When Metal's Not Enough
I've seen Vince say that "if you say you've grown out of metal, you were never in it in the first place." I agree with that, but I also don't feel that metal by itself is enough to adequately express all of the thoughts and feelings that are important. Metal to me is not synonymous with music. I've been in a very unmetal mood today. I think and feel completely different from yesterday, and especially from the day before that. Sometimes I think that experiencing too much of one kind of thing can dull your receptiveness to other things, and even to the thing itself. It warps the perspective of everything out of a self-contained context the way massive objects warp space time with gravity. It's nice to be able to think an original thought and not spark an instantaneous chain of associations with known knowns and known unknowns.