I agree with essentially everything Lay Vegan has said on this. I tried to get some things across, but honestly didn't think things through enough to articulate my thoughts the way he put them.
On a side note, and the main reason why I'm posting this. I think it's a little misleading (though I doubt it's made intentionally,) to group all metal together as a single style since there's so much diversity in the genre. I feel similarly about jazz because on one hand you have some really complex intricate music, and the other you have easy to digest swing/dance music. I feel like one of the few genres which doesn't suffer so much from this is classical because of how homogenized it seems to be to me. Though, I guess some could stretch the definition to add a lot of stuff which might not really be as complex as baroque, but I feel like it generally has to meet certain criteria which generally make it more complex on average.
With stuff like metal, the only overarching characteristic I see is extremity in one way or another. There's fast metal, slow metal, epic metal, aggressive metal, relaxing metal, simple metal, complex metal, etc. and a selection of these are often taken to extremes in one song or another.
I mean, since metal is so broad is it really fair to have these in the same category?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkFqg5wAuFk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fluBrwZCC8
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