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Threads concerning heavy metal: music's true nerds?
- Thread starter Marlat
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once again i just get to quote someone ... i completely agree with ... it's all friggin metal ... sheesh.
Yes, we all know that bands like Hate Eternal, Darkthrone, Hammerfall, Electric Wizard, Nightwish and Dragonforce sound EXACTLY the same, so there's no point to subgenres...
Another one of these little guys:
In my honest opinion, any genre that does NOT consist of several subgenres is stagnant and dying, if it's not allready dead.
This applies to a lot of genres, and I think it's one of the reasons metal so often is frowned upon; simple jealousy of the fact that metal is a living, breathing entity, while so many other genres stopped evolving five to ten years after they were concieved.
Lame. I think it's because modern metal heads get off on telling non-metal folk what metal isn't.
This thread is stupendously, ridiculously, fantastically hilarious.
I'm off to crank me some Meshuggah.
I'm off to crank me some Meshuggah.
While I enjoy a lot of the music, the mentality that often surrounds "scene-oriented" music (e.g., metal, punk, indie, hardcore, etc.) generally rubs me the wrong way. In my experience, a lot of times those scenes are populated by elitists who are too busy worrying about what's cool and who's a "sell out" rather than enjoying the music for what it is.
I remember I used to frequent a rock music blog in the early 2000s called Amplified Guitars. The webmaster wrote a really interesting blog where he said that country and pop fans often don't fall prey to the same elitism that rock and metal fans do. They aren't prone to cry "sell out" if their favorite artist's sound changes.
Granted, all of what I'm saying is a generalization and not everyone falls into these molds. I'm not basing any of this off of a controlled sociological study. However, this is what I've largely percieved when I look at those scenes. Again, I dig a lot of the music but really want nothing to do with the "scenes" that those styles of music exist in.
As far as talking about sub-genres: I agree that it can be funny. Sometimes it's a very intelligent discussion about musical taxonomy. Most of the time it reminds me of the ending scene in Empire Records when Mark and Eddie are trying to sound deep and educated about music but really aren't.
I remember I used to frequent a rock music blog in the early 2000s called Amplified Guitars. The webmaster wrote a really interesting blog where he said that country and pop fans often don't fall prey to the same elitism that rock and metal fans do. They aren't prone to cry "sell out" if their favorite artist's sound changes.
Granted, all of what I'm saying is a generalization and not everyone falls into these molds. I'm not basing any of this off of a controlled sociological study. However, this is what I've largely percieved when I look at those scenes. Again, I dig a lot of the music but really want nothing to do with the "scenes" that those styles of music exist in.
As far as talking about sub-genres: I agree that it can be funny. Sometimes it's a very intelligent discussion about musical taxonomy. Most of the time it reminds me of the ending scene in Empire Records when Mark and Eddie are trying to sound deep and educated about music but really aren't.
Yes, we all know that bands like Hate Eternal, Darkthrone, Hammerfall, Electric Wizard, Nightwish and Dragonforce sound EXACTLY the same, so there's no point to subgenres...
Another one of these little guys:
In my honest opinion, any genre that does NOT consist of several subgenres is stagnant and dying, if it's not allready dead.
This applies to a lot of genres, and I think it's one of the reasons metal so often is frowned upon; simple jealousy of the fact that metal is a living, breathing entity, while so many other genres stopped evolving five to ten years after they were concieved.
Proof!
Yes, we all know that bands like Hate Eternal, Darkthrone, Hammerfall, Electric Wizard, Nightwish and Dragonforce sound EXACTLY the same, so there's no point to subgenres...
Another one of these little guys:
I'm just saying...
...it's all metal
and metal is good!
why on earth do we not have a headbanging smilie?
Throw in some prune juice as a bribe and they'll probably allow it. BTW, smiling ain't metal!
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Proof!
I just couldn't help myself, threads like these always bring out my inner-nerd!
Yes, just like people who don't listen to metal get off on telling metalheads what metal is.
Funny how that works, ain't it?
You're assuming that I don't listen to metal. I just don't support the current ideals. No better than the granola hipsters trying to tell everyone what real music is, either.
I would like to hear a metal album w/o any effects/distortion/overdrive. I always considered metal to be somewhat like classical.
