Speculative Metal

 "Deterritorialization is the movement by which one 'leaves' the territory. It is the operation of the line of flight." (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus) INTRODUCTION What is "territory" in extreme metal? - Territory consists of conventions: riffs, block structures, established sections (intro - riff - verse - solo - bridge - outro). Territory is any element within a composition that has a function, a place, a proportion... in a logical and balanced form. Zdzisław Beksiński DETERRITORIALIZATION: A PROCESS In A Thousand Plateaus (1980), Deleuze and Guattari distinguish between two types of space: smooth space—open, continuous, and non-hierarchical; and striated space—organized, metric, structured. This distinction, originally spatial, can be applied to music—and, in particular, to Extreme Metal—as an opposition between the fractal and the modular in order to describe a phenomenon that has gone unnoticed: deterritorialization in Extreme Metal. In tr...

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...