"Avant-Garde Metal cannot be treated like other genres, such as Black, Death, Doom, Thrash, etc. Those genres are rooted in similar aesthetics and ideologies, leading to strong commonalities amongst bands united under one genre. With the Avant-Garde, on the other hand, there really is no common aesthetic or ideology. [1] The bands have to be taken on a one-by-one basis, evaluated individually rather than on genre aesthetics." - Wesley D. Cray