![]() ![]() So what are we to make of metal and its listeners? Is it all about connecting to "primitive" sensations that have driven our species to survive since its earliest days? Is it merely an excuse for some puerile jerks to act like man babies? Anyone who has turned to a favorite song or musician for comfort at a critical juncture in their life should understand the truth. In the same way, the catharsis of music is defined by its transience - it comes and goes, much like glee, or a sunset, or flash-in-the-pan rage. It's lightning in a bottle, like the two-minute climax of a moving film that leaves people crying. It relates the densest complexities and richness of human experience, not its most reduced simplicities. Music exists, in part, to express the ineffable, the inscrutable, and the uncapturable by words or other means. ![]()
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