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The Bride of the Glorious Cornucopia of Heavy Metal Reanimated
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"What is metal?" is a question going back to the 80s at least. I'm old enough to remember kids in GnR t-shirts calling Bon Jovi fans 'poser gayslurs' without a trace of self-awareness. The internet and the democratization of music has really helped blur the boundaries between the different genres, requiring subgenres like 'blackened melodic death metal' and 'blackened progressive death metal' to provide meaningful distinction for those that need to categorize their music by genre. Where it gets confusing for some people is 'classic' metal bands. Before the shout-along voices of thrash metal, before Chuck Schuldiner started guttural death metal vocals, heavy metal was just a name for the bands that were taking the blues in a louder and faster direction, like KISS or AC/DC. Now those bands are 'classic rock', and if you grew up with Metallica as your dad's favorite metal band, people still calling KISS heavy metal makes no sense.
I prefer 'metal' to be inclusionary. Gatekeeping has no place in my music, except, of course, the excellent NWOTHM band Gatekeeper.
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Originally posted by RiTides View PostCan you do one of these threads for techno? Honestly, try as I might I just can't get into metal, but am loving some techno for focus music lol. If it's not your thing nevermind ;)
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Originally posted by RiTides View PostCan you do one of these threads for techno? Honestly, try as I might I just can't get into metal, but am loving some techno for focus music lol. If it's not your thing nevermind ;)
Boy those Germans can dance.Last edited by feeder; 06-21-2021, 04:40 PM.
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Originally posted by feeder View Post
Laibach does not believe in originality... Therefore, Rammstein could not 'steal' much from us. They simply let themselves get inspired by our work, which is absolutely a legitimate process. We are glad that they made it. In a way, they have proven once again that a good 'copy' can make more money on the market than the 'original'. Anyhow, today we share the territory: Rammstein seem to be a kind of Laibach for adolescents and Laibach are Rammstein for grown-ups
To be honest, on the metal to techno spectrum, Laibach is clearly way way less on the metal side than Rammstein, and sometime (but not always, this band has range [1] [2] [3]) more on the techno side.
Which makes it more halfway, imo, because Rammstein is way too much on the metal side to be halfway through techno and metal.
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