Nothing is more metal than respecting the right to self-determination and the fun of others. Don’t be close-minded. Enjoy what you enjoy, don’t be a snob, let other people have fun and stop thinking about categories.
Metal genres
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t_berium@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
As a dedicated metal-type autist for over 15 years I am proud to say I’m not on this list. I am the Ambassador, the Professor, the Diplomat. I welcome any and all into the fold and love to help people find their niche. My personal taste leans towards prog, black, and death but my knowledge runs deep and I love to share it.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
I’m not really into metal, but I dabble a bit because I like great guitar playing in any genre, but I appreciate your stance. I’m like you, but with other genres like Classical, Jazz, Blues, World Music, and Classic Rock. There are a lot of gatekeepers in those genres, and I like to guide noobs past them, and into new music they can love.
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
I think I’m “it’s all metal” because I don’t care to give thought to every subgenre of metal. If it sounds good, I like it. I have to laugh at the description though because I do really enjoy melodic death metal and I blame Avatar for that.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
Ne Obliviscaris
DNU@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
cant find myself, garbage list obv.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I have this problem where I love some good metal guitar, but most of the stuff with that kind of guitar also includes vocals reminiscent of Christian Bale’s Batman with a sore throat, which I do not enjoy
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
Try Haunt - he can sing. Same with Night demon
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Have you considered going instrumental?
DaneGerous@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Try Sinergy.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I used to be one or some or all of these.
But some time in the 2010s, or rather over the course of the last 10-15 years, i stopped listening to music by genre and started listening to music by what made me feel good. Like, my phone is filled with music from so many different genres now i can’t really call myself anything in terms of music subculture. I’m a music “generalist”? I listen to anything that sounds good to me and don’t cut myself off from any genre just because it is said genre.
Except pop.
fuck pop.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 hours ago
Yeah I’ve focused more on finding stuff I like, and that happens to primarily be punk music. But there’s a lot of stuff I like and really the only genres that I can’t do are country (it’s just nails on chalkboard for me) and pop (because it’s too over-engineered)
My wife and my oldest enjoy some pop music and I can find the parts I enjoy but it has to be small doses and has to be something with a hint of actual creativity and soul to it
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 11 hours ago
I kinda feel this. Some years ago I was a diehard Hardcore (Techno) and Uptempo enjoyer and would not listen to anything else. Then about one year ago I kinda stopped caring and now I listen to a whole bunch of stuff except pop. Pop is absolutely lame in my opinion. It has nothing that makes a single song stand out from any other. No kicks, no drops, no provocation. It only cares about being liked by the masses.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I think its fair to say i have a favourite genre, or multiple favourites, but that is no longer exclusive or exclusionary. All music is welcome, i will no longer judge a song by its genre.
I attribute the change to having different social groups in my life. When i was in school i was into rock and thwn metal and that was pretty much the only thing i liked. Later i got in with a crowd that was more into techno, dnb, dubstep, house, minimal etc and grew to appreciate it, around the same time i was playing in bands and learning the blues, and got into jazz more recently. Always liked classical because of my piano lessons when i was young. It opened my mind up to so much more.
Except pop :)
Wolf314159@startrek.website 22 hours ago
Hot take: Most metal is just Classical Music II Electric Bugaloo.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I snorted.
The prog purist makes your point to be honest.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’m a fuckin new guy to metal. My best friend got me into Ozzy on high school. Dimmu Borgir live in Oslo with the choir and orchestra finally made harsh vocals click for me. I like thrash, speed, power, melodic, folk, prog, and some select black metal. I try not to support Nazi bands.
PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social 8 hours ago
Trivium, killswitch (with Howard Jones), and dio are all great. Metallica sucks.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 hours ago
Howard Jones is an incredible vocalist. Have you heard his (not so new anymore) new band Light the Torch?
vritrahan@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Little bit of all of these tbh
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
Babymetal & Poppy ftw
Naz@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Now these are real lemmy hours
Btw, it’s all metal
🍻
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 day ago
Metal peaked with the first three black sabbath albums.
Black Sabbath on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath is everything you need to know about metal.
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
^ Classic Metal Purist
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Dude, volume 4 is a masterpiece, with the exception of FX, which is just Iommi stoned out his mind and fucking with his pedalboard. There’s a really good rehash of it done by several artists calls Volume 4 Redux.
The New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal is outstanding. Bands like Haunt (Eric Church), Night Demon, witchcraft and Green Lung are all amazing, have solid sized libraries and are great starting points into other stuff
There are also really cool metal bands out there like Panopticon - he combines black metal and bluegrass with strongly anticapitalistic lyrics.
realitista@piefed.world 22 hours ago
Dude, as someone who moved on from metal after the Black Album, I'm so amazed you have turned me on to 4 bands all of which I really like on first listen. Thank you so much for giving metal a new lease on life for me! I didn't know anyone was making really good thrashy stuff like this any more.
Kinokoloko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Dad is the only one I’d hang out with
meliante@lemmy.pt 22 hours ago
What about the nu-metal peeps, where do we fit in?
kinther@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
theparadox@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Random question - anyone know a good site to buy digital music that pays the artists somewhat decently? I’ve got a few artists I need to get albums from after bailing on Spotify and they aren’t on Bandcamp and don’t has album sales linked to their official sites. Hell, even physical copies of some albums are hard to come by in the US.
I saw “7Digital” mentioned somewhere but I see there multiple listings for the same album at different prices (literally the exact same album, exact same quality) which makes me suspect it’s not as legit as I had hoped.
Tingle@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I tend to use Bandcamp, they have a thing on the first Friday of every month where they give a bigger cut to artists if you buy that day.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
I use tidal - they get a much better chunk out of the profits. There’s another new one out there but I can’t recall it’s nsm
theparadox@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It seems Tidal is streaming only. There is Qobuz but I hear them mentioned by people looking for Hi-Fi. Their streaming service seems to pay higher than average.
I guess I’ll just have to assume the compensation is decent for digital purchases as well. Having Hi-Fi audio quality doesn’t hurt - I can always transcode it if I need to stream or convert it if I need to cram it in a small storage device.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Check out “Rare and Obscure Metal Archives” sometime, very nice
CPMSP@midwest.social 16 hours ago
Uhh no idea where I fit here; Amon Amarth, Devildriver, Machine Head, Fear Factory…Metallica (Black and prior), Megadeth, NIN, and Tool / APC - and so much more.
I think I’m mostly “It’s all good if it’s angry and loud” but I do run across bands and genres on occasion that I just can’t get into.
Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
You are a 1999 Metal Hammer magazine.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’m the “it’s all metal” guy.
simplejack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The classic is just a subgenre of dad.
realitista@piefed.world 22 hours ago
I think that Dad is the casual version of Classic.
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
i dont recognize half the words
Ypsilenna@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
I’m “it’s all metal” but in all genres. I just enjoy listening to whatever track that sparks joy (you definitely wouldn’t like me DJing on your party, lol)
krashmo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Commenting to come back later and check out some of the filth you heathens are into
Broadfern@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Electric Callboy and Ghost.
muhahahaha
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Sorry I listen to mostly metalcore
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I guess I’m a gatekeeper, but only because some guy used “hey babe, I can play Smoke on the Water by Metallica, want to come over and listen?” as a pickup line, and I laughed at him.
Jobe@feddit.org 22 hours ago
I’m the ‘It’s all metal’ guy and I’m proud of it.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m absolutely “the gatekeeper”, but these days I like to keep the gate open and welcome newcomers who are interested in hearing an old man’s ramblings.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
This is where I fit - really obscure tastes, but instead of gate keeping, I’m like a Jehovah’s witness showing up at your door, pushing bands on you if you show even the slightest interest
msage@programming.dev 9 hours ago
I am very interested.
But usually I like one or two songs from one interpreter, there are very few albums I like whole (Wintersun by Wintersun is the main exception, that is amazing from start to end).
So it’s hard for me to find new music that I like.
Bourff@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m the gatekeeper, but I only listen to death, grind and doom. Everything else is more or less bullshit. Especially melodeath.
sykaster@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
That doesn’t seem fun at all. I listen to what I like, independent of genre and just respect people that have different tastes than me. Except gatekeepers, get outta here with that snobby attitude.
KIKILOVE@piefed.social 1 day ago
I only listen to neo-zwinx-slamcore with progressive elements.
serpineslair@lemmy.world 1 day ago
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You’re telling me you never get in a silly mood and put on some In Flames? But only old In Flames, not that new shit.
Redfox8@mander.xyz 21 hours ago
Listening to Tool right now, love 'Maiden but enjoy pre Bruce as much as the rest… NIN, Anthrax, Sick of it All, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Sepultura…must be some kinda metal chameleon circa 90s-00s!
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 19 hours ago
If you like Type O, listen to Woods of Ypres
Redfox8@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
Not heard of them, thanks for the recommendation, that’ll be tonight’s listening sorted!
tino@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
prog purist here. Dream Theater? ewww
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
The “It’s all metal” guy is an astro physicist.
ICastFist@programming.dev 6 hours ago
I feel like I have achieved true metal nirvana since I stopped caring about silly labels. They’re only half useful for finding new stuff anyway. If the music activates my dopamine generators, I like it. The only thing I avoid is gutturals, I don’t want a fucking horror movie creature on the microphone, thank you.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
Honestly, I used to feel the same way for a long long time. I actually ended up getting into got it all vocals through bands like Svalbard, Brutus, thranenkind and enferens
That led to atmospheric black metal. Now I can enjoy bands like Uada but I have to be in the right mood