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Hyperfocus (Ep. 296)

The Inforium

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The Best Use for Reallly Complex Words in Progressive Metal Albums

A lot of fancy words id i just intentionally let fade away, like you that's i'm never going to use that. People would hate me for it. Metal bands have a little bit of r slash, i am very smart in them. I definitely see a correlation between highly technical metal music and jargon words in their music or in their song titles. It's got to rise a line between intellectual and comprehensible so that it doesn't sound like i'm just full of myself if i go use it in a conversation. Ye, obviously it needs to mean borderline nothing, or it's not artistic enough. The second album is just nothing but portmanteaus, which is pretty great.

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