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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5353346" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>As a musician, i can't agree with this.</p><p></p><p>The levels of guitar distortion that are present in other genres- with the exceptions of hard rock, punk and heavier industrial subgenres- would be entry level at best for acceptability in metal. Guitarists in other genres don't even touch the pedals and amps that are the foundation for achieving that in metal.</p><p></p><p>The emphasis on minor chords, dissonance, and (in many metal genres) mastery & mixing of a host of scale types are absent in mainstream music.</p><p></p><p>The nature of metal vocals- be they the extreme high wails or the "cookie monster" growls so en vogue today- are also virtually unique to the genre.</p><p></p><p>Neither the dirgelike pace nor the blazing speed of drone, stoner, thrash, speed, etc. are popular anywhere else but in metal.</p><p><em></em></p><p><em>At best</em>, other genres have dipped their toes in the waters that metal swims in.</p><p></p><p>Metal doesn't stand for one thing, its a conglomeration of many things.</p><p></p><p>Going from the late 1960s on to today, we find metal lyrics explicitly endorsing Satan, supernatural horror, excessive alcohol or drug consumption, brutal thuggery, violence against women, murder (esp. of authority figures), riots, anarchy (yes, just like the punks), anti-establishment social activism, aggressive ecoterrorism, sex outside of marriage, paganism and/or overt anti-Christianity and so on and so forth. Metal's stand, as it were, is as amorphous as James Dean's: </p><p></p><p>Q: "What are you rebelling against?"</p><p>JD: "Whatta ya got?" </p><p></p><p>As Perry Farell pointed out during the first Lollapalooza tour, if anything, metal and rap are the closest, lyrically speaking. You won't find any genre besides rap or punk that encompasses so many anti-mainstream messages as metal.</p><p></p><p>That stuff just don't play in Peoria. You won't hear any of that in the Grand Ole Opry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5353346, member: 19675"] As a musician, i can't agree with this. The levels of guitar distortion that are present in other genres- with the exceptions of hard rock, punk and heavier industrial subgenres- would be entry level at best for acceptability in metal. Guitarists in other genres don't even touch the pedals and amps that are the foundation for achieving that in metal. The emphasis on minor chords, dissonance, and (in many metal genres) mastery & mixing of a host of scale types are absent in mainstream music. The nature of metal vocals- be they the extreme high wails or the "cookie monster" growls so en vogue today- are also virtually unique to the genre. Neither the dirgelike pace nor the blazing speed of drone, stoner, thrash, speed, etc. are popular anywhere else but in metal. [I] At best[/I], other genres have dipped their toes in the waters that metal swims in. Metal doesn't stand for one thing, its a conglomeration of many things. Going from the late 1960s on to today, we find metal lyrics explicitly endorsing Satan, supernatural horror, excessive alcohol or drug consumption, brutal thuggery, violence against women, murder (esp. of authority figures), riots, anarchy (yes, just like the punks), anti-establishment social activism, aggressive ecoterrorism, sex outside of marriage, paganism and/or overt anti-Christianity and so on and so forth. Metal's stand, as it were, is as amorphous as James Dean's: Q: "What are you rebelling against?" JD: "Whatta ya got?" As Perry Farell pointed out during the first Lollapalooza tour, if anything, metal and rap are the closest, lyrically speaking. You won't find any genre besides rap or punk that encompasses so many anti-mainstream messages as metal. That stuff just don't play in Peoria. You won't hear any of that in the Grand Ole Opry. [/QUOTE]
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