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Sunforged@lemmy.ml 21 hours agoThe lines are often so close that the bands themselves don’t care between the distinction. I think the only time it’s obvious are when the bands make weed culture apart of their identity, like Belzebong.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
I disagree with this. At best, this is a square-rectangle situation. I’d agree that many, maybe even most, stoner metal bands are also doom metal bands, but the vast majority of doom metal bands are not stoner metal. No savvy person would refer to Thou as stoner metal.
And counterintuitive as it sounds, what a band calls themselves actually does not matter at all. Genres are descriptive, not prescriptive; if Depeche Mode came out today and called themselves a black metal band it wouldn’t make their music not synthpop/dark wave.
Sunforged@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Regardless I stand by doom metal fitting Yoda better than Vader.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I definitely think Vader is a better fit for specifically Epic Doom Metal rather than traditional doom metal.