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Originally Posted by Frownland
Nah. There are definitely some that began as or became marketing terms, but subgenres are usually coined by music nerds themselves.
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They're not very descriptive and the marketing departments of record labels always end up getting behind them, regardless of who coined them. I just don't really care about the sub-genre labeling system because there's so much overlapping that it's not very practical. There are so many different genres within metal, which isn't very distinct from rock or punk to begin with, that people are just making them up now to describe their band because it's become satirical to do so.