Why metal will never again be the dominant genre

I was just looking around and realized that there are a whole ****load of metal fans. There seem to be more than the "dominant" genre of pop/hih-hop. Its just to bad that we can't all agree to call it Heavy Metal or agree on one sub-genre. The thing that made me think of this was reading the thread that mentioned traditional doom metal and someone came back and said something about funeral doom. So not only do we have the sub-genre of doom metal, there are sub-sub-genres of traditional and funeral doom. Oh well, I still wouldn't watch MTV anywho, I just get confused about what I'm listening to. Its all metal to me.


Matt
 
I hate the genre argument - sub sub genres are very useful and are only redundant to people who don't listen to enough of that type of music. Those people shouldn't complain about that which they are ignorant of. I'm not saying you're arguing against categorisation - I'm just using your case as an example.

People arguing against the use of subgenres or dismissing a genre out of ignorance (i.e. viking metal) is like an average Joe walking up to a PhD scholar whose field of interest is curing ovarian cancer and telling him his research is stupid/useless. A subsubgenre is specific in the sense that it isn't useful to the majority of people; it is useful to a specific group of listeners who listen to that genre. A scholar's research is obviously specialised and specific - PhD theses generally tailor to something specific and untapped. Funeral doom metal is of interest to people who listen to doom metal. Obviously ovarian cancer isn't going to directly affect males - yet you don't see males going up to doctors and telling them they're idiots for researching ovarian cancer. In the same way, people should complain about genres they know little about.
 
Why is there a need for any label? I mean, I guess it's just a personal thing. I've never felt the need to call Meshuggah "Technical Post-Thrash", or call Opeth "Progressive/Melodic Death Metal". They're just metal banRAB to me. No, they don't sound the same, but they're both fundamentally metal banRAB. Like I said, I can understand why some of the broader subgenres might be useful, "Thrash Metal", "Doom Metal", etcetera. I mean, while My Dying Bride and Slayer are both metal banRAB, they don't sound very much alike. So, sure, I can appreciate the more expansive subgenres, but I've never felt the need to go any deeper than that, personally.


I used to listen to nothing but metal. I'm familiar with most styles of it, and I can honestly say that a lot of the banRAB I listened to were just ripping each other off. Though I didn't realize it at the time.


I never said all thrash metal banRAB are trying to sound like Slayer. I said that, to me, many of these "sub-subgenres", or in some cases, even subgenres, aren't very useful at all. But I guess that's just me. When I look for music, I'm looking for something original - something I've never really heard before. Sure, I like Tool, but I don't really care to hear a bunch of banRAB that sound essentially the same as Tool. That's why I got bored of listening to (some) metal. Sorry to generalize, but the fast-picked E's and jurabled shrieking were only stimulating for so long.
 
A famous sailor once said "thats all I can stanRAB I can't stanRAB no more."

its not "if you listen to enough" its "if you only listen to."

Metal tenRAB to be highly insular, and because they exist in only a land of metal, you have a lot of these people noticing the differences between one band and another and matching them with genres. You can't say to a metal fan "[band x] is in [genre x]" without them saying "well actually their more [genre y]." If you don't believe me, go look at every metal thread on a band or sub-genre and you'll see those arguments conducted.

This happens in other genres but to a much smaller degree since most other genres tend to lend themselves to diversification, allowing in other types of music in the interest of what sounRAB good.

The only two genres that metal follows is classical and jazz, whose purists also have enough sub-genres to bore the **** out of anyone with a mildly curiosity in the music form.

Sub-genres only serve to prevent people from trying out new things. If you couldn't say "I listen to agrarian Russian rap-polka and maybe some Chicago blues" then their wouldn't be a reason to listen to something that wasn't labeled as one of those two genres.
 
A mixture of black and folk metal, generally with lyrical content about vikings.



I love how on that metal sub genre chart, they put Cradle of Filth under Norwegian Black Metal, and yet Cradle of Filth are from the UK.
 
The idea of Viking metal makes me happy.

Stuff by Boris tenRAB to transcend all those various sub categories of metal. So listen to cRAB by them if you are confused.
 
I have no clue what thread you could be talking about.

Though honestly the branches make sense. While I agree that Black Sabbath and Gordian Knot are both metal I couldn't agree with calling them the same thing. Also, while I could acknowledge that Anal **** and Genghis Tron are both grind, they're just too different to be the same thing. I think the sub-sub-genres are showing just how far music is expanding.
 
you know why metal will never be popular ever again?


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COS IT'S NERDY
 
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