Metal Reviews

While metal has never quite had the social/political vitriol of punk, the issue at hand remains a pertinent one as to what can be said when an aesthetic gains the gravitas to become a social movement. Perhaps, it would be a nice change of pace here, to imagine the bands/albums/ and what could've been if any given band and it's prevailing ideology gained support and garnered enough power to become a social movement. What bands do you imagine could've asserted themselves beyond the realm of artists, and have created a vanguard of an album that would've set ablaze the minds of individuals to change their environment. Regardless of what political or social ends said movement would entail, what scene/band/albums do you see or imagine could've changed the human landscape in such a way as to leave it's mark beyond the realm of music.

Black metal isn't really a "social" movement, per se, but it is as much an ideology as it is an artform...
It (probably)was only natural that black metal would spawn NSBM as an offshoot, based on the general aesthetic. Both are drawn to romanticism, the occult, pageantry, paganism, austerity, and so forth while rejecting Judeo values, embracing the ideals of Nietzsche...

This not to say that black metal is fundamentally NS in and of itself (of course), but I can see very easily how the black metal aesthetic fits NS ideology like a glove.

Other than that, I am drawing a blank.

It'd be really cool if Sabbath Assembly started a revival of The Process Church of the Final Judgment.

Process!? Awesome. Well shit, on further research it has nothing to do with Whitehead but still sounds fucking awesome.

Panopticon, bitches. WITTR and its ilk have tapped into what seems more like punk diy culture than metal given the response to it here.

I almost want to question the social movement element of punk in this thread. Advocating anarchism and hence nihilism I question being a legitimate social movement.

Straight-Edge comes to mind.