RIP Coolio

Rap today is known mostly as moron music since it has removed melodic continuity from music, resulting in a one-dimensional experience based around the words of human voices just like deathcore and other cretin entertainment. Coolio was one of the last to keep its R&B roots intact.

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Disma – Earthendium (2022)

Writing death metal requires taking the listener to the edges of coherent relationships between riffs in order to emphasize an internal dialogue in the song, where writing doom metal involves bringing the hearer to the edge of monotony and then introducing improbable forward motion. Doom-death does both.

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Serpent Ascending – Hyperborean Folklore (2022)

While still retaining some of the aesthetic elements of 2016’s sleeper-hit Aṇaṅku, Serpent Ascending has adopted a flowing form of riffing on this latest album comparable to some Norwegian black metal. This has both an upside and a downside, in that the longer melodies can reach a greater degree of intensity at times, but there is also less contrast within individual songs.

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