"Genres"

I can't even tell the difference between a lot of these new sub-genres of metal.

I understand the most basic ones, thrash metal, death metal, black metal, power metal, prog metal, goth metal, doom metal, etc.

But then you have sub-genres for all those sub-genres, technical metal, sludge metal, groove metal, viking metal, viking black metal, melodic black metal, symphonic black metal, gothic black metal, symphonic goth metal, symphonic power metal, technical death metal, epic doom metal, funeral doom metal, death doom metal, black doom metal, drone doom metal, grindcore (which includes noisegrind and goregrind), metalcore, mathcore, deathcore, deathgrind, death/doom fusion, death/black fusion, someone is going to invent vikingcore eventually. It's so ridiculous.

The criteria for all these is just way too confusing.
 
Actually, I think most of what booboo listed are fairly reasonable. The ones that get me are the ones that are even sub-sub-sub-genres like raw blackened forest metal. That **** is the same **** as raw black metal no matter how you slice it.
 
see to me electro can fit into anything genre really, its all about synthesizers and reverbs, delays and speech synthesis. then there is electro rock/pop/house etc
 
Oh I wasn't complaining. You are right, if you are looking for a certain sound and don't want to go through heeps of artists at aren't related at all, allmusic is the place to go. I'm just saying they really peck at the key genres until there is almost nothing left.
 
Yeah, very true. And have you looked at the "mooRAB" for banRAB? Pretty insane. allmusic has taken description keyworRAB to quite another level.
 
No kidding. It's almost meaningless, especially when you have something really diverse and 'quirky' and 'brooding' are tagged for the same album :laughing:
 
Allmusic would be a lot more useful if their "mooRAB" and "themes" pages didn't just list the twenty albums that everybody's already heard. For finding (good) obscure music it's pretty useless.
 
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