COB is ranked as.....???????
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┼Victim of the Night┼;7885930 said:
As I said, Bodom is really a fusion of like, 4 or 5 genres. But they do have power metal influences in their sound, IMO.
Here's how I'd classify each album (yeah, I know I said I'd stopped trying... but I actually gave it some thought):
SW - Neoclassical metal, with melo-death and slight black metal influences.
HB - Melo-death/power
FTR - Melo-death/power
HCDR - Melo-death, with slight metalcore and industrial influences
AYDY - Melo-death, with metalcore and thrash influences
BD - Thrash, with metalcore influences
I could care less whether or not Alexi agrees with it. He's wrong here. Genres are necessary in music. It helps to keep things organized, and it helps when trying to look for bands similar to a specific one.Enmity said:
I mean, were I to look for bands like Necrophagist for example... what would be easier? Doing a search for "technical death metal", or "metal that focuses on complex rhythms and song structures, sometimes incorporating influences from jazz and prog-rock"?
bodomafternoon
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bodomafternoon
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Are you fucking drunk or something? About the black people listening to metal yes, I've done, and even seen black people playing metal (Sepultura sounds familiar?), and about Bodom metal as a genre, I am seriously astounded noone has already jumped on you seeing how way less over the top posts by you ahve been flamed to death
I do agree with you that Bodom's style can't be compared to any other band (everytime the discusion about Bodom not beeing original I bring up the question of someone telling me a band that sounds like them nowadays and still have no response), but from there to starting a whole genre there's a lot IMO. Don't take this as an attack or as something personal, I tend to agree with you, but you shocked me this time.
Ever witnessed a black person listening to metal music? I haven't and that's why I don't buy Alexi's joke of COB being gupsy metal. Joke
I just think they're death metal with catchy melodies and guitar-keyboard unisons in solos. True
The closest term today to describe their music is extreme metal. Wikipedia says it all. True
I believe the term Bodom metal will become more or less official in time as they're state of the art in what they do. True
So yea, I take that as attack. It's just sad to see this becoming another thread with every member giving their analyzis what kind of thrash/melodeath/core/punk/heavy/death combo each of COB's albums are. :Smug:
CrazyChris576
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^It's hard to take that as a joke with how prolific black people are in metal. Even besides Sepultura, there's also Suffocation, God Forbid, Killswitch Engage, Sevendust, Madball.....I could keep going, but I won't. (And I really don't care how you feel about the genre classification of the bands I listed, they still play heavy music)
I never have either. I don't really get where that comes from.
┼Victim of the Night┼;7885930 said:
I never have either. I don't really get where that comes from.
I thought black metal was for black people. :Smug: Okay you win.. if you count Brazilians as black 
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Yes, I can see your point... but still, I can't find any bit of power in their music, so I prefer not using the word "power" to subsitute a word that I can't see as suitable to define CoB's genre.
Yesh, and I understand someone is curious to know what genre it may be, I've been there before, but in the end I think we might have to call their music as "metal" only.
And so, until the CoB guys come up and state what specific genre they play, I think it'll be enough.
I mean, if you like some music and you enjoy it, who cares what kind of genre it belongs to? Just as long as you like it, no worries... well, unless some people are afraid to say what music they like, then it's their problem, and lots of people I know are that way but oh well.
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CrazyChris576
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┼Victim of the Night┼;7888485 said:Yesh, and I understand someone is curious to know what genre it may be, I've been there before, but in the end I think we might have to call their music as "metal" only.
And so, until the CoB guys come up and state what specific genre they play, I think it'll be enough.
I mean, if you like some music and you enjoy it, who cares what kind of genre it belongs to? Just as long as you like it, no worries... well, unless some people are afraid to say what music they like, then it's their problem, and lots of people I know are that way but oh well.
In my experience, most metal bands nowadays don't like classifying themselves, and a lot of them HATE the way that genres have been divided and sub-divided based on minutiae. In their eyes, it's all metal. I'm willing to bet the CoB guys feel the same way, and probably moreso because their genre is so widely debated.
And I
at people who are afraid to reveal that they like a certain kind of music. There's a word for that, and it's called elitism. Of course the artist (for example Alexi) feels insulted if an interviewer comes telling him his music is power metal, and that's it. Or speed metal, or whatever. It gives you the impression their every song is the same product. You can't find a very precise word to describe the stuff they do because not only are their albums different, the songs themselves have maybe even more diversity. Can we please close this thread now..
children of COB
Deadnight Drinker
Black thing: you have a weird sense of humor.
Bodom metal: True? Who says that, you? Come back to earth dude. Bodom are good, but not god (and keep in mind I'm the one that always challenges the BD/AYDY haters to come up with a band that sounds like that).
That.
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Liverslapper
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Etheraven
CoB is powermetal (with growling vocals and random influences).
Edit: will I get raped?
