After the most creative and colorful era, there was no new metal music in the decade of 1990s. Metal music in the post-modernism period is a mixture of various types, which renders music through self-awareness and creates a kind of compromise and compromise music in the increasingly powerful mixed sound. After 1987, death metal entered the golden age of four years, and then continued to be strong, but in another new form-Nordic black gold-it drove millions of fans crazy through exciting, complex, changeable and straightforward narrative music. However, at the end of this period, after the extreme metal wave of 5 waves, the above two types are in a downward trend when the second generation of black gold still dominates. Under the influence of other styles, the downward trend of dead metal has been curbed and a period of diversified development has begun. He no longer sticks to the traditional basic skills and creative ideas.
The works of Death Metal during the period of 1988- 1992 had a strong emotional appeal and far-reaching influence. Later, due to the simplicity/dogma of business or living underground all the time, they began to weaken gradually. Morality and emotion, by calling for the protection of environment, race and rare resources, make death metal a cliche. This situation was not obvious until 1993, and it was barely controlled with the efforts of some special bands. However, when the mainstream was gradually occupied by some diametrically opposed metal bands, the arrogance and complacency of death metal became more and more serious, which eventually led to their decline. From 65438 to 0993, it seems that due to the recovery of people's sympathy, the desire for "life" in music, lyrics, philosophy and other fields is increasing day by day. Later, when Heijin secretly occupied the center with more powerful, infectious and destructive philosophy and music, the death metal began to falter and really became a kind of "dying" music.
Although death metal is mainly underground, it still produces a bunch of mainstream imitators and fence-sitters, such as Pantella, Cannibal Corpse and TOO. They all adopt the image and technology of death metal and use arrogant and narrow music mode to promote unscrupulous entertainment life. In the eyes of many people, Death Metal was destroyed by the violent impact of a group of Swedish bands and lyrics of self-awareness, morality and piety in the first Therion album. Although it is still anti-Christian, it is still the so-called "metal". Although this influence does not involve music, it does prove the decay inside the dead metal. Morality is "safe" after all, just like mixed rock music such as Entombed's album secretary. Rock music with gorgeous surface but worthless essence and heavy metal music of large-scale open-air concerts lack depth, and only eating cold rice left by predecessors makes people get goose bumps all over. This seems to be because success makes death metal too self-righteous, and finally pushes itself to the same embarrassing position as its opponent.
However, with Celtic Frost, Sodoma and Basri making very powerful works in almost the same year, the dormancy of Black Gold finally turned into the awakening of the sleeping lion. They combine all the essence of death metal with more modern ideas to create deeper and more attractive music with melodious melodies, although it takes longer to digest. Lands of Lore, Immortality, Emperor, The Darkness, Slavery, Haworthy, Gorrote and Grafran created unparalleled voices: rough, savage and daunting; Through artistic expression, emotions fluctuate extremely inadvertently; Distorted tones interweave and recombine, rushing forward in chaos and disorder, and containing extremely obscure and changeable themes. The mastery of arrangement and feeling in song creation has brought the nihilism, broken rhythm and unique creative techniques of Death, Frosted Core and Riptide Metal to the extreme.
In art, Heijin tries to explore a slightly narrow and pale expression far beyond the mainstream death metal-the moral tendency of vulgarization of the media is growing day by day. Resentment much stronger than the relatively "moderate and uncoordinated" death metal is boiling in the blood of Black Gold, which makes their lyrics focus on gentler wisdom and more likely to cause * * *. All this stems from the initial indifference to politics, and is committed to creating that kind of pure evil and profound hatred, which fully develops the personal charm and strange way of thinking advocated by black gold artists. It is very important that black gold expresses personal things and a relationship between man and nature. More broadly, it is the position of an individual as an organism in the whole biosphere. This ideology and the motivation to pursue wisdom drowned out the previous era of hedonism and lack of systematic norms. Black gold is self-centered, only responsible for itself, combines fantasy with reality, ferments and sublimates, and becomes a new terrorist force.
From about 199 1 to 1996, with the development of black gold, unique poet temperament and extremely spiritual creative ideas, driven by the ambition to develop majestic music, various new branches were born, and each branch revolved around such an ideology: either abandon me, destroy everything or be anti-Christian. Each branch pursues aesthetic philosophy in different ways: the feeling of roughness and terror in all works is polished and sublimated in a reasonable and coordinated structure and form. As time goes by, black gold consumes its energy bit by bit in the raging fire, because most bands can only preach their "apocalyptic theory" once. Smart historians can notice that, just like the decline of hardcore, black gold music has produced many completely different aesthetic concepts because of its insistence on contradictory sentences in its music and concepts, but with the empty and clumsy copying of these styles by other schools, it will inevitably be short-lived.
At first, many bands, including the founders of Black Gold, regarded their artistic themes as controversial Satanism, whose mission was to destroy Christianity, but gradually separated into new mysticism or became mainly about exploring philosophy or politics. When batches of Norwegian black gold swept across northern Europe like flat mines, NSBM or national socialist black gold became a remarkable school, but the traditional extreme concept has been deeply rooted and it is difficult to change. In the meantime, guitarists of Ikey Pop may wear Nazi badges out of deliberate provocation, or SLAYER may wear Satan and Hitler badges when he shows anti-social behavior. The new band can easily say what many people in society have been thinking hard for years and are afraid to say. Even, through their own understanding, they combined this kind of speech with the classical thoughts of Europe and Greece-Rome and showed it in their music.
The romantic temperament in metal music revived with many destructive elements, and then the black gold collapsed at an alarming rate at 1995, while the dead metal made a comeback with better technology and enhanced artistry. The "destruction" mentioned here reveals a fundamental principle-the effects aroused in people's short-term needs are mostly caused by money desire and public imagination. Later, the media made full use of the expectations of ordinary people, the strength and energy of the weak and easily confused, and made extreme metals find a balance between art and entertainment. When Heijin's self-indulgence changed from obscure opera to prime-time comedy (The Devil's Castle Orchestra, Cradle of Dirty, Dark Funeral), the public's trust in this genre weakened, and new fans began to replace old fans.
With the collapse of black gold, he revealed such a potential eternal law: including the original source of heavy metals, previous rock music and various harmonious and simple music modes. At the beginning, these old bands could still treat the factors that had brought them great success sincerely, but under the interaction and influence of the band and society for many years, their works began to repeat the past or be completely commercialized, and the entertainment circle was fair to any artist. When the style of the first wave of "entertainment black gold" merged with the underground, this school was drowned out because of its poor imitation and kitsch involving "pure" morality. By 1997, consumers can buy any kind of black gold at will: underground, melody, punk, electronics, everything. The novel and superficial style is trampling on some remaining metal souls with persistence and persistence.