|
| |
DEATH
METAL |
Death metal is the quest of our art. The science of
incorporating nihilistic brutality and frustrated anger of modern life into a artform of
sound is death metal: an artistic experience in conception, assembly, and anti-aesthetic
finishing as well as the ideology of an underground movement. Deconstructively structured
the metal of death seeks to abrade the false textures of social conditioning through
exploration of values past modern anti-futurist nihilism and fatalistic acceptance of
mechanical solipsism. Death metal exalts the glory of life and the choice of will,
especially in this postapocalyptic age the will to death. |
For an articulation of the lawless extremity of nature, death metal is
the only genre which can bond science to emotion in depth enough to describe the
confrontation. As civilization became simultaneously more decadent and valueless, a
revolution against not only values but the aesthetic moralization of value systems began:
the nihilistic and deconstructionist genre of death metal.
House recommendations: Morbid
Angel, Slayer, Monstrosity, Cryptopsy, Suffocation, Therion and Vader.
| In the postmodern apocalypse of human times,
when we have all realized that our problems as thinking machines confused by our
perceptual boundaries and thus driven to dishonesty have not changed since day one, death
metal speaks a form of truth through architectural music that uses tones as dynamic
elements of potential nihilistic but life-affirming compositions. Death metal isn't about
the worship of death, but accepting and overcoming death by breaking through the wall of
denial that holds humanity hostage worldwide. To those who have not experienced the
glory of death metal, most of it may appear as strangely random and violent metal music
with an emphasis on topics about dying, death, destruction and brutal human manipulation
and intellectual dishonesty. However, death metal has its own theory, and there is a
science to death metal lyrics as well, but you may have to explore the Death metal styles and Metal history pages to find more
about the genre of death metal and its emergence from otherwise relatively normal heavy
metal.
No matter how it is approached, however, death metal affirms its importance as seen by
groups of alienated dissenters worldwide. With each generation of humanity there seems a
possibility of awakening from fear of our own mortality, and death metal leads in the
forefront of this quest in ways that other genres can't hope to. Backing its poeticized
ideology with structuralist yet nihilistic music, death metal expresses a philosophy of
core values expressed in the dynamic and impermanent, rather than the illusion of
permanence and teleological timelessness projected by Judeo-Christianity. Death metal is
about life, and those who appreciated death metal find themselves transcending death in
favor of the "heavy metal thunder" that writer W.S. Burroughs described as a
rending of all order in favor of chaotic alignments. |
|
Here are some Death Metal bands:
|
