Favourite style of Metal/Rawk

and feel free to argue what bands belong in what genre

stop stop stop the madness

Currently the Doom/Stoner/Drone/Post Metal genre I guess. Alternative Metal/Grunge and Industrial in my youth.

Louis's just pissed off there's no Oceansize option.

Mind you he's getting into metal now. ILM can shape his future listening!

oceansize/youthmovies progressive british hard rock movement stands to take over music

and what bands are at the forefront of that apart from Oceansize?

Trying to decide where to place my weirdo-metal leanings, since there is no category for weirdometal.

Actually, if there was a Foetus option, I'd vote that.

Oceansize are a band apart, HGN.

so the progressive british hard rock movement consists of one band?

I mentioned Youthmovies, did I not?

As soon as I figure out the intersection point between SYL, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Ulver, Korplikaani (Yeah, pretty sure I spelled that wrong), and Fantomas, I'll get back to you all on this one.

xposts, obv.

Actually, yeah, whatever genre Mr. Bungle's in.

God, I don't know. Can't we love all genres? Can't we just love music regardless of genre?

"Trying to decide where to place my weirdo-metal leanings, since there is no category for weirdometal."

Wikipedia listed avant-garde metal but I didn't include it as I thought people would say no such thing existed and was utterly ridiculous.

U WERE RONG ;_;

Someone will be along to say it's ridiculous soon.

Sorry, John.

I can't work out what the difference between Viking Metal and Black Metal are? Obviously there are some BM bands that are Viking and some that aren't. Is Enslaved Viking or BM?

Metal I like: Electric Wizard, Sigh, Emperor, Bal Sagoth, Rhapsody, Manowar. I guess they don't really all fit in any style.

I can't work out what the difference between Viking Metal and Black Metal are?

Mostly lyrical content, but I feel that the "Viking Metal" I've heard is a bit slower and less.... bleak? depressing?

Wikipedia says

"Viking metal is known as either a type of metal music or as a cross-genre reference usually used to describe the lyrical and thematic elements of bands rather than the music itself. The bands associated with Viking metal cover a broad range of musical genres and influences, such as folk metal, thrash metal, death metal, black metal, and power metal."

Lyrics are shit.

Kick ass Black Metal lyrics :

TEN THOUSAND TROLLS HARD AS ROCK COLD AS ICE
OH, THEY RAN WHEN I ROSE TO FACE THEM
TEN HUNGRY WAVES THEY SWALLOWED MY SHIP
OH, I STEADILY WALKED HOME (AND I ONLY GOT WET ON MY FEET)

"Kick ass" Viking Metal lyrics :

Welcome to the hall of death
Great Odin we hail him
Come in, enjoy the glorious afterlife, my friend
Here we fill the ranks of Tyr
Battle is our way
Every morning day and night till the winter fiercest come

My favorite is whatever category DHG, Virus and Ved Buens Ende+++++ fits in.

(And Aura Noir and the "blacker" variations on thrash should really win too)

If I'm in love with that new Angelic Process album, where do I vote?

80s glam metal.

Stop.

"If I'm in love with that new Angelic Process album, where do I vote?"

I woud say that would come under doom/drone

Don't you get confused logging in and out with all these account?

accounts

MRZBW, I prefer the Viking lyrics to the BM lyrics tbh.

why is there is no option for Canadian Werewolf True Pitch Black Metal, this twisted pollstarter seems not twisted but merely unaware

I forgot "battle metal" as well. I'm useless.

What will geir pick!

Don't like the list 'cuz it lumps doom/stoner in with drone/post. Love the former, not so much the latter. Go with NWOBHM.

No complaints about goth metal not being in there (yet).

There aren't any complaints about it not being in there because it is in there.

Oh so it is. I didn't see it earlier.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Get those votes in you damn metalheads.

Toss-up between Doom/etc & Grindcore.

Xhuxk once opined that "It can be argued that metal actually peaked before it even had a name", and I'm inclined to agree with that. Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, The Stooges, Uriah Heep, etc.: Giants all, and they all debuted before May '71, when Metal Mike Saunders officially gave the genre its name. And that's good enough for me. Proto-metal it is.

But I also love me huge portions of Classic and AOR Metal, and lesser portions of Speed- and Black- and Doom-Metal. And probably the '70s-Heavy/Blues (whatever that is.)

A Funk Metal conundrum: Most classic funk bands dabbled in metal and did a damn fine job. And ditto metal bands who could play as funky as they wanted (even if only accidentally.) So, then how come Funk Metal sucks immensely?

Because they were doing it on purpose, tagging it for something you-ought-to-consume-because-it-was-once-thought-new-and-hip. Anyway, that's the way I remember it. The Dan Reed Network. Extreme. Electric Somethingorother. When you get purposeful on creating a hybrid genre and specifically defining and telling people about it, as if it's a new plate of squid-in-ink-juice on the menu, things go downhill fast.

People obsessed with naming and defining ever more thinly sliced microniches of heavy metal -- or any other flavor of pop music -- are usually in the business of outlining decadence. Even though they don't know it.

Funk metal really did suck, didn't it!

Like MVB, I'm going with Proto-Metal (whatever that may be). (OK, I'll come up with my own ass-backwards definition and say that P-M ranks would be filled with the likes of the MC5, the Stooges, Alice Cooper, the NY Dolls, '70s Aerosmith, etc. Likewise, the Zep, Sab & Purps, would of course be included. Oh, and Hendrix, anc Cream, and Blue Cheer, and so on and so forth.)

That's exactly what I meant. I know there's a lot of fans of that stuff who would complain it wasn't included.

Black Sabbath and Deep Purple would be classic metal to me(maybe not others?)
Who knows what you would call Led Zep because they hated being called Heavy Metal didn't they? But I'm sure plenty would consider them classic metal too.
Possibly i should've included a "classic rock" option? Oh well I'd say that's what the 70's heavy/blues* is anyway. Which was included for xhukk and gorge really.

*couldn't think of a better term,sorry.

Decided Black Metal was my closest option.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

See? I knew all that talk about doom/drone hitting hipster critical mass was just bullshit.

I wonder who the joker was voting for funk metal?!

You people need to listen to some proper metal.

Post metal is, by definition, not metal.

Maybe all the votes were for doom or stoner

Which was included for xhukk and gorge really.

I didn't vote. I see it was a wise policy.

Metal genres ranked (by me) :

Classic Metal (priest,Dio etc)
NWOBHM
Proto-Metal
70s Heavy/Blues Rock
A.O.R.
Thrash/Speed Metal
Power Metal
Progressive/Symphonic Metal
Black Metal
Viking Metal
80s Glam Metal
Grindcore
Doom/Stoner/Drone/Post Metal
Death Metal
80s Heavy/Blues Rock
Metalcore
Alternative Metal/Grunge
Funk Metal
Industrial Metal
Gothic Metal
Nu-Metal

this guy

Doom/Stoner/Drone/Post Metal

What does this mean? All the stoner metal I reviewed for paying slots in the mainstream press had nothing to do with post metal (what's that?) and drone. The large number of stoner metal CDs I listened to were retro, even when they missed the target.

The reactionary ILRolling Metal "fan" has always metaphorically been akin to someone who slips back onto the battlefield to bayonet the wounded, or cheat at a straightforward game of cards by substituting something hidden up the sleeve for a bad or mediocre hand.

What the hell are you talking about?

I have no idea, but bayoneting the wounded is a service to mankind.

Helps take care of overpopulation, provides good fertilizer.

Still no Geir metal vote?

Maybe he was one of the AOR votes.

What the hell are you talking about?

What I'm talking about.

Yeah. Of course. That explains everything! I totally get your cryptic and insulting statement now.

Come on George just this once give someone a straight answer!

Over 50 votes!! I'm surprised at the winning margin it has to be said.

"I wonder who the joker was voting for funk metal?!"

I skimmed the poll, decided it was kinda bullshit, and figured no one else would vote for funk metal.

Poll Skimming: C or D?

I'd be more interested in the breakdown between stoner/Doom and post-metal/drone. I suspect that would be more telling.

Poll skimming— S/D!

xpost si

If there was a poll on the breakdown for the 4 genres it would probably get about 3 votes this time.
I would expect most votes were for doom and stoner though and a couple each for the others.

What the hell are you talking about?

What I'm talking about.

-- Gorge, Friday, August 24, 2007 1:23 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

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Yeah. Of course. That explains everything! I totally get your cryptic and insulting statement now.

-- Jeff Treppel, Friday, August 24, 2007 1:33 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

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Come on George just this once give someone a straight answer!

-- Herman G. Neuname, Friday, August 24, 2007 1:44 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

It means what it means:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000025IQA.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

i like the gay kind

AOR?

Who voted metalcore?

And I finally found out what AOR stood for a week or so ago. I always thought it stood for Adult Orientated Rock.

Ha! I missed this one. But it doesn't look like my vote was needed.

Haha true. I'm still surprised at the lack of votes for bm and dm though.