That's right! If you're attending the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, you may be listening to some extreme music in your courses this year!
So Ne Obliviscaris have achieved an entirely new level of awesome, being taught at a college now. Granted it's only the song "And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope," but still! That's so cool! The song is above just in case you're not familiar with it. According to the Chair of Composition at the college Matthew Hindson, who also teaches the course:
I will be presenting “And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope” to the composition students at the conservatorium next semester as an exemplar in structure, mixing timbres, meters, modes, how to approach virtuosity, sound and noise, extended performance and techniques.
Musicians deserve to hear the music of NE OBLIVISCARIS, and the music of many other metal bands, in order to appreciate the compositional complexity that lies within it, no matter what their musical tastes.
That is so unbelievably cool that not only did someone who teaches music professionally appreciates the more extreme side of music, but actually wants to teach its merits to the students. I really can't get over that, especially considering extreme music is still a fairly young genre in comparison to say, everything else in existence. Could death metal be the next big thing taught in colleges? I hope so!
[via Kill Your Stereo]
