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Metal/ Industrial/ Thrash/ Death Metal

Me, Tpm, Raven and blind guardian are the true deathmetallers around here and thats for sure, death metal rules.

Me, Tpm, Raven and blind guardian are the true deathmetallers around here and thats for sure, death metal rules.

Actually, Raven likes lots of different things, not just extreme metal.
But whatever.

I don't limit myself to 1 genre I just was pointing out which one was my favorite. Btw, some Death Metal isn't bad I sorta like some Cryptopsy, but yeah.

Okay, here are my "genres", in order of yayness. Hard rock (Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, etc.), metal (Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, etc.), heavy blues (Jimi Hendrix, early Zeppelin, etc.), punk rock (Misfits, Pennywise, etc.), heavy metal (Tool, Pantera, etc.), and grunge (Alice In Chains, Nirvana etc.). And yeah... I'm not that close minded. Well, I probably am.

Never, i mean, never, associate Alice in Chains and Nirvana in any way

Never, i mean, never, associate Alice in Chains and Nirvana in any way    

They're two of the best bands ever, what's your problem?

Yeah, but they make almost totally different music.Alice in Chains was more thrash and death than Nirvana was...Im not saying I hate either, Im just saying you cant group Nirvana and Alice in Chains together in a music genre. Alice in CHains was 80s newayz, Nirvana was 90s. Now what does that have to do with anything? Well, pretty much a whole decade of music.

I don't limit myself to 1 genre I just was pointing out which one was my favorite. Btw, some Death Metal isn't bad I sorta like some Cryptopsy, but yeah.

Good man, Cryptopsy are pretty amazing. Hence Crypto.

Never, i mean, never, associate Alice in Chains and Nirvana in any way    

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Most of the above....

I like a variety of music, ranging from classical, punk, jazz/swing, oldies (rock and pop), alternative, blue, metal, generic rock, ska, reggae, techno...

Quite frankly, within the rock/punk/metal scene, I hate how things have gone from 3 categories to say....4,326.

What's EMO anyway? and NU-metal?

Like I'm supposed to know what those mean...

Kai

Most of the above....

I like a variety of music, ranging from classical, punk, jazz/swing, oldies (rock and pop), alternative, blue, metal, generic rock, ska, reggae, techno...

Quite frankly, within the rock/punk/metal scene, I hate how things have gone from 3 categories to say....4,326.

What's EMO anyway?  and NU-metal? 

Like I'm supposed to know what those mean...

Kai

Nu-metal = new-metal a.k.a that lame excuse for music heavy bands have been putting out for the last few years.
Emo I have no fucking clue...

Most of the above....

I like a variety of music, ranging from classical, punk, jazz/swing, oldies (rock and pop), alternative, blue, metal, generic rock, ska, reggae, techno...

Quite frankly, within the rock/punk/metal scene, I hate how things have gone from 3 categories to say....4,326.

What's EMO anyway?  and NU-metal? 

Like I'm supposed to know what those mean...

Kai

Nu-metal = new-metal a.k.a that lame excuse for music heavy bands have been putting out for the last few years.
Emo I have no fucking clue...

Well, then that's got to be one of the worst excuses to go and start specifically classifying everything.

Why not just call it metal/rock...

What we gonna call it in 5 years....Nu-Nu Metal? Or Olde School Revisited if it sounds more like the 80s metal?



Someone should shoot whoever decided to label every band with it's own specific tag.

Metal is metal (crappy or not), as is other music. Sure, modern musicians are blending different influences, but having 4,326 different categories is stupid and confusing.

Thanks for the explanation though.

Kai

Emo is somewhat similar to punk I guess. I don't really know much about it myself I just heard the guitar parts were boring so, whatever.

Emo = Emotional Hardcore... in other words, Fugazi. Although - as it is with most genres - it has come to mean much more and its horizons have expanded quite a great deal.

Essentially, Emo is a far more complex, melodic, intellectual and sentimental take on true 80s Alternative (Husker Du, Pixies, etc) and Punk.

Moreover it is often used to describe most any and all artists within the Indie Pop spectrum, even if such a description would be (and often is) false.

There is also a large number of mainstream Pop/Rock bands who follow the coventions of the genre well enough to be labled Emo, but rarely have much true connection with the music or the scene (you know, that Dashboard Confessionals bullshit).

As for Nu-Metal, it is essentially any and all mainstream, Post-Grunge, Alternative Metal. The reason it isn't lumped with "Metal", is because Metal is a Sub-Genre of Rock, while Nu-Metal is a Style of the Sub-Genre of Rock known as Metal.

Just like, say, Death Metal, Goth Metal, Funk Metal, etc.

Links:

Some Good Emo Labels (and labels with Emo bands) - Saddle Creek, Polyvinyl, Matador and Barsuk.

And the one peice of shit Nu-Metal label, I know of (considering most of the bands are just signed to majors): Wind Up.

Metal is my second favorite

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Metal/ Industrial/ Thrash/ Death Metal

I also like all that teen angst shit.

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Yeah, but they make  almost totally different music.Alice in Chains was more thrash and death than Nirvana was...Im not saying I hate either, Im just saying you cant group Nirvana and Alice in Chains together in a music genre.  Alice in CHains was 80s newayz, Nirvana was 90s.  Now what does that have to do with anything? Well, pretty much a whole decade of music.

Err, okay.

Yeah, but they make almost totally different music.Alice in Chains was more thrash and death than Nirvana was...Im not saying I hate either, Im just saying you cant group Nirvana and Alice in Chains together in a music genre. Alice in CHains was 80s newayz, Nirvana was 90s. Now what does that have to do with anything? Well, pretty much a whole decade of music.

You do realize that absolutely nothing you have said here is accurate in absolutely any way, don't you? Alice In Chains and Nirvana are both of the wondrous fusion of Blues-based early Metal, Garage Rock, Punk, New Wave and Alternative known as Grunge, and from the same musical scene which spawned it.

Sure, Nirvana leans more towards the Punk/Alternative side, wheras Alice In Chains leans more towards the Metal, but then again, Mudhoney leans more towards the Garage - but it is still all the same thing!

The only real differences that can be decearned are the basic differences that any two bands, no matter how similar, will contain - unless of course, one is a complete and total rip off of the other.

Moving on to the last point - Alice In Chains began in the late Eighties and ended in the Mid 90s, as did Nirvana. How is that seperation by a whole decade of music, again?

There are even some peculiar similarities between the history of the two bands - although, I don't really feel like getting into that.

[font="tahoma"]No mainstream and no metal, hiphop, rap or other youthspoiling crap.
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I'm with this minus the Country/Bluegrass/etc. and minus pop.


Classical/Waltz/Ragtime/Jazz

is BY FAR my favorite though.

My favorite genre is ska, which would be closest to punk/emo, well at least the third wave stuff would be. I listen to a bit of everything though.