United states black metal zine
It’s like being at the right place at the right time with the right ideas to produce the right outcomes with the right people.Ī lot of moving pieces have to be aligned the right way at the right time and to think that if you throw enough money at this challenge that somehow, someway, things will fall into place. You have to remember that real brain storming involves serendipity. Unfortunately, structured brain storming is one of these activities. There are a lot of things that look good on paper, but when they are carried out, they amount to a whole lot of nothing. In the minds of these people coming up with these programs, it really all boils down to coming up with the right resources and putting it all together in the right circumstances to produce the right outcomes. They think it’s some sort of activity that you can force. I don’t know about you, but most of the companies that I’ve worked for think of brain storming as some sort of structured exercise. And it really would be quite tragic for the global scene to completely overlook this development and totally discount its contribution. This is really unfortunate because there has been a lot of highly vibrant, engaging, creative, inspired and even sublime music coming out of Milan and nearby regions for the past few years. It’s as if they only need to hear that the band came from a specific part of Europe, namely Italy, and it’s automatically categorized as second best if that. But if you look at the cold reception Italian metal talents and upcoming acts get consistently from the global press, you really can’t conclude any other way. Sadly, the global metal industry, and it really is an industry if you think about it because of the oligarchic nature of which bands gets popular, which bands are considered legit, and which ones get dismissed as posers, tend to be enemies of change. Unfortunately, just like with any other musical trend, it often takes time for old ideas to change.
There’s a lot of sheer musical inspiration that respects no neat and tidy boundaries. The metal scene here is underground precisely because they don’t get the respect they deserve. They think that just because there are certain familiar elements that you automatically are no longer creating new music.
We don’t fall for such traps.Ī lot of people don’t understand this. We really don’t believe in neat, tidy little boxes that somebody basically checks so often to classify whether a piece of music or a band’s work is metal enough or not. The great thing about Italian underground metal is that we are quite experimental. This is the background for Italian underground metal. While a lot of the global metal fanbase’s attention focuses primarily on what’s going on in Northern Europe, there’s a lot to pay attention to. In fact, in the United States, the traditional home of heavy metal, there is a quite a bit of ferment as far as musical experimentation goes. With that said, don’t sell short metal scenes from all over the world. That part of the world, after all, is the home of death metal, horror metal, and the latest and greatest, cutting edge metal-based musical genres. Now, for the most part, the global heavy metal scene is pretty much concentrated in Scandinavian countries.
Believe it or not, there is a quite healthy underground metal scene in Italy.