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Να κι ένα κείμενο που ξέθαψα από το σχετικά πρόσφατο παρελθόν..το είχα γράψει πριν μερικά χρόνια για ένα site που δεν υπάρχει πια και συνοψίζει με αρκετά περιεκτικό τρόπο την άποψή μου για το αντικείμενο. Πολλοί ίσως το βρουν να ακροβατεί μεταξύ υπερβολής και γραφικότητας...αλλά δε βαριέσαι...η άποψη τους με αφήνει παγερά αδιάφορο 
"Disgusted by the decadent falsity displayed by fashions and trends in music as well as life in general, tired by the pretension and unoriginality of modern societies, Heavy Metal fans sought the glorious path of authenticity and purity instead. The frantic rhythm, the bombastic intensity and the rebellious lyrics of the music they fanatically adhered to, delivered a deafening attack to the spoiled ears (and mentalities) of the rich, the sissies, the posers, the extortionists, the emotionally rotten and the declined indoctrinators that preached but did not practice. This is the prime reason why the mainstream never ceased to view them as outcasts, heretics and a threat to be either ostracized or eliminated.
Contrary to the infertile aggression, mass denial and blind opposition towards all sorts of authority the punk movement used to display, authentic Heavy Metal recognized the necessity of hierarchy, organization and constuctiveness within human societies and honored their corresponding value. Thus our fight did not aim to provoke complete anarchy over a scortched Earth, escorted by a gross abolishment of morals, but to correct instead battle injustice and, if feasible, heal all forms of social decay. In other words, there was distinct nobility and positivity to the Cause. There was Hope…
Nowadays, during the first decade of 2000, Heavy Metal music has largely returned to its previous underground status, receiving minimal exposure from the majority of popular mass media. Commercialism and strict marketing rules that were adopted by all the large record labels have devoured spontaneity and experimentalism and murdered the artistic value of music, merely reducing it into a product. Only the true Metalheads, that assimilated the traditionally revolutionary core of Heavy Metal, managed to remain solid and intact through the passing of years. They were the ones to have survived almost two decades in the underground dungeons without fading further, at the same moments that their surroundings were collapsing. The music industry has transformed into a profit-at-all-costs organization. Remaining the ever persistent, warrior-spirited believers they have always been, they possess the required momentum to genuinely revive the movement into its previous glory, given the luxury of the appropriate circumstances. Coiled back into a pronymphic cryonic stage, they patiently await the coming of the tide, accumulating energy until they achieve the desired critical mass point that shall force them to explode like a chained nuclear reaction. Many of them maintain that this time lies, not all that distant, ahead of us…"
"Disgusted by the decadent falsity displayed by fashions and trends in music as well as life in general, tired by the pretension and unoriginality of modern societies, Heavy Metal fans sought the glorious path of authenticity and purity instead. The frantic rhythm, the bombastic intensity and the rebellious lyrics of the music they fanatically adhered to, delivered a deafening attack to the spoiled ears (and mentalities) of the rich, the sissies, the posers, the extortionists, the emotionally rotten and the declined indoctrinators that preached but did not practice. This is the prime reason why the mainstream never ceased to view them as outcasts, heretics and a threat to be either ostracized or eliminated.
Contrary to the infertile aggression, mass denial and blind opposition towards all sorts of authority the punk movement used to display, authentic Heavy Metal recognized the necessity of hierarchy, organization and constuctiveness within human societies and honored their corresponding value. Thus our fight did not aim to provoke complete anarchy over a scortched Earth, escorted by a gross abolishment of morals, but to correct instead battle injustice and, if feasible, heal all forms of social decay. In other words, there was distinct nobility and positivity to the Cause. There was Hope…
Nowadays, during the first decade of 2000, Heavy Metal music has largely returned to its previous underground status, receiving minimal exposure from the majority of popular mass media. Commercialism and strict marketing rules that were adopted by all the large record labels have devoured spontaneity and experimentalism and murdered the artistic value of music, merely reducing it into a product. Only the true Metalheads, that assimilated the traditionally revolutionary core of Heavy Metal, managed to remain solid and intact through the passing of years. They were the ones to have survived almost two decades in the underground dungeons without fading further, at the same moments that their surroundings were collapsing. The music industry has transformed into a profit-at-all-costs organization. Remaining the ever persistent, warrior-spirited believers they have always been, they possess the required momentum to genuinely revive the movement into its previous glory, given the luxury of the appropriate circumstances. Coiled back into a pronymphic cryonic stage, they patiently await the coming of the tide, accumulating energy until they achieve the desired critical mass point that shall force them to explode like a chained nuclear reaction. Many of them maintain that this time lies, not all that distant, ahead of us…"
