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Metal Martyr

Archive for the ‘Genres’ Category

March 11th, 2008

I Hate Metalcore!!!

Another statement I’m tired of hearing. I get tired of hearing people saying how much they hate this sub-genre and that sub-genre. Most of them have not even heard a lot of the bands that are slung into that category. I’m guilty…I did it with black metal. Then I heard some stuff that I liked […]

By Scott -- 12 comments

November 6th, 2007

Defining A “Sell-out” Band.

The term “Sell-Out” is thrown around so much these days it gets a bit aggravating at times. At what point is it justifiable to call a band “Sell-outs”?
It seems everyone wants to jump on the crazy bandwagon these days calling any band thats makes it big and hits the mainstream with a vengeance “Sell-outs”. Isn’t […]

By Scott -- 4 comments

October 17th, 2007

The State Of Heavy Metal And The Record Industry

As we all know, the record industry has taken a dive ever since peer to peer downloading was invented. Not as many CD’s were sold over those years and to this day it is still a problem for the industry even though free peer to peer is not as popular or even as useful these […]

By Scott -- 9 comments

August 1st, 2007

I Don’t do Black Metal!

I try to be an equal opportunity blogger but theres just one genre I won’t touch and simply because I have never been a fan of it and I don’t know enough about it to be a critic.
I don’t do black metal. There are very few bands that still wear make-up that I listen to. […]

By Scott -- 2 comments

June 19th, 2007

(Sub)Genres Part 2: Thick Skulls and Broken Balls

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to sit here and focus on one band. This was just the beginning of my discovery of bands like Nothingface and Mudvayne. Brilliance is creativity. Nu Metal bands are just bands that were influenced by their favorite bands and brought their own breed to the pony show. Now […]

By Scott -- 0 comments

June 19th, 2007

(Sub)Genres: Segregating, Separating, and Desecrating.

Why is it that every time a band comes out and it sounds slightly different, that suddenly we have to put a label on it and start a sub-genre. Aren’t there enough genres out there. We have been doing it since the beginning of music but started getting stupid about it in the 80’s . […]

By Scott -- 1 comment

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