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user-inactivated  ·  4043 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Too Much Metal -- the genre today is in a "crisis" | Souciant

    There are no undergrounds anymore

Every time I fail to find something I desperately want on what.cd I question this, every time discogs of all places doesn't have an obscure compilation of B-sides I wonder...





user-inactivated  ·  4043 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There are definitely hard-to-find albums, especially since so many mp3 blogs have died and all the good torrent sites are private, but it's no longer hard to find out that, say, Black Metal or Power Electronics exist, nor to explore them and their history.

user-inactivated  ·  4043 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. And I think this article raises a great question of whether we (music nuts) are better or worse off today than we were in like the '80s. The subculture isn't and will never be the same but the exposure is unparalleled.