Why buying CDs/demos is essential to metal[views:2627][posts:5]_________________________________________ [Nov 29,2013 6:51am - conservationist ""] The fact that metal music is no longer found exclusively in physical media removes much of that precious ‘aura’ that can accompany physical art objects. Demo tapes were exciting and mysterious objects because one had to ‘work’ to track them down. In the 1990s, I remember hearing rumours that there was a Pakistani metal band who had released a demo, something that seemed impossibly obscure and exotic at the time. I tried and failed to track down their tape, but I did track down others from faraway metal lands like the Phillipines and Peru and there was always a delightful frisson when tapes from distant lands finally arrived in the mail. Today, there isn’t much frisson to googling something and finding it. Stripped of the aura, rare and obscure metal recordings become much more mundane. Keith Kahn-Harris, "Too Much Metal," Souciant, November 29, 2013. |
| ______________________________ [Nov 29,2013 7:53am - Lamp ""] Heh, the old crisis of trying to find metal releases in the first place has been replaced with a new crisis of finding metal releases that are actually worth listening to. |
| ____________________________________ [Nov 29,2013 4:18pm - MotleyGrue ""] Archaeology of metal for him is what I get from this. While there are many points/counterpoints to make about a subject like this, you have to take it with a grain of salt. There is too much music out there old/new to be heard of course you have to sift through the shit to find gold, that is what still makes it exciting, and of course listening to utter shit gives us all something to bitch/make fun of about. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 29,2013 5:43pm - HookedonMetal ""] This is why it's both a good and bad thing that metal is easier to come by than it used to be. |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 1,2013 8:44am - the_reverend ""] Good convo here. |
| _____________________________ [Dec 2,2013 9:20am - Yeti ""] good article and a stance I strongly agree with. It has led to alienation too, all of this has allowed the falses to swarm and you can't tell who is on the level anymore. |