Discussion on the spirit of metal (still hard to pin down) and metal adjacent music. In addition to Shelley from Hate Meditations, Daniel Lake (Decibel) and Joseph Aprill (Invisible Oranges) join to add their two cents. Broadly speaking, is metal adjacent music the path forward for metal since metal seems to be stuck in nostalgia and assimilated into rock music (postmetal)? Is it time to stop using the term 'hipster' since hipster metal seems to have died down?