Metal as seen by outsiders who don’t listen to the genre is
a garbled mess of instruments being played a beyond comprehensible speed mashed
together into what sounds and feels like a literal wall of noise. Not the wall
of sound idea made popular by Phil Spector in the 60’s, but more of a wall of
sound that’s crumbling down and burying you alive. Now as a metal head we
generally scoff this stuff off and move on because we’re more trained to hear
the subtleties and the talent packed into these walls of noise. There’s almost
a challenge to it and it makes repeat listens that much more important and
enjoyable.
