Burzum and Summoning mellowed with age

Black metal -> brutal death -> zyklon b metal -> black metal rust in peace twin guitar wank -> blizzard beasts part 2

there's plenty of bad classical

There is a ton.

especially relative to a composers own output

Even from the 1700s

People paid for it to

Yeah, @Ꜻnnihilation

Beethoven wrote a bunch of middling atuff

Paid to go see lame Symphonies and quartets

As they were bored on a Saturday

even the romantic "ultimate high art will nature etc" stuff is silly much of the time

I'm mainly thinking about how the metalguys almost exclusively make their best stuff while 18-25

That's mostly when they get to express it.

influential/groundbreaking stuff usually corresponds to an artist's debut

Some get to express it later.

THEY DO BEST WITH NO SKIN IN THE GAME

MEANING

Like the czech black metal guys

THEY ARE NOT INVESTED IN THE HOPES OF OTHER PEOPLE IN THE BAND

or when there's a major character shift

THEY CAN FIRE AND FORGET AND MOVE ON IF NEED BE

BUT INSTEAD

Were 30 something

"LET'S MAKE THIS OUR DAY JOB!!!"

Yeah

also early stuff usually has more time and thought behind it

AND THAT IS HOW YOU GET NU-SLAYER

That becomes inevitable

TRUE

Which is why masters hammer does better than root.

just because

EARLY STUFF IS INCUBATED MORE

As masters hammer are acid casualty trolla

^

And root want money

Franta Storm ripped off the Ronnets

On the new one.

could never get into those guys

And had a music video of him and the guy with the elcis cut running around in the woods.

Ritual man.