Music journalists can be overwhelmingly helpful, professional ,articulate and well-versed in their research and opinions. Alternatively, they can be second-rate obstinate fools that fail to appreciate certain musical styles and their appeal, or my pet peeve and point of this rant: GENRE.
Powerman 5000 – “Action Rock”
Abruptum – “Dark Occult Metal”
Dissection – “Anti-Cosmic Metal of Death”.
Now, one of those titles I actually agree is spot on. Can you guess which one is suitable and can be readily justified?
Dissection.
Steeped in esoteric occult studies from the Liber Grimoire of the Misanthropic Luciferian order of Norway and it’s adherence to the code of Nexion 218, Dissection’s lyrical concepts and motivation for creating music are actually fuelled almost wholly and solely by this particular sectarian belief system. The fact that their music totally smashes and is worth an eternity drowning in Ain Soph beyond the eleventh seal makes them all the more amazing.
But I have a rather sizable dislike for the ‘professional’ music journalist who cannot or will not utilise existing and well-defined genres, particularly in metal and other substantially segmented sub-genres of music. It results in such broad terms as “Dark Werewolf Ambient Occult Folk”, “Powerslop Thrashcore Sludge-grind” and “Soiled Fetid Pulsating bloaty-oozing waste-of-my-adjectives”. I don’t care if they did a three year communications or social studies degree – the only reason they should utilise their vocabulary is to describe the sound as best as they can without resorting to ‘chainsaw/piston/assembly line’ cliches or superlative onomatopoeia. But spare me the bullshit, half the bands that get a special music journo tagline or “NEW!!!” genre aren’t worth it; they’re generic as top 40 and painfully predictable. If music journalists want to create a new genre then they should really try and find something that fits. Square pegs and round holes you gits.
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