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The different subgenres of heavy metal.
It's always bothered me how there are so many different subgenres of heavy metal music. They all just seem to be based in slight differences in instrumentation and composition that only those trained in musical theory can really recognize. It all just seems so arbitrary and stupid, and what makes it worse is how so many people are so snobby about these minute differences. Does it really matter if I don't immediately recognize the difference between post-punk-grunge-core and post-grind-power-thrash metal? Just let me enjoy my fucking music.
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how would that be metalOh for fuck's sake, Nyktos.
You are more complaining about sub-sub-genre, sub-sub-sub-genres and fusion genres.
The major sub-genres of heavy metal are fairly well defined.
Note the only thing metal about post-punk-grunge-core is grunge since grunge has parts of doom metal in it and both grunge and the any genre that has the core suffix is punk so the example genre is highly redundant.
or EDM
It's called hyperbole. None of the genres I mentioned were real, it was just an example of how ridiculous they all sound to me. I don't know the difference between Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Power Metal, etc. except that maybe they'd sound like different songs. To me, it's just metal.
A few things
Forgot that it also use core as a suffix.
I'm still trying to figure out how someone can confuse death metal and power metal. The style of vocals alone should make it easy to differentiate between the two.
I'll admit that there is overlap between various styles of metal especially those that share some sort of musical heritage but the styles try to stand out in some way.
Finally I knew it was hyperbole but egregious genre screw ups are a minor pet peeve, sorry I forgot a smilie at the end.
I've had this pic, figure it might fit into the conversation: