Heavy metal refutes The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was the idea of rationality, and his definition of Romanticism is probably limited, because while it celebrated human choice it based itself on the antiquities and beauty of nature.
Death metal, more profoundly than black metal, understood that the Enlightenment was a rejection of nature along with the church, and that the best aspects of Romanticism were its praises of nature and the chaotic, bloody, struggle-bound process by which our world came about.
Is heavy metal music counterculture, or counter-counterculture?
“Sabbath was everything that the 60’s weren’t. Their music was so cool because it was completely anti-hippie. I hated the Beatles, Jethro Tull, and all that happy shit.”
–James Hetfield, Metallica