The death of metal[views:1615][posts:6]________________________________________ [Mar 1,2009 3:32pm - Conservationist ""] When metal is between generations, it always falls back to its roots as loud angry rock for people who have basically never found a direction in life and want it to be someone else's fault. Those people, called Crowdists, make any genre into generic crap because they're trying to use it as a means toward justifying themselves, so the pander and avoid any clear direction because they have no direction, and having direction is offensive to those without direction. That's why we have nu-metal (hip-hop, alternative and metal) and metalcore (post-punk and technical death metal) which are essentially carnival music, aiming to distract with radical diversity because it has no goal or anything to communicate except "it's not my fault, I'm horny and stoned and life sucks." As we see metal magazines fail, bands fail, labels fail, and the large demographic who recently got attracted to metal start to lose attention and drift back toward their indie roots, people around us are going to start bemoaning the death of metal. Don't buy it. It's like a fat man watching the pounds slip away: we need the excess to die so we can move again. Metal "died" in 1994, got replaced by a bunch of stand-ins from the indie rock and punk movements, and now is losing those fairweather friends so it can resume attracting quality people. Smart, powerful, independent-minded people do not jump into genres full of sheep because they know their music will get lost in the hordes of idiots clamoring for their 15 minutes of pseudo-fame. Let the "inbetween generation" of metal (1995-2009) die a sordid, HIV-patient death. The rebirth is around the corner. On watching the metal disaster play out If you want good metal, you don't want to support metal -- you want to support only the good metal, otherwise the genre gets awash in mediocre stuff. Those mediocre bands, labels, magazines, etc. are starting to give up and go back to indie and punk, which is awesome. Cheer the fail of this intermediate, dying genre. For more information, see Assimilation. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 1,2009 4:35pm - SkinSandwich ""] I blame Christ. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 1,2009 5:12pm - LongDeadGod ""] man, i love metal as much as the next guy, but those dudes at anus.com think about it way to much. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 1,2009 5:27pm - reimroc ""] LongDeadGod said:man, i love metal as much as the next guy, but those dudes at anus.com think about it way to much. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 1,2009 5:43pm - corpus_columbine ""] i agree to an extent but hate the idea of holding an absolutes over anyone. you can insert your liberal diatribe on relativity / subjectivity here. but the point here is that: there will always be shitty bands. BUT just because a band is shitty doesn't necc. make them irrel., in the sense that they give balance to the scene at large. Consider: 'for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.' so when some sick band was in the jamspace mapping out an unreal, brilliant tune, so to where there a few dickholes in mom's basement ripping SS crate half stacks. (LOL) Not withstanding, I agree at that at the moment the amount of shitty bands may be inversely proportional to the amount of "good" bands (whatever that means) but on the time / space continuum, and the sinusode at large (pardon the pun) there is a balance of quality, in terms of a proper proportion of "good stuff" to "bad stuff." ...so too is the story of art. |
| _____________________________ [Mar 1,2009 7:54pm - Lamp ""] Isn't it a good thing that all these shitheads have their own scenes to be a part of so they don't have to fuck things up for true fans of metal? |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 1,2009 8:48pm - corpus_columbine ""] is the 'true fan' of metal so affected? |