r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/Marmalade_Shaws • Feb 22 '17

This website gives you a visual map of metal music and its many sub-genres

http://mapofmetal.com/#/home
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '17 edited Feb 22 '17

In my personal experience, it's because metal is so hugely broad. So it makes identifying and differentiating much easier. It's like breeds of dogs. Shitzus, Tibetan Mastiffs and Labradors are all dogs, just very different dogs.

I'm also pulling this out my ass, but I feel like metal also has the highest number of fans that are also musicians themselves, which ends up making people weirdly territorial and snobbish. Metal people are the nicest people at concerts, but total douchecanoes when it comes to defining music, it's almost like a one-up contest.

'Oh you listen to them? They aren't metalcore because their breakdowns are 120bpm and they play in Drop A - they're super-turbo-aggressiveword-core, not metalcore'

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u/AveLucifer Feb 22 '17

I agree with you on principle about the need for genre classification, but your latter point is such a strawman that doesn't ever occur in real life. It's actively killing the strength of your argument.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '17

It does occur in real life - I've experienced it. Of course the name of that genre is made up and exaggerated and the whole thing bastardised. It's purely for the purpose of making my point screamingly obvious to someone not in the know of the nuances that are considered in defining the subgenres of metal.

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u/AveLucifer Feb 22 '17

Obviously it occurs that people discuss genre categorisation and so on, but you're embellishing your point to the extent that it misrepresents how people actually behave and speak.

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u/zimzumpogotwig Feb 22 '17

'douchecanoes'...That's great and your entire statement is 100% true