I'll give you an instance - paganism, much of the occult, nature, night, the moon - all feminine archetypes, very prevalent in metal. If what you are saying was true more women would find metal appealing.
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The reasons women arent as represented in metal has much more to do with social constructs than anything to do with thematic archetypes
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Album Rating: 5.0
A spectacular album by the great CoL! That is all.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I mean let’s keep it simple, it has to do with women not liking the music on average. Changing the social structure is not suddenly going to make The Ape of God catch on with women. Keep in mind the vast majority men don’t like it either, so it really just appeals to an outlier subgroup of males. I guess you’re talking about lyrical themes too whereas I was thinking of musical motifs and sound palettes
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You must not know many women
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah that’s totally it dude, you got me
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Tbh, no offence intended, but I find the entire premise of the argument that Male and female archetypes are indicative of gender is pretty regressive, I'm not for it, or discussing it, best left as an agree to disagree topic
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Album Rating: 4.5
None taken and that’s fine, it’s not of particular interest to me anyways
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Cool, respect to that!
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this avg got me hyped
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Album Rating: 4.0
'if anything i think post-metal has a very apparent duality regarding masculine/feminine'
very accurate
'I like post metal, therefore it can't be that masculine.'
Same. I think it's interesting that post-metal is absolutely full of feminine archetypes but is mostly appealing to men
'woah yeah i do not agree with that sentiment at all about post-metal being super masculine. especially for CoL whose very name itself even contradicts that notion.'
you kind of stop thinking about band names after awhile; Cult of Luna is basically the perfect post metal band name isn't it
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I like the cut of your jib
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And yeah it really is a perf post metal name
ISIS is also (obviously) a feminine archetype and is equally perfect for a post metal band
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Album Rating: 5.0
can’t forget about Rosetta
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QPFFjdpasiA/maxresdefault.jpg
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Lmao
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Album Rating: 4.0
*snarky comment about how of course feminine archetypes appeal to men*
the intersection of gender and post-metal (and metal more generally but that's such a huge can of worms which i cannot open within the context of a sputnik comment section) is definitely something to think about! post-metal is much less upfront in its aggression (so less obviously "masculine"), but it's pretty broody (maybe that's still """masculine"""), and women appear to occupy the roles of thematic element or background presence more often than lead narrator (a broadly applicable statement about many metal genres...approaching the worms there)
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Album Rating: 5.0
This is 2nd best Cult of Luna for me.
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Album Rating: 3.5
In the grand scheme of post-metal, this sure is a bunch of it.
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Album Rating: 4.0
This band’s material always felt so unbelievably derivative to me. But what’s worse is I’ve found everything I’ve heard from them very boring and I’ve given them many chances. Maybe one day it’ll click.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Claire, please find an album to review that allows you to unpack that can of worms, I'd love to read it
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