Heavy metal has had undergone its own enlightenment over the years, an evolution in technicality, how it is engineered, a progressive expansion, the intellectualisation of a movement that all began with the peal of a church bell and a distorted tritone.
But when you get down to it, heavy metal is really all about loud electric guitars making gnarly sounds, and sometimes we do well to remind ourselves of that – that metal is less about the superego, more about the id, and the animalism in our human condition yet to be fully housetrained even after millennia of civilisation.
