Music blogger Charles in San Francisco writes how old-school power metal has always been kind of ridiculous. "Deep Purple doing songs about driving fast? Yes, they were seriously shredding, but their songs were even sillier than the old surf-band songs about fast cars — and they knew it!"
"Tell me that Judas Priest, KISS, or Slipknot aren't secretly having a good chuckle over their exaggerated schtick," the music blogger went on. "And Rammstein? They give over-the-top a whole new meaning." Not to mention that some bands, like Iron Maiden, had some seriously dorky lyrics with imagery almost straight out of Dungeons and Dragons.
You want more examples of ridiculous metal band concepts? What about Nekrogoblikon, an American metal band that writes songs about and from the point of view of goblins. The band formed in L.A. in 2006 and is still going strong today. "How you make the joke last this long is a good question," Charles points out in his article.
And what about other subcultures? The goths, for example, do they only laugh at things that are related to the underworld and the afterlife? The very aptly named What Is Goth? clarifies that goths have a sense of humor and love to laugh. "Goths love to laugh but their humour is more of the black comedy sort. They aren't sad because they like dark things -- dark things make them happy and inspire them."
