MM's point and I heartily agree AAG, is there is not much modern music that hasn't been written already by the great composers in Classical music.
I can detect all kinds of similarities between all kinds of modern music and my classical albums.
I dig it, man, I agree completely with your last sentence. There can be no question that classical music is a massive and consistent influence on nearly every branch of metal, and that classical music's presence reverberates heartily to this day throughout modern music. I am not arguing against that and never would. Many forms of metal have more in common with classical than they do with rock.
But you're talking about two seperate things here, man. It's one thing to say that classical music is an influence. It's another thing to aggrandize it preposterously and say that all of modern music was "already written" by classical composers, which is clinically insane and terminally silly. I know you're just spinning hyperbole and you didn't mean it
literally and I dig it, man. I just get very antsy with all this retroactive influence stuff, because it takes away from the achievements of the people who were more active and intentional architects in modern music. Or else I'm mistaken about your intentions, in which case please show me the classical versions of "Slit Your Guts," "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" and "Pagan Muzak."
I too can detect vast similarities between various forms of classical music and various forms of modern music. Let's just not lose our heads with this "first influence" thing like people are so in love with doing. There's a difference between being an influence and being the end result. Classical music is an influence. But if rock music and Black Sabbath and Slayer and Burzum didn't exist, metal wouldn't exist as we know it. There are massive portions of what makes metal into metal that has little to do with classical music.
Nobody in history would have ever listened to Alexander Mosolov in a world without rock music and decided to create "Forensick" by Disgorge. Some classical pieces may have had similar intentions and outlooks to what Disgorge creates but that's not the only thing required for creating Forensick, it also takes various musical inventions that post-date classical music.
That's all I'm saying: classical music is only one of the influences, and I'm not sure if you even disagree with that. It seems pretty basic, I'd be surprised if anyone disagreed. Maybe you guys were just having a spot of fun and I fell victim to a poor perception of the situation. But classical music isn't metal. It shares SOME aspects with metal, not all of them. For one thing, metal ocasionally employs a little-known instrument called the electric guitar.
