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There's always a way to go further. If videogames are solved, I'll look forward to going to Mars someday. Looks like that's not solved huh?

When games are now designed by committee and are not passion projects, there will be no innovation. That costs money! Casual gamers are also cattle so there's no reason to innovate, either, because that costs money.

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Anyways. Polyphia has clearly innovated and it's why they're now borderline mainstream. You mean to tell me djent had already been perfected before Polyphia blew up? No, djent clearly had plenty of room to evolve, and it has done many times in the past 10 years.

Now he's talking to himself

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"So like if guitar music isn't solved, where the fuck is the dm/bm titan new extreme sound waiting in the shadows? That's what I mean. Metal really started to bubble in the 80s and it was pushed to the limits in less than 20 years. All that's left is table scraps and mixing leftovers."

Are you talking about this? Since the 80s melodic death metal blew up, then metalcore. Boom, innovation. Riffs hadn't been done like that before. Then deathcore chugs and slam chugs. More innovation. Djent. And everything else I've said millions of times by now. Since the 80s we are left with plenty of room for the guitar to evolve, it has done so many times within the past 10 years. If you want to go 20 years or even 30 years, then sure thing. That just makes the argument easier for me.

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Great album. Expanded on what NS did.

Presumably you mean melodic metalcore. The one that rehashes gothenburg riffs? That metalcore? The genre name that means metal + hardcore? Something that's mixing leftovers?

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Innovation definition "make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products." Innovation takes something established and makes something new out of it. You cannot convince me that Polyphia is not a new exciting Innovation. Their seismic blowup is clear proof. It's something no one has ever done before taking something established and making it fresh. That's what Innovation is all about.

Wow I missed some shit. Catching up on my “reading” now lol

Yes, it's quite clear that nobody can convince you of anything

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Well this went nowhere, and I'm still right. Later bozo.

I got out of the car a while ago because you can't drive. All you had to do was stay on the road and you couldn't even manage that.

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Lmao this thread man.

Like nothing's escaped the gravitational pull of their parent genre since like power metal. Heavy, thrash, doom, prog, death, black, power. The metal solar system. Rock's been dead in the ground for decades now, I haven't heard of anything crazy coming out of jazz fusion. Guitar music is here, new satellites can be made, but there are no new planets and there won't be any new planets.

i love sputnikmusic.com

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pyro out-discoursing Tundra best play of 2026 so far

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we live in a post-social media world where many bands only "blow up" because of aggressive targeted marketing campaigns and 10 second clips going viral on TikTok, can we stop equating mainstream recognition with objective quality? the most forward-thinking artists are usually the ones doing things so unconventional that the mainstream would never give them the time of day. I'm not saying innovative bands can't be successful, just that people need to stop equating the two.



and for that matter, let's stop equating innovation with quality as well.

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Djent created. Metalcore created. Boom. New planets. You could argue each of my djent innovations is a new sub subgenre. There's already an official one. Thall. You could call Berried Alive style trap djent. Syncatto flamenco djent. This discussion is completely asinine.

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why are we talking about two genres created in the 90s as if they're new innovations?

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@heck yup they are innovations indeed. The mainstream is innovating more than the underground these days which is weird, but it's very true. Polyphia should not have blown up the way that it did. It's math rock technical guitar music with trap beats. Yet, it was executed so well that it took the world by storm.