Coming from an old school death metal background, Drawn and Quartered make a messy version of the heaving and battering style of percussive but primitive death metal that early Immolation and Cianide explored, mixing almost raw noise into thundering metal.
This album works because it uses simple appealing rhythms and riffs that fit that mood, and knows how to interrupt this with a type of organic chaos that intensifies mystery. Most songs work around a simple verse-chorus riff pair with introductions, transitions, and abrupt contrasts embedded therein.
Drawn and Quartered could get to an A+ rating with a little bit more attention making these riffs talk to each other, and a little less organic chaos and noise, but that might sacrifice the atmosphere of a descent into the scattered mental state of the subconscious that this album communicates.
Tracklist:
1. Death’s Disciple
2. Age of Ignorance
3. Oblivion Pilgrimage
4. Proliferation of Disease
5. Dispensation (Rise of the Antichrist)
6. Six Devils (Trepanation)
7. Carnage Atrocity
8. Rotting Abomination (The Cleansing)
9. Congregation Pestilence
Tags: death metal, Drawn and Quartered
https://www.midlandsmusicresearchnetwork.com/post/heavy-metal-and-ideology
Academics fuck dogs, man.
They also delete constructive criticism, apparently. Although this character is a PhD candidate at Bath Spa University, so maybe he does know what he’s talking about…
Even Dorkthrone is recognized in the academic circles now, at least in Norway. Is this not what you wanted!?
Here he is in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxPUmjP4x5s
If you have the time, this is longer but well worth the investment of your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEIkgOeoKfY
Hadn’t heard about him before; thanks for introducing me to his work.
He’s got a good grasp of modern history and to an extent, metal’s place spanning pop and counter culture, but I’m annoyed by how he seems to only grasp the music at face value – like a normal person listening to black metal and hearing only the “screeching of scrawny men as an expression of their powerless misanthrophy”. He can recognise and contextualise surface characteristics quite well but I think, especially black metal, requires a deeper reading and feeling of the music beyond what he as a self-proclaimed ‘materialist’ is willing to let himself go to achieve. No wonder he reasons that the philosophy of metal as a thanatological existentialism ends in hedonism. I should refer him to the words of Ronnie James Dio:
“Don’t live for pleasure,
Make life your treasure
Fade away”
As a scrawny man who frequently expresses his powerless misanthropy, I hear ya bruh. The problem with Burke is the same problem all communists are afflicted with: materialists will never be able to grasp the metaphysical aspect of music which cripples their ability to fully understand that which they’re critiquing. He claims to be an anarcho-communist which is just a slick way to mitigate the negative connotations associated with communism. His technique is cleverly subversive and I tip my hat to him on the way he glibly disseminates propaganda. Metal to him is simply the more effective vehicle for achieving his ends; punk as he stated in the video, was co-opted by capital and lost its vigor. You can see him try to spin metal to his worldview when he states that in his experience most heshers are left wing.
As is the case with most commies, they take a kernel of truth and try to make a bucket of popcorn from it. If anything, metal is apolitical. Most metalheads place personal freedom above all else and anything that seeks to infringe upon it is met with extreme prejudice. DMU is unique in that it attracts those with right-wing views, but this is not the main view either. John McEntee is about to marry an Asian, Alex Bouks is married to a Latina, Will Rahmer is dating a Latina dominatrix, and Faust is married to a Brazilian. I’m not even going to mention behaviors that would be deemed degenerate by the more puritanical elements on the right. In my experience, small L libertarianism is the most apt description for the majority of heshers. The only laws accepted by the tribe are the laws of nature. Divine or not, nature is the final and ultimate arbiter in this cosmic charade we call life.
I mentioned in my (now deleted) comment on the initial article that the writer sees ideology everywhere because he looks at the world through an ideological lens. Personally, I am of the opinion that metal, since it is so realistic, does not and cannot inherently have a specific ideology. The fact that many metal listeners and artists share similar ideals I think is the result of them having similar interpretations of reality, which is what causes them to be drawn to metal in the first place. I also agree with your assessment that Mr. Burke does not understand metal beyond its surface aspects and it’s my opinion that he is a hack bozo.
Yes, but that means that it cannot have certain ideologies as well. Realism opposes symbolic, dualistic, etc., thinking. That includes all Leftism and most mainstream conservatism.
As soon as I saw that he was teaching metal at a university, I knew he was suspect. Ivory tower sinecures are not given to those who are not fundamentally in lock step with the global order; especially in current academia. In my experience, metal is more tribal than political. It was created by and for people like me and my connection to it was instantaneous. This is the reason why at the age of 42, I’m still a hesher; for me it hasn’t been some passing fad. You’re correct that, “the fact that many metal listeners and artists share similar ideals I think is the result of them having similar interpretations of reality, which is what causes them to be drawn to metal in the first place.” It’s because we’re of the same tribe and act according to our evolutionary interests. Dug your reply man; you actually get it.
Same is true of realism. It’s a gut thing.
Because it’s a punt with a socially-successful theme. “Everyone just do whatever they want, maaaan.”
Ostensibly yes, but upon deeper analysis there is more to it than just, “everyone just do whatever they want, maaaan.” On a visceral level, heshers know the current hierarchy (social order if you prefer) is rotten to its core and running on fumes. The libertarianism is an attempt to repudiate a system working to strip the tribe of its lifeforce and reduce it to yet another commodity that can be enjoyed by all with a trip to Hot Topic. Those who get beyond surface aesthetics and grok the tribal metaphysics move towards the truth of what this is all about. As Daniel Quinn wrote, “The tribal life and no other is the gift of natural selection to humanity. It is to humanity what pack life is to wolves, pod life is to whales, and hive life is to bees. After three or four million years of human evolution, it alone emerged as the social organization that works for people. People like the tribal organization because it works equally well for all members.” Many heshers may not be able to articulate it, but we feel this at the core of our being.
Right, we all see that. What to do about it?
Libertarians: continue the revolution against the Kings by abolishing government.
Leftists: that’s a nice idea but pEoPlE aRe SuFfErInG so we need subsidies, which means we need government, and when our shit fails again like it does every fucking time, we need massive all-powerful government.
Conservatives, post-Buckley: whoah not so fast, we just need a sensible privatized form of socialism that responds to market pressures and Jesus (blah blah blah).
Conservatives, pre-Buckley: right, which is why we need social hierarchy, and if we’re honest, let’s get the Kings back since they’re the last leaders who didn’t screw everything up.
Good dialogue on this here:
https://gab.com/nof1/posts/106330590588771172
This is where you and I part ways; we simply don’t see eye to eye on how to reach stasis. My larp is tribal minarchism and it will never be monarchy. You can do all the mental gymnastics and used car salesman pitches you want, but it ain’t gonna work bud. Irl, I strive for implementing the vision of General Lee which in the current climate (speaking for the USA that is) is a very attainable goal. I think you don’t read what I write or perhaps you want to convert me to your ideology. Nothing in this reply is new; I’ve written ad nauseum (here, on Amerika, and in our personal correspondences) about what I think is the way to proceed in order to achieve sane living.
I think we’re in a post political period that will require a multifaceted approach to resolve the issues ailing us. I will conclude with this, here’s just how well monarchy adheres to a blood and soil representation of a nation’s people: https://infogalactic.com/info/Maria_Teresa,_Grand_Duchess_of_Luxembourg
“Because it’s a punt with a socially-successful theme. “Everyone just do whatever they want, maaaan.””
With total sincerity, that is one of the more brilliantly concise insights I’ve read online in years.
You might like the original: http://www.amerika.org/texts/crowdism/
Thanks for appreciating it.
Can’t wait for the Señor Coconut tribute to Drawn and Quartered.