Ridiculous Genre Titles

vindictive_miss

Genres and sub genres can all get very confusing and bands like rhapsody aren't helping inventing ones like Symphonic Epic Hollywood Power Metal. Thats just ridiculous! Other ones I've heard are cosmic metal and film score metal. Anyone else know any stupid genre names?

Karl Hungus

It's funny that it's always cheesy European Power Metal bands who come up with those titles and their ilk, but it does add to their pompousity level and the cheese appeal, don't you think?

bassey

and love metal, come on, it's just....stupid...simply stupid

Pugsley

I dunno, I always found DragonForce's 'Extreme power metal' cheesey yet somehow refreshingly true

Pet

Emocore. L to the A to the M to the E.

Also, "Symphonic Black Metal with Gothic Overtones" as I heard someone describing...(Darkthrone?).

Geranium

Neo-classical metal and forest metal are pretty ridiculous and unneccesary titles. I mean, neo-classical? Are we talking about seventeenth century antiques or a bunch of lads in make-up with guitars?

Doctor J

I believe Manowar laid this gayness to rest with the line "Heavy Metal or no Metal at all"

eoin5

And if that wasnt bad enough the genres mean different things to different ppl, like many people I know of the older generation mostly talk about cream and led zep being heavy metal and lots of other people would just call them blues rock and anything less heavy than Sabbath wasnt heavy metal.

Speed Metal meets Grunge: Sponge.

Civilian_Target

Loud metal?

Bottle_of_Smoke

Post rock scandinavian death grunge. Bassey I don't think there's a genre called love metal. Name of a HIM album though

Drums

bassey wrote:

and love metal, come on, it's just....stupid...simply stupid

I agree.

Karl Hungus

Pet wrote:

Also, "Symphonic Black Metal with Gothic Overtones" as I heard someone describing...(Darkthrone?).

Not a chance of that description being about Darkthrone. When everyone else was flirting with orchestras and the like, Darkthrone stuck to their dirty roots and did what they always did.

slssprite

Fantasy gothic black metal ))--summoning
true unholy black...

Gothic metal--this is the stupid one, because doesnt have anything from real gothic music.

crazy angel

i no someone who classifies certain stuff as 'german metal'????

nosmo

Pure Epic Symphonic Hollywood Metal
Unfortunately I can't remember for the life of me who's CD I saw it on

also, people calling Opeth Forest Metal.. wtf?

CrazyTalk

LOL
ppl describe Mael Mordha as 'Celtic Doom Metal' :rolleyes:

The Free Man

nosmo wrote:

also, people calling Opeth Forest Metal.. wtf?

lol, yea i heard them called 'Medieval Metal'

and, the mars volta are alt-prog-jazz-spazz-punk-metal so i believe

Paligulus

I thought "Stadium Indie" was pretty funny. I think it was used to decribe Snow Patrol.

Caliden

crazy angel wrote:

i no someone who classifies certain stuff as 'german metal'????

could he be talking about rammstein-like bands? with the same guitar sound throughout all their songs

snickerpuss

I think emocore sounds stupid and lame.
Bah.

Bottle_of_Smoke

"screamo" aghhhhhh!

Oriel

I've seen Meat Loaf classed as "Punk Rock and "Metal"...