2010-03-16, 09:03 PM
I wasn't insinuating anything about the music. I can get into Japanese (the most ridiculous) noise and am probably mostly into experimental/artrock so being amelodic is not my grief with black metal... there is just something about black metal as if it's meticulously designed to cause pain, and if taken for more than a few minutes would render any puny mortal psychically obliterated. Yes no doubt that is a sweeping generalization, but even with your Epitome it seems like it devolves into that breakneck monotonous piston "riff" by default (and yes I realize/think that's probably "The staple" of the genre)
Point you're missing about music or any art form. There are at least 3 angles. There is the medium itself, which is like science. There is the execution, which is like art, and there is enjoyment, ie. consumption. Without the last something doesn't qualify as art (it would be a field of study or something) and without the first there would be nothing... in the middle is the "talent" and will to create, but all three are distinct from one another. Eg. a person who enjoys music need not care how it's created. A person who makes music need not know how it works (many musicians play by ear) ...and a person who understands music need not have any talent in creating it. And the truth is the overlap between these disciplines (yes listening is a discipline) is really much less than you seem to think. The same goes for any artform. You have coaches, performers, and their audience, technicians, equipment designers and manufacturers, and the list goes on and on.
Point you're missing about music or any art form. There are at least 3 angles. There is the medium itself, which is like science. There is the execution, which is like art, and there is enjoyment, ie. consumption. Without the last something doesn't qualify as art (it would be a field of study or something) and without the first there would be nothing... in the middle is the "talent" and will to create, but all three are distinct from one another. Eg. a person who enjoys music need not care how it's created. A person who makes music need not know how it works (many musicians play by ear) ...and a person who understands music need not have any talent in creating it. And the truth is the overlap between these disciplines (yes listening is a discipline) is really much less than you seem to think. The same goes for any artform. You have coaches, performers, and their audience, technicians, equipment designers and manufacturers, and the list goes on and on.