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I think that Halloween is the perfect time of the year to try to convey the aesthetic. Do you like scary movies? Thrillers? Surreal comedy? Elements and concept

I think that Halloween is the perfect time of the year to try to convey the aesthetic. Do you like scary movies? Thrillers? Surreal comedy? Elements and concepts from all of these feature heavily. Essentially, I celebrate Halloween all year round, and it's just a blast. As a classically trained musician, I've tended to lean toward more aggressive and technical metal. The other people I know who have gravitated toward death, black, and/or power metal are by overwhelming majority trained musicians. In a deeper way, there's also the role of catharsis, of someone else sharing your pain. Sometimes when one is in distress and hurting, it's so helpful to have someone else expressing something you can't quite convey in words.

devonkim 8y ago
I’m also classically trained but played some jazz and while it’s anecdata I’ve seen far more classically trained musicians in the metal scene than jazz players. While hip hop is basically pop today, I haven’t found any jazz musicians in, say, the extreme rap music scenes. But you’ll find them more in experimental music in general for sure (there’s rather little experimentation in extreme metal with folks like Deathspell Omega maybe being an exception). Unsure if it’s more a correlation of socioeconomic factors than musical / artistic ones. Metal is closer to a recreational drug for me than escapism / nesting with all the aesthetics of other senses like a holiday or vacation. That droning wall of sound is pretty awesome wherever it comes from. Bolt Thrower, Tsjuder, Demoncy, Emperor, etc. do it for me in ways that melodic metal of any sub genre doesn’t. Similar for why Gost (not the much more popular Ghost) works for me much more than Daft Punk despite many musical similarities.
- stochastic_monk 8y ago
  You might enjoy the experimental hip hop group Death Grips, the drummer of which has collaborated with the Dillinger Escape Plan (who is about as experimental as you can find in hardcore).

devonkim 8y ago

I’m also classically trained but played some jazz and while it’s anecdata I’ve seen far more classically trained musicians in the metal scene than jazz players. While hip hop is basically pop today, I haven’t found any jazz musicians in, say, the extreme rap music scenes. But you’ll find them more in experimental music in general for sure (there’s rather little experimentation in extreme metal with folks like Deathspell Omega maybe being an exception). Unsure if it’s more a correlation of socioeconomic factors than musical / artistic ones. Metal is closer to a recreational drug for me than escapism / nesting with all the aesthetics of other senses like a holiday or vacation. That droning wall of sound is pretty awesome wherever it comes from. Bolt Thrower, Tsjuder, Demoncy, Emperor, etc. do it for me in ways that melodic metal of any sub genre doesn’t. Similar for why Gost (not the much more popular Ghost) works for me much more than Daft Punk despite many musical similarities.

stochastic_monk 8y ago
You might enjoy the experimental hip hop group Death Grips, the drummer of which has collaborated with the Dillinger Escape Plan (who is about as experimental as you can find in hardcore).