2010-11-21, 12:17 PM
DeanNim Wrote:You love metal ? Idk why but only some song appeal to me, but overall normal rock like deep purple satisfies my craving for 'rock' better, if I get them. Now theres so much more variety like pop rock, synth rock etc... It makes metal ancient
There's nothing wrong with listening to Metal. IRL, I don't look like I listen to Metal because I don't try to look it, and most of the times, when people do that, they're pretty hardcore fakes anyways. I only listen to Metal a lot when I'm driving, jogging, running, or even playing competitive video games. It gives me an energetic feeling. Not so much as aggression. Even then, some people that listens to Metal either steers towards darker and/or heavier stuff such as Black or Death Metal. Something I'll rarely listen to or come across. A friend of mine (IRL) loves Death Metal, but I enjoy Power Metal more. We actually exchanged music a couple of times just so he gets to hear what I listen to, and vice-versa. That's also something I enjoy about Metal, is due to the large sub-genres of it. Then there's VGMs with Metal-influences, an example of an artist as such would be Saitama Saisyu Heiki. Also, while I agree that Pop may have a lot of sub-genres as well, I disagree that it has more "variety" than Metal.
Examples of music with Metal-influences:
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2nd song sounds like something from Dragonforce. I got into Metal more when I started listening to SSH because of the style of his songs. Then there's bands like Disturbed that can be considered as "Nu Metal", but Disturbed themselves stated that they consider themselves to be Rock. There's usually a significant gap between Rock and Metal, but if you compare Rock to Melodic Metal, you might not see it as much, as an example.
I also don't see your point about Metal being ancient. If you were to trace music history back, Metal's more new than Pop. Metal's still considered as underground music (I hope I'm right on this) anyways.