OurTragicDemise
Bleeding Oath fanboy.
- Jan 14, 2011
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I'm into this because I fucking love speed. I love playing fast. I love the intensity of just playing as fast as you physically can.
Anyone who classify s themselves as more than a fan of
x genre for listening to that genre is funny.
Oh... I get it now.
I think the whole intellectual = prog, non-intellectual = thrash thing is silly. Listening to a specific genre doesn't make you "intellectual", nor do all "intellectual" people listen to a specific genre.
I think there are 2 different types of metalheads. You have the dumb ones who want to mosh and headbang and are all for Satanic lyrics and gorno lyrics. Then you have the social misfits who are more intelligent and listen and enjoy the structural complexity of prog and tech metal.
This is pretty much what I was trying to get across. The thing is, I don't know of anyone who says "I listen to prog, so I'm the intellectual type" which he apparently has heard someone say before.
a great deal of music outside of metal is pretty much in the same boat in trying to stave off this same 'jadedness' that i feel, it just tries different methods, some more successful than others - this is why i no longer align myself with metal particularly, just good music.
To make things clear, yes I have seen such stated before; but I was referring to a certain attitude people carry with them that states those ideals without verbally saying it.
I suppose I see what you're saying, but at the same time the same thing applies to other sub-genres. People who listen to progressive and technical metal may see themselves as more intellectual, people who listen to thrash or death metal may see themselves as heavier, people who listen to black metal may see themselves as more extreme, and people who only listen to 90s and before or 80s and before may see themselves as purists.
i do think that the kind of person i'm describing tends to gravitate towards the arts though (and perhaps metal in particular? i dunno), whereas people like yourself are often too busy actually living to obsessively get caught up in other people's lives and perspectives (via books etc).
my problem is i near-constantly crave *intense* emotions/experiences and whilst i appreciate simple pleasures to an extent they ultimately leave me unsatisfied. i think the main cause of this for me is how comfortable my life has been on the whole - it's instilled in me a grass-is-greener type longing for danger and adventure, an obsession with all the wilder stuff hidden in the shadows, criminals and assassins and madness and orgies and psychedelic drugs and thunderstorms and wars and the concept of 'death' and etcetc. dunno, maybe if you pass me and go even further up the spectrum you get to the kinds of nutjobs who wind up in max security prisons and mental hospitals, haha. what i do wonder is whether or not if i was actually involved in all this sorta stuff directly i would then start longing for calm and simplicity and comfort in my life.