Detroit Metal City: True?
Filed Under (Main Content) by Content Keyword RSS on 28-11-2008
Tagged Under : Art Form, Authenticity, Detroit City, Falsehood, Fear, Hell, Mainstream Acceptance, Metal City, Metal Music, Music Metal, Poseurs, Risk, Risky Undertaking, Television, Underground Art, Underground Metal, Underground Music
When television or movies takes on a particularly underground art form and tells a story about it, there’s one hell of a risk of getting everything wrong, or just plain looking stupid. That’s even worse when the art is as obsessed with authenticity as underground metal music. Metal has always in desperate fear of “poseurs,” and of the idea that anything with a hint of mainstream acceptance is the mark of “falsehood.” So it would seem that Detroit Metal City is a risky undertaking for its creato




