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xGhostchantx posted...
Slipknot doesn't (though bear in mind I've only heard up to 3.0) qualify as metal metal because its song structure and riffing type is not metal,

it is rock. It is built around standard hard rock power chords instead of riffs, and frequently contains non-metal elements such as rapping and turntablism. Many bands around them are the same; Mudvayne, Nothingface, etc. A7X is more metal than Slipknot. 235's pinned post has more info.

xGhostchantx posted...
Slipknot doesn't (though bear in mind I've only heard up to 3.0) qualify as metal metal because its song structure and riffing type is not metal, it is rock. It is built around standard hard rock power chords instead of riffs, and frequently contains non-metal elements such as rapping and turntablism. Many bands around them are the same; Mudvayne, Nothingface, etc. A7X is more metal than Slipknot. 235's pinned post has more info.

Its song structure is not metal? How so? Intro verse chorus verse chorus guitar solo chorus. It's standard song structure.

And if the extra instrument(s) disqualify it then why is any band with a keyboard also not metal? Because you've arbitrarily decided some instruments outside the core guitar/drum setup are or are not metal? What about symphonic death metal? If Fleshgod Apocalypse used a turntable in one of their songs do they suddenly become not metal?
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OhhhJa posted...
You're arguing with the wrong guy then. I never once said this. At least pay attention to who it is youre arguing with
So you agree Slipknot and Nu Metal are metal then.
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man101 posted...
Its song structure is not metal? How so? Intro verse chorus verse chorus guitar solo chorus. It's standard song structure.

Not necessarily, but often. It's about how it's designed around a particular element in numetal -- its riffing. Its riffing structures are not the same and it's clearly evident when you listen to it. They are most often built around simple power chords; metal is not -- it's built around 3 or 4 specific riffs instead of the one power chord scale evidenced in most numetal bands like Slipknot and Mudvayne.

man101 posted...
And if the extra instrument(s) disqualify it then why is any band with a keyboard also not metal? Because you've arbitrarily decided some instruments outside the core guitar/drum setup are or are not metal? What about symphonic death metal? If Fleshgod Apocalypse used a turntable in one of their songs do they suddenly become not metal?

No, but that just served as an additional example of something in numetal that's untoward in metal. I don't care much about that point myself though, I think Strapping Young Lad have done it too.
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man101 posted...
So you agree Slipknot and Nu Metal are metal then.
Yeah... like I said... I never once even said anything about this. I even like some nu metal like SOAD but I dont like slipknot. So can you shut the fuck up now and let the grown ups talk about metal?
xGhostchantx posted...
Not necessarily, but often. It's about how it's designed around a particular element in numetal -- its riffing. Its riffing structures are not the same and it's clearly evident when you listen to it. They are most often built around simple power chords; metal is not -- it's built around 3 or 4 specific riffs.

No, but that just served as an additional example of something in numetal that's untoward in metal. I don't care much about that point myself though, I think Strapping Young Lad have done it too.
So power metal isn't metal then because it's also based around power chords right?
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OhhhJa posted...
Yeah... like I said... I never once even said anything about this. I even like some nu metal like SOAD but I dont like slipknot. So can you shut the fuck up now and let the grown ups talk about metal?
You're literally the first person in the topic who said that a bunch of the previously mentioned bands weren't acceptable answers but ok.
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man101 posted...
So power metal isn't metal then because it's also based around power chords right?

No because it's not, lol. Power metal does the same thing -- it's built around a few particular riffs, but often taken to excess.
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xGhostchantx posted...
No because it's not, lol.
Ok that's all I needed to know about your logical reasoning skills, thanks.
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man101 posted...
You're literally the first person in the topic who said that a bunch of the previously mentioned bands weren't acceptable answers but ok.
I meant acceptable in terms of me not liking them not that they weren't metal but keep it up with the strawman arguments i guess. I even told you that was tongue in cheek and not meant to be taken seriously but clearly you were very offended lol
If we're going with loose definition. Then I would say Counterparts
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xGhostchantx posted...
You might be interested in the more atmospheric/progressive kinda hardcore subgenres like sludge and stoner. Try stuff like maybe Kyuss, early Neurosis, and Cult of Luna.
oh ye, already a fan of all three. loved when Cult of Luna teamed up with Julie Christmas, was a big fan of hers for quite a long while.
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this little 3-way 'argument' has been very cute btw, let's see how long it can keep going
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ReturnOfFa posted...
this little 3-way 'argument' has been very cute btw, let's see how long it can keep going
It's over because Ghostchant clearly doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about and is just vomiting random incoherent music-sounding explanations for his opinion. I'm done engaging with him. "Metal is based on riffs." That's some advanced music theory shit right there.
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xGhostchantx posted...
Numetal.

It's not metal , though. Like nusalt is not salt, it's a salt subtitute.
A salt is a compound composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the overall electric charge is neutral. Table salt, sodium chloride, is one kind of salt. Nusalt, which is usually potassium chloride, is another kind of salt.
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captpackrat posted...
A salt is a compound composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the overall electric charge is neutral. Table salt, sodium chloride, is one kind of salt. Nusalt, which is usually potassium chloride, is another kind of salt.
But it's not TRVE SALT though don't you understand?
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Don't mention any obscure trve cvlt black metal bands like judas priest or megadeth or man101 will get really upset
OhhhJa posted...
Don't mention any obscure trve cvlt black metal bands like judas priest or megadeth or man101 will get really upset
I'm not sure where in anything I said you got the impression I don't like obscure bands
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I guess I'm more old school, because I really like Deep Purple, the granddaddy of all metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQGstnfTmAk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q88koeaqrEg
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Rammstein

ParanoidObsessive posted...
I will acknowledge that Rammstein are really good.

And they're right up there with Nine Inch Nails for having the best live concert performances ever.


Seen them live twice. They really make other concert experience as seem mundane by comparison.
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ReturnOfFa posted...
this little 3-way 'argument' has been very cute btw, let's see how long it can keep going

Yeah I'm not surprised a 'what is your favorite metal band' discussion turned into a gatekeeping contest
BADoglick to the Max!
How about instead of "what is your favorite metal band, and what is or is not metal" the topic could instead be "What is your favorite metal band, and post metal songs you like"?

I'm gonna keep doing it even if you all arent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40PMzd-xjos

Bloodshot Dawn. The Drummer/Backup singer looks a lot like one of Schmen's old buds from highschool. Dude is doing 60 years for some heinous shit now.
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I remember lurking the metal board back in the day for some reason (I guess this was when I still thought I'd like to get more into metal) and they absolutely HATED nu metal. I do think most nu metal sucks but it definitely reeked a bit of trying to exclude "bad" stuff. Of course not every nu metal band sounds like the same thing, there are some I probably get it when people say that isn't really metal, but some I'd probably disagree. That board also treated some metal encyclopedia site as the word of god but I don't think there's any true authority on what is metal.

On the other end of the spectrum though, I find it a bit silly that Wikipedia evidently thinks the likes of Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith are metal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music

bachewychomp posted...
I remember lurking the metal board back in the day for some reason (I guess this was when I still thought I'd like to get more into metal) and they absolutely HATED nu metal. I do think most nu metal sucks but it definitely reeked a bit of trying to exclude "bad" stuff. Of course not every nu metal band sounds like the same thing, there are some I probably get it when people say that isn't really metal, but some I'd probably disagree. That board also treated some metal encyclopedia site as the word of god but I don't think there's any true authority on what is metal.

On the other end of the spectrum though, I find it a bit silly that Wikipedia evidently thinks the likes of Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith are metal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music
You're probably thinking of Encyclopedia Metallum, which is the elitist douchebag metalhead bible. They won't even include a lot of artists and the reviews on there are hilarious. A band dares to include clean vocals on one track and half the reviews say something to the effect of, "mainstream pop music garbage, 2/10."

You're also correct that Nu Metal bands don't sound the same. It's just an arbitrary label that was slapped on a handful of bands in the 2000s that didn't neatly fit into pre-existing categories and the fact that a lot of them found mainstream popularity really chapped the asses of the diehard metalheads. There's literally no identifiable common element in all Nu Metal bands and any attempt to create a well defined classification which encompasses every band that has ever been called Nu Metal ends up covering a lot of other bands that are considered "real metal."
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Yeah nu metal bands share some similarities but bands like deftones, slipknot, and linkin park sound pretty much nothing like each other. But if you were a metal band from the late 90s-early 2000s and you used a lot of drop tuned power chords and relied little on leads you were gonna be labeled as nu metal

Also, MA doesnt exclude bands based on clean vocals or else prog and power would be absent. They pretty much just exclude all nu metal and most metalcore and yeah... it's edgelord shit. I'll take good nu metal over the lamest cheesy generic power metal bands pretty much every time
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/68c56714.jpg

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I dont listen to metal but when my brother moved out he left his Amorphis-Tales from the Thousand Lakes cd and I listened to it all the time while I worked out and rode my bike.
I bet party cannon is the best band in the line up.
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Eluveitie has been my most listened to band for many years in a row according to Spotify but I tend to give the honours to Moonsorrow, who are my go to band while hiking.

Also lol at Linkin Park being metal.
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drizzt_rocks posted...
Eluveitie has been my most listened to band for many years in a row

I saw them open for Bodom one time.

Not a huge folk metal gal, but it was pretty cool to see them live. I remember a lady playing hurdy gurdy or some equally ridiculous instrument, and I was drunk enough to think it was pretty fuckin neat.
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If i have to listen to folk metal, it's usually early ensiferum or moonsorrow. Self titled ensiferum is the goat folk metal album though
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man101 posted...
It's over because Ghostchant clearly doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about and is just vomiting random incoherent music-sounding explanations for his opinion. I'm done engaging with him. "Metal is based on riffs." That's some advanced music theory shit right there.
I suggest being less mad about these things, even if he was being illogical. Have a laugh, it's silly. I asked him the same questions, let it go, and we shared some bands. Oh well!
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ReturnOfFa posted...
I suggest being less mad about these things, even if he was being illogical. Have a laugh, it's silly. I asked him the same questions, let it go, and we shared some bands. Oh well!
Contrary to how I may sound I'm not and never was mad at all. I just have the text equivalent of resting bitch face.
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This is what you'll have to listen to after too much death metal
https://youtu.be/wsdy_rct6uo?si=uTTdEkOV_cPk9y7r
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captpackrat posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/68c56714.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4b39872b.jpg
This has to be satire. You can't read any of those band names.
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man101 posted...
Contrary to how I may sound I'm not and never was mad at all. I just have the text equivalent of resting bitch face.
Aight well, in that case, everyone had a very nice little metal chat. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/67683d4c.jpg
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Realthuddydrumz posted...
I saw them open for Bodom one time.

Not a huge folk metal gal, but it was pretty cool to see them live. I remember a lady playing hurdy gurdy or some equally ridiculous instrument, and I was drunk enough to think it was pretty fuckin neat.

I saw Eluveitie live 3 times and it was amazing all times.

I only saw Bodom live once but I wasn't paying attention since I looked to my side and Jari Maenpaa was rocking out next to me so had to chat with him.
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CyborgSage00x0 posted...
This has to be satire. You can't read any of those band names.

That is the joke about death metal: Not only does it all sound the same, all the band names are the same too.
I feel like I need to put something here, or else I am one of those weird people who think that having no signature is a character trait.
Iron Maiden.

Ghost has been rising in my personal ranks for a while now.
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Dikitain posted...
Not only does it all sound the same
I remember thinking this back when I didn't listen to any death metal.
I don't listen to metal much so I guess SoaD wins by default because a few of their songs spring to mind. I usually think more about individual songs than bands as a whole.
Hi
Avenged Sevenfold
SoaD
Linkin Park (to spite the other poster being a genre elitist)
Twenty One Pilots (to further spite the previous user)
In Flames
Metallica

Other than that I don't fully listen to all out screamo.
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  1. Black Sabbath
  2. Slayer
  3. Danzig/Misfits/Samhain
  4. Type O Negative
  5. Faith No More
  6. Death
  7. Bolt Thrower
  8. Graveyard
  9. Yob
  10. Sepultura
Entity13 posted...
Ghost has been rising in my personal ranks for a while now.
They did a song about a goat, so that scores some points with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyxrzUe_TDM

Kiss the Gogoat!
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/98a28c8d.jpg

But I really like their sort of 70's metal sound.

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Minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
Realthuddydrumz posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8c338da9.jpg

Hell yeah dude

I love Avril Lavigne
Yeah right what did she have, a bong hit transplant?
NickMullen posted...
Hell yeah dude

I love Avril Lavigne

I am not a dude, and I dont get the joke. 0/10 post.
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Other good metal bands

Agnostic Priest
Gangergar Elder Eelaleelal
Gugnugmug Ulugdug
Fuckface Academy
Sausage Assassin
Financially R***ed
Smugly Dismissed
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Realthuddydrumz posted...
Other good metal bands

Agnostic Priest
Gangergar Elder Eelaleelal
Gugnugmug Ulugdug
Fuckface Academy
Sausage Assassin
Financially R***ed
Smugly Dismissed
I understood that reference
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