Music Criticism

As a teenager, back when I was first getting into rock and metal music, I had an insatiable appetite for any writing that really delved into the nitty gritty of how to make music in those genres. While there were a ton of salacious "rock autobiographies" in the early 2000s, there was next to no writing that seriously engaged in the question of what these artists were doing, how I could emulate them, or even anything at all that looked deeper than the surface level tales of excess and debauchery. When I first started writing music criticism, the goal I set for myself was to produce the kind of writing that the nerdy, 14 year old metalhead inside me really wanted. The good news is that, with many of these entries, I think I was able to achieve that. The bad news is that, unlike back in 2002, there is a shitload of content out there that fulfills exactly this niche. YouTube channels like Adam Neely, 12tone, and Produce Like a Pro put out tight, well-researched videos that give fans all the theory and production details they could ever want. So if you happen to be in the market for a novella-length treatment of Bathory's Twilight of the Gods, then welcome. If you're looking for something with a saner word count, maybe check out some of the links for my doom-metal.com reviews. If you happen to be Goldilocks stumbling onto this page while searching for a better route through the forest, then that Joy Division writeup is a decent midway point between the two extremes.