Question about Metal
- Thread starter AngelWitch73
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No musical style is adept at showing "emotional profundity" (I've taken the liberty of correcting your spelling), emotion isn't particularly profound. But metal in all its facets IS as adept at displaying emotions as any other genre...
ControlledChaos
Unbleeding
I disagree. Most classical music, like much most music in ANY genre is soulless crap churned out by paint by the numbers hacks.
ControlledChaos
Unbleeding
I disagree there...some (like all genres) may be prefabricated, especially when music was very formula-written, such as music from the Baroque, Classical, and Rococo periods...but the emotion shown later in classical music is not the same kind of whiny, balls-out, sappy emotion we see permeating music today, it is more subtle, but nonetheless there. We also see the most ethereal, the darkest, the most *everything* music in classical music.
Duvall
Ia!
Metal delves deep into your soul, like a twisted sword plunged into your chest. It moves your body and floods your mind.
I find it appeals to both the artistic and logical centres of my mind - I suppose it's the same reason I enjoy photography.
And, of course.. It
ROCKS!
It can be deeply emotional - but bear in mind that much of a song's emotion is typically derived from the listener (associating one's self with the lyrics, etc), and that the musician could very well have had a totally opposite intention for the song's eventual impact.
I find it appeals to both the artistic and logical centres of my mind - I suppose it's the same reason I enjoy photography.
And, of course.. It
ROCKS! It can be deeply emotional - but bear in mind that much of a song's emotion is typically derived from the listener (associating one's self with the lyrics, etc), and that the musician could very well have had a totally opposite intention for the song's eventual impact.
You can find all of that in metal, and even, for that matter, in rock, or jazz or the blues. And you can find plenty of sappy, shallow emotion in classical music of all eras...
Nice responses everyone. You´ve pretty much covered every reason for me as well. Metal simply RULES !
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7 Dying Trees
Bastard Albino Elf
Aggression, Technicality, The Need For Talent (to play it), and the Community that surrounds it.
How else could I end up in germany with a bunch of italian metal heads getting wasted and having a good time despite having no way to speak to them because of a language barrier?
Oh, and the chaos that seems to surround it as well as randomness...
How else could I end up in germany with a bunch of italian metal heads getting wasted and having a good time despite having no way to speak to them because of a language barrier?
Oh, and the chaos that seems to surround it as well as randomness...
Originally posted by 7 Dying Trees
Aggression, Technicality, The Need For Talent (to play it), and the Community that surrounds it.
How else could I end up in germany with a bunch of italian metal heads getting wasted and having a good time despite having no way to speak to them because of a language barrier?
Oh, and the chaos that seems to surround it as well as randomness...
That is so true... it´s cool because you can still hang out with people from all over the world even if they don´t speak the same language. Metal seems to bridge the language barrier !
