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"Punk vs. Metal"

Well?

Metal for me.

Prophet wrote:
> Metal for me.

Yeeess.

It's stupid to compare genres. It's like comparing a chalk drawing to a painting. There similar, but at the same time totally different. You can only compare bands, but theres obviously loads of class punk bands who are better than the majority of metal bands, and loads of fantastic metal bands who are better than the majority of punk bands.

Asher wrote:
> It's stupid to compare genres. It's like comparing a chalk drawing to
> a painting. There similar, but at the same time totally different.
> You can only compare bands, but theres obviously loads of class punk
> bands who are better than the majority of metal bands, and loads of
> fantastic metal bands who are better than the majority of punk bands.

I agree, but this paticular war has been going on for ages.

Or do you need yet another thread to show off how much you know about metal? ;)

Personally I'm more into punk, I never really know what counts as metal, although I may have some in my collection but be unaware of it lol.

Do you mean ACTUAL punk (sex pistols/Rancid) or punk-rock/pop-punk like blink and good charlotte and stuff? Because thats not punk, and the kis today seem to think it is.

Personally I prefer metal, but I like all of the intersecting genres between punk and metal such as hardcore, post hardcore and all those other pedantically labelled things.

End of the day, Hatebreed crap all over The Used.

Punk pwns (Rise Against :D), and punk + metal usually = good. But I tend to dislike more metal on it's own.

you bum RA until they bleed, dontcha?

old metal (the hair metal bands like Van Halen) scares me

Paradox: wrote:
> Do you mean ACTUAL punk (sex pistols/Rancid) or punk-rock/pop-punk
> like blink and good charlotte and stuff? Because thats not punk, and
> the kis today seem to think it is.

stop sounding so old :P
>
> End of the day, Hatebreed crap all over The Used.

true.

i like both, but i prefer metal, i like the aggression you can convey when it's done properly. Also, i quite like it when metal bands have GOOD musicians in tehm and do weird n wonderful stuff.. like Sikth or Soilwork.

Very_Metal wrote:
> i like both, but i prefer metal, i like the aggression you can convey
> when it's done properly. Also, i quite like it when metal bands have
> GOOD musicians in tehm and do weird n wonderful stuff.. like Sikth or
> Soilwork.

That's one of the things that draws me to metal, it's not an easy style of music to play. Bands like Meshuggah, Mastodon, Lamb of God **** all over punk bands in terms of raw ability and talent (or at least the ability and talent they display).

Whether you like the end result more or not is up to you, but the extra effort clearly pays dividends as metal is far better in my opinion.