What genre is St. Anger?

Plus if there's a group of acts in there which a) have a recognisable, distinct common sound and b) aren't really following the traditions of the heavy metal subgenre that sounds like an argument for melodic metal as a subgenre. Especially if they describe themselves that way.

Having a sub-genre called just melodic metal wouldn't solve the problem though. It might make it even worse.

An issue with the current setup is that some have tried to push bands like this into power metal. If we has melodic metal we might get the reverse start to happen.

There's no perfect solution to this, which is why I stand by that we should stick to what is most correct. And that's just having Heavy Metal on Metal Music Archives because the site itself is not called Heavy Metal Music Archives (which would justify the current name).

Warthur wrote: What the site calls itself doesn't control or affect the fact that "metal" and "heavy metal" are used as synonyms by a lot of people, though. Are we naming the genres to be clear to us, or to be clear to new people stumbling across the site?

TheHeavyMetalCat wrote: This is going really off topic here. But to throw my opinion in I think we should use the more common name. Which is Heavy Metal.