Netlabel for metal outcasts.
Open Metal Records was born from the will to spread to the wide world the metal artists with an open-minded approach.
If your creations melt metal with other music genres, the progressive and experimental approaches appeal to you, and you feel like sharing your music with the world for free, you are in the right place.
That said tagging artists with known sub-genders could sound uncalled for, but fact is, when you are searching for an artist with similarities with artists you like, it is useful to have tags to search for. So we'll use tags here, but there's no frontier to what can be heard here.
Here we focus on the netlabel philosophy, the releases are spread by any form of downloading or streaming and using the Creative Commons licenses.
Open Metal Records is on :
- Archive.org
- Facebook
- Youtube
If your creations melt metal with other music genres, the progressive and experimental approaches appeal to you, and you feel like sharing your music with the world for free, you are in the right place.
That said tagging artists with known sub-genders could sound uncalled for, but fact is, when you are searching for an artist with similarities with artists you like, it is useful to have tags to search for. So we'll use tags here, but there's no frontier to what can be heard here.
Here we focus on the netlabel philosophy, the releases are spread by any form of downloading or streaming and using the Creative Commons licenses.
Open Metal Records is on :
- Archive.org
- Youtube
In depth vision:
I’ve been listening to metal for years now, and I’ve seen it evolve. Like many of us (metalheads) I started with mainstream bands, listening to metal in its softer forms, to rise up the brutality and the complexity progressively. But as I got into the darker forms of the art, I saw the global mindset of people gravitating around those genres evolve. The most unpleasant thing to me was that everything that could be considered as mainstream or too different was not “true metal” or had “no place in metal”. For an example, clean singing is mostly considered as an heresy in extreme genres although its useful to change atmospheres. I don't want to generalize too much, cause my (virtual) path through metal genres also crossed some very subtle persons.
I thought that the internet needed some places for all that is “untrue”. I call this concept Open-Metal. I don’t know if I am the first one (surely not) to get into such a concept, but I’ll try to define it as I see it. Open-Metal is basically incorporating non-metal elements in metal to make it evolve. I’m not saying trying to make metal become more mainstream or more easy-listening. It is about pushing the boundaries of the art, to make it more interesting. Bands that use different styles mixed with metal already exist, but they often limit themselves to how they labelled their style. I also think about a fusion of every sub-genres of metal, to get it over with pointless arguments like “Is it Black Metal, Death Metal or Blackened Death Metal?”.
But if it is about limitless genres, why calling it metal? Well to me and many others I think, metal let a trace in my soul, in my deepest thoughts, and my convictions. It is a story of love between this music and me, and my heart will always respond the roar of distorted rhythm guitars. It seems to me that Metal has the potential to become limitless and transcend the ages unlike most ephemeral popular styles.
I hope you enjoy our releases here!
Ben.
I thought that the internet needed some places for all that is “untrue”. I call this concept Open-Metal. I don’t know if I am the first one (surely not) to get into such a concept, but I’ll try to define it as I see it. Open-Metal is basically incorporating non-metal elements in metal to make it evolve. I’m not saying trying to make metal become more mainstream or more easy-listening. It is about pushing the boundaries of the art, to make it more interesting. Bands that use different styles mixed with metal already exist, but they often limit themselves to how they labelled their style. I also think about a fusion of every sub-genres of metal, to get it over with pointless arguments like “Is it Black Metal, Death Metal or Blackened Death Metal?”.
But if it is about limitless genres, why calling it metal? Well to me and many others I think, metal let a trace in my soul, in my deepest thoughts, and my convictions. It is a story of love between this music and me, and my heart will always respond the roar of distorted rhythm guitars. It seems to me that Metal has the potential to become limitless and transcend the ages unlike most ephemeral popular styles.
I hope you enjoy our releases here!
Ben.
