u/Shoddy_Pizza_8593

We've been in the blackened/symphonic trend for a while now, and it's getting stale. In black metal, post-black metal is the current trend. Post-black metal is more melodic and atmospheric than typical black metal.

If you want change, focus on your local community. Run for office in your local community. By doing so, you can introduce people to center-left policies and ideas. The US lacks representation of center-left politics. Most people want healthcare, affordable education, childcare, and a government that represents them.

In 2016, it was all about djent/progressive metalcore.

In our modern era, we kinda have multiple things going on. The internet is more available today than it was in the past; this makes it easier for people to discover bands. We have the revival of the beatdown hardcore/metalcore sound, nu-metalcore (nu metal + metalcore), and pop metal (influenced by metalcore aka baddiecore).

The free market simply means little to no government intervention. Both capitalism and socialism have forms that oppose any government intervention. But both have ideologies that support some government intervention and absolute government intervention as well. Our modern welfare-capitalist system has some government intervention.