How to tell metal genres apart, fairy tale version

Jul 9, 2015 5:26 PM

As a Prog Metal, and Power Metal fan this is terrifyingly accurate...

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Symphonic power metal- The ageless starlord protagonist fights the Old God dragon in space while Luca Turilli and the princess slay a king.

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Fuck yes. Another Luca fan!

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Post-metal: The protagonist, dragon, and princess all lay in the grass staring at the stars while layers of reverb wash over them.

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Neue Deutsche Harte: Band rolls in with flamethrowers, torches the dragon and castle, gangbangs the princess, and exits, growling MOTHERLAND

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Underrated post

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#1 Coincidentally, this is also the plot of most power metal songs.

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Which one is it when the knight fucks the dragon instead?

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Bestial metal?

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Reggae, because that knight is high as fuck

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Oh, that's just Slipknot.

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I was going to ask that.

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For the progressive metal one, you forgot the part where the world dissolves into space.

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You mean: dissolves into spaces, gets sent to 6/127th dimension and is perfectly pieced back together in a way only the drummer understands.

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Two minutes is a bit much for Grindcore.

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Yeah. 45 seconds would be about average.

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I agree. Napalm Death - You Suffer = 1.316 seconds.

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Yousufferbutwhy

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As a metalhead, can confirm.

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as a metalhead this post is shit

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You're shit

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I like your username.

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Stoner Metal: The protagonist doesn't care, instead he drives to Grand Canyon in a '67 Mustang to watch the sunrise, baked out of his mind.

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Possibly stopping on the way to stock on beer, Saladitos and fuzz pedals and play a few rounds of pinball.

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That legitimately sounds like a High on Fire song

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Could be any number of bands, but this is more what I had in mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEOx9o8pVUg

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Updoot all stoner metal. This is what I was thinking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq1gb50iobU

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I don't have a quick link because mobile, but I instantly thought Kyuss

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Yay, relevance :D

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YEET

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Fellow metalhead and thrasher, we are brothers connected by a love for the similar sound :D

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I was really hoping to be relevant.

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You are also relevant :D

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Symphonic metal for the win.

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Forgot British metal: few guys in everything jeans show up, beat up the dragon and have a beer and then slur sexual advances to the princess

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And then there is Pantera...

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Cowboys come out of a hellhole and drink a dragon under the table and then rape it?

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There's /always/ a dragon or a unicorn involved. Metal is the nerdiest, DnDest genre ever.

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Fuck yeah.

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People don't understand why my Skyrim soundtrack is Dio, Savatage, Metallica, Mastodon, Opeth, and Dethklok.

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I love gangster DnD rap

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Especially with bands like Tyr and Sabaton. They just go so well together.

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I fucking love sabaton

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I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers. Christopher Lee

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's metal band is pretty awesome if you haven't listened to them already.

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ol Charlemagne

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This is spot on. Also, studies show that Metal heads are the most happy.

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As a metal head.....fuck yea upvotes for all!

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TIL there are 17+ genres of Metal.

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I once had a two hour argument over genres, only to discover that we agreed but used different names for the really esoteric stuff.

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Sounds like a good night. Where do I sign up?

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YouTube comments section on nearly any metal video

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And so many sub-genres

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Love charts like that...combined with wiki and youtube for much listening!

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Pornogrind wtf? That sounds amazing

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It really isn't (imo at least) although the album names can be hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAi22BufLCM

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You just got internet connection?

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This didn't even cover them all. Post, melodic death, technical death, blackened death, djent, and metalcore to name a few that were missed.

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White metal! (christian metal)

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Not to mention sub-sub-sub-sub genres that have popped up.

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More genres than tumblr identities

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There's also Brutal Death, Beatdown, Heavy Beatdown, Slam, and Deathcore. And many many more.

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Post-metal: the knight sits down with the dragon and has a long, cathartic discussion about feelings.

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You can't kill the metal. Metal will live on. Punk Rock tried to kill the metal, But they failed as they were smite to the ground.

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Smote*

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IT COMES FROM HELL

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Black metal sounds as if Shrek 1 took a turn for the worst...

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Brutal?

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Brutal

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Brutal.

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Do porngrind plz

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The protagonist arrives and vomits on the dragon and the princess and leaves. I think.

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So THAT was the one where he fucks the dragon!

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well shit

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oh my god i just read your username and you win

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What about pirate metal?

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Running Wild shows up and kills everyone.

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The Protagonist and dragon get into a debate about who has the bigger booty, the treasure or the princess. Cannons go off, >

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The Protagonist arrives on a ship, rapes the princess, and plunders the dragon's booty.

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wait so he does the same thing to both the dragon and the princess?

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Yaarrrr!

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2> the princess kills the dragon and makes off with the treasure, and the protagonist whines about the princess stealing his ship.

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Similar to viking metal. But with more smoke and rum.

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Folk metal on a ship.

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The dragon is a kraken. The protagonist gets drunk, rallies a crew, ravishes the princess (who is a wench), crashes his ship into the kraken

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Alestorm is kinda a mix of powermetal and folk metal.

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With a high high ho and a high high hey, the pirates get drunk, kill the dragon, steal everything, go whoring, and drink some more.

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Everyone is drunk, including the dragon. Especially the dragon.

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or Metal Gear?

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RUM RUM RUM YARRR RUM RUM RUM AHOY

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If someone wants something other than Alestorm https://lagersteinau.bandcamp.com/album/drink-til-we-die

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YEAH LAGERSTEIN! They're good friends of Alestorms ha.

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WE ARE HERE TO DRINK YOUR BEER, AND STEAL YOUR RUM AT THE POINT OF A GUN

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They were all too drunk and missed their window.

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Asking the important questions here.

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they arrive in a sailboat, get drunk with the dragon, put the princess in the brig, fuck her, and then sell her later on to get more booze

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The protagonist arrives on a ship, but the dragon is already dead and the princess is gone. Protagonist gripes about ninjas rest of the song

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SWASHBUCKLE!!!!! "THIS ROUND'S ON YOU!"

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Everybody gets drunk, then they cut a midget in half.

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MORE WENCHES AND MEAD

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Motherfucking ALESTORM!!!!!

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ONE MORE DRINK AT THE SUNKEN NORWEGIAN!

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We meet the singer after a show once, got jagerbombs with him and took him to a strip club, it was a good time lol

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Nancy the Tavern Wench and To the end of our days are great.

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Can't fucking wait to see them in february

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Theyhaveaversionof"YouAreAPirate"anditisthebestthingever and also the only song of theirs I listen to aside from "Drink!"

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You DON'T listen to Keelhauled?

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Nuh. o3o

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keelhaul that filthy landlubber!

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Send him down to the depths below!

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You forgot Ambient Post-Crust Sludge-Gaze Pornogrind

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Now you're just making shit up... :D

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Seriously though I'd listen to that in a heartbeat

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*Thrash

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I fucking love thrash.

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Me too B-) Thrashers unite!

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Thank you.

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I thought OP was talking shit for a second there.

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I'm sure trash metal is a thing too lol, there's fucking pirate metal, no lie

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I used to think it's called "Trash Metal" and I didn't understand why

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True! +1 Was not intended... funny typo is funny

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given the ridiculous number of subgenres pf metal I just assumed trash metal was a real thing and got to the end wondering where thrash was.

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same

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same

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I want to watch all of these as a series of animated short films.

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metalocalypse

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Including the ones involving necrophilia?

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I do too, and done in the same style as Super Jail

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holy balls i envisioned each one in my head as i read em hahaha

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Amon Amarth has the viking metal short film covered.

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Metalocalypse! But probably not all of them. Still.

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You just want to see the princess getting fucked. Typical scientists.

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Of course with the correct type of metal for each one!

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The guy who does asdf movies! Tomska!

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The closest things would probably be music videos and the cutscenes in Brutal Legend

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DECAPITATIOOOOOON

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Man, I loved that game!

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Watch Game Of Throwns

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Make it happen!

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I could probably do without seeing the Gore Metal one. Heh, ew.

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Here, have some Metalocalypse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTmJtfGz-E

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omg thats where the brutal meme comes from!

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Yes! Awesome idea!

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Metalocalypse music videos.

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Narrated by David Attenborough.

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It's a shame Christopher Lee can't narrate that anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU2GcuAm6EI may he RIP

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David Attenborough voices the dragon.

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Here you go

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Is this Egyptian Metal?

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Now is this Bear-Blasting, or Hump-Catting?

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I still need to watch DethKlok.

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Dawg. Metalocalypse is very worth your time. Source:me

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I ejaculate fire!!!!

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A venomous fluid, a cantankerous druid!

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A venomous fluid, a cantankerous druid!

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Where I have I seen this before?

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Dethklok - I Ejaculate Fire

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Yeah, that's it. Man, I love that show.

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I needed this! My husband plays metal and although I still don't know what kind I loved these.

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My boyfriend sings in a prog death metal band and its tough to remember all the sub genres. I just know when i like something.

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Well you're alive, so clearly you're not one of the dead princesses.

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I could be. Zombie love is awesome.

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Well does he fucks you or does he borrows your clothes ?

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Fuck me. I would let him borrow my clothes for blackmail, but I haven't talked him into it yet.

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Kinky...who knows he might even be into it :)

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My boyfriends a metal fan too! and I never understand the differences. Anyone's man on the toilet ov hell blog?

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"...although I still don't know what kind" LOL

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I read them all repeatedly.

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I read them all repeatedly.

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Cool. Does he have YouTube or Soundclound etc?

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He toured as a fill in drummer for someone, but there are a couple of YouTubes of just him. Nothing of good quality.

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As a guy who recently fell in love with stoner/retro metal, you give me hope a woman may someday like my nerdy self anyway! :'-)

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Have hope. I love him in spite of the music. Sometimes I enjoy it. Sometimes it makes me wanna kill. Maybe that's the point.

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I like metal because it calms me down its weird

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Me too! My boyfriend's super into it. I really can only identify Doom metal though.

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Power metal is an easy one. Think fast and epic. Think of dragonforce-through the fire and flames

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I can pull folk metal out. That's about it.

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Grindcore I recognize.

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How can you only identify one of the more obscure sub-genres? o.o

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Pfft doom metal is simple, just look out for dissonant notes and ~20 minutes of whispering followed by a 5 min outro of rain on a tin roof

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It's just super relaxed and like I'm going on a journey and pretty sweet when we're stoned or doing chores. Other than that though I'm lost.

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That could also be Pagan/Folk/Progressive metal, though. :p It's hard to tell the difference a lot of the time.

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Doom is low and slow, going for a depressive atmosphere.. That's the general thing distinguishing it from other subgenres.

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