Metal is still evolving outside of the actual music itself as well.
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There are still loads of bands out there creating classic, vintage sounds extremely well of course, and there’s nothing wrong with that at all, but if you’re after stranger, more disorientating styles you’re practically spoilt for choice – and you’ve come to the right place. Not that it matters though – as Shakespeare once famously said, “a riff by any other name would sound as gnarly” (or at least, I think that was the line), and it’s fascinating to see how endlessly nebulous and malleable metal is. We might not be experiencing any drastic leaps like, say, the jump from thrash to death metal, for example, but it’s getting much harder to neatly summarise a band’s sound without resorting to ridiculous strings of words like “post-blackened atmospheric deathgrind”, or whatever. It’s difficult to summarise a year’s worth of metallic evolution in a single column – and make no mistake, the genre is still evolving before our very ears, with established sub-genres feeling increasingly ill-equipped to actually contain some of the weird and wonderful sounds certain bands are making.
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With 2020 looming on the horizon, we once again find ourselves in that reflective time of the year wherein we cast our minds back, take stock of the last twelve months and wade through endless AOTY lists, each featuring the same handful of critically acclaimed records in slightly different orders, and argue about them until those cold, sobering January winds blow all this away and we begin the cycle again.