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Just like mOST people with most creative thinga.
Things
Then real life hits, and the current model compels frequent releases, and so drudgery or parodies follow
The guys who did were gods like Demonaz or Quorthon
Yep.
Bands should quit.
Classical works were commisioned
Compositional abilities like harmonically consonant simultaneous melodies of different rhythms, and polyphony in general, are like technical skill on an instrument. Most people can learn them, but even if they do, they can't use them to make good music
The classical guys made good music throughout their lifetime, and haven't blown their loads in the first handful of works.
If Incantation quit after diabolical conquest they would have exhausted everything they could do with their ideas.
Depends.
There is a lot of filler in stuff like Wagner.
It's really a soundtrack for an opera.
With motifs....
Like a score.
But such a model wouldn't necessarily help metal, as that youthful energy, mostly irretrievable in old age, is vital to it.
Depends.
Some old guys still have it
Like?
Like the Satan guys.
I'd perhaps only count Summoning and Burzum.
Alternating between nwobhm and wank every album every 5-10 years
Varg lsot it
Though their later work is much different from their old work
And isn't metal.
Summoning didn't and is kinda metal.
Sammath
The Finns. Who are totally nuts.
Sammath is the most legitimate example.
Sammath changes his style every release though
Godless Arrogance is end of the world music.
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