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Originally Posted by The Unfan
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.
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No, they aren't necessary. People use those sub-sub-genres just to differentiate one band from another, and not to collectively classify them within a genre. That's not how a genre is supposed to work. You don't divide, divide and divide until you can declare one sound to be a certain type of metal, and when someone breaches that genre, it becomes a new genre. Sub-genres are supposed to group bands that have similar sounds together, not distinguish them from similar bands. And guess what? IT'S ALL F
UCKING METAL.
It happens in other genres, but not as frequently or as perversely as metal.