~ What this page is for?
- Avantgarde-Metal.com related updates and news.
- Spreading, promoting and illuminating the weird and the wonderful sounds hidden deep beneath the safe mainstream of extreme metal.
- Discussing and debating avantgarde metal musicks & related artforms.
~ So what is avantgarde metal?
///“Avant-garde” is the French term for “advance guard” or “vanguard”. It refers to people
who venture into the unknown. Sometimes they find the shining shores of the future there, the visions and ideas of tomorrow. Sometimes they get lost in the forests of insanity, in the whirls of chaos and confusion. But it’s always new worlds that they discover. Sometimes the avant-garde of today will become the mainstream of tomorrow. But most avant-garde will always remain absurd and strange to the masses. More than for any other term in metal, the characteristics of avant-garde metal are hard to specify. What’s fresh, innovative, new, surprising? The answer to this question lies in the eye of the beholder. Some say avant-garde metal is the art of creating deep and strange atmospheres by experimenting with new instruments and sounds, strange vocals, unconventional song structures, rhythms and harmonies, unusual lyrics or uncommon artwork. Others describe avant-garde metal as progressive, psychedelic, surrealistic, phantasmagoric, expressionistic, dissonant or extravagant interpretations of extreme metal. But what do such words really mean? We don’t care, because...
..DEFINITION IS THE DEATH OF INDIVIDUALITY!\\\
/Herr Dr. Chryst Niederwieser, Avantgarde-Metal.com founder.
