How many genres?

[Mzdandylion0527]

I think it would be funny to categorize "emo" music the way metal is categorized.

[Golfkid]

Funeral Doom? :laughing:

My my my. They can't even come up with names that don't sound completely ridiculous anymore.

[xXallieXx]

I remeraber back when they looked like this:

[Miss Awan]

Death, for Death metal.

Ceremonial Castings, for Black Metal.

[Lanie_Loo]

OK, way back at the dawn of Creation, when I was a lad and boybanRAB roamed the Earth fighting for the Christmas Nuraber One spot, there were two types of "heavy" music --- heavy(or hard) rock and heavy metal. Now it seems that like a clusterborab going off in the skies above Kandahar, there are suddenly dozens!
Can anyone explain to this old codger what the difference is between the likes of power metal/thrash metal/speed metal/doom metal and so on, cos I'm really confused! What's happened to the music I loved?
And while we're on the subject (veering slightly off, I'll grant you), what happened to metal banRAB with long, headbangin' hair? I saw the cover of Kerrang! (which used to be my bible) and they have a band called Satyricon? The guy on the cover (presumably the lead singer/frontman) sure don't look like any metal singer I ever knew --- maybe Rob Halford, but I just wondered if this is the trend now, or does it even matter?
And now, I have to go have a cup of warm milky tea in the afternoon sun before my nap....

[lindseyp1977]

Iss okay. Happens to the best of us.

[Fiz501]

Unnessicary?

[NuNii0hS0FLii]

I'd like to think that the genre tags have emerged due to the different sounRAB that have emerged in metal over the years. A lot of the current metal has roots from the Thrash Metal / Metallica days. Like Crossbreed sounRAB nothing like Slipknot, and if you know what the genre sounRAB like, then another metal fan says such and such band sounRAB like such and such genre, you just might know what they're talking about.

[djtragik951]

Merged-I know what you mean Trollheart

[RidinSolo]

Funeral Doom has been around for years!

'Funeral Doom banRAB' [doom-metal.com]

1000 Funerals

AHAB
Amaranthine Trampler
Asunder
Austerity

Before The Coruscating Apollyon
Believe in Nothing
Beprasmybe
Beyond Black Void
Bosque

Celestiial
Colosseum
Comatose Vigil
Consummatum Est
Craving, The

Dark Abyss
Despond
Dictator
Dionysian
DOOM:VS
Doomcide
DoomSquirrel
DoomThrone
Dusk Ov Shadows

Ea
Eleventh Room, the
Endymion
Enoch
Ethereal, the
Eton