A few thoughts on the evolution of metal.

[Cythraul]

You're never happy, so it goes without saying.

Ok.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

So who's phallic logo decorates your signature?

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Menhir, now shut the fuck up you cockfag.

 

[Lord Kur]

they have talent in making the letter M look like testicles

 

[Cythraul]

So who's phallic logo decorates your signature?

Menhir, but since you've gone and made me feel all insecure about my sig I changed it something less phallic.

 

[Lord Kur]

that one looks exactly like a vagina

 

[Cythraul]

that one looks exactly like a vagina

Not really.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

The top of the sig looks like a pen0r.

 

[Lord Kur]

ahahahaha! it does! a lil peni on top of a big bush woman vagina. how porno!

 

[Zephyrus]

Way to crap up one of the better threads we've had (in the main forum) in recent months.

 

[waif]

Did somebody actually say 'pirate metal'? What the FUCK?

Yes. Someone did.

Way to crap up one of the better threads we've had (in the main forum) in recent months.

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[Mort Divine]

I think the term math metal is more legitimate than viking metal, since it's based on the musical aspect rather than lyrical.

But Viking metal isn't based on lyrical content :zombie:

 

[Zephyrus]

Explain yourself.

 

[Life Sucks]

Of course. That would make Amonth Amarth viking metal, which they sure as hell are not. I know this has already been said 10000000000 times.

 

[Mort Divine]

Explain yourself.

It is a form of folk metal that is made when Scandinavian folk melodies/rhythms/whathave you are infused into the riff work instead of simply the tacking on of folk instruments.

 

[Zephyrus]

But doesn't true folk metal do that anyways?

 

[Mort Divine]

It'd make sense but that isn't so much how it really is.

 

[Cythraul]

It is a form of folk metal that is made when Scandinavian folk melodies/rhythms/whathave you are infused into the riff work instead of simply the tacking on of folk instruments.

Sounds like you pulled that out of your ass. There's no reason to call what you described anything other than Scandinavian folk metal. 'Viking metal' (insofar as the term is useful at all) refers to lyrical content, but viking metal is not a genre.

 

[TylerTheNuke]

Seriously... math metal is not a genre. I will listen to arguments for viking metal,even though I don't buy them, but math metal always can be reduced to technical _____ metal. There's no case where it can't be placed in another genre.

Now, I do not understand "technical X metal" being a genre. DOesn't that just mean it is X genre, but hard to play? In which case, it would belong in X genre. I think math metal is a more legitimate genre then any technical genres.

Think, what genre is meshuggah in? Not death metal, not black metal, not grindcore, doom metal, or whatever. What about dillinger escape plan? Not in any conventional genres either (maybe hardcore at a stretch). Fredrick thorenedals special defects? We could just classify them all as avant garde, I guess.

 

[entanglement]

^ I agree to the extent that i dont care much for what has passed for folk metal so far. But i think that 95% of what passes as folk influenced metal today is anything but that. I havent yet heard a folk band to fully incorporate the folk music with metal,what i´ve yet heard is only some kind of pseudo-"put a flute here and a jews harp there" folk,putting one or two riffs that sound "folky" in the song and call it folk metal. I think that´s a genre which has a great potential if someone truly talented should take it on.

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