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"Punk vs. Metal"

Well?

Chr1s wrote:
> math-core, which is quite possibly
> the stupidest name I've ever heard.

i concur.
i assume that's the name given to metal with tight time changes and application of music theory?

Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> Chr1s wrote:
> Sibs wrote:
> Meh. Genres suck.
>
> They have become a bit complicated. I'd like to think that metal
> doesn't suffer from this problem but it does. You've got metal,
> heavy
> metal, death metal, metal-core and math-core, which is quite
> possibly
> the stupidest name I've ever heard.
>
> Metal is awful for subgenres!
> You're forgetting black, thrash, folk, doom, prog, symphonic, gothic,
> power etc etc. And then you have to combine them so you get bands that
> are black-folk metal or something.

Yeah, you can get some weird sub-genres like post-grindcore-grunge-hardcore-death-black-power-hair-metal or something.

That's what i'd call my band, anyway...

Apparently Gay For Johnny Depp are 'Spaz-Core'...

And apparently the first album by The Murder of Rose Luxemburg is as well...

Bear in mind I have heard neither of these, I'm gathering my info from a zine I write for but I think has died...

cool, nice one.

If you give me a minute I'll find you a band who describe themselves as black folk.

Oh, I know. Finntroll. Get Trollhammaren. I don't know any of their other songs, but it's kinda black and very folky.

I want to listen to

a) Spaz-Core
b) Black-folk metal

Chr1s wrote:
> Sibs wrote:
> Meh. Genres suck.
>
> They have become a bit complicated. I'd like to think that metal
> doesn't suffer from this problem but it does. You've got metal, heavy
> metal, death metal, metal-core and math-core, which is quite possibly
> the stupidest name I've ever heard.

Metal is awful for subgenres!
You're forgetting black, thrash, folk, doom, prog, symphonic, gothic, power etc etc. And then you have to combine them so you get bands that are black-folk metal or something.

Having said that, half of them aren't *really* metal in my opinion.
I'm an elitist though, but to be honest, I don't think most of the new mainstream stuff is metal at all.
And by "them" I didn't mean the ones listed above. Like metalcore for instance, I don't see that as metal.

Spaz-Core.

That's a genre. Really.

Sibs wrote:
> Meh. Genres suck.

They have become a bit complicated. I'd like to think that metal doesn't suffer from this problem but it does. You've got metal, heavy metal, death metal, metal-core and math-core, which is quite possibly the stupidest name I've ever heard.

I'm sure there are a few more but I can't bring myself to do any research into them.

I canna remember who it was, but I'm sure I remember being in an MSN convo ages ago, when someone was basically telling us the 'history' of emo... Which was basically that a bunch of heavy screamy (now what would be deemed 'screamo'... sigh...) bands were called 'emo' or something, but now 'emo' encompasses all kinds of stuff from poppy stuff with pianos and acoutic songs to stuff that is very very heavy but has screamy vocals...

Meh. Genres suck.