Speculative Metal

  What Speculative Metal is ?   In the text that summarizes much of the nomenclature related to Speculative Metal, the "Noctis Nebula Glossarium", a varied terminology is established: "Speculative Metal is: - textural, - traumatic and unchained, - metastructural, - psychedelic, - rhizomatic, transversal and heterogeneous, - non-Euclidean and anti-canonical, - hyperchaotic, desiring and schizophrenic..." Let us develop the ideas presented by Relgneps Razalas in his work "Metallorum mutatio: Corpus theoreticum", chapter 3, "Time and fate; Space and causality": "Speculative Metal (what-will-be) is a response to Spectral Metal (what-was). Speculative Metal appears to shake the established, to destroy homogeneity, to put an end to the copying of ideas, to the radical lack of originality of Spectral Metal. Spectral Metal repeats ideas (riffs, compositional patterns, production styles, concepts, aesthetics...) already established in the classic per...

Speculative Metal  is a website where we are going to dissect the current state of Metal as a musical style. After decades of evolution, statism and involution, we will focus on the bands that in our opinion are developing ideas that can be the bases of the future of the style. Our idea is to open a crack in space-time and peer into the future to see what the  Shape-of-Metal-To-Come (SMC)  will be like. To do this, we will make a distinction between the two types of metal that are currently practiced:  Spectral Metal  and  Speculative Metal . Spectral Metal  includes all the bands that practice a style of metal that looks to the past and that does not aim to innovate but rather pay tribute to the great bands of the period of development of the style (let's put the period 1970-2000 as deadlines) . This type of bands (whether its style is heavy, thrash, death, black, grind, doom, etc.) composes a type of metal where the main incentive is to practice cons...