHO they're just fucking knobs for not getting their asses to a real heavy metal show and doing it right

That music was crafted on guitars and drums. call me old fashioned, but raging to aggressive electronica is just wank
and in all honesty, those bro's aren't being expressive. They just sought an avenue to showboat their toughness, gangsta aesthetic, machismo, testosterone levels. no birds in that pit. but go to a heavy metal show and the pits are full of male and female fans, all going hard as fuck, because they ARE being expressive, it's never about showboating machismo, it's about good god this music is how I feel and fuck everything


thats why you saw topless/wifebeater'd bro's with fades and fitted caps gun-fingering and sneering, whereas at heavy metal shows its usually ugly dudes with hair down to their asses and baggy Pantera Tshirts, screaming every lyric at the top of their lungs, along side girls with too much eyeliner and died black hair, all enjoying themselves together in the pit.

Brostep mosh is like "look at me i'm a fucking badman, YOY." and then the chicks are like omgz xravexX

I know there are exceptions to the rules on both sides of that, but it is by and large the truth

[ultraspatial]

Moshing, at least the violent kind, is a problem in general, regardless of the music being played.

[llennnn16]

I could say that people that dance looking at their shoes all quiet in their place take away from the energy, likewise with people that drink their beer and chat away to hook up, however I'm tolerant of other people's idea of enjoying themselfs.
If I had my way I would put the shoe gazesers in a locked room with no windows, and the socializers outside of the club, where u can ACTUALLY talk and hear each other, leaving the dance floor for the people that are really going to utilize it.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

^^think youve missed the point completely on that one mate

[JBoy]

Always missing the point.

[wobbles]

I think we can all agree here theres a dofference between skanking and moshing

[Sexual_Chocolate]

i like skanks

[fractal]

as long as you aren't infringing on others it's all good

when break and mosh circles take up most of the floor, it's boring for the people who want to dance. some might stare at their shoes, but that's better than watching the djs every move like a knob. he's not the magic, the music is

[garethom]

If you don't mosh, and spend your time talking to friends or engaging in social drinking WHY ARE YOU EVEN OUT? GO HOME LOSETARDS.

[charliefoy]

Save it for dis


Dubstep=

[llennnn16]

I didn't miss any point. You guys can't see past ur own.

[_cheef_]

I didn't miss any point. You guys can't see past ur own.

oh I see your point...doesn't mean it isn't wrong.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

exactly

[llennnn16]

I didn't miss any point. You guys can't see past ur own.

oh I see your point...doesn't mean it isn't wrong.

Likewise...

[wobbles]

my point is so right, right now

[ultraspatial]

Save it for dis

Trash Talk are shit. Overrated hipster shit.

[BonerJams04]

I have a point, agree with it, or fuck you.

[joeki]

I am of the personal opinion, that I have to enjoy music individually, it's there for me and me alone. I connect with it one on one. I don't involve other people in my experience of it. I can feed of them yes, but they will never stand between me and the music. My space, my time, just there's bigger systems, bigger spaces, visuals to enjoy that aren't there in my room.

Moshing obviously isn't a part of this at it involves others (often not in a good way). If you, as an artist, need people to be all hectic and frantic instead of just properly enjoying your music, you're in it for a different reason than I am.


Just me though, my philosophy and my way of enjoying things. I go to plenty of metal gigs (mostly drone/stoner/... though) and I never mosh there either, you'll find me in exactly the same spot and in exactly the same state.