• Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    Yeah I understand that it’s reductive and heavy metal tends to have some of the most impressive technical work I have ever seen in music.

    But I do mean anger in the sense of the dislike of how things are. While there seems to be a tone of sadness, it’s really often angry at the fact that death is inevitable, anger at horrors of war, at capitalism, whatever and then played with all the emotional effort of someone trying to live fast and scream all the way to their hole in the ground.

    So yes, to say metal is angry is reductive I feel it’s a simple way to say “aware and unable to do much but scream.”
    It’s music for catharsis if you find that in being loud, appearance, performance, metaphorically, whatever.

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      Yeah I understand that it’s reductive and heavy metal tends to have some of the most impressive technical work I have ever seen in music.

      But I do mean anger in the sense of the dislike of how things are.

      I’m kinda with you, but keep in mind I was replying to comments specifically about death metal.

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        Fair enough. That’s probably from me not really knowing the difference and using a lot of these terms interchangeably from only casually listening to a lot of bands. So forgive me for any mistakes I make in that regard

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          It’s cool. I know a lot of people tend to use the phrase “death metal” casually to refer to all metal, but it’s actually a specific subgenre of a larger, much more diverse genre (which actually as a much larger variety of lyrical themes than people might assume.)