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Favorite Post Neo-Classical Gypsy Pornogrind Albums?

No but really what "genres" have you seen people use that are totally unnecessary? I think you hardly need any, tbh; if you want to describe a band beyond that then actually go into a specific description of the band.

BQ: What genres are actually useful for you in describing music?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    a genre name is just a shorter way of stating that same description to me, nothing more. would it not be easier to describe a band by calling them "black metal" than saying that they employ the use of blast-beats, delayed, tremolo-picked riffs with a scooped EQ, high screams and rasps about nihilistic and/or satanistic themes with low production quality? sure, to someone unfamiliar with the style, the latter may be more useful, but it's highly redundant when speaking to someone who primarily listens to music that falls into that style.

    It all depends on the situation. if someone who listens mostly to, say, R&B, asks me what kind of music Daughters played, of course i wouldn't say "noisecore". I'd just say they play noisy, chaotic, dissonant stuff. The case may be different if I'm talking to someone who listens to bands like The Number Twelve Looks Like You or The Dillinger Escape Plan. The same description has varying degrees of usefulness to people with varying familiarity with such music.

  • 1 decade ago

    Unlike a lot of people, I dont mind the vast amount of genres in Metal music there are. I actually quite enjoy the fact that we are able to choose and label music exactly by their style but some there are some genres that are pretty useless, like the many subgenres of Grindcore (which is itself a subgenre) such as pornogrind, goregrind, cybergrind and so on.

    BQ: All the main subgenres of metal, and the term "technical" or "progressive". Lol.

  • 1 decade ago

    Jesus christ, I though you were serious.

    Neo-Classical actually is a pretty cool genre. "Post" seems unnecessary. Gypsy jazz is actually an interesting form of jazz, and pornogrind is fun sometimes :P

    "Brutal death metal" seems to be pretty redundant, since most death metal is pretty brutal anyway, except maybe melodic and progressive.

    BQ: "Technical" and "Progressive". I'll generally like it then.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think that there are way too many metal genres. I mean, I've been listening to metal for years and absolutely love everything about it but not even I can memorize every single genre.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I think a lot of sub genres of metal music are unnecessary, i think that the difference from Black Metal, to Death Metal, to Black Death Metal, to Melodic Black Death Metal are so minuscule, that it really holds no bearing, I also think that a lot of bands in metal/hard rock aren't classified properly.

  • 1 decade ago

    Oh **** KC, I thought you were serious. Neo and Core seem pretty redundant.

    BQ: Rock, Psychedelic, Soul and Jazz.

  • 1 decade ago

    Most 'genres' created after 1985 are useless to me.

  • 1 decade ago

    anything "core"

  • dak
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    no

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