DEATH METAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY - PARADIGM 1: OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL (OSDM)
DEATH METAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY - PARADIGM 1: OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL (OSDM) INTRODUCTION Salva Rubio, in "Extreme Metal, 30 years of darkness (1981-2011)", page 153, proposes an aesthetic exercise where we search for "a parallelism between the different substyles of Extreme Metal and the classic styles of Art History" . Thus, he compares the Romanesque (simple in appearance and very expressive) with the classic bands that gave rise to Extreme Metal: Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer... The Gothic, where the adoration for detail and ornament is unleashed is compared to the Thrash Metal. Next, he equates Renaissance art with Death Metal, both styles that develop the styles of the previous stages, freeing themselves from constraints imposed on an aesthetic level in search of greater creative freedom, a freedom that seeks to go further, that does not recognize borders. After the emergence of Death Metal, Rubio proposes two great labels to encompass the evolution of the style a...