Favorite type of metal (rap, rock, metallica, goth, classic)

the pagey · 01-10-2008, 04:59 PM

So, define metal. By define I mean a definition that everybody would agree with. Can't do it? You know that almost everyone has a different idea of what metal 'really' is and what it should sound like. To my mind nu-metal bands like Korn and Slipknot are as metal as Metallica or Slayer. Sure they are different but isn't different a good thing? Without change we'd all be listening to Jimi Hendrix or Deep Purple and thinking they were 'really heavy'! And the Emo tag? Doesn't it mean emotion? (Isn't it therefore a completely meaningless tag? Barry White was emotional!) But the bands who are given that tag like Finch or Funeral For A Friend can play good, hard hitting music. It isn't punk. It isn't rock. I'd call it metal. (BTW, I really don't consider bands like Limp Bizkit and their ilk to be metal, whoever lumped them into the nu-metal genre was obviously a closet boyzone fan!)

View Poll Results: Favorite type of metal?
Regular melodic metal	24	7.67%
Death metal	30	9.58%
Black metal	20	6.39%
Doom metal	11	3.51%
Goth metal	10	3.19%
Grindcore	9	2.88%
Industrial	20	6.39%
The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal	7	2.24%
Progressive metal	32	10.22%
Thrash	48	15.34%
Hard rock	28	8.95%
Metalcore	13	4.15%
Nu-metal	11	3.51%
Viking metal	8	2.56%
Power metal	14	4.47%
Rap metal	5	1.60%
Some other metal	23	7.35%
Voters: 313. You may not vote on this poll

01-10-2008, 04:59 PM	#10 (permalink)
the pagey Groupie Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 5	So, define metal. By define I mean a definition that everybody would agree with. Can't do it? You know that almost everyone has a different idea of what metal 'really' is and what it should sound like. To my mind nu-metal bands like Korn and Slipknot are as metal as Metallica or Slayer. Sure they are different but isn't different a good thing? Without change we'd all be listening to Jimi Hendrix or Deep Purple and thinking they were 'really heavy'! And the Emo tag? Doesn't it mean emotion? (Isn't it therefore a completely meaningless tag? Barry White was emotional!) But the bands who are given that tag like Finch or Funeral For A Friend can play good, hard hitting music. It isn't punk. It isn't rock. I'd call it metal. (BTW, I really don't consider bands like Limp Bizkit and their ilk to be metal, whoever lumped them into the nu-metal genre was obviously a closet boyzone fan!)