The compositionally leading bands of the last era, Darkthrone, Burzum and Emperor, sought to create melodic structures overlapping or changing through complex but continuous patterns, suggesting a spatial awareness to harmony in which a narrative of brief and nihilistic poetry could play out in the melodies reflecting emotion and changing mood of atmospheric sound in altering layers of harmonized and partially dissonant melody. Before Varg Vikernes quit the scene, he was making classically-influenced keyboard music and listening to Kraftwerk, classical music and techno.Synthesizer bands walked the same path of black metal, and ultimately what distinguished pioneers from normalizers and reductive aesthecists was the sense of melody as an evolving poem of relative motion creating a sense of change in narrative as mood shifts throughout more complex pieces. Among innovative bands, the influences of rock n roll and western media are declining, and ancient values and themes are rising amidst the chaotic method of communication influenced by a technological society.
The stakes are raised for pushing beyond the barrier into underground music of any leadership role in the hierarchy of people who innovate within the worldwide community of people thinking about metal music. Those who separate and establish ideas can choose to safeguard them and quit when it is time or continue constantly moving ahead. This ideology replaces anti-Christianity, Nazism, etc. in the mind of the forward moving metalhead. It will probably contain some of the following:
# Nihilism - from Buddhism and Western thought, the idea that nothing has any significance or value inherently, only by the valuation of a human mind. Also: that death is very real, there are no pleasant illusions like heaven or compassionate capitalism, etc.
# Ethnic pride - from Latin America to the Nordics to the American Indians to Malaysians to Chinese to Hispanics worldwide, metallions are of different backgrounds and each more proud of their respective backgrounds than interested in selling out the same for profit.
# Environmentalism - a great horror of humanity is the destruction of earth and anti-corporatism and environmentalism are part of this.
# Melodic poesy - the sense of melody and layering of the same as central to any complexity in composition, developed further toward a language in which uniqueness is appreciated over novelty of form.(This is anti-Hegelianism (naturalism) in musical form.)
# Anti-moralism - a fear and resentment of morality as a construct at all, preferring nihilistic and dentological moralities.
# Honor - personal pride and passion for personal value in existence will be seen as more important than social approbation.
This list borrows from several ideologies mentioned by combining the common attributes of most musicians who have innovated in previous generations. The greater the clarity of mind, the greater the clarity of music, and perhaps the biggest change in the future is more deliberate, considered and "enlightened" design choices made by metalheads, in lifestyle, art and politics.
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