Speculative Metal

The Speculative Assault Metal has spent far too long under the rule of the Specter: that figure staring back from the mirror, bewitched by its own past and tradition. Spectral Metal (the traditional form) still fulfills an important role as an archaeological repository, but most bands remain trapped in an unbearable spiral of repetition: endlessly imitating established forms, homogenizing their sound, longing for some imagined purity… Then Speculative Metal appears—opening space-time fissures, unleashing vorticial forces, and piercing into unexplored regions. For years, Speculative Metal has ensured that Metal remains Metal: defiant, vehement, experimental… speculative. It is the true sentinel. Just as accelerationism launched a lightning strike against Kantian transcendental doctrine to expand into unknown territories, Speculative Metal once again transforms Metal into a Body Without Organs—one that does not obey established patterns—an organism of speculative forces that forges its o...