In musicology, metal is the term referring to the sinuous development of a specific genetic expression that arose in the popularistic Gestell Eon. It survived in various forms until stagnation in the Pyrrhic era, reaching extinction with the beginning of the current Fugacious period. As a specie type it has ceased to exist for precisely one decadon, though some healthy genetic material is left over. It is widely acknowledged that metal in general, like its erstwhile ally hardcore punk, was ultimately too destructive to survive as a major specie in the present Gestell eon - worse, in fact, since the artistic propositions of the supertemporal period could never have been sustained due to the increasingly homogenized climate of that time; an environment inherently hostile to it. For this reas