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That was... Painfully cheezy. Like, it had a nice sound, but it was just so... Ugh.
The whole 'faux-medieval' thing is just kind of gross.
I'll give it a 5/10 though, just because it was so over the top.

Also, what's the difference between all the types of metal and rock? 'Cause they all sound pretty similar to me.
Like, these are meant to be stoner rock? Or maybe punk rock? Or could it even be- You know? Also, Clutch is just amazing anyway, but still.
 
Saith said:
That was... Painfully cheezy. Like, it had a nice sound, but it was just so... Ugh.
The whole 'faux-medieval' thing is just kind of gross.
I'll give it a 5/10 though, just because it was so over the top.

Also, what's the difference between all the types of metal and rock? 'Cause they all sound pretty similar to me.
Like, these are meant to be stoner rock? Or maybe punk rock? Or could it even be- You know? Also, Clutch is just amazing anyway, but still.
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Well, often the boundaries get pretty sketchy, but here's a rough idea - it's rock, normally. Metal usually requires gross amounts of distorted guitars (you can mix in clean ones, but the majority should be dun dun dun). It's basically cranking the amps all to eleven.

Then it depends on the type of metal you're playing, but metal loves dissonant sounds. Tritones, dissonant chords, dissonant scales - you name it, they love it. I can hear easily when something is a rock band e.g. Foo Fighters, and when it's a metal band e.g. Metallica or Iron Maiden.

Metal has many, many, subgenres, half of which mean nothing and most of which aren't all that different from each other. There's basically "extreme metal" (thrash, death, black), there's everything based on traditional heavy metal, and there's the doom/gothic/whatever variants with orchestras, female singers, symphonies, and if you speed it up x2 you get power metal usually.

I just usually go with a "metal vibe", or if there's a clearly defined sound, like black metal, for that.

It's all just names anyway.
 
Saith said:
Sweet duder, thanks.
I figured it was mainly just words. ;)
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Rock and metal is a distinction you can validly make, and even one or two subgenres could be justifiable too. But as far as I am concerned a genre is only a roundabout way of saying "this sounds approximately like..." and most of the squabbling that goes on on metal forums is just... pointless. People just want to label everything, and I guess that's their good right. To me, I use genre as a descriptor of a vibe - saying something sounds bluesy or jazzy means something in musical terms. Saying it's got a metal vibe does too.

But symphonic melodic death metal - eh?????????

On topic - I liked Devin more when he was doing bullshit about Ziltoid. I also applaud the guy who posted a Mastodon song cos I am obsessed with them lately.

6/10

The Police - Can't Stand Losing You
 
Tarvos said:
On topic - I liked Devin more when he was doing bullshit about Ziltoid. I also applaud the guy who posted a Mastodon song cos I am obsessed with them lately.

6/10

The Police - Can't Stand Losing You
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Ziltoid the Omniscient is Devin's best album for me, without a doubt. But his older stuff, like Ocean Machine, and his albums with Strapping Young Lad are all great too.

7/10 Didn't do too much for me, but its still an okay song.

Anathema - Better off Dead (Bad Religion cover)
 
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