Do you say "heavy metal" or just "metal"?

[Cythraul]

wat

 

[Tonka Time]

I've had kids that like rock reply with "Hell Militia? You actually like and listen to a band called Hell Militia!?"

I thought being a complete pussy was still frowned upon, I guess not.

 

[metal_wrath]

I've had kids that like rock reply with "Hell Militia? You actually like and listen to a band called Hell Militia!?"

I thought being a complete pussy was still frowned upon, I guess not.

lol, agreed.

 

[METchildrenALIofCAbodom]

I say Heavy Metal when refering to some more mainstream bands of the 80's, otherwise it's Metal (and its many subgenres)

 

[razoredge]

I say Heavy Metal when refering to some more mainstream bands of the 80's, otherwise it's Metal (and its many subgenres)

good job getting it backwards, in the 80's mainstream bands were "metal" and the heavier bands were heavy metal and then there was Thrash [twopalmssquarelyonforehead]

 

[beast from the east]

"Metal" is obviously a shortened version of "Heavy Metal", so I consider them synonymous, but since "Heavy Metal" has come to take on connotations of what could also be called "Traditional Metal" or "Classic Metal" it is no longer convenient or perhaps even coherent to refer to non-"classic" subgenres by the original term.

I suppose the same thing happened to "Rock 'n' Roll", where the original term now refers primarily to the originators of rock music and one must refer to prog/folk/jazz/etc. rock bands as simply "Rock" in order to be understood.

This.

 

[Tonka Time]

I just pause for a long time, take a sip of wine, and reply with "Satan."






Then I go rape a dude in the ass...



Get it........he's gay...........

 

[GameFreac]

My Grandfather used to call it "Cold Steel"

"You still listenin to that "Cold Steel" music?"

Sigh.... "yeah"

"Sounds like bloody noise if you ask me"

"Ok good"

This thread is awesome.

 

[Rommyali]

Yeah, to me "heavy metal" is a specific sub-genre while saying only "metal" incudes all kind of metal music. And since I do not only like "heavy metal" I usually say only "metal" and included in that is everything from Morbid Angel and Anaal Nathrakh to Megadeth and Therion.

I agree with this.