Is Heavy Metal "Rebellious"?

[El Mahdi]

...The root of rebellion is doing that which is not acceptable - doing that which drives your parents up the wall, which your peers look at you funny for doing. ...

Oh! You mean like RPG's?!

 

[Cor_Malek]

They could call themselves Gummi-Bear Swing if they wanted- musically, they're a subset of Heavy Metal.

Amen! It's somewhat a touchy territory for me - I'm physically unable to tell the difference between what people call sub-genres. Slayer, Metallica, Iron Maiden and Dio seat in the same folder as Nirvana, Sinatras and Morisette - "01 - Rockopop" If I had more, they might get a separate folder as Oi! got, but that would be it.

Ah! Interesting trivia - "Psycho Death Neo Pagan Metal" was what my friend's band claimed (with deadpan expressions) to play, to spoof the one band - one genre thing that was going on on our local musical scene back then +6 was my addition

I might point out that I can think of no two beliefs more diametrically opposed that satanism and neopaganism.

Totally irrelevant to the point I was making there though. Besides:

As for pro-pagan vs anti-Christian, yes, it's a matter of which particular band youre listening to; both exist.

I thought about it, and yeah - I counted a lot of purely anti-christian bands, much to my surprise (as it would seem that they should have less incentive to go that way nowadays, when vocal defiance against religion is perceived more and more as part of our culture and Christianity, which kind of defeats the whole point).
So yeah - it actually was cognitive bias, but on my part.

 

[jonesy]

I'm physically unable to tell the difference between what people call sub-genres. Slayer, Metallica, Iron Maiden and Dio seat in the same folder as Nirvana, Sinatras and Morisette - "01 - Rockopop" If I had more, they might get a separate folder as Oi! got, but that would be it.

And they keep changing the categories! What they now call some genres wasn't what they used to be called.

I group my music based on the emotion they give me. I have: Beat, Classic, Feel, Force, Fun, Grim, Heart, Mood, Pulse, Rock, Rush, Sexy and Wild. Xmas is a separate category for some reason.

Classic has everything made before 1950.

 

[Relique du Madde]

This bring up a good point, what about Christian death-metal bands? Are they being rebellious considering that being all anti-christian is starting to be considered the norm? Though I do admit, that's not as rebellious as being a fan of traditional Bavarian music circa the 1900s.


Oh and someone give El Mahdi exp for me since he quoted the Crow.

 

[jonesy]

This bring up a good point, what about Christian death-metal bands?

Since I can't understand a word of what Aletheian is singing, does it matter?

Oh and someone give El Mahdi exp for me since he quoted the Crow.

Covered.

 

[Aeolius]

Xmas is a separate category for some reason.

Do NOT even go there. Soon I will lose my precious 40s on 4 channel on XM, to be preempted for holiday tunes. I have a one week window, two at the most, of tolerance for listening to x-mas music, and they start playing the bloody stuff before Thanksgiving!

I like my share of Burl Ives as much as the next guy, but give it a rest.

 

[kiznit]

Tell you what I'd like to see: Lady Gaga *in* an Iron Maiden

How about Metallica?

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[TarionzCousin]

I group my music based on the emotion they give me. I have: Rush

Rush has their own category? Cool.

 

[jonesy]

Rush has their own category? Cool.

Funny. But actually they're in the extra category 'unsorted music', which is currently the largest folder.

 

[TarionzCousin]

I group my music based on the emotion they give me. I have: Rush

Rush has their own category? Cool.