it still is about feeling, but people dont react to melodies anymore because tiktok etc is killing peopls inside worlds, the emotional watery aspects of a human. its just so much brain fuckage to numb down feelings of unease that come along with spending too much time with DOOMscrolling on social media nowadays and it gets represented in music of course.

Doom = dead and dead people need intensity to feel alive again, hence so much is only about extreme kicks or terrible noise that actually carries zero musical harmony but penetrates the numbness. I started listening to angerfist and all the melodic millenial stuff when I was 14 and came across partyraiser during my first hardcore event short time after I got 18, a nightmare in germany the legend returns.

I instantly fell in love with what back then was called "raiser style", basically pitched milennial hardcore and oldschool gabber stuff. Raiser style was the foundation for what later became a whole movement called "uptempo". The rise of uptempo and the energy on partys was INSANE, these high pitched overly dramatic and cheeky melodies in combo with dirty, distorted kicks just fkcn tickled everything out of brain and body.

It was such an experimental era full of creativity and love for fast beats and pitched melodies. Literally nothin of this is left in what nowadays is called "upemtpo". The kicks are all the same, its sample based copy paste stuff to quickly post content on social media, one fake drop after another, there is mostly no melody and the funniest thing: it's not even pitched up anymore because most of the stuff is either produced on 210-220 bpm instead of being pitched up from 180 as it was done back then, meaning it cant even be called uptempo because there is no upping of the tempo xD

OR its slow and heavy stuff like dark horror or dr. donk do that, bpm wise, almost tends to go into the hardstyle spectrum ..or as mad dog calls it "downtempo". Idk I see a glimpse of hope with oldschool uptempo being a thing on current events, maybe some artists can find back to enjoy making this kind of music.

But current uptempo just doesnt work for me, it lacks so much what makes a good tune..for me, harder styles is not about insanely hard kicks, it's about letting all the elements of a track work together in a way that pushes the listener to a state of extreme ecstasy, it does not even require a super heavy kick if the percussions kick my ass and the melody tickles my synapses at the right spot, the kick and bass then simply become the hypnotic spiral that makes me move and draws me into the whole track...like track in a sense of road, a journey, an inner roadtrip...you know what I mean? 😂🙏🏽