Recent content by Viremic

I guess I was referring to subjective statements, rather than objective ones - though it perhaps still isn't completely true.

Statements in music reviews are basically as useful to you as how similar your music tastes are to those of the reviewers. Music does sound good or bad depending on the circumstances under which it is listened to - but you could probably look at the circumstances under which a particular piece...

If someone had somehow had all of their positive emotion permanently removed (and were aware and convinced of this), and committed and act to benefit someone else, even though it would cause harm and unhappiness to them self (and were aware and convinced of this as well); would this not be 100%...

Can someone who knows quite a bit about music comment on whether there is anything that links together all metal styles of melody, harmony, rhythm, song structure/composition, vocals or the general timbre of the music?

What is the definition of metal? Say if someone says X alternative metal/-core/hard rock band is metal how would you show that they actually weren't? Also, what would the definitions be for all of metals sub-genres be? (I can generally tell, but a lot of the more mainstream bands, and...