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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
They're tags, I'm not sure they are all legitimate genres. If a handful of MBers tag bands as "Batlord Metal" on one of those sites does that make it "official?"
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A genre is a genre if two people recognize it as such and can communicate between each other the style of music by using that genre descriptor. You wouldn't say Talk Talk aren't post-rock because they didn't call themselves that, the band doesn't determine the genre, their fans do.