• Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I like it when people like music. Don’t care what it is.

    Personally, I am a metalcore, deathcore kind of person. But to each their own.

    • criss_cross@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I love my unpronounceable black metal bands and OSDM bands.

      I also loved going to the Volbeat /Ghost concert a few years back. Variety is fun.

      • Toasticus@piefed.socialEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Because Ghost is not going crazy with solos, screeching/belching/barking lyrics out, isn’t recording their material in some hollowed out and echoed building somewhere. They also aren’t catering to lyrics about how it’d be a wonderful day to be devouring some flesh and fucking the eye sockets of a skull. But you wouldn’t know that with the vocalist doing said belching/barking/screeching lyrics until you read what the song is about.

        So basically, Ghost is not liked because it’s not catering to metal edgelords.

            • Toasticus@piefed.socialEnglish
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              1 month ago

              You and your butt buddies are just offended because I ran your face in your own shit and you cannot handle it. You are a living example as to whom I am referring to and you keep it up.

              You are the idiot here.

        • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.socialEnglish
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          1 month ago

          If someone tried to call a jazz band classical, I’d be similarly annoyed with them. It’s not metal because it doesn’t have any of the hallmarks of the genre and doesn’t sound like metal. And no, that doesn’t mean they’re doing something new and groundbreaking. It means they’re calling themselves the wrong thing.

  • Valsa@mander.xyz
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    1 month ago

    90s demo tapes hit different though. The crustiness really enhances the overall atmosphere of certain genres.

    Ysigim - Ain Soph Or (1994) is a personal favorite. They did a digital rerelease recently and it’s too clean, I don’t like it.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Gotta say, IMO this has nothing to do with being a [insert genre] fan at all. It’s just about not being a pompous, pretentious asshole. 😄 Let people like what they like! But I still have my opinions about what level of musicality and interesting aspects there need to be in the music I listen too. Again, the music ->I<- listen to. Other people can definitely listen to bland mainstream garbage if they want to. 😅 Not all mainstream music is garbage of course, some of it is popular because it’s actually good, so not all awesome music is obscure/indie/whatever. 👍

  • Toasticus@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Hell, they’ll give you this look even when you say you like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and of all bands - Motorhead.

    People have particular subgenres of taste, but who the hell decided at one point that we should evaluate what is metal and what isn’t?

    I have given bands like Cannibal Corpse, Death and sprinkles of other Death/Black metal bands honest tries. To me it’s all just noise and the vocalist guarantees me that I will not like them because it’s just belching and barking lyrics.

      • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Maybe jealousy? They cracked the mold when they popped Lemmy🍰 out. Now the metals are left with only like 2-3 to choose from.

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
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      1 month ago

      Foe me it’s the opposite. I absolutely love cannibal corps. I love cannabis corpse even more. I always feel like these bands make tge music tgey really want and not what people want to hear. There is something honest about the music. If you don’t like it you fon’t like it, obviously. Maiden acdc and megadeth is really boring to me. It’s not that it’s bad or i don’t like it, it’s more that i think: i could listen to worm sheppard or job for a cowboy instead. One of my favourite bands is all shall perish, i liked them before ever seeing them live, but when i saw them i truly realised that these are massive music nerds. His vocal range is crazy, because i assumed they had two singers, the bassist and guitarist seem incredibly talented, and i think they could be really successful doing “good music” but that’s what they do and enjoy and i appreciate that a lot.

    • paultimate14@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      who the hell decided what is metal and what isn’t?

      I recommend freeing oneself from the chains of genre altogether.

      Humans have a tendency to turn descriptive language into prescriptive language. So what started as artists experimenting ends up getting categorized into market demographics that are easier to sell to. Separate communities who, in order to exist at all, need to create rules about who does, and thus who does not, belong. And so what starts as free artistic expression reflects off of the audience and becomes economic and social pressure to conform to these rules. We end up with bands making “metal” music for the sake of being metal, at the cost of true artistic expression.

      Is an artist metal? Is an album metal? Is a song metal? Is a particular instrument in a song metal? Is a particular bar played by a particular instrument metal? Is it even about the music, or is it about other things? The clothes, the color schemes, the fonts, the lyrical subject matter, the community? Does any of it actually matter?

      • zo0@programming.devEnglish
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        1 month ago

        It’s only metal if I like it, anything heavier is just noise, anything softer is poser

      • crashex@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Thank you, this needed saying! It would be nice if we could return to just playing music without worrying at all what genre it is.

  • deft@lemmy.wtf
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    1 month ago

    Let’s be real most metal blows. And all your different types of cores is just so you can collect more and claim this growly metal is better than that.

    Tool fucking sucks