So is metal really the only direct descendant of classical music?

>>69050126
Metal is dead

obviously not.
this is an odd question and the answers differ depending on what the asker means by 'direct descendant'. i'd say 'contemporary' classical music and some kinds of jazz fit the bill pretty well, although it can't really be denied that a lot of metal possesses a sort of compositional and technical sophistication that resembles classical music. i think the important distinction to draw here is that metal did not evolve from classical music; it evolved mostly from heavy blues and psychedelic rock, and gradually developed a number of elements that resemble classical music more or less independently. metal mostly doesn't operate the way classical music does, with written notation; it's vernacular music with its own distinct vocabulary that is often written collaboratively by the ensemble that plays it.

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>>69050126
Not even close retard.

Contemporary metal, in some forms, has some similarities to classical, but it's more obviously a descendant of rock and blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkae0-TgrRU

>>69052539
I would argue the opposite. Early metal stemmed more from it's rock and blues origins, while later groups started to draw inspiration and structure from classical.

>>69050126
No. Minimalism is.

What? No.

>>69053190
>while later groups started to draw inspiration and structure from classical.
You know that actually requires extensive formal western art music education, something 99.9% of those metal bands completely lack.
It's like saying high school kids making bottle rockets are descendants of Wernher von Braun

>>69050306

It's thriving

Try post rock