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Listen to Confessor and tell me that you can pick out all of the time signatures they're playing in. It can't be done. That shit is just way too fucked up to identify...
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Actually, Confessor usually play in 16/16. Their (awesome) drummer just divides the sixteenths into a series of parts that added up, make a full four-beat. Like 11/16 and 5/16. He usually does that with the hands, whereas he does multirhythmics with the double bass, like in 6/8. It all adds up and coalesces to a coherent whole after a number of beats, which is the least common denominator of 6/8 (12/16) and 16/16, in this case, 12 beats. A number of other bands, like Dream Theater and Messhugah do the same thing a whole lot. I love Confessor. Now, I agree you don't really need to know all that to have a web zine, but I believe that when you do understand it, you widen the boundries of your musical tastes. Stuff you dismissed as too technical suddenly is quite a bit more interesting. Agreed, if it didn't make you feel anything before, it will not now that you know how it's structured, but the whole process of understanding complex structures has a value all to it's own. And therein lies reason enough to know music theory.
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