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that's hardly the point from my perspective, anyways. there's a difference between describing and categorising. in the '80s everyone would say brocas helm were folk-tinged heavy metal, but nobody needed 'folk metal' to become a genre blueprint, because nobody NEEDED genre blueprints unless a movement came along that was just completely different in composition, tone and attitude. this desire to invent new genres for every vaguely new thing that comes along is a product of consumer culture infiltration, the focus being on packaging everything as new and shiny and modern and innovative, even though beneath the glitter and the gimmicks it's almost always just a soulless version of the same shit (or, in many superficially 'experimental' cases, another genre's same shit). if people have to use genre tags for the vaguest differences then fine, i'm coming around to the idea it's more of a symptom than a cause anyways, but i encourage all modern metalheads to keep in touch with the genre's history, recognise how new bands relate to old traditions, not get caught up in this obsession with an illusory 'newness'.