“The future is expanding the conceptual, and therefore, compositional scope of the genre, making longer and more complex songs dealing with universally human topics (the dychotomy between life and death being just one of those topics), in the vein of what composers of the Romantic era did.”

I am constantly craving more albums that can be held to this standard (not heavy, PROFOUNDLY heavy), but even in the “golden age” of death metal there were few TRUE masterpieces. If we want this art form to reach it’s full potential, those of us with this vision and passion need to do it ourselves. As a drummer, I have been searching for guitarists who share this vision for some time. But now I am just trying buy recording equipment and improve my technical skills on guitar to the point where I can play the music I hear in my head. I’m not Varg Vikerness, but who was he before Burzum? There is so much apathy and wasted potential every where I look. Whether we achieve greatness or die reminiscing about what others did instead is basically up to how disciplined we are willing to be.