Metal Archives rejected the Khaos Kown Krew submission this week.
The exact words: "We don't approve such AI
garbage."
No appeal process. No criteria explained. No conversation.
Just a door slammed by people who appointed themselves the gatekeepers of what
counts as real metal - and apparently, what counts as real music, real art, and
real creative work.
Let me be clear about something: I'm not writing this
because it hurt. I'm writing this because it's funny. And because it proves a
point the music was already making before they opened their inbox.
Here's a system - a database, a committee, a set of rules maintained by anonymous moderators on a website - that has decided it owns the definition of legitimate. It decides what gets listed. What gets named. What gets counted. And when something arrives that doesn't fit the shape of what they expected, they don't engage with it. They don't listen to it. They label it, dismiss it, and move on. Sound familiar? It should. I wrote fourteen tracks about exactly that behaviour.
