You must seek it out. Likely a rimshot on a classic steel, tuned high.

You can actually mic the side of the shell and EQ boost the ping itself (2-4k).

Harsh noise

You can further optimize with depth, heads, tuning, and mic technique. The live snare and the studio snare may be different.

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Secret sauce for reamping:
1. Record at a higher level (-3 to -6 peaks) than you would anything else in digital (-12 to -18 peaks)
2. Use an amp in the room with the thru from your reamp box to get the sound of feedback and live guitars while recording a reamp performance take.

It's good to bring in outside influences to metal.
That’s how the genre evolves. But until those traits develop their own metal logic, they’re additions, not foundational sub-genres in the same way that, say, thrash and black metal are.

To evaluate a metal track (or most other pop music), start with the beat.
Which of the five rhythms is it using? Then look at where the other expressions come from (maybe metal, maybe not).

Most other metal styles are either:
- A cross-pollination of the five (melodeath, blackened thrash)
- A fusion with something outside metal (folk, jazz, industrial)
- A -core offshoot
- A lyrical theme (Viking, pirate, occult)
- Or a marketing tactic

Each also has distinct traits in vocals, guitar tone, and production.
But the beat is the first place to look when identifying a metal style.

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- The textural complexity of heavily distorted guitars, double kick, and screaming, is unmatched. Dwelling at the limits of intelligibility, it's a rush to be able to parse it.
- It is literally not for normal people. It is by and for exceptional minds with unique views and tastes.

- It has a monumental lyrical scope, from horror, occult, space, love, literature, songs about a weird little goblin, it speaks directly to the full human experience and beyond.
- It has a sense of the sublime and the absurd. There are parts that challenge what humans can apprehend or fathom.

- It's community-driven. We shouldn't overplay our hand here, but there is a virtuous cycle that feeds back to the quality and vitality of the music.
- It has among the greatest frequency responses (EDM may beat us out), powerfully expressing the full range of human hearing.

- Because it's an underground, or at least not totally commercial genre, musicians can take real risks on big records and have them pay off.
- Metal bands actually write, record, and play their own music.
- For the same reasons (commercial and performance), the art is personal.

- It has the greatest aesthetic range, from literally grotesque, raw to glittering, resplendent
- It is global and inclusive. There are metalheads all over the world.
- It is long-standing and vital, originating not just new music, but new forms, for 50+ years

- It has the greatest dynamic range, from intimate acoustic guitars and whispers to earth-shatteringly loud and abrasive cannons.
- It has the greatest range of tempo, from 30-250+
- It has the greatest expressive range, from ignorant quasi-riff noise to avant-classical prog