seriously, all of these categories for metal are overrated and ridiculous.
How does one clearly define the difference between them? They're all metal. They should be regarded as such
generally, and this doesn't apply to all people by any means, but the people who sit there and come up withese genres, or try and determine what genre a band falls into, have never played music and/or have never listened to music. Generally speaking, people hear music, a wall of sound that hits them. Not many people take the time to sit there and listen to how the instruments, notes, sounds etc all intertwine and work with each other to create certain types of music.Agreed. I hate how people need to put bands in catagories.
" Nah, that's not true supersonicultravioletraymetal maaaaaan, you don't know music maaaaaaaaan. "
agreed. crap genre anyway..
seriously, all of these categories for metal are overrated and ridiculous.
How does one clearly define the difference between them? They're all metal. They should be regarded as such
I mentioned it, I think it had a major influence on thrash metal, that's about it. I can't see it going any further, there aren't many albums that influence the whole concept of metal as a whole. Reign In Blood is certainly not one of them.
Some of simmo1's favourite metal albums.
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Van Halen - Van Halen
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion I and II
Pretty much any metal album from the 80s is f**king brilliant.
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Black Label Society - Mafia
Hammerfall - Crimson Thunder
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
Alchemist - Tripsis
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Judas Priest - Judas Priest
Nightwish - Once
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Shadows Fall - The War Within
Sirenia - Nine Destinies and a Downfall
Tool - Undertow
Guns n' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
Dream Theater - Images and Words
3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Ozzy Ozbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Cradle are almost their own sort of genre imo...they don't really sound like anyone else but you'd loosely classify them as some sort of black. Obviously their earlier stuff fits more into that category and today you can still see that background in them.
Another band that doesn't sound like anyone else even moreso is our very own Aussie band, Alchemist![]()
PS: Eele has pretty good taste! SYL/Devi metal! \m/
Opeth, CoB, Helloween and many others I rate too!
Because when you actually process the music and listen to it there are distinct differences eg: Thrash Metal and Death Metal, thrash metal has more of a punk influence and utilises high pitch vocals with up tempo beats, where as Death Metal uses low gutteral vocals with chaotic riffs and blast beats: the two sound competely different but are spawned from similar influences. Why should be define different beers and different wines? Because it makes it easier to distinguish between different types. It's not that someone completely over analyses the music to pigeon hole it into some completely obscure genre, bands just tend to form around certain styles based on certain influences. If you don't know a lot about something it's all going to be the same (ie, to me all wine is the same f**king sh*t, red and white). When you actually get into it you start understanding the differences and thus need to categories appropriately.
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side