Post Reply - Post-Metal

   In all honesty here there was a time we would have considered talking about this on MMA anywhere but the admin zone or at least the collab zone to be a major faux pas but we're at the point we're past caring and are just going to say what we think people already can guess: M@X has been largely unengaged from these sites for years and we are extremely pissed off with that due to an ever growing list of maintenance tasks that need doing (far more important things than adding new subs) and the way our messages to him go unanswered the majority of the time. So saying his appearances are random with no rhyme or reason is pretty damn accurate. 
Blackgaze as a regular sub-genre is certainly a compromise that has been discussed. The main concern for me is that compared to other sub-genres of BM it's more directly descended from Atmo Black so we have to weigh up whether having the term there adds more value to the site than would be lost due to many releases or whole artists no longer being filed under Atmo Black.

Dissonant death metal is another one that has the same issue since it's typically considered to be a subset of tech death. 

Personally speaking I would love to see this site have an overhaul so that even if the core tagging system remains we could apply at least one secondary tag to a release where appropriate that would allow that release and by extension the artist to be listed in two sub-genres. The primary tag would still be the one that is displayed with the album but like this we could have those albums that straddle the line between sub-genres included in both, for example 'brutal technical death metal' albums like Nile's or early Opeth's in both prog and death metal etc. There are many power metal releases that could equally be tagged as heavy or speed metal too. 

Unfortunately this feels like a pipe dream at this point, unless we can get M@X re-engaged with MMA and willing to actively keep developing. If he did that many of us who were once very active collabs would most likely be inspired to do more on the site ourselves. As it is, I don't suppose you've failed to notice that many of the old crowd have drifted away, past admins included. 