Is it just me or do you guys find a lot of what you listen to is catchy?

[Einherjar86]

I catch myself humming Insomnium songs to myself while at work sometimes. They're probably one of the catchier bands I listen to.

Insomnium is very catchy.

 

[AchrisK]

Metal Church's first two album are full of catchy songs.

 

[Winter.]

Metal Church's first two album are full of catchy songs.

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[Matt]

Catchiness is obviously subjective; I find most of the music I listen to catchy or else I probably wouldn't listen to it.

Wow catchy is such a weird word

 

[waif]

Metal Church's first two album are full of catchy songs.

STAB their backs!
THEIR NECKS will crack!

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I can only imagine how many different definitions of "catchy" are in use here.

 

[waif]

I use it to mean memorable, lyrically or musically.

 

[Dj Bass]

Thankfully, I've never caught anything from the music I listen too.

If I ever do, I'll buy some kind of ointment to cure it

 

[sevag00]

Some Depressive Black Metal songs are catchy, else i am not listening to any catchy stuff recently.

 

[ossa]

Thankfully, I've never caught anything from the music I listen too.

If I ever do, I'll buy some kind of ointment to cure it

 

[NinjaGeek]

I always define catchy as how easily it gets stuck in your head. I have trouble finding slam death as catchy as people say it is, but I've gotten Noise music stuck in my head from time to time.

 

[TheInsane]

Merriam Webster defines "catchy" as:

1 a: tending to catch the interest or attention <a catchy title> b: easily retained in the memory <a catchy melody>

Alot of metal I listen to can be described as catchy if we go by this definition, extreme or not. Of course heavy metal, power metal and alike are catchy but alot of the more extreme stuff is as well. In black metal we have Darkthrone, Burzum and Dark Funeral for example (Hail Murder is, as someone already said, ridiculously catchy). In death metal alot of the more melodic bands are catchy but even some of the more extreme ones. Nile usually produces some catchy choruses on each cd ("black seeds of vegeance" and "as he creates, so he destroys" for example).

 

[whiskey funeral]

I use it to mean memorable, lyrically or musically.

Then by that definition, my answer is yes.

 

[Jreg]

I have trouble finding slam death as catchy as people say it is

It's catchier, but only to an extent IMO. The simplicity of the riffs and the relatively strong beat definitely make it so, but the song structures still often deviate from the standard radio-friendly verse-chorus style, and the fact that many classic and power metal bands stick closer to that formula is part of what makes them catchier (aside from having words you can more easily sing along to, of course). Because of that, I can get individual slam death riffs in my head pretty quickly, but not necessarily whole songs.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I always define catchy as how easily it gets stuck in your head. I have trouble finding slam death as catchy as people say it is, but I've gotten Noise music stuck in my head from time to time.

True. Got Merzbow - 1930 sounding in my head right now.