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Poll Question: Which of these genres has the fewest metal elements?
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4 [12.50%]
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I went with Glam, but I was torn between that and Alt. Metal. To me there's artists in both that would be better tagged as Hard Rock bands.

To a lesser degree I would also say Symphonic. Now there's many albums that a really rather heavy in the genre, but then you get a few which aren't very heavy at all, like Tarja's My Winter Storm, for example.

I suppose there are borderline groups in most of the subs though.
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Technically they are all "metal", so it is hard to say. I also don't want to be bias against glam, since I don't like it that much.


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Originally posted by Matt Matt wrote:

They are Metal to me as millions of fans will agree with me


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Originally posted by topofsm topofsm wrote:

Originally posted by Matt Matt wrote:

I could not vote myself. They are all metal.Big smile Besides people might think I am a bit extreme for an ole' b*****d Wink
One major issue............Alright !  Who voted Industrial ? Shocked The home of Rammstein Big smile 


Rammstein are downright dance/pop when you remove the guitars, that's why. Tongue
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A lot of metal music could be considered to belong to some other genre with a change of instrumentation. Replace the guitars and bass with synthesizers and the drums with a pulsating 4/4 bass drum, and a lot of Maidens songs would be Eurodance; change the computers to guitar, drums and bass, and a lot of The Prodigy's music would be tech thrashy metal.
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Originally posted by Matt Matt wrote:

I could not vote myself. They are all metal.Big smile Besides people might think I am a bit extreme for an ole' b*****d Wink
One major issue............Alright !  Who voted Industrial ? Shocked The home of Rammstein Big smile 


Rammstein are downright dance/pop when you remove the guitars, that's why. Tongue
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It's a case-by-case basis IMO. In every genre of metal there will be a few borderline acts, but most of them seem to fall in prog metal, traditional heavy metal, and glam metal. The difference between prog rock and prog metal, or hard rock and heavy metal can sometimes be very small. It seems that most glam metal acts don't fall on my metal radar, so I gave that my vote.
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Cheers for the links, but they don't change the fact that, until now, I had not heard of it. Didn't mean to say anyone pulled the term out of their butts, I just find it inadequate.
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Etc etc
 
Quite a common term actually Tongue Wink
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This should have been a multi-choice poll. Alternative, *core and Glam are entirely rock in my opinion, and Symphonic, Folk and Avant-Garde, for the most part, are styles and not genres.

But, given the options, I voted for Alternative, as I've never before heard it called metal before.
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In my view Glam Metal but as Stooge wrote: "The least metal elements?  I didn't vote anyways.  Still varies band to band." But for me, in a general sub-genre view, Glam Metal win in the sense of this poll.

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I could not vote myself. They are all metal.Big smile Besides people might think I am a bit extreme for an ole' b*****d Wink
One major issue............Alright !  Who voted Industrial ? Shocked The home of Rammstein Big smile 
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Hey glam is not my favourite kind of hard rock/metal but have you ever wondered how many people brings this sub-genre to hard rock and metal music? OK i understand we have some "Heavy" guys here but as about me today i've just return from my holidays back at home. At the road i was listening songs like "Bad Medicene" from Bon Jovi, "Foolin" from Def Leppard, "Poison" from Alice Cooper, and God be my witness these songs sound great! After all my question is: How many people brings a band like Bon Jovi to metal music and how many a band like Slayer? Talking about myself when i start listening to hard music back at the 80's my first band was not Judas Priest but Joe Lynn Turner's era of Rainbow - Dio era was too heavy for me...

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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

did go with Prog Metal...  metal isn't supported to be art..but dirty and low brow thus it misses out on the SINGLE MOST metal ...metal of all.  For the common Joe, not for frickin elitists and instrumental w**kers. 


Well, I used to agree....but now I don't
LOL Time changes a man.

On that note....Glam Metal.
As silly as this may sound, metal is more than JUST the music (though that is most of it) but also in terms of just atmosphere, mindset...all that. Glam is the least metal, overall.
Being said, these are all generalities of course!
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I ended up voting for industrial metal, as a lot of artists in that category are simply dark industrial, nothing metal about them.

It was a tough choice, as I generally see it as being better than two other genres I feel deserve some votes: glam and alternative. The former is happy, upbeat rock a lot of the times that just adds another notch of distortion to their guitar. And the latter is mainly for nu-metal simple, pop/rap music played on metal instruments, though there are an awful lot of alternative metal bands that aren't really metal.


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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

did go with Prog Metal...  metal isn't supported to be art..but dirty and low brow thus it misses out on the SINGLE MOST metal ...metal of all.  For the common Joe, not for frickin elitists and instrumental w**kers. 
 
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

did go with Prog Metal...  metal isn't supported to be art..but dirty and low brow thus it misses out on the SINGLE MOST metal ...metal of all.  For the common Joe, not for frickin elitists and instrumental w**kers. 


If that's what you think about Prog Metal, I'd hate to see what you think of Avant-Metal.

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did go with Prog Metal...  metal isn't supported to be art..but dirty and low brow thus it misses out on the SINGLE MOST metal ...metal of all.  For the common Joe, not for frickin elitists and instrumental w**kers. 
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Oh wait.  I misread the poll.  The least metal elements?  I didn't vote anyways.  Still varies band to band.
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