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It's not wrong to demand and to expect authenticity; it's not wrong to acknowledge pioneering genuineness and its consequent legitimacy. The rebranding or reshaping of an original sound and the pitiless bastardization of a style through ongoing fraudulent sonic appropriation will always devalue their goodness and accentuate their faults, defacing their identity and perverting their plausible initial artistic merit. Elitism is a thoughtless blank term devoid of meaningful reason and of tangible connotations when applied to music, particularly and especially so when referencing heavy metal.