Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and are digging deeper than they used to and understanding more abrasive and complex music and art. It's like being around an unfamiliar language long enough that it eventually begins to make sense.

Music being “good or bad” is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it or we don't. Just because we relate to some songs more than others doesn't make the others less valid, we just don't understand them. In fact, we aren't meant to, and that's all right.

Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

I feel that people who are new to punk/hardcore don't truly understand the music and the role it plays in people's lives until they experience the environment for themselves.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.