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Children of Bodom
Trivium
Black Label Society
Pantera
Amon Amarth
Job For A Cowboy
Metallica
Ozzy
Sabbath
Slayer
Lamb of God
Iron Maiden
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
I see you focused your acct. Regardless that is one of the most boring uninspired lists I have ever seen. Sure, lots of good ones on there, but all safe. Go experiment.
Funny how someone said "a few metalcore bands thrown in". Only metalcore band on there is Trivium. Either way, categorizing to that level needs to stop, it's a stupid fucking way for people to try to sound smart and act like that know what they're talking about when really it's just... metal. Simply metal. Enjoy it for what it is.
You're an idiot. There are very valid and specific reasons why there are so many genres and subgenres. Suffocation and Blut Aus Nord are both metal, but they are so different from each other that saying they are both simply metal severely detracts from them, and in my opinions, is very disrespectful. Without all of the subgenres, you get one big cluster fuck. It's like people calling bands "indie." Two bands that sound nothing alike can both be indie? That makes no sense. The people that don't talk about genre usually cannot talk about genre and are not willing to put in the time to find unique bands that require further thought and explanation than "simply metal."
No, it still shows that you don't know anything about metal. Metalheads have always and will always talk about genres and break down bands, songs, and styles. That's one of the great things about being into good metal and being a real metalhead: the music is so complex, layered, intricate, and distinct, yet with similar roots that talking about the music intelligently and breaking it down into little minute subgenres
is necessary. Aside from not showing a respect of the metal culture, as well as the bands that created scenes in direct opposition to existing forms of metal, not caring about genres is saying that a band like Gnaw Their Tongues sounds like Rotten Sound simply because they're both metal (feel free to YouTube those bands so you have a frame of reference on this sentence).
And if you don't care about genres, why do you even make a distinction between "heavy metal" and "death metal?" Why did you say some can debate if Motley Crue is heavy metal? Here, you are saying that genres do exist. If all you're classifying bands as are "heavy metal" or "death metal," what can you call Burzum? Or Satyricon? Granted, you probably have no idea what they sound like (at least not early i.e. good Satyricon), but they are very clearly not heavy metal and they sound nothing like death metal bands either. If you tried to tell any metalhead that Burzum was death metal, they'd laugh in your face. Genres allow you to have intelligent conversations with other metalheads. Genres give other people a baseline to start from when telling them about a new band or look around when looking for new bands to get into.
You bringing up Wintersun completely misses the point. He's parodying the metal scene's fascination with genres and subgenres. He isn't maliciously making fun of people. It's a good-natured joke at an aspect of the scene he's a part of. Which, showing again how little you know about metal, has existed in metal forever. Look at Carpathian Forest, Anal Cunt, Maggot Twat, or Immortal's parodying of the black metal corpse paint and desire to always be grim and serious. These are jokes couched in a respect and love for metal and an understanding that it is not "simply metal."
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