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Re: Map of Metal

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Post by olelele »

bear141 wrote: post #95
nyeah wrote: post #68

Very nice map. Historical comment only. I first listened to this music in the late 1970s. One big change in the story, over time, is how few people trace the sound to Hendrix now. (Not this map in particular. Metal fans I know would agree with the map.) I think (?) a common current viewpoint is that Led Zep [!?] was foundational but the genre really started with Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. Which, definitions chan…

That’s interesting. Somehow my brain never really put that together. He was obviously ripping heavy blues and innovated more than anyone before and arguably since. Thanks for adding him into my mental Metal flow chart. For me I would always say that somewhere between 68-71 metal was being cooked up by Black Sabbath in Birmingham, Motörhead in London, Pentagram in Virginia, and Blue Cheer in San Francisco. Obviously H…

I’d like to squeeze in the stooges there too, maybe mc5

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Post by butlike »

xtracto wrote: post #44
pjgalbraith wrote: post #5

Didn't expect to see something I made on HN while my wife is trying to find something to watch on TV. So about the site in case anyone is interested. I made it with a friend who was studying multimedia. He helped with the data and I did the coding. Took about a week or two. The site was originally Flash (remember that). But I ported it to HTML5 a few years ago. It still has those Flash vibes I think. Posted the code…

Younger people would never understand how amazing the internet was back in the 90s. Particularly before ads and SEO became an industry. Also Flash, most people don't realize what we lost with Flash. The amount of non-professional multimedia content available was so great. It was a cooking ground for people to experiment with animation ideas. Very low hanging fruit. HTML5/Canvas/CSS just don't have that accessibility.…

Seriously. EVERY game style that is now on the app store with ads between levels was completely free and hosted on sites like kongregate, ebaumsworld, or other flash game sites. Incremental games specifically were available in droves. It was a pretty cool time.

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by constantius »

BrokenCogs wrote: post #103
hotsauceror wrote: post #91

I've got a particular itch that's difficult to scratch, and I'm not seeing anything on this site that reflects the genre. I've heard it as 'metalstep' but I'm sure there are other names for it. Very aggressive cross between metal and EDM. More of a metal sensibility than hardcore EDM; more of an EDM / trance sensibility than, say, Fear Factory. The drum tracks have more of a death metal vibe to them. It's probably ea…

Check out the band smash stereo, and check out the doom (2016) and doom the dark ages sound tracks.

Didn't know I enjoyed this kind of metal, but itls great. You got some more, friend?

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by krat0sprakhar »

TwoNineA wrote: post #6

Great map. There might be some categories missing, couldn't find any Katatonia, Agalloch, Alcest nor Tiamat. Alcest and some Deftones are considered blackgaze and Agalloch, Wolves in the Throne Room fall more into grey metal.

I can't thank you enough for mentioning Agalloch! I used to listen to them so much in university but somehow completely forgot about them until I read this comment!

I'm going to lose myself to "The Mantle" this weekend (best part is that I can now learn to play these songs on guitar). Thank you so much again - you made my day!

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by dylan604 »

xtracto wrote: post #44
pjgalbraith wrote: post #5

Didn't expect to see something I made on HN while my wife is trying to find something to watch on TV. So about the site in case anyone is interested. I made it with a friend who was studying multimedia. He helped with the data and I did the coding. Took about a week or two. The site was originally Flash (remember that). But I ported it to HTML5 a few years ago. It still has those Flash vibes I think. Posted the code…

Younger people would never understand how amazing the internet was back in the 90s. Particularly before ads and SEO became an industry. Also Flash, most people don't realize what we lost with Flash. The amount of non-professional multimedia content available was so great. It was a cooking ground for people to experiment with animation ideas. Very low hanging fruit. HTML5/Canvas/CSS just don't have that accessibility.…

> Now the internet is a complete different beast. There are 10 main websites that everyone sees only, and everyone wants to monetize. All content is full of "antipatterns" to maximize monetization. It's very very sad.

This was going to happen regardless of if we had Flash or not

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by bigfishrunning »

Jarwain wrote: post #112
xtracto wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Younger people would never understand how amazing the internet was back in the 90s. Particularly before ads and SEO became an industry. Also Flash, most people don't realize what we lost with Flash. The amount of non-professional multimedia content available was so great. It was a cooking ground for people to experiment with animation ideas. Very low hanging fruit. HTML5/Canvas/CSS just don't have that accessibility.…

With LLM's, I wonder how far away we are from "a cooking ground for people to experiment with ideas"

Getting further all the time; with LLMs you're offloading all of your experimenting to VC jerks

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by bigfishrunning »

einpoklum wrote: post #74

I liked the anti-establishment, Anarchist/socialist vibes of the Hardcore punk rock island. Don't like all of the macho posing and shrieking (neither in punk and especially not in the more "black" part); and double dislike the crass commercialization of so much of it.

Anarchist/socialist are such funny words to put a slash between. They seem like such polar opposite political structures

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by hardbass »

voidfunc wrote: post #47

I'd love of this showed me the spiritual successors of a band / sub-genre even if they're not mainstream or well known. For example, I really love Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, and a number of other "classic" Heavy Metal bands with a slow, hard but not sludgy brooding sound and amazing vocals. But it's hard finding modern acts with a similar sound. What tends to happen when I search for modern metal is I end up findin…

Very curious the conspicuously absent genre in your list, especially given how much of modern doom is death metal. I can't help much with traditional doom however as I don't listen to it much, I just found it a bit funny you never encountered modern death metal during your searches for slow metal.
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