Whats the future of metal production in the next 10 years (2010-2020)?

[CatharsisStudios]

its just gonna get sicker and sicker imo

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

Everyone will divide by zero and the world will implode

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[Fabbio]

As every metal band usually describes how the next album in their discography will be, metal production in the next ten years will be:

Much more heavy, yet much more melodic.

 

[SimonTaddio_Qc]

As every metal band usually describes how the next album in their discography will be, metal production in the next ten years will be:

Much more heavy, yet much more melodic.

Heaviness will, one day that I sense approaching, reach it's limits. Metalheads get used to "heavier" all the time, but I don't feel that continuing for another decade, or so.
It is obvious that kids that grew up listening to The Faceless and Beneath The Massacre are probably gonna have a lot more technical skills than us that grew up on Megadeth. I don't know about the melodic thing, maybe, but it will sure gets more technical.

 

[ahjteam]

It is obvious that kids that grew up listening to The Faceless and Beneath The Massacre are probably gonna have a lot more technical skills than us that grew up on Megadeth.

Not really, they just play different kind of technical stuff. Meshuggah, Rush, Yngwie, Slayer, Extreme and Dream Theater among others ain't peace of cake to play either.

 

[Max Morton]

Three thoughts come into my mind:
1)When something becomes available to everyone, it begins to lose it's price. It just won't be fun. Both for listeners and musicians. The magic will fade. And though there are lots of poor-quality home records, the amount of bands who wish to work with the sound-engineer to achieve the best possible result won't fade. I believe so.

I'm personally into heavy-power metal. It's a bit more vintage by default. And we're currently working on our album at my studio. Nothing like live, unedited drums! Even with the sample replaced kick it has so much breath and groove. Really, it's such a fun, after all those bands who compose music in guitar pro and then being surprised that they can't play it fine in the studio. Absolutely inspiring, motivating to jam along and write more and more stuff. Just playing new tunes while tracking stuff.

2)All these sample libraries, ampsims, intellectual orchestral samplers are nothing without human talent and experience.

3)When the machine will be able to create a real masterpiece, exceeding the most talented musicians, we won't need to earn money - the machinery will do everything for us. We'll just concentrate on education, self-improvement and so on. Or Herbert Wells was right and we're doomed to eat, shit and aimlessly reproduce ourselves (yeah, i mean sex, not the old records)

P.S.: anyway, there are gigs where the bands must shine. if they won't - who needs records.

 

[Line666]

Three thoughts come into my mind:
1)When something becomes available to everyone, it begins to lose it's price. It just won't be fun. Both for listeners and musicians. The magic will fade. And though there are lots of poor-quality home records, the amount of bands who wish to work with the sound-engineer to achieve the best possible result won't fade. I believe so.

Everyone can pick up a ball and play football, that doesn't stop people going to football matches. Accessibility has nothing to do with appreciation for talent, I wish more people here would make this distinction.

 

[GarethSE]

Heaviness will, one day that I sense approaching, reach it's limits.

This is one of things that's all relative.
Heaviness within metal reached its limits for me about 3 years at the ripe young age of 16, and thus I started going in search of a new fix in some other form and thus got into jazz and experimental music, where the freedom provides to me much the same buzz that heaviness and brutality does to metalheads.

Heaviness will never reach its limits in concept in execution, it will only reach its limit on a personal level.

 

[SimonTaddio_Qc]

Yeah, I agree the brutal and the heavy will always be there in metal.
Tuning-wise, I feel it's pretty much reached it's limits, but an awesome jazz piece or a classical symphony can be brutal in their own way, wich is kind of the way I like brutal to be, too.

 

[Full_Tilt]

Metal ? Who knows ... perhaps it will start sounding more authentic . We need more performance on recordings . Give me a little imperfection here and there and then I'll know its real .

 

[cloy26]

I think the REAL way to shine is to start making organic sounding records that kick ass to make everyone take notice. Everyone will become so saturated with the edited to death stuff, that when a REAL band plays something, they will take note.

 

[GarethSE]

Cloy, I think that record's already been made bud
It's a little album known as "Obscura" made by a band called "Gorguts."
And it's pretty fucking sweet

 

[Seth Munson]

i bet you bands arent even going to be going into studios anymore.
bands will write guitar parts on tour, (of course everything in the future will be midi)
the bands will send studios midi of all guitars, then midi bass, and midi drums.
have the producer re-write stuff, then mix it and the band comes in and tracks vocals for a week of time.

haha sad, but i really think it might come to this

 

[GoofPig]

Don't forget the 8 string trend at moment.

I reckon it will end up being the production itself that makes the record heavier. I very very highly doubt people will start going lower than drop E

...unless you are Admiral Angry. Great band btw. hahaha

 

[Spamds]

In next 10 years ? Well, Lady gaga and madonna are going to merge, panic at the fiasco and bukkake hotel are going to encourage more bands to play their crappy music, cannibal corpse starts experiencing with Z tunings ,slayer remixes world painted blood and lars ulrich plans to release his signature trashcan-kit 2000 (as heard on ST.ANGST omg!) ..BUT WAIT, theres more... the signature ear-piercing snare of death magnetic is included in the kit (The one heard on DM).. and loudness war is going to exceed its possible limits

I'm high already

 

[bryan.batiste]

yes please end robotic metal

 

[Kazrog]

More records being done entirely with v-drums / samples. Less outboard, more plugins, and BETTER plugins every year (thankfully) as human understanding and CPU speeds increase. More direct guitar tones, fewer amps. More remote projects/collabs.

On the flipside, I also think we'll see more bands doing full analog productions and limited vinyl releases.

 

[GarethSE]

Vinyl's back "in" though, lately.
There's a Slice The Cake vinyl coming very very soon, for instance. I'm gonna have some spare cash lying around in a few weeks so I'll start pouring some funds into getting that pressed.

 

[plague_rider]

Hmmm 8 strings guitars are the thing now... maybe up to 10-strings as a standard??

I'm kinda worried about the phasing (pun not intended) out of analogue gear... more and more bands are using triggers, by then they'll probably be on full on electric pads instead.... guitarists playing through rack mounted ampsim modules with the latest fredman impulses...

I'm worried...

Whats wierd is that up until recently, music came and went in waves of genres... now bands from different genres are finding success in different ways, from Metal, through to Jazz

Pop culture is recognising all genres at once rather than whats currently fashionable...

Alternatively, it would be funny to see whats most popular in 2020, with a 2000-2010 revival creeping in like the 80's revivals we have now...

 

[GarethSE]

I'm sure 00's revival music in 20 years would sound far better. Auto-tune and breakdowns all done with a smothering of self-aware ironic comedy that can only come with 20 years of hindsight.
Kind of the same thing that hair metal revival type thing has going on.