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...

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...