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user-inactivated · 3795 days ago · link · · parent · post: Too Much Metal -- the genre today is in a "crisis" | Souciant
That's not really unique to metal. There are no undergrounds anymore, except maybe in Frank Zappa's sense. I don't really miss them. There was some pride in how obscure metal and most electronic music used to be, because as he says you were one of a few, but it was pretty lonely unless you happened to live in the right city. It doesn't lessen my enjoyment of the things I like that others like them too, and it's fun to meet fellow travelers.
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user-inactivated · 3794 days ago · link ·
There are definitely hard-to-find albums, especially since so many mp3 blogs have died and all the good torrent sites are private, but it's no longer hard to find out that, say, Black Metal or Power Electronics exist, nor to explore them and their history.