Originally Posted by The Batlord

What are you, a musical hippy? The entire reason metal developed in the first place was because it was loud and all the angry dudes liked it. Now that metal's loudness has pretty much been tapped out all that's really left to develop are the experimental sub-genres. It's why the third wave of black metal is so talked about these days, or weird doom. Cause there isn't much else that's advancing. Death metal hasn't changed since the nineties. "Normal" black metal hasn't either. Or power metal. Thrash metal hasn't changed since the eighties. Any non-arty genre of metal is pretty much treading water in a sea of nostalgia.

And I'm honestly curious just what black metal is going to start doing once experimenting with post rock and industrial and shoegaze gets stale. Find other arbitrary alternative rock?