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Some of your ideas are broadly shareable, and indeed I fear that the problem is larger and distinctly cultural-historical. However, you are wrong, and quite a bit, when you say that "Rock n roll has been the same for 30 years," which is obviously false. Thirty years ago we were in '79, and since then we have seen an abundance of styles like shoegaze, post-rock, hardcore, post-hardcore, new wave, and various approaches to industrial music. Up until the '90s, creativity was not lacking; it is in this decade that we fell apart. In fact, these Mastodon present us with an album that is aged and has been heard before, meaning this is stuff we've already listened to, but not just from yesterday. As for metal, the classic variety has embarrassingly medieval traits, and fine, let’s leave it there. For "post-metal," the genre of bands that wanted to go beyond certain standard approaches (I won't name names or it will become a quagmire), in my opinion, they have largely failed in their intent, as they just changed the mask, polished the production, and donned a very avant-garde air to convince themselves they were playing something different when, in reality, they were the same flashy technical jam with the same substantive flaws as other more classic metal representatives. Among these post-metal bands, I also include Mastodon; in the title track of this album, it felt like listening to Neurosis in the vocals (at times)... I mean, it was exactly the voice of Scott Kelly, note for note. Even though perhaps everything has already been said, I cannot enjoy certain things just because creatively we are floundering, that's what I'm saying.

Same riffs, solos, structures derived from the same old prog-metal, vaguely psycho melodies that give that touch of apparent compositional maturity... and this should save metal? Then one comes off as a jerk, but this stuff really doesn't seem presentable to me.

Alright, let's give the Poste-e-Telecomunicazioni what they deserve.

You could use a few more albums from At The Gates to regain your sanity.

I don’t intervene in all metal reviews, I only chime in (sometimes now) on those of the bands I know. And if a band seems ridiculous to me, it gets a 1. Get used to it, that’s how life works up here.

HELL did not mean to offend me; it was referring to the ranking of human cases, of which I proudly occupy the last place. (I am proud to be part of the ranking, not of the last place). Wake up.

The only idiot here is you, breaking my balls over other people's opinions. I'll repeat that I’m free to despise any record, and the fact that you reacted the way you did shows how disconnected you can be from maintaining a human discourse on human levels. I criticize the record, you offend me = behavior of an insecure person who feels inferior and doesn’t know how to counter with arguments.

"I am free to tell you that you understand little about music just as you are free to say that this is not music." --> You, on the other hand, understand a lot.

Um, it's clear that you were bullied as a kid and you're missing a couple of screws now. Let's try again: "FJELLTRONEN mercy. "But know that if we had been face to face, no one would have stopped me from giving you a nice slap in the mouth," that's not a threat. "If you keep bothering me, I'll give you a nice slap in the mouth," that is a threat." --- "I am completely free to criticize any album, even harshly. And you can't afford to tell me that I make you laugh for an opinion you don't share, for obvious reasons of tolerance of other people's ideas. And Larrok told you that too. Let's see if you still have a functioning neuron in your head to understand it. ----> read it carefully.

So he talks about "living the music," which makes more sense as a discourse compared to the alienation of consumption that can occur while browsing the Internet. Knowing records is a necessary condition, though not sufficient. But it is nonetheless necessary; there’s no doubt about that. And opinions on the web are just opinions, like those in interpersonal relationships, nothing more, which you can agree with or not. At a certain point, you listen to Lord first and then Ravenstine, and you form your opinion with the PC turned off, believe me.