Explanation of Feelings in Music + Genres

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

Music Tag Explanations

I typed that up out of boredom, but I actually think it could be pretty useful. I might change it if I can get some revisions (from you guys or others), but I think it's good the way it is.

For instance, if you haven't gone to that link, this is how I explain black metal:

black metal: Metal music focusing on an "evil", cold, and detached sound achieved through generally poor production value and other techniques solitary to the genre. The definition of black metal tends to vary from person to person, but the defining characteristics of most black metal bands are tremolo-picked guitar phrases, very little technicality in terms of songwriting, and usually screamed vocals.

 

[Killbot]

Nice one, that must have taken fucking ages.

 

[Demilich]

This'd probably be pretty useful to someone newer to metal. I went years without knowing what some of these things meant!

 

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

It took a few weeks...I did a few a day for days.

Thanks though.

 

[More Murder]

for the already standard genres (black, death) the definitions are ok but the other ones are kind of gay (intelligent? catchy?).

 

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

Yeah but I just use those tags to give my music tagging a bit of flavor so it's not just DEATH METAL, BLACK METAL, WHATEVER. I tag them with whatever I think of.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Good work, that should help many of the newer fans of metal.

 

[ohiogrinder]

that grindcore explaination isn't very thorough.

 

[dEaThToFaLsEmEtAl34]

Or it could just confuse them.

 

[Nemesis_lxix]

melodic death metal: A style of metal categorized by dual guitar harmonies and striking melody with usually screamed vocals. There has been a wide debate over what is "melo-death" and what is "melodic death", but for purposes of simplification, I've sort of combined them both here.

Good job !
This must have taken you a long-long time.

 

[Stormwatch]

I would love to have so much time to spend on this kind of thing. I don't know what you mean by "very little technicality in terms of songwriting" though (in your BM piece)? Is that when compared to most other heavy/death metal bands? Do most other metal bands show a high degree of technicality in their songwriting compared to someone like Darkthrone or Mayhem?

 

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

It's compared to most other styles of METAL. I suppose I should make that more apparent. It's just that the guitar and rhythmic phrasing does not vary much within the context fo the songs as much as in death metal. However, that's not to say black metal is SIMPLISTIC, which it most certainly is not; plenty of black metal has more emotion, feeling, etc. than death metal despite the lack of changed-up song structure (though that's probably the reason in and of itself, heh).

As for the grindcore explanation, I should probably explain its musical qualities, eh? I'm an idiot.

 

[Stormwatch]

It's compared to most other styles of METAL. I suppose I should make that more apparent. It's just that the guitar and rhythmic phrasing does not vary much within the context fo the songs as much as in death metal. However, that's not to say black metal is SIMPLISTIC, which it most certainly is not; plenty of black metal has more emotion, feeling, etc. than death metal despite the lack of changed-up song structure (though that's probably the reason in and of itself, heh).

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So the guitar and rythmic phrasing in BM is less complex than other forms of metal?

 

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

It is less involved, yeah.

 

[Guthrum]

Nice.