Tirade

I feel it necessary to go on a bit of a tirade here. I am trying to establish a blog here, and a great deal of what I write about happens to be a very specific niche of music. Call it genres, whatever you will. It is more extreme and unusual forms of metal. Part of the purpose of this blog is to celebrate the ability to find and listen to really obscure music online, and hopefully introduce all of you to new music. The metal world; unlike pop music, rap music, or other mainstream forms of music; from my experience over the 20 years of being a part of it, has benefited greatly from the new levels of ease of access that the internet brings. It allows us to be more discriminating.  I  hope that if you find something you love, you will buy it, much like I do.

When I post links to albums uploaded to YouTube, it is my sole intention to keep this blog interactive. Nobody is interested in a wall of text, no matter how sarcastic, entertaining, or grammatically correct I make it. This is music, it is an aural experience. So, you can imagine my anger and disappointment when music I link to here is then removed by YouTube because of their nazi infringement policies. Seriously? Whoever has an axe to grind against a small-time uploader of black metal is a penny-wise and pound-foolish jackass. Seriously? Are there not bigger fish to fry? Why target such a small niche of music? This kind of music was always difficult to come across, and having the opportunity to listen before one buys saves time and money for everyone in the long run. I imagine everyone who actually supports music will eventually go out and buy. For Pete's sake it is really annoying to load videos and deal with buffering if you want to listen to the music in the car from YouTube. Sometimes the sound quality really sucks, and I don't recommend distracted driving.

Whoever is the lame sycophant deciding to click on the report button really has no basic comprehension as to how discovering new music works. Gone are the days when we have had to hope that a friend has the music to sample it first. Gone are the days of searching for obscure radio stations, that have limited access, to hear new avant-garde music. Most of the time, when I post links to music here, it is because I recommend it highly, or it ties into the general topic I am writing about. Seriously? Music has been revolutionized, whether some "report button trigger happy" douchecanoe likes it or not.