What is slam?

[Krow]

What's wrong with stoner metal? And no, I don't have a metalcore album anywhere in my sig.

There's nothing wrong with it... but it's usually something metal 'elitists' dont like at all.

Also, Between the Buried and Me.

 

[WCannibal]

BtBaM are progressive metal, not metalcore.

This is metalcore:


This is BtBaM:


Metalcore = generic
BtBaM = technical and innovative

 

[JGMetalhead]

Lol just wait till more people reply to this thread, you'll get alot of hate just for doing that.

 

[Krow]

I know what they sound like. Colors is awesome...

They're still metalcore. Just because two bands are in the same genre doesnt mean they'll sound exactly the same.

Edit: And, if we're going to pick, ABRB is deathcore, not metalcore either.

 

[WCannibal]

What about them is metalcore? They have NOTHING in common with metalcore. People just give them that label because their earlier stuff was shitty deathcore.

EDIT: And no, ABRB isn't deathcore, they're metalcore. Just because Wikipedia says it doesn't mean it's true. They sound more like I Killed the Prom Queen than Suicide Silence.

 

[Krow]

Breakdowns and that hardcore shriek, for starters.

 

[WCannibal]

Suffocation are metalcore too right? Second, vocals don't define a genre.

 

[Krow]

No they dont. But a death metal band cant have completely clean vocals. So that's a gray area.

Also, Suffocation used hardcore breakdowns... and along with the rest of their sound created the brutal death metal sound. Is most brutal death metal hardcore influenced? Yes. I doubt you can deny that.

 

[WCannibal]

I can't, but Suffocation aren't metalcore. They have a little bit of hardcore influence. BtBaM also have a little bit of hardcore influence, but like Suffocation, that doesn't mean they're metalcore.

 

[Krow]

These seem metalcore enough to me (and I'm sure plenty of other people here too)... but I dont have a problem with it in the first place. They're a good band.

Also, any progressive bands' genres automatically take the form of progressive + whatever other characteristic the band has metal.

Very few bands are just "progressive metal"

 

[WCannibal]

The Human Abstract and Protest the Hero are actual progressive metalcore bands. They actually have similar song structures and chord progressions used in metalcore. BtBaM does not.

 

[JGMetalhead]

BtBaM does seem to be better than your average core band, I'll give you that much.

Edit: However they also seem very unoriginal.

 

[cookiecutter]

Slam rules. Come to our thread as others have suggested. People who don't like it are stupid and gay and whatever.

 

[JGMetalhead]

Represent!

 

[WCannibal]

Having standards = stupid and gay and whatever