spides666
Senior Member
No, Death Metal is alive! Tom Araya, Glen Benton are still growling and King Diamond is screaming for vengeance!
Ian I'd hardly call Slayer and King Diamond Death Metal...
No, Death Metal is alive! Tom Araya, Glen Benton are still growling and King Diamond is screaming for vengeance!
Not sure it's dead and not sure there are more players than listeners. But I'm completely convinced that each band gets its own sub-genre.
War metal? Porncore? Brutal death? Slam death? Someone's pulling the piss now. The running gag has spread and now everyone's on board. As much as I get a giggle out of it, it does border on the absurd.
FWIW, I think "warcore" has a far better ring to it.......I'm off to start a new genre.
All the silly sub-genres really reinforce the goofiness of metal. It is the goofiest genre of music out there, moreso than childrens' TV music, because the harder core the metal fan, the more seriously they take it. Spinal Tap made a statement on the goofiness of metal that still cannot be improved upon.
About the only sub-genre of metal that doesn't take itself seriously is Butt Rock. Unless there's Vikingcore Black Doom Foul Odor Butt Rock. You can tell someone take metal too seriously when they start excluding Butt Rock and other established genres from the metal family tree.
There are more people who want to play metal, than listen to it. It's the single-most discussed genre on this board, but has the least popularity. What's up with that?
Metal isn't dead; it's just being classified out of existence. I swear, the next time I fart, four sub-genres are going to come out.
It's certainly not dead ... but the genre itself has painted itself into a corner. If it evolves, in any way, shape, or form ... then it becomes another sub-genre.Once, it was simple ... we had rock. Then came hard rock. Then came heavy metal. And now .... yowza .... death, gloom, speed, etc.I worked in CD shops, for over 15 years .... and out of this list ....1. Led Zeppelin: 88 Million
2. AC/DC: 62 Million
3. Metallica: 54 Million
4. Van Halen: 50 Million
5=. Aerosmith: 39 Million
5=. Guns N' Roses: 39 Million
7. Bon Jovi: 29 Million
8. Def Leppard: 28 Million
9. Ozzy Osbourne: 21 Million
10. Motley Crue: 19 MillionOnly "Metallica" would get classified as a metal band .... the rest ... in the rock section.No, Death Metal isn't dead, but it's not as huge as the Beatles, the Stones, Pink Floyd ... and it never will be. Heck, Yanni has sold over 20 million records .... I don't think any Death Metal band has done that.
It's certainly not dead ... but the genre itself has painted itself into a corner. If it evolves, in any way, shape, or form ... then it becomes another sub-genre.Once, it was simple ... we had rock. Then came hard rock. Then came heavy metal. And now .... yowza .... death, gloom, speed, etc.I worked in CD shops, for over 15 years .... and out of this list ....1. Led Zeppelin: 88 Million
2. AC/DC: 62 Million
3. Metallica: 54 Million
4. Van Halen: 50 Million
5=. Aerosmith: 39 Million
5=. Guns N' Roses: 39 Million
7. Bon Jovi: 29 Million
8. Def Leppard: 28 Million
9. Ozzy Osbourne: 21 Million
10. Motley Crue: 19 MillionOnly "Metallica" would get classified as a metal band .... the rest ... in the rock section.No, Death Metal isn't dead, but it's not as huge as the Beatles, the Stones, Pink Floyd ... and it never will be. Heck, Yanni has sold over 20 million records .... I don't think any Death Metal band has done that.
All the silly sub-genres really reinforce the goofiness of metal. It is the goofiest genre of music out there, moreso than childrens' TV music, because the harder core the metal fan, the more seriously they take it. Spinal Tap made a statement on the goofiness of metal that still cannot be improved upon.
About the only sub-genre of metal that doesn't take itself seriously is Butt Rock. Unless there's Vikingcore Black Doom Foul Odor Butt Rock. You can tell someone take metal too seriously when they start excluding Butt Rock and other established genres from the metal family tree.
, because the harder core the metal fan, the more seriously they take it.
[ I worked in CD shops, for over 15 years .... and out of this list .... Only "Metallica" would get classified as a metal band .... the rest ... in the rock section. [/INDENT]
Click on the link provided and you can see the entire list. I didn't think it was necessary to cut and paste the entire document.Harry: What about Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest? Are they part of that list?
Yes Death Metal is dead, but it has risen from the grave and is now called "Zombie Metal".
Of course Zombie Metal might be a category of "Undead Metal" which also includes "Vampire Metal" and "Mummie Metal", and then you get into the whole "Egyptian Mummie Metal" vs. "South American Mummie Metal". I can see how you might get confused.
Oh dear, now we're discussing what falls into heavy metal and what doesn't... I say heavy metal is everything with distorted (if transistor generated) or overdriven (if tube generated) guitars, minus country. Good definition, isn't it? ;-)
For all those jazz lovers: Now where does jazz start, where does it end? My impression is that while nobody even bothers to think about THAT question some love to dedicate their time on classifying metal (interestingly, NOT being metal fans theirselves). Makes sense? No. But that's how some fellows are it seems.
Wow, you must have missed the Kenny G thread.
Click on the link provided and you can see the entire list. I didn't think it was necessary to cut and paste the entire document.
All the silly sub-genres really reinforce the goofiness of metal. It is the goofiest genre of music out there, moreso than childrens' TV music, because the harder core the metal fan, the more seriously they take it. Spinal Tap made a statement on the goofiness of metal that still cannot be improved upon.
About the only sub-genre of metal that doesn't take itself seriously is Butt Rock. Unless there's Vikingcore Black Doom Foul Odor Butt Rock. You can tell someone take metal too seriously when they start excluding Butt Rock and other established genres from the metal family tree.
Slade. Now there is a band I have not heard in a while. My older brother used to play them. I think I might still have the album with some big guy with his fists out, and Slade written on his fingers. I need to listen to some right away before I forget!
... before Slade turned me towards the Dark Side when I was about 13
Did you listen to these also at the time ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz2J6qm_XAI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoogY-UGio&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdKJWoTLPs
Not death metal, but the precursor of it The early 70's was full of "metal" bands.... these are 1973