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Originally Posted by Trollheart
I've reviewed several albums that could qualify as either, and at the moment I'm listening to Jaded Heart, who seem too heavy to be AOR yet not quite heavy enough to be out and out metal, so are they melodic metal? And if so, what differentiates one from the other? I'd like to know, as I would certainly not describe Journey or Toto as melodic metal, but JH don't seem to be what I'd call AOR either?  |
I don't know about Melodic Metal but found a list provided by spirit-of-metal.com. Jaded Heart is considered Hard Rock by by the site, and the band is from Germany - which is the hub of Melodic Metal, right? Or is Germany the hub Melodic Heavy Metal? I check out Paid My Dues by JH. The song started with Styx-esque harmonies. It sounds closer to Hard Rock of the 70s, I guess Melodic Metal would have more Metal influence to it.
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Originally Posted by almauro
There's metal that's melodic, but is there a Melodic Metal sub-genre? There's glam metal, grunge, melodic death metal, melodic metalcore, power metal, just to same a few, but I've never heard of "melodic metal"  ? |
It's funny how Grunge, when it started out, was the antithesis of Glam Metal and now they're kissing cousins on Dunn's family tree of Heavy Metal.
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Originally Posted by almauro
AOR is an interesting genre for me because I don't know that much about it. I'd choose the "Adult" over "Album" in the acronym, it's slightly older, prog. influenced musicians that wanted to play a more mature and popular style of rock music, instead of NWOBHM, Thrash or Hair Metal which was more youth oriented. Melodic aspects can be heard in all of these.
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It been long establish that AOR stands for "Album Oriented Rock."
It dates back to the 70s as a radio format for FM stations that played Rock music. It was called album-orietned because the format of the radio stations to play
album tracks, instead of singles that Top 40 stations played. It had nothing to do with the age of the listener the music was aimed at, that would be Adult Contemporary music.
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08-27-2012, 02:39 PM
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