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Originally Posted by jillian  Can't take someone who thinks metal is music that seriously.
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That's the kind of closed-minded comment that makes it hard to take you seriously on the subject. There are some extremely talented musicians in all genres of music, from what I've experienced, and they're putting out good music. A good many metal musicians are classically-trained, and there are some interesting articles in music academics comparing and contrasting the two (metal / classical). I read an article in a journal a number of years back making the case that metal was the closest to classical of the modern music forms (assuming you're dealing with the good metal bands, not the pop stuff by and large). It was interesting but I doubt many people saw it because it was in the academic literature.
Not getting into the merits of the point, but it was interesting. Also, when you hear of bands playing with opera houses in Finland, or with the LSO, or with symphonies in places like Prague, it's typically the metal bands (maybe again because many of the musicians, particularly in the European bands, are classically-trained).
Anyway, it's a wildly varied and in-depth topic. Your statement just evidences ignorance of the subject matter in the same way anyone dismissing out of hand an art form demonstrates ignorance.
One decent source would be an articles called "Going For Baroque," about Swedish metal guitarist (and classical guitarist in his case) Yngwie Malmsteen.
The academic journal was published by Oxford University Press if I recall correctly, but I doubt I'll be able to track it down.
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