Heavy metal concerts in the Metaverse?

Something all music fans love is live concerts. You can ask anyone, Taylor Swift fans, Dying Fetus fans, don't even bother asking jazz musicians because they live for lives. 
Still, in the years post covid-19, concerts are going back to normal, people have lost their jobs so they have less money and they are restarting their lives.

So what is the news? Even though it's not really news because they already started happening in a video game? Metaverse concerts!
Plus, many virtual concerts already happened on Fortnite with artists such as Travis Scott, Ariana Grande, and Charlie Puth, just to name a few. 

You can also attend a concert in an actual Metaverse venue, just like the Ozzfest 2022.

You probably already knew thanks to Loudwire, but yes, between November 10, 2022, and November 13, 2022, the Ozzfest was hosted in Decentraland and Ozzy was the only confirmed performer, and it was free to attend, plus no VR or headset was required.

There was even a Motörhead performance that looked something like this:

Ozzfest 2022

I sadly couldn't make it because I had some problems with my PC at the time, but I would really like to reflect on the Metaverse and its future impact on live music performances, and, in this case, especially talking about heavy metal music.

As much as I personally enjoy technology and things that can help me out reaching other people to have a talk, and get a comment about whether my articles are all right and everything, I don't think that it should substitute in-person interactions.

Of course, it's super cool that the Ozzfest 2022 was free to attend and that they even got Motörhead in there, but, if anyone reading this article attended, how did you feel about it? 

I mean, of course, I hope that there are going to be some other Metaverse concerts, maybe of some artists that sadly, are not on Planet Earth anymore, such as Ronnie James Dio, that would be super cool and one of the only ways to get to see those artists, apart from the hologram tours, that are cool too but I don't know how much a ticket to those concerts can cost.

But still, even though sometimes they can be a little bit expensive, there are many cool festivals where you can get to see great artists for a relatively cheap price, and they are live events, so you get to interact with other people with your same interests. I remember when I went to my first festival in 2018 it seemed impossible to me that there were that many people with the same music taste as me, and I was so excited to get to know some of them! 

Also, as soon as live concerts restarted, people from all over the world went out of their way to go to the events, people go to the disco more than ever, and other types of live events organized by young people are being created every day. 

Speaking only about the heavy metal subculture, we have the mosh pit, the horns, and all of our symbols that are a part of the concerts. It's something absolutely irreplaceable by technology.

So, do I think that metaverse concerts are the future of live events?
No.

Technology such as A.I., ChatGPT, or even the Metaverse, can be helpful since they can be useful when it comes to school, for example, using ChatGPT to get an idea of what you should write on your thesis, or the Metaverse can be cool to create some interactive lessons as well.

But nothing is ever going to replace the feeling of seeing your favorite musicians in front of you playing live, being able to bond and talk with people who love the same music as you, and spending time enjoying life.

As much as technology has made our lives way better than before, it shouldn't replace the humanity of what we do, we should use it to make our lives more practical, but never to replace real-life experiences.