ABSTRACT
The idea of metal being at a 'point of crisis' is how Keith Kahn-Harris opened a series of essays on his view of the current state of metal. Kahn-Harris begins the first essay entitled 'Too Much Metal' with the claim that metal is in a crisis because of its abundance, leading to an unawareness of metal being in a crisis. It is important to pay attention to what Kahn-Harris does by using the term abundance. He writes of abundance and scarcity as if metal music is a natural resource. Rather than abundance and scarcity, the marker for metal's future ought to be its quality of creativity and its transgressive voice. Metal is something that evolves continually, as one witnesses subgenres rise and fade in and out of popularity. Metal's appeal in part is a consciousness that is true to itself, its roots and its future. This is an oddly dark bright future, hell bent on genre destruction.
