Metal Heads Assemble!!

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

Hard to write off an entire subgenre. Metalcore is popular and there's some really great stuff but the majority is pretty awful

So it's basically like a Wii. 99% turd, 1% awesome.

What exactly is Metalcore? There seems to be new subgenres of metal popping up every single day. It's hard to keep up.

I keep it simple: I like metal.

EXACTLY!!!!

[sabrage]

I'm all for simpilicity, but metal is too broad a spectrum to just say "I like metal." If someone were to tell me that in casual conversation, there's a 95% chance that I won't like anything they listen to, or that they'll have heard of anything that I like. And I listen to a ton of metal.

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

You make an excellent point. I just get frustrated when I have to classify what kind of metal I like to listen sometimes but I see exactly what you're saying. It's my favorite genre of music and when I am aksed "what kind of music do you listen to?" I usually just say metal even though I listen to all kinds of metal. Unless I am speaking to antoher metalhead than I just don't have the patience to explain the differences to the uneducated!

[optmusprimenumber]

my favorite is: "u listen to metal? so u like, like Disturbed and Linkin Park?" NO I DON'T LIKE THAT SHIT!!

[Gamerforlife]

I think sometimes it's easier to just say you like (insert band or artist here)

[AppleQueso]

Actually I think I get more "oh you like Cinderella/Poison/(other glam bands)?" comments more than "oh you like (modern hard rock)"?

Most discussion I have about metal with people I know irl rarely leaves the Black Sabbath/Judas Priest realm. I don't even bother mentioning more extreme/obscure stuff unless I've gotten some indication that they'll at least know what I'm talking about.

[sabrage]

I think sometimes it's easier to just say you like (insert band or artist here)

Which does zero good if the person you're talking to has never heard of them... I find common ground before I just go off on a tangent about the things I like. Always. My biggest pet peeve is when people yabber on as if you give a shit when I truly do not, and I avoid putting other people in that situation.

[Valkyrie-Favor]

Yep. A lot of people, especially at my school, don't know what death metal or Viking metal is. It's useless to try an explain a genre of music so my solution is just to let them listen to it. If someone asks whether I like Disturbed or Skrillx or whatever I usually just say "I don't really listen to them" and ask them to hear some Ensiferum.

Hard to describe music with words, huh?

[BurningDoom]

I didn't know about this until just now. New album last month from Eluveitie!!! I LOVE these guys!!!

Here's a video

I like these guys, too. I just discovered them on the DVD I ordered, Monsters of Metal Vol. 6, which I have a post about earlier in this thread. So they're a pretty new band, for me.

Even though they sound great, I can't help but bust up when I see the guy getting down on the flute in the videos.

I'm all for simpilicity, but metal is too broad a spectrum to just say "I like metal." If someone were to tell me that in casual conversation, there's a 95% chance that I won't like anything they listen to, or that they'll have heard of anything that I like. And I listen to a ton of metal.

I listen to all kinds of different metal. I'm across the spectrum. So to say "I like Metal" is a lot easier for me.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Yep. A lot of people, especially at my school, don't know what death metal or Viking metal is. It's useless to try an explain a genre of music so my solution is just to let them listen to it. If someone asks whether I like Disturbed or Skrillx or whatever I usually just say "I don't really listen to them" and ask them to hear some Ensiferum.

Hard to describe music with words, huh?

Not a genre, a type of lyrics. Even Amon Amarth, arguably one of the frontrunners of the 'genre' say it doesn't exist.

And, let the arguing begin...