Death Metal

The language of pretension, perhaps.

Pretension implies the projection of a false image for social purposes. Me, I just prefer to use language that maximizes precision and minimizes the potential for misinterpretation. If that means "big" words or less common metaphors, so be it.
 
I was never huge into death metal--only recently did I feel comfortable enough to "adopt" Death, Autopsy and Obituary into my music collection. But as I listened to those early Florida death metal bands, I think I was about two steps away from giving death metal my own stamp of approval.

Then I heard technical death metal.

Now regular death metal sounds silly.
 
I was never huge into death metal--only recently did I feel comfortable enough to "adopt" Death, Autopsy and Obituary into my music collection. But as I listened to those early Florida death metal bands, I think I was about two steps away from giving death metal my own stamp of approval.

Then I heard technical death metal.

Now regular death metal sounds silly.

Nothing wrong with being all flash, no substance, I suppose.