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Argh! No Pirate Metal category? They categorize them generically as Folk Metal but have a separate Viking Metal category.
Argh! No Pirate Metal category? They categorize them generically as Folk Metal but have a separate Viking Metal category.
Pirate metal is probably seen as "ironic," or maybe just too niche to deserve a top level genre (how many bands besides Alestorm are there?). Viking metal has a long history, though, given the Nordic roots of many extreme metal genres. That being said, I don't think Viking Metal is too helpful of a genre anyway given the completely different sound of, say, Ensiferum vs Borknagar, or Tyr vs Windir.
Argh! No Pirate Metal category? They categorize them generically as Folk Metal but have a separate Viking Metal category.
If there is anything like the Metal Archives for electronic music or rock music (actually any genre) out there, I'd like to know about it. It's simply the greatest music encyclopedia I've come across, albeit entirely focused on metal. As much as I appreciate Discogs and RateYourMusic, they tackle different things and don't really function as encyclopedias, the former functioning more as a catalogue and the latter as…
There’s https://www.progarchives.com for progressive rock and related genres.
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There may not be. There seems to be something obsessive about metal fans to catalog and classify and document. I mean, look at the wiki page on subgenres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_genres It fills me with awe and giggles.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about but excuse me while I turn on some female-fronted symphonic power metal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lita_Ford
Since our tastes are so far apart, I guess we have nothing else to talk about.
If there is anything like the Metal Archives for electronic music or rock music (actually any genre) out there, I'd like to know about it. It's simply the greatest music encyclopedia I've come across, albeit entirely focused on metal. As much as I appreciate Discogs and RateYourMusic, they tackle different things and don't really function as encyclopedias, the former functioning more as a catalogue and the latter as…
There may not be. There seems to be something obsessive about metal fans to catalog and classify and document. I mean, look at the wiki page on subgenres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_genres It fills me with awe and giggles.
Most of the people included in these genres had no idea they were in them when they created the music (because they didn't exist.) Plenty of them still have no idea, and may not have ever heard of the genre that they "typified."
edit: and since most people who are "experts" on popular music create that identity by just vacuuming up what they can find on the internet, creating a genre in Wikipedia becomes equivalent to creating a genre.
Metal Archives Forever \mm/
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There may not be. There seems to be something obsessive about metal fans to catalog and classify and document. I mean, look at the wiki page on subgenres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_genres It fills me with awe and giggles.
I wouldn't take that list too seriously. Metal-archives genres tend to not delve into "styles" as much. But there are certainly many distinct sub-genres and one can't exactly argue that Black Sabbath, Dimmu Borgir and Cannibal Corpse sound similar. I agree that the community itself takes the genre thing way too far and it often ends up being pretty funny. Then again, electronic music probably gives metal a run for it…
Cookie Monster (includes Black Metal)
Hardcore (see Pantera)
Metal (see Metallica)
Crap (see Poison)
MA, as well as several metal forums I've been a part of, have stayed shockingly consistent over the years. It's really neat to me. There's drama in every corner of the internet, but I've always enjoyed my metal spaces.