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Sunday, September 20, 2009

5 Reasons to Hate and Stop the Use of Genre in Metal (Not in Order)


  1. With so many genres it’s hard to just keep track of them and it distracts you from the music, which is all that matters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_subgenres ... Does anyone else find it obscene that there is that many Sub-Genres?!?!
  2. Misleading Names. Ok look at sub-genre Metal-core (the combination of Hardcore Punk and Heavy Metal), Look at the biggest bands in Metal-Core, Trivium, Bullet for My Valentine and Killswitch Engage, All great bands. Can someone please show me the hardcore part though?? KSE and Trivium both have very little hardcore in there sound and if anything they are both thrash metal bands before anything else. BFMV has absolutely no hardcore in their sounds and they are the poster boys for Metalcore, they are hard rock with scream vocals if anything. This is only one of the examples that show that a lot of genres don’t really correspond very well with the music.
  3. War of Genre. I’m not even going to go into this very much but does anyone else get very annoyed with the whole Black Metal vs. Death Metal war with some people. They are two very similar styles of metal that are both amazing in similar as well as in there own ways and many people still say you have to like one and hate the other. This is only one example but if people keep doing stuff like this we are going to have 40 groups of “metalheads” yelling at each other defending their favorite styles of metal, and I know I couldn’t only listen to one.
  4. Artists are being Limited and Suffering Musically. No artist wants to make the same album 10 times, unless you’re Slayer but they are the only band that can really pull it off. I think bands should grow over time even if it means not being in the stupid specific subgenre they were in before. I’m not defending albums like Risk (Megadeth), The Loads (Metallica) and The Crusade (Trivium), in my eyes these were albums that were made to enter the mainstream and I hate that, Thank god all these bands returned to form though after these stints. When you try to become mainstream when you are a metal band you will do two things, fail and alienate fans, so bands please don’t do it. I’m defending albums like The Black Album (Metallica) as well as Blooddrunk and Are You Dead Yet? (CoB). For both bands these albums were a departure from their previous albums, Metallica was simpler and bigger sounding and CoB was more straightforward and less neo-classical. These albums were both ridiculed for being “sellouts” because some people thought they were more mainstream. Those three albums were amazing regardless of what people say and just because there was a genre change that does not mean the band sucks. Also anyone who said Bodom sold out is retarded because if anything they got heavier and still get little airplay, I dont think we will hear Hellhounds on my Trail on Radio Disney anytime soon. If you are one of those people please listen to those albums again and don’t hate amazing bands for changing their style because pretty much every metal band who’s been around for 10+ years have. Also Wrath and Sacrament (Lamb of God) were being called sellouts but I thought this was so stupid I didn’t even bother using it as an example. Another problem is I find a lot of new bands sound similar because they are being forced to make lets say a death metal album like everyone else is making death metal at that time and it’s not letting the genre evolve and produce more classic bands, the same can be said for Thrash, Black and pretty much every other genre of metal.
  5. Suffering Tours. Live Shows are the biggest part of metal and they all ways have and will be, but now in modern metal I find most tours you go and see 3-4 similar bands and it’s quite boring because every band just a shitty version of the headliner. This is something that is improving though with Bands like Slipknot brining bands on tour like Coheed and Cambria and Trivium, very diverse show. As well as all the bands Metallica brings out, Machine Head, Gojira, Lamb of God, Volbeat, The Sword and many more. Overall I think all bands should catch on to this and give us more diversified and fun shows. That being said I’d like to give a shoutout to Mayhem Fest this year because I think they really gave all the fans a diversified show with bringing out death metal bands like Whitechapel and Cannibal Corpse, Black Metal Bands like Behemoth, Thrashier bands like the all mighty SLAYERRRRR as well as Trivium and Hard Rock bands like BFMV and Marilyn Manson

 

 

 

My solution, Metal Should have 2 genres only Heavy Metal and Extreme Metal, Because every band should try to create their own genre and their own style of music and Having all these names for their music and being labeled takes away from that. I think having only 2 categories makes it so bands can just say we are heavy or really heavy and work in those guidelines.

 

Here’s a few examples of Heavy Metal: Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Trivium, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Evile, Power Metal Bands should also go in this category, Dream Theater and Symphony x.. Of Course there are more but I’m pretty sure you can figure out the rest.

 

Here’s a few examples of Extreme Metal: Cannibal Corpse, Whitechapel, Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir, Venom, Death, Slayer, Slipknot (don’t bitch at them they are amazing), Lamb of God, Obituary, Deicide, Children of Bodom, Kalmah and Mayhem... Once again there are more extreme metal bands but I think this will give you a rough view of what extreme metal is.

 

Keep it Metal,

Seth

 

1 comment:

  1. Hey nice blog! Got onto this from your Trivium live audio uploads.

    Anyways, agree with the whole sub genre farce. But surely you agree there are broad genre's but it's a matter of people mislabeling? Also find it interesting you have put LOG as extreme metal.

    Nice blogging!

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