ION BRITTON wrote:Cauldron_Born wrote:I love traditional Doom, but for it to sound like that, you don't stray very far away from certain elements.
Howie
Very true and the same thing goes for all the other metal subgenres.
Yep, and not just Metal, but pretty much all genres of music. When I was studying at the Atlanta Institute of Music, another student(Mark English,who now plays guitar with the Tampa based Death Metal band, Monstrosity) and I were talking about this. It was a primarily a jazz guitar school at the time. I was remarking how our teachers all seemed to dislike Metal ,and it was all the same to them. He made the observation that jazz all sounded like the same shit, too.
Musical genres are defined by certain musical devices. The further you step away from conventional patterns, the smaller your audience becomes. Allan Holdsworth(one of the most unique composers and guitarists of our time,in my opinion) used to talk about how his music was too jazz for a rock audience and too rock for a jazz audience.
With Cauldron Born I feel like I can do anything that I want to do, as long as it still captures the atmosphere of what I am going for, but sometimes it is fun to set some parameters, and just see what you can do. I sometimes think that I would like to do something like a cross between early Venom and Celtic Frost's TO MEGA THERION album. I know countless bands have already done this sort of thing, but I think I would have a great time with it. My apologies for such a long post. Thanks guys.
Howie
Obviously at this point it's pretty much impossible to be truly 'original', especially if aiming for a certain nostalgic atmosphere, but remarking on such doesn't necessarily need to be a purely negative entity 
