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There may not be. There seems to be something obsessive about metal fans to catalog and classify and document. I mean, look at the wiki page on subgenres: ht
by RajT88 4y ago
There may not be. There seems to be something obsessive about metal fans to catalog and classify and document.
I mean, look at the wiki page on subgenres:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_genres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_genres
It fills me with awe and giggles.
- darrenf 4y agoI haven't counted them, but the corresponding electronic music page has a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_music_genres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_music_genre...
- jgrahamc 4y agoI’m not sure what you’re talking about but excuse me while I turn on some female-fronted symphonic power metal.
- RajT88 4y agoAncient Bards, right?
- twic 4y agoSurely Nightwish are the paradigmatic example?
- RajT88 4y agoAnd here we are arguing about subgenres and band classifications. I knew we'd get here! Nightwish is a good fit except the "power" part.
- int_19h 4y agoEarly Nightwish releases were consistently classified as sympho power metal, so I'd say there's a consensus there. Sometimes people threw around more complicated labels like sympho-speed/power.
- stew-j 4y agoI prefer my female-fronted metal to be "glam", not the inferior "symphonic power". I actually owned a couple of her LPs in the '80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lita_Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lita_Ford Since our tastes are so far apart, I guess we have nothing else to talk about.
- jgrahamc 4y agoKiss Me Deadly is probably the origin of my love of all things metal.
- stew-j 4y agoMy gateway metal idols were Tony Iommi, Randy Rhoads and Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, all of whom I got to see in concert. And I'm going to just going to say it, "1984" was one of my favorite albums (although not really metal, the cover reminded me of the one on Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell"). Paul Graham's description of high school in one essay was right on the mark for me, I sat at the heavy metal table at lunch when I wasn't truant. A friend of mine at work mentioned around 1988 that I should listen to 10,000 Maniacs--the name sounded interesting, and (I'll probably get beat up here for saying this) Natalie Merchant's Greek Siren-like voice led me down a more, er "primrose path" musically. Peter Tosh, too. [On a personal note, I might have been able to get the courage to ask Natalie out back then even though she was totally out of my league--like my wife, and I dated a few women like Lita over the years, but asking Lita out? That's a whole other level of courage. Iommi was engaged to her, by the way, for reference.] I'm 55 and I still listen to metal especially while working, but I stopped trying new stuff in the early 2000's. So the newest I listen to would be Slipknot or Soulfly. My brother tried getting me to listen to modern "Norse Core" or something, but I didn't get it. I suspect my wife got into metal through the albums of Bon Jovi, but she denies it.
- stew-j 4y ago> Since our tastes are so far apart, I guess we have nothing else to talk about. QED
- gitrog 4y agoI wouldn't take that list too seriously. Metal-archives genres tend to not delve into "styles" as much. But there are certainly many distinct sub-genres and one can't exactly argue that Black Sabbath, Dimmu Borgir and Cannibal Corpse sound similar. I agree that the community itself takes the genre thing way too far and it often ends up being pretty funny. Then again, electronic music probably gives metal a run for its money: https://music.ishkur.com/ https://music.ishkur.com/
- dfxm12 4y agoI agree that the community itself takes the genre thing way too far and it often ends up being pretty funny. Some people are in on the joke and some are serious. Sometimes, it's hard to tell the difference, but that's OK, because I like talking with both types of people. It's usually informative and/or entertaining. :)
- hondo77 4y agoLemme give it a shot: Cookie Monster (includes Black Metal) Hardcore (see Pantera) Metal (see Metallica) Crap (see Poison)
- cholantesh 4y agoCrap is obviously too broad since Metallica and Pantera would also fit under it.
- dinglejungle 4y ago> Cookie Monster (includes Black Metal) But what about Pterodactyl-fronted Black Metal: https://youtu.be/UZlZuYp1fZc?t=164 https://youtu.be/UZlZuYp1fZc?t=164
- Tsiklon 4y agoIshkur's guide, in both it's modern implementation and earlier java implementation are works of electronic art in and of themselves - An opinionated guide to the infinitely deep and broad world of electronic music.
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- pessimizer 4y agoMusical genre multiplication and creation is just an internet disease where a bunch of would-be critics put original research on wikipedia and retroactively justify it by referencing one sentence in a 10 year old Slate article by some actual critic of no particular note. Most of the people included in these genres had no idea they were in them when they created the music (because they didn't exist.) Plenty of them still have no idea, and may not have ever heard of the genre that they "typified." edit: and since most people who are "experts" on popular music create that identity by just vacuuming up what they can find on the internet, creating a genre in Wikipedia becomes equivalent to creating a genre.
- mistrial9 4y agoas a sound tech at a nightclub, I cornered one of the musicians on break and started listing lists of bands in grouping somehow.. unimpressed, he looked askance and replied "musicians don't talk that way"
- int_19h 4y agoGenre multiplication, in metal at least, predates the Internet and Wikipedia.