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Old 04-11-2007, 09:18 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Old 04-11-2007, 10:01 PM   #32 (permalink)
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"Heavy metal" blows.
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Old 04-11-2007, 10:02 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Too bad metal sucks.
coming from the kid who gets wet over Conor Oberst.
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Old 04-11-2007, 10:08 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Old 04-11-2007, 11:40 PM   #35 (permalink)
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I can handle genres and the broader subgenres, but this "Blackened Death Metal" type of **** is just ridiculous. Metal is metal. No, not every metal band sounds the same, but each band doesn't need their own subgenre for Christ sake.
Blackened death metal is quite a valid genre - if you listen to enough death metal, the need for that label becomes instantly obvious. A blackened death metal band like Abominator sounds quite different to a melodeath band like Dark Tranquillity.

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They're all fundamentally metal bands. The only thing many subgenres (or
sub-subgenres) are useful for is finding bands that've ripped off the bands you already like, or happen to sound virtually identical to the bands you already like. If you want to listen to Slayer, go listen to Slayer. Why bother searching around for a bunch of bands that're just trying to sound like Slayer, or happen to sound nearly identical to Slayer? Doesn't make sense to me.
They only sound virtually identical to the bands you already like (i.e. Slayer) if you're not very familiar with the genre. I have a wide taste in music, but I know I'm a reggae noob, and that's why a good deal of reggae sounds mostly the same to me. If I made an effort to explore the genre and listen to it a bit more, it wouldn't be that way. When I first discovered metal, I probably thought that DM sounded fairly close to BM on the grand scale of things. Since I actively listen to metal, I find that clearly isn't the case.

That's quite a bold/cynical statement to say that all thrash/speed metal bands either try to sound like Slayer or sound nearly identical to them. As far as I'm concerned, there are bands in thrash which are better than Slayer. Bands might go for the thrash/speed metal sounds, but it doesn't mean they're trying to sound like Slayer - that's openly admitting to having no creative force. A progressive thrash band like Mekong Delta sounds quite different to Slayer which sounds quite different to a groove thrash band like Pantera, and that is why subsubgenres are necessary.
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Old 04-12-2007, 07:35 AM   #36 (permalink)
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Blackened death metal is quite a valid genre - if you listen to enough death metal, the need for that label becomes instantly obvious. A blackened death metal band like Abominator sounds quite different to a melodeath band like Dark Tranquillity.


They only sound virtually identical to the bands you already like (i.e. Slayer) if you're not very familiar with the genre. I have a wide taste in music, but I know I'm a reggae noob, and that's why a good deal of reggae sounds mostly the same to me. If I made an effort to explore the genre and listen to it a bit more, it wouldn't be that way. When I first discovered metal, I probably thought that DM sounded fairly close to BM on the grand scale of things. Since I actively listen to metal, I find that clearly isn't the case.
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Old 04-12-2007, 01:57 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Too bad metal sucks.
if there were no metal there'd be no CTTS.
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Blackened death metal is quite a valid genre - if you listen to enough death metal, the need for that label becomes instantly obvious. A blackened death metal band like Abominator sounds quite different to a melodeath band like Dark Tranquillity.


They only sound virtually identical to the bands you already like (i.e. Slayer) if you're not very familiar with the genre. I have a wide taste in music, but I know I'm a reggae noob, and that's why a good deal of reggae sounds mostly the same to me. If I made an effort to explore the genre and listen to it a bit more, it wouldn't be that way. When I first discovered metal, I probably thought that DM sounded fairly close to BM on the grand scale of things. Since I actively listen to metal, I find that clearly isn't the case.

That's quite a bold/cynical statement to say that all thrash/speed metal bands either try to sound like Slayer or sound nearly identical to them. As far as I'm concerned, there are bands in thrash which are better than Slayer. Bands might go for the thrash/speed metal sounds, but it doesn't mean they're trying to sound like Slayer - that's openly admitting to having no creative force. A progressive thrash band like Mekong Delta sounds quite different to Slayer which sounds quite different to a groove thrash band like Pantera, and that is why subsubgenres are necessary.
I don't really dig a lot of metal but that is a good post forreeaallzzzzz.
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Old 04-12-2007, 02:08 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Jeez metalheads have no sense of humor.
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