Solitude
Mr. Nice Guy
Despite me being a metalhead and all, I do have a softspot for Katy Perry... and her music
There's no shame in that. I think all of us have at least one or more songs/artists that fall outside our favourite kinds of music.
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There's no shame in that. I think all of us have at least one or more songs/artists that fall outside our favourite kinds of music.
Edelweiss
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G'zuz you guys really are pedantic with your music sub-sub-sub-genre's I'm sure they sound similar to the umbrella genre? I'm talking about things like Funeral Doom metal, Deathstep, Metalstep, Swaggrotech :wtf:
There was a time I too was into pedantic subgenre's like that.. but then I matured and grew up... (no offense)
Now I listen to everything! spanning all genres.
There was a time I too was into pedantic subgenre's like that.. but then I matured and grew up... (no offense)
Now I listen to everything! spanning all genres.
XbatousaiX
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This man knows what he's talking about listen to him people
Mephisto_Helix
Grump Squad
The only reason I make use of mentioning sub genres is to convey that I listen to that genre is it's entirety ...... a lot of times I have said "I like industrial" and people say but what about such and such which is actually Darkwave. You also have to realise that a lot of bands themselves define their music as one thing and not just something. So If Distorted Memory releases an album and describes it as a foray into tribal idm, who am I to say oh but it's industrial, live with it?
People who are really into music will understand that.
People who are really into music will understand that.
XbatousaiX
New member
Why so serious about sub genres though this is not a personal atack against you. I had to google that shit to find out what they where the average person wont know what Metalstep is and wont care.
Tsar
The thing that should not be
I use to really be into music then I lost touch lol. I barely listen to anything these days I don't know why.
AlienTaker
Whale Masseur
Well like i said i listen to everything but it varies on what mood i'm in the day
But my true Fav band is Linkin Park, met my wife when they came on the scene and asked her on our first date when crawling was playing
But my true Fav band is Linkin Park, met my wife when they came on the scene and asked her on our first date when crawling was playing
FarligOpptreden
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The reason I target sub-genres of metal, is because many people enjoy "lighter" melodic metal while they can't stand extreme metal (like death / black / heavy thrash). The sub-genres of metal have very distinct sounds and styles to them and cater for wildly different tastes. Personally, I've grown bored of most styles of extreme metal and prefer mine melodic and progressive these days.
Solitude
Mr. Nice Guy
I'm 33 years old and I'm a programmer. Ever day I get to work, start up my laptop and the first site that loads is Grooveshark. Then the whole day I will listen to music while programming. In the beginning I just listened to whatever. Then I found places that list the various genres and I thought, hey, why listen to something that I find adequate when I can listen to something that sounds amazing.
So for instance I found doom metal. Then as I listen to the various doom metal bands I find that hmmm there are certain ones with a style that I like more than the others. I did some research and found that they belong to a subgenre of doom metal called funeral doom.
I can pinpoint the exact kind of sound that I like in my music. Do I listen to it all the time? No, but it's my favourite.
Surely I can say that my taste in music has matured in that I've tried many things and found my exact match.
It's funny when people say no offense when they say something offensive. It reminds me of this: https://www.facebook.com/pages/No-o...ng-to-insult-youbut-dont-get-mad/212851344612
I think that my definition of maturity in music is different compared to yours, Edelweiss. I believe that mine includes experience from which I learned and made me know myself better.
As above.
The Voice
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I started out with GnR and Metallica in Std.3 (Gr. 5). One of my friends had an older brother in high school, and gave me a tape (lol!) to listen to. I don't recall listening to or taking an interest in music before then (except for the 80's stuff my parents used to listen to). By Std.5 the same friend had introduced me to Morbid Angel, Slayer and Sepultura. In Std.6 I discovered Black Metal, and the rest is history.
I've expanded my taste in music (in addition to Metal) quite a bit, though: I enjoy whatever sounds good. Hell, I even enjoy EBM, and I've always loved 80's music (there's just something about Pop that grabbed me since I was a youngen).
I've expanded my taste in music (in addition to Metal) quite a bit, though: I enjoy whatever sounds good. Hell, I even enjoy EBM, and I've always loved 80's music (there's just something about Pop that grabbed me since I was a youngen).
The Voice
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Despite me being a metalhead and all, I do have a softspot for Katy Perry... and her music
Well fuck, I do, too... There, I admitted it.
The Voice
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And jazz, too. But the Classical connection is through the heavy use of bass (who'd have thunk it?), the arrangement of the music, and most importantly, the Diminished Fifth (a.k.a. the Tritone, or Devil's Note) - the note that make's people "feel" something when they listen to Metal and Classical specifically.
Edelweiss
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Me too.. Opeth is go to band for melodic and prog fix.
Edelweiss
New member
I agree with The Voice.. I listen to whatever sounds good regardless of genre. Solitude I've never thought of that.. using sub-genres to pinpoint your music "sweetspot" to each his own I guess. I hate it when people use these music sub-genres no one knows about to make themselves seem elite/cool whatever... it reeks of "pretentious highschool teen" durrr I'm so cool with my metalswaggstep. 
/rant over
/rant over
The Voice
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I agree with The Voice.. I listen to whatever sounds good regardless of genre. Solitude I've never thought of that.. using sub-genres to pinpoint your music "sweetspot" to each his own I guess. I hate it when people use these music sub-genres no one knows about to make themselves seem elite/cool whatever... it reeks of "pretentious highschool teen" durrr I'm so cool with my metalswaggstep.
/rant over
Agreed. The "Metalhead Elite" always pissed me off. Walk into a club, and they're all sat in a corner like "we're more Metal than you" because you're not wearing the correct band's shirt, or don't listen to sub-sub-sub-sub-genre X (that sounds like it was recorded in a toilet cubicle - PRODUCTION VALUE, PEOPLE!). Turns out they're usually a bunch of posers, anyway!
FarligOpptreden
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I used to be cvlt and tr00 when it came to metal (especially black) and used to treasure the stuff that sounded fuzzy and that was either released independently or on a collectors label. Since about 5 years ago I rather value good production.
Avatar
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It's funny, I've always gone for the production value with metal, but was far more forgiving with the more mainstream genre's I listen to..
I started really enjoying music at 13 or 14 when my uncle's boyfriend lent me his Live - Throwing Copper cd. That masterpiece got me to appreciate musicality and writing, and I wanted to start playing drums because of that album. Luckily I saw sense and picked up a guitar instead, and I've been playing since.
Because I play, I listen to a wide range of genres. Weird enough, not exactly the ones that I play, though. I listen to relatively mainstream metal (Killswitch Engage, Deftones, Times of Grace, In Flames, Metallica, Alter Bridge), Rock (Rolling Stones, Queen, Muse, Led Zep, Foo Fighters, old Live, Fokofpolisiekar, aKing, Ashes Divide, A Perfect Circle), Prog (Coheed and Cambria, and another band whose name escapes me... something with an 'm'?), Blues (Clapton mostly, especially his Johnson influenced work), a little guitar driven jazz (Eric Johnson), and some pop like Jimmy Eat World, the Cure, old u2, Mumford and Sons, etc.
I also have a soft spot for Katy Perry and her soft spots.
I've learned long ago that genre's are a necessary evil. It does help describe a musical style, but it should always be remembered that genres are descriptive, not prescriptive. aKing has a couple of songs with massive blues influences, Times of Grace does a mean acoustic country, and A Perfect Circle has been all over the place. Genres aren't important enough to get your panties in a knot over, IMHO.
DuckKnuckle
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@Avatar,
You wanted to play drums, but saw sense and picked up a guitar?
How dare you, sir. How dare you.
You wanted to play drums, but saw sense and picked up a guitar?
How dare you, sir. How dare you.
Avatar
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What actually happened was that my best friend at the time suddenly got a set, I still don't know how he twisted his parents' arms. I thought, 'fuck that, I'm not gonna be a copycat', so grabbed my dad's old guitar and got a-learnin'.
DuckKnuckle
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What actually happened was that my best friend at the time suddenly got a set, I still don't know how he twisted his parents' arms. I thought, 'fuck that, I'm not gonna be a copycat', so grabbed my dad's old guitar and got a-learnin'.
Hahaha you didn't want to be a copycat?!
Well that's a new reason to not play drums
My friend showed me the school drumset back when I was 15. My parents bought me my first kit 3 months later for my birthday.
7 years later and I'm still playing and learning
