Speculative Metal

At the beginning of chapter 5, "Faustian Arts: The Triumph of Instrumental Music over Oil Painting" of his Liber Semitarum, Relgneps Razalas states that: "In the last decade of the 20th century, three bands were formed that began to use dissonance as a primary symbol, not as an ornament or decorative element, which was the way in which (with exceptions such as Gorguts ) it had been used until then. To dissonance was added a compositional element that had also been used in a secondary way until then: texture seen as atmosphere ." Wassily Kandinsky,  Composition VI Deathspell Omega and Blut aus Nord , both bands of French origin, revolutionized the way extreme metal is conceived at the beginning of this century with two trilogies of albums that shook the foundations of the style and forced the rest to take a position. In turn, the Australians Portal , released their albums simultaneously during the first and second decade of this century as a response of Death Metal...

Reverorum ib Malacht is one of the bands that is taking extreme metal to unexplored territories due to the extreme experimentation to which they subject all the elements that make up their music. They are a perfect definition of what Speculative Metal is. All the sound parameters of his compositions are approached from a new perspective by applying Salazar's Law so that "an entirely new sound world" emerges (Salazar, "Fundamental concepts in the history of music", 2004:210).  https://speculativemetal.blogspot.com/2024/04/salazars-law-2.html Reverorum ib Malacht delves into unknown regions within the genre where each parameter is subjected to limitless experimentation : - The guitar riffs that are the basis of any metal band are absent in a good part of their compositions or their role is secondary, ceding the main role to the drums and the textures and atmospheres. When the guitars have more prominence, they are usually focused as samplers, as textures, with ...

In 1993, the members of Gorguts , a then little-known Canadian band, began writing what was to be their third album, "Obscura." During the first sessions, they did something very unusual: they decided to escape from the compositional foundations and traditional techniques common to the style when starting to write music for their new work. Gorguts, "Obscura" (1998)   As Druj establishes in the Corpus Mutatio: "Each musical style has a form at its origin, dominated by one or several primary symbols that make that style identifiable; essential elements that, when mutating and changing, give rise to a metamorphosis that ends in birth of a new style defined by its own new primary symbols." ( Corpus Mutatio , cap. 1 "That fierce howl has always accompanied us"). Thus, Gorguts decided to dispense with two basic elements in extreme metal, in such a way that there was no group that did not use one of them continuously in their albums: tremolo or powe...