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Poll Question: Which of the 19 subgenres is the most "metal?"
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    Posted: 29 Nov 2015 at 12:06pm
I guess Trad as pretty much all the sub-genres took something from this.
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I'm in the just call it heavy metal camp. Other sub-genres tend to drop the "heavy", so that's the differentiator.
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^^I prefer using classic heavy metal as well. I'd vote for either classic heavy metal or thrash, as those are the two genres that come to my head first when I think of metal. Now if it was 'heaviest', this would probably be a much harder poll as there are many different ways a band can be heavy.
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Traditional. Hate that term as well. Prefer the term classic heavy metal

I hate that term too. I'd just use heavy metal, but people get a bit confused cos it's too vague a term now.

I voted thrash. An argument can be made for all other forms of extreme metal, bar grindcore and doom, spawning from thrash in one way or another.
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Traditional. Hate that term as well. Prefer the term classic heavy metal
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Traditional Metal bros!!
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Doom Metal.
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Voted for thrash.

When I think of Metal and all that is Good and Holy in metal, I think of Thrash.

It is also the genre that can combine all elements from all genres and still be undeniably METAL, plus it is really the center link to all genres, starting from mellow stuff to the most brutal.

THRASH TILL DEATH.

I must also say that I do not like the term "Traditional Metal". I prefer Heavy Metal.
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Originally posted by The Block The Block wrote:

I don't understand why people think prog metal is "weak" or "for pussies" it is just as metal as any other metal genre. Of course I won't use DT as an example because certain people have already expressed their hatred for them, but are you calling bands such as Savatage, for "Streets", and Opeth pussies?


Well you have to admit Opeth is really melodic. Just cause they have death vocals doesn't mean they're brutal.

Anyway, I don't think heaviness is inherently metal. For example, bands like Slipknot and Bring Me the Horizon are heavier than Judas Priest or Maiden, yet the latter two are clearly more metal than either of the former.
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One time we were out at a bar that was nearly empty (there was just my large group and one other large group), and a friend of mine put Octavarium on the jukebox (it had some big online database).  Everyone from the other group was glaring at us angrily for the entire duration.
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^True, and I didn't mean to sound so condescending. Embarrassed
And yes, it's not weird here, but go out anywhere and play a prog metal song and people will have a purely confused expression on. I think people just don't like impurities in their metal genres.
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Originally posted by andyman1125 andyman1125 wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

prog metal isn't even weird, it's just glorified, elongated power metal

You mean early prog metal. Ever heard of Riverside? 


Yes, and I was exaggerating slightly LOL

Prog metal is still not weird; at least here, everything good and weird gets lumped in avant-metal
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

prog metal isn't even weird, it's just glorified, elongated power metal

You mean early prog metal. Ever heard of Riverside? 
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Originally posted by The Block The Block wrote:

Yeah, for some people songs have to be within a certain time limit, i.e. 3-5 minutes, and if it isn't that long they refuse to listen to it. For me though if an album doesn't have a song over 8 or so minutes it is kind of a turn off. Embarrassed

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prog metal isn't even weird, it's just glorified, elongated power metal
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Yeah, for some people songs have to be within a certain time limit, i.e. 3-5 minutes, and if it isn't that long they refuse to listen to it. For me though if an album doesn't have a song over 8 or so minutes it is kind of a turn off. Embarrassed


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They're jealous of the kool kats, that's why CoolTongue

No but seriously, prog metal is "weird," and people don't like weird things. Show someone who likes other music a 25 minute long epic and they'll poo poo it on sight. Trust me, I have experience trying to show people A Change of Seasons (my favorite DT song, if not my FAVORITE song), and they freak out saying how it can't possibly be good if it's that long. 
Even for non long tracks, any track with virtuoso instrumental sections or creative fusion techniques will throw people off the edge, because apparently if a track doesn't have 3 minutes of intense riffing and then it's over, it's not really a metal track.  A lot of people also think that because prog metal pulls a lot of influence from jazz, classical, and just plain old prog rock, that it doesn't have the metal edge of death or thrash metal. 

Yea, and there are always hipsters and purists Tongue
I'm one for prog rock/metal, so I can almost see where they're coming from (well not really)


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I don't understand why people think prog metal is "weak" or "for pussies" it is just as metal as any other metal genre. Of course I won't use DT as an example because certain people have already expressed their hatred for them, but are you calling bands such as Savatage, for "Streets", and Opeth pussies?


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Originally posted by J-Man J-Man wrote:

Originally posted by bonnek bonnek wrote:


Progressive Metal is for pussies.


Then I am a pussy and damn proud of it! Approve


Hmm, my avatar looks very pussy as well. Confused
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