@Deleted User 57835c2c I don't think you appreciate metal at the perception level

I feel like the fantasy of metal is portrayed in a way that makes it so gritty it is not satisfying to me as fantasy

how to listen to music i.e.

CHUCK IT ALL AND GET LOST IN A WORLD OF MYSTERY

you can't say that to anyone without them taking offense

GRITTY

so I apologise for that

MORE PUNK

GRINDCORE ALWAYS RUINS THE ILLUSION

to some degree you have to absorb the melodic ethics of metal

WITH A FEW GREAT EXCEPTIONS

punk is unsatisfying for the same reason however they do a good job making me identify with the feeling of being a powerless individual in an awful world

TERRORIZER WRITE ABOUT ZOMBIES

AND THE MUSIC HAS THAT FEEL

METAPHORICAL

such discrete feelings

music can evoke them in someone subjectively

The tooth-and-claw aspect of nature is exemplified via metal's lore

METAL HOPES TO AWAKEN THE SENSE OF FINDING POWER IN SOMETHING ABOVE THE INDIVIDUAL

Good metal at least

IT IS ALMOST RELIGIOUS MUSIC

but it shouldn't be so narrowed down usually

yeah and that is what I am sick of dealing with @spaceplacebo

unless it is literally propaganda

tooth and claw in the pagan way

to me that is such a daily reality it's a chore to listen to

TOOTH AND CLAW IS THE OPPOSITE OF HERD CONTROL

living world tooth and claw

not rat race

WHAT WE HAVE NOW IS SOCIAL COMPETITION

RAT RACE INDEED

HURRY UP AND KISS ASS

I WOULD RECOMMEND ANCIENT OF COURSE

TROLLTAAR PERHAPS

AND THE SECOND DIMMU BORGIR

yeah I linked you that one @Deleted User 57835c2c

SORT OF LIKE CAMEL

2nd Dimmu Borgir

FANTASY DAYDREAM MUSIC

REMINDS ME OF "TO THE UNKNOWN REGION"

basically the way I feel about it is... today's world is tooth and claw in one way, metal is tooth and claw in the "let's stop pretending and just all kill each other in one last great epic hate war" sort of way, whereas I want music that makes me feel like all the dalits have been dead for so many generations we already forgot what they even were