What's the Deal With Wigger Slam and Why is it So Popular?

In an era of time where internet attention and virality is currency, you get abominations such as wigger slam. At its core, it’s just a type of slam death metal. It distinguishes itself from normal slam with extreme repetitiveness, over the top aesthetics, and swagger and style borrowed from hip hop and nu metal culture. You get brutal vocals and chugging breakdowns dropped over some grooves that sound suspiciously close to something you would hear from Limp Bizkit. It is slam death metal stripped down to its dumbest form. Just imagine Cannibal Corpses’ first album lobotomized by the latest Korn record, then slather it with lean and Monster Energy. They rip out all the originality, actual brutality, and evilness from death metal. Riffs are just stomped into oblivion while some guy in basketball shorts and a flat brimmed cap acts retarded on stage. In the world of extreme metal, this genre is heavily debated upon. I either meet people who absolutely love it or have a deep hatred for it like I do. I have always questioned why the genre is so popular. (picture above is the band PeelingFlesh)

Slam Shawtys - Arseny / Infectious Jelqing

Smoke - Snuffed on Sight

The G Code - PeelingFlesh

Wigganometry - VampireCunt

Why is it everywhere?

The answer to this question is rather simple. This genre is everywhere because it is incredibly accessible and easy to make. With other genres like black metal, death metal, and thrash metal you at least need to have some understanding of how to play an instrument and actually practice perfecting some nice evil vocals. For wigger slam, all you have to do is chug two riffs, sound like a toilet bowl, and then you’re the next viral band. The music is also easy to digest and consume. This is the fast food of death metal. It’s greasy, low quality, and gives you a dopamine hit for a quick minute.

Where did it come from?

 I am not a wigger slam connoisseur, so forgive me if I miss a couple things. But from doing my research on the internet this is what I got:

 This parasite all started in New York of course. The New York Death Metal (NYDM) scene was intertwined with the New York Hardcore Scene (NYHC) which was heavily influenced by the hip hop culture that surrounded them in the 90s. It is hard to pin down a point where wigger slam truly started because everyone brings up a different band who did it before another band and so on. The term “wigger slam” has been around since the 90s and was used to make fun of these NYDM bands who incorporated black culture into their aesthetics. Wigger death metal / slam from this early era isn’t actually that bad. I find myself listening to Devourment a lot actually. Devourment was actually good because they had intent. Modern bands just rip out the true brutality and amp up the cartoonish antics.

 I think the problem with this genre arises in the 2010s. The genre became less of a style and more of a meme. People were just looking for dumb fun. They took what bands like Devourment and Internal Bleeding did and somehow dumbed it down even more. The genre kept getting dumber and dumber every year and now we are at the point where we have trash like Infectious Jelqing and PeelingFlesh getting popular. Now these “metal shows” look more like middle school fights in a Hot Topic parking lot. Anywhere where there is a hardcore scene, you can not go to a death metal show without seeing some of these wigger faggots walking around with 0g septums and the baggiest Tripp pants on earth.

This is a photo of the NYDM band Suffocation from 1991. This is the band credited with inventing slam.

Thank the internet

The only reason wigger slam hasn’t died out yet is because of internet culture. Meme pages and YouTube react channels eat this shit up. TikTok amplifies the spectacle of shirtless pigs in basketball shirts squealing over the dumbest riffs you’ve ever heard. This music thrives on virality. Wigger slam also appeals to people because its anti-pretentious. In the metal world where technicality and seriousness dominate, wigger slam offers the opposite. It offers simplicity and grooviness. This music requires no thinking. It is cheap, disposable entertainment. People also like the “irony” of this genre. They share it because it is dumb and funny, not because it actually has any merit to it. Most people don’t really even enjoy it; they just love laughing at it. But the joke got old. This gimmick has been done way too many times already for it to be funny anymore. The “intentionally bad” production is just an excuse to be shit at making music. Early black metal had bad production, but it had atmosphere and creativity. Wigger slam is the punchline to a joke nobody will remember in ten years. This is honestly just a fad like any other viral social media trend that will die out some day (hopefully sooner than later.) The meme here depicts what these people usually look like. Pretty dumb right?

The problem

Wigger slam is paper thin. The fans are even thinner and twinkier. They are either gay twinks or wannabe gangsters that have no life and have never even been in the hood before. Everything about this genre and its fans are performative. These people are the “performative males” of metal but instead of tote bags, Labubus, and ugly jorts, they wear basketball shorts, flat brimmed caps, 0g septums, and karate kick like a retard. It’s all a performance art.

 I honestly have no problem with this music existing. I am a firm believer in leaving people to do their own thing and live life as they choose. The problem arises when you see these people at actual metal shows, and they start crowdkilling like hardcore losers. Metal was never meant to be intertwined with hip hop and hardcore culture, and I think we need to segregate it. I hate going to shows and seeing these kids walking around being a nuisance. I also hate being associated with them. People who know nothing about metal and its culture will lump us all together without a second thought.

 Wigger slam is the equivalent of microwaving leftover taco bell and then letting it sit for a couple days. Its cheap, sloppy, ghetto, and low IQ. It will give you diarrhea before it gives you depth. Its just noise for memes and clicks. Every day I pray that this fad dies out.

 NOTE: I apologize for any misinformation or anything I missed. I am more of a black metal guy and silly genres like this are unfamilar territory for me. Feel free to add your thoughts in the comments!