Tuesday, 27 October 2009
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By The Autumn Offering
see relatedI listen to METAL!
On twitter, some moron keeps calling Hollywood Undead Metal! WTF?! How are they metal, when did they get that label? Show me ANYWHERE where that label has been applied to them, other than by morons. Mostly this guy just complains about how much he doesn't like them. Fine everyone is entitled to think whichever bands they want are good/bad and others will disagree. On the blog that he post that went along with the Twitter post somebody made this comment "When I say I listen to Metal, people assume I listen to sh*tty bands like HU!" Then proceeds to trash on Hollywood Undead or HU as they use in abrieated form.
I listen to metal, have pretty much all my life, hasn't always been the main music I listen to but have always listened to it.
My biggest problems with Metal and how people associate it is HOW they label bands, and that SOME people think they are cool or "badass" for listening to it. Okay first off, you aren't cool for listening to METAL or any other kind of music, and in metal while we are MORE open-minded about things, we can also spot the POSER really fast, usually we will leave you aline, but if you annoy us or try to be pushy about it, we will let you know we know you are fake. Wanna know how to spot a metal poser? They don't know which bands are really metal and will call bands that are incorectly labeled metal, metal. They listen to the BIG metal bands, they iconic ones, and the new trendy ones only. NOTHING obscure, those they usually trash on or have never heard of.
As far as labeling goes, 90% of "hair metal" from the 80s and early 90s are not metal, they are barely hard rock, with the vast majority being simply ROCK! They fit an image and were "scary" or different and got that label.
"Classic Metal" lots of that needs a clarification on it that it was HARD FOR IT'S TIME, but is not actual metal, ie Led Zepplin!
When I say I listen to metal I mean I listen to real metal. I don't listen to "British Metal, simply because I just don't like it, I don't listen to "classic metal" because most isn't metal, I don't listen to "Hair metal" because few of those were metal, and bands like Tesla and Black Crowes end up there and they never had the "glam" look, just long hair! Basically if you played any kind of rock/hard rock in the 80s and early 90s you got lumped in as "hair metal" regardless of look or sound.
Being scary doesn't make you metal either! Not all rap/metal hybrids should be called metal, Korn, yes, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, no, those where more rap and ROCK hybrids.
Some of the METAL bands I listen to (and it ranges from alt/prog metal to black/death metal) and even some of these I dont feel SHOULD be labeled as such. Rob Zombie, HURT, The Autumn Offering, Destrophy, Otep, Il Nino, Sister Sin, Testament, In This Moment, the Agonist, In Flames, Lazarus AD, Unearth, Straight Line Stitch, Halestorm, August Burns Red, Mushroomhead, The Black Dahlia Murder
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