Metal's transgression problem

Transgression is dead and we have killed it. Since November 2024, the left has been engaging in a renewed push to not be weird. As a reflexively transgressive artform, how are we to understand metal's role in this brave new world? Can it continue to transgress for the sake of it? What's it even transgressing anymore? Does the unsung work ethic practiced by its fans hold the key to a universalism through art? Click on these things: https://hatemeditations.substack.com/ https://hatemeditations.com/   / hatemeditations   https://bsky.app/profile/hatemeditati... https://x.com/MeditationsHate   / hatemeditations   Resources: Dawn Ray'd: Go as Free Companions:    • DAWN RAY'D - GO AS FREE COMPANIONS (OFFICI...   Angela Nagle: Kill All Normies - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... Marilyn Manson: Bowling for Columbine -    • Bowling for Columbine (2002) - Marilyn Man...   Slavoj Žižek interview -    • The REAL Point of Trump’s Tariffs | Aaron ...   Morbid Angel: Tales of the Sick -    • Morbid Angel - Tales of the Sick (Full Off...   Dead by Dawg: Stop sucking at life and letting yourself and everyone around you down -    • Stop sucking in life and letting yourself ...   Lewis Mumford: The Condition of Man - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...