Coolest Genre Name Ever

[General Zod]

The band, Cult of Luna seems to be getting high praise in a number of circles. I began looking for info on their music. After hearing an MP3 from their latest CD, I was curious to learn if they are an artist whose music The End Records typically stocks. Sure enough, they are. In The End's description of the band, they refer to their music as "Apocalyptic Noisecore". Apocalyptic Noisecore? That's friggin awesome. Definitely the coolest desription I've ever read.

If you're interested, you can hear an MP3 at:

http://www.cultofluna.com/

Very cool stuff indeed.

Zod

 

[Nate The Great]

The term "apocalyptic noisecore" came from Neurosis many years ago. Cult of Luna is good, but they really need to step away from the strong Neurosis influences and get more of a style of their own. With that said, they do have one of the best releases of the year. It's on Earache.

 

[Nate The Great]

My favorite genre name is the term Terrorizer gave Mistress a year or so ago: dirty needle-core.

 

[J.]

Cult of Luna is good, but like npearce said, they need to step out of Neurosis' overwhelming shadow.

 

[Erik]

Bleh. I've seen 'em twice live before they were all mainstream. They're from Umeå like me.

 

[Hell Mike]

They should die. Erik likes them though.

 

[Erik]

They're not exactly bad, but I have about a trillion other albums to purchase before I'd bother. Also, they look funny live with short hair and three-piece drumkit and all.

 

[Hell Mike]

bla bla bla excuses excuses. Just admit that your favourite band is gay.

 

[bloodfiredeath]

If the genre name has 'noise' or 'core' in it, I immediately cringe (and generally want nothing to do with the music). Put them together? And add apocalyptic to make it sound cool? Crikey! Count me out...

 

[JayKeeley]

I always thought the name, 'porn-core', was pretty cool. And 'gore-core'. Thing is, it gets all so confusing and so most people just tend to think of it all as 'shit-core'.

 

[J.]

well people commonly assume that any genre with "core" in its title has an association with hardcore, so they automatically think "OMG'S THEY'RE LIKE SICK OF IT ALL!!!! LOLERZ", which couldn't be more ignorant. Grindcore has nothing to do with hardcore. Unless you think early Carcass sounds like 25 Ta Life.

 

[bloodfiredeath]

The first three Sick Of It All albums rule.

 

[Ayeka]

I think the coolest genre name has to be the one I invented for one of my older bands - African American Communist Vomit Metal

 

[NAD]

I wanna form a band and label us as Sweat Metal.

Oh yeah, and Gay Punk is probably my favorite genre name. There are punk groups that actually take the time out there to sound gay, and call their music as such. That is hysterical.

 

[bloodfiredeath]

I usually hear it being referred to as queercore. Everyone needs to hear Pansy Division... they're great!

 

[Demonspell]

It may sound ridiculous, especially to those skeptical concerning the "-core" genres (count me in), but at least the words apocalyptic noisecore makes sense and fits the punishing atmosphere, unlike some of the others listed here...but isn't that the point of this thread? Or is my lack of -core knowledge showing?

 

[Dead_Lioness]

...speaking of... you know what i hate ?
all those promos i used to get in the mail, some unknown bands that printed out an info page, and they would write something stupid like :

"we play progressive black metal with melodic death guitars, some doom touches, and alot of thrash influences, we also play brutal core, grind, and we combine the atmospheric gothic metal together with folk music"



uh... yeah.

 

[HarmonyDies....]

I guess if a bunch of fruit were to form a band, they'd call it Apple-core?

HA!

=(

 

[Black Winter Day]

...speaking of... you know what i hate ?
all those promos i used to get in the mail, some unknown bands that printed out an info page, and they would write something stupid like :

"we play progressive black metal with melodic death guitars, some doom touches, and alot of thrash influences, we also play brutal core, grind, and we combine the atmospheric gothic metal together with folk music"



uh... yeah.

yeah we get a lot of stuff like that too... one was at least a paragraph long of genre description.

needless to say, the cd wasn't very original

 

[HarmonyDies....]

Heheheehee. It's true.