Metal

Black Metal

The music to celebrate the beauty of the night, and to revel in the mysteries that lie beyond the darkness. As a whole it is generally anti-social and attempts to destroy the image of Christianity and other meek worship of the individual. In a few less words it is unsympathetic, unforgiving, and uncompromising music that at its best did not care for fame, trends or the opinions of the masses. It is both outlandish, and mystical, representing a mind set that has long since died. But like anyone with any hope for a return to past glories, the artists on this list embody the celebration and return to Ancient Pagan ways where man was not scared of Death or offending people if it meant making the world a better place.

Death Metal

Death Metal is valueless, often toneless, deconstructive and unrelenting music. It embraces death, and accepts it as inevitable. It sees chaos as a part of life, and seeks to find meaning in an irrational, unsympathetic universe. It revels in the plight of the human condition. Death Metal is replicative of the void, or perhaps you may best sum it up as being the musical recreation of Nihilism. In this the feral meaningless of the universe is exposed. By accepting that 'Only Death is Real' we start to see the endless possibilities that are open to those who are willing to transcend this chaos and stamp their own meaning upon life. Death Metal reveals the underlying truth of this assertion by focusing on the bizarre (death and all else beyond mundane social practices), paradoxically using surreality to reveal reality.

Doom Metal

Doom Metal is the slow, droning, often torturous, agonised or ritual approach to the existential crisis arising from the human condition – the solitude arising from the individual journey to this dilemma that every man must face alone. At its heart this music draws out suffering and pain to its utter extremes until the veneer of modern life and all its entrapment crumbles away, although briefly.  In this moment the wild, nihilistic clarity of existence shines through the shattered mental remnants. This singular moment offers liberation and possibility – but only to those who grasp it and resist cowering away in fear.

Speed/Thrash/Power/Heavy Metal

Heroism, power, violence, the celebration of the deeds of the warriors great and unknown, the voices of the disillusioned and the occasional journey to the fantasy worlds of yore. The 'church' of so-called non-extreme genres of Metal is broad indeed. From rapid fire head-banging riff wizardy and frenetic drumming to the ultimate crescendo of a falsetto vocal attack backed by symphonic keyboard soundscapes.