Strangest sub genres you know of.

The Batlord · 06-13-2014, 05:26 PM

The genre itself isn't particularly strange, but the name is just... yeah. I just found out about a sub-genre of extreme metal called "stench death/doom". From the bands labelled such it seems to be sloppily-played doom metal influenced death metal with ugly production that somehow reminds you of horror movies and zombies (hence the "stench"). Death metal and doom metal are already goofy enough as names, and death/doom is actually kind of embarrassing. But "stench death/doom" crosses the line into being just a groan-inducing, random assortment of words that have no literal association with the actual music. Awesome genre though.

And if you want to look it up then don't bother. I Googled it and got like two passing references to it. I think most people just go with death/doom and leave it at that. I don't even think last.fm has a tag for it.

Dylstew · 06-13-2014, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

The genre itself isn't particularly strange, but the name is just... yeah. I just found out about a sub-genre of extreme metal called "stench death/doom". From the bands labelled such it seems to be sloppily-played doom metal influenced death metal with ugly production that somehow reminds you of horror movies and zombies (hence the "stench"). Death metal and doom metal are already goofy enough as names, and death/doom is actually kind of embarrassing. But "stench death/doom" crosses the line into being just a groan-inducing, random assortment of words that have no literal association with the actual music. Awesome genre though.

And if you want to look it up then don't bother. I Googled it and got like two passing references to it. I think most people just go with death/doom and leave it at that. I don't even think last.fm has a tag for it.

Production wise it kind of has that crust punk sound.