The question before us remains whether humanity will get its act together to adapt and survive. We beat the first few levels, yes, with agriculture and institutions, now have some nifty technology like digital computers and infernal combustion engines, but that just leveled us up.
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Imagine a genre: it succeeds, so then all these lost people come in and make their own versions of it, trying every possible variation. Soon the field is so full of weird instruments and odd timings that all of it sounds just about the same, and no one can pick a good band from a bad one. This is heat-death:
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Musicians today have barely a chance in Hell of creating underground metal because they do not understand the cause before the effect. The music was the effect; the cause was a chance in thinking (throughout human history, the sane adapt or change their thinking to match reality; the insane demand that reality adapt to them, making external changes in order to regulate their internal mental state).
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What happens when something succeeds? It fixates on that success because now it has something to lose. Forget all those stupid alt-right tropes about “hard times make hard men weak, weak times make weak men hard” because they are like most things Right-wing merely a prelude to the type of sodomy that Jesus does not mind. Metal reached its peak in the 1990s with underground death metal and black metal, but now the little people have come in to munch the carcass while loudly demanding attention.
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Metalheads should never forget how once upon a time metal was music for outsiders:
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Already gaining a lead on all other contenders for the most compelling underground metal album of the year, Kaeck has on Het Zwarte Dictaat made the masterpiece of violent rhythm riffs and melodies that much of the underground wishes it could, combining black metal and war metal with doom metal and death metal to create a constantly changing mood within a fluid style. Fortunately, guitarist/composer Jan Kruitwagen had a few moments to give us his take on the band and state of the metal genre.
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Showing influence from later Immolation blended with early thunderous Florida death metal, Flesh Pit attempts to reinvent a genre by going back to its roots and carrying forward instead of changing paths. This produces a highly listenable demo that balances the primitive with the cerebral.
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We might call this cultural heavy metal to distinguish it from the party metal like Motley Crue and Pantera, since it aims to produce an atmosphere and changing sonic adventure which hopes to reveal something in us that parallels what is discovered outside, more than entertain the lost.
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This band claim a laundry list of influences, but to my ear, this sounds more like a fusion of early Gorguts and later Adramelech, possibly with Voivod in the wings: a tribute to classic death metal rhythms and patterns which manages to be just playful enough to avoid the pretenses of emulating the past.
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Legendary artists Darkthrone, who began in death metal before embarking on a black metal period that ended with Total Death, now begin to show signs of their punk-influenced era moving into something more like the epic rock and metal that inspired them back in the day.
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