Futurist metal

[rapidshare]

Satan is dead. At this point it's clear that you either go full Nietzschean with materialism, and try to find inspiration from aesthetics, or try to find a religion outside the humbling dualism of Christianity. People are choosing religion, demographically, and religion is getting more scientific because it must to not get blown away by changes in attitudes. At the same time people are also getting more conservative because the modern disaster has finally started to show. We're totally out of control of this society because everyone is equal, so you can tell no one that what they're doing is bad (unless it's really obvious, like murder or mass orphan rape). All religious people with brains are starting to adopt a Blake/Emerson transcendentalist view which refutes dualism, although the dumb masses are always going to need some kind of absurd promises. This means the point in being Watain is not there anymore, since they're fighting against a phantom from the 1980s, when we all thought Christian conservatism was going to destroy us all. It turns out the Christian conservatives saved us from the Soviets, and now we're seeing that the hippie way of life just leads to more pollution, hatred, racism, misery and despair.

Futurist metal is going to take a Marshall McLuhan/Voivod approach. Like the best of sentimental mysticism in metal, it will probably embrace the idea of a world beyond this one, although not a dualistic one, more likely one in whatever n-space "m theory" or quantum entanglement proposes. Instead of being humanistic, it will focus on exploration, conquest and discovery. This will be how it transcends the Christian dualism and Jewish guilt-based morality that is inherent to all Abrahamic religions including Islam (and at this point, Judaism has been too Christianized to survive the onslaught, which is sad as it was the last hardcore literalist religion). Nietzscheans in space, exploring micro-organisms, finding ways to tie occultism and Platonic forms to our new knowledge of sub-atomic particles, string theory and emergent patterns. When you think about it, all prog bands want to be Voivod without the candy parts anyway.

[metal on metal]

I have a dream... as in now, is there anything worth mention besides VoiVod? Vektor sound really good, but they're retro-futuristic like steampunk, only with a realist outlook on post-Reagan's machinery which spawned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, now showing in black and white. VoiVod did it before it was supposed to happen and today everything is on time, at best.

[Talbert121]

My musical preference is 76.5% similar to the futuristic metal group. Musically, I fit in!

[scourge]

Can we shave off the 23.5% that doesn't fit in with a two handed war axe?

[peristil]

Diocletian exhibits apocalyptic futurist traits.
see interview here http://www.metalireland.com/2010/11/14/diocletian-interview/

[scourge]

Futurist is an as yet unexplored niche specifically for North American metal that is beyond the speed and thrash era. I'm a little skeptical about the steampunk idea because it is difficult to accept as a forthcoming probability. I'm thinking the freakish mechanical-organic hybrid H.R. Geiger paintings, the constricting tension of the Alien films, the cluttered (kippled?) yet bleak Blade Runner future, and so forth.

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MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM

   1. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.
   2. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt.
   3. Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist.
   4. We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
   5. We want to sing the man at the wheel, the ideal axis of which crosses the earth, itself hurled along its orbit.
   6. The poet must spend himself with warmth, glamour and prodigality to increase the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements.
   7. Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man.
   8. We are on the extreme promontory of the centuries! What is the use of looking behind at the moment when we must open the mysterious shutters of the impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We are already living in the absolute, since we have already created eternal, omnipresent speed.
   9. We want to glorify war — the only cure for the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman.
  10. We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.
  11. We will sing of the great crowds agitated by work, pleasure and revolt; the multi-colored and polyphonic surf of revolutions in modern capitals: the nocturnal vibration of the arsenals and the workshops beneath their violent electric moons: the gluttonous railway stations devouring smoking serpents; factories suspended from the clouds by the thread of their smoke; bridges with the leap of gymnasts flung across the diabolic cutlery of sunny rivers: adventurous steamers sniffing the horizon; great-breasted locomotives, puffing on the rails like enormous steel horses with long tubes for bridle, and the gliding flight of aeroplanes whose propeller sounds like the flapping of a flag and the applause of enthusiastic crowds.

~FT Marinetti, 1909

Futurism was always the elder brother to death metal, but I wonder how this new direction will relate to some ANUSites' penchant for the Romantics, who were rightly loathed by the Futurists for being the walking dead of other centuries.

[JewishPhysics]

Here's a related list of bands stolen from the user rapidshare (from the tl;dr anus thread):

    * Demilich
    * Voivod
    * early Incantation
    * Obliveon
    * Supuration
    * The Chasm

This type of metal fulfills not only a "rock-style" role as popular music, but an artistic one. It should be celebrated as such. We do not want "elitism" per se, but a sense of taking a different path, and believe it should be written in the tl;dr style: short sentences, heavy on metaphor, reflecting the artistic nature of these works.

Is this thread concept a reiteration, variation, or unrelated?

[Examiner]

There has been a lack of futurist metal in recent years, or at least it's most direct manifestation. Most futurist metal was a reaction to the fear of nuclear war, revolution, technophobia, etc. Now its either either completely fictional, or cosmic.

[Conservationist]

Futurism was always the elder brother to death metal, but I wonder how this new direction will relate to some ANUSites' penchant for the Romantics, who were rightly loathed by the Futurists for being the walking dead of other centuries.

That's silly. That futurist manifesto descends directly from Romanticism. Absent the classical worship, there's nothing incompatible there, and any futurist who has an IQ over his shoe size will admire history as a laboratory from which we can learn about humanity and human self-government.