Andrew WK on why he listens to death metal: > This was something I'd heard in other music, but only in small spurts—the screeching wail of James Brown, the fra

Andrew WK on why he listens to death metal: > This was something I'd heard in other music, but only in small spurts—the screeching wail of James Brown, the frantic drum solo before a song's big finale. Usually, with other bands or artists, they would build up to a moment of intensity, like the crest of a wave, and it would hit hard, but be short-lived, fleeting. But it became clear to me as I listened to these death metal CDs, that this entire genre was based on extending that explosive feeling for an entire song, an entire album, an entire career—not just a quick crescendo or a peak that served to counter the bulk of more subdued music. In death metal, that high mark was starting point. It used the furthest extreme of other rock music genres as its base line, its foundation, and pushed forward from there. It's specifically designed to exceed excess. I was spinning in ecstasy. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gvvb34/andrew-wk-on-death-metal https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gvvb34/andrew-wk-on-death...