[Daniel.]

Personally, it's one of my fave genres but I wanna see if any other tibb people like it.

[The Slim Reaper]

Would never listen to it now, but I did have a small Anthrax/storm troopers of death phase that lasted about 5 minutes.

[Gstar]

I prefer wood because it can be used for many things and less of a conductor

[Alf]

Like most things in music, the genre has regressed, it started regressing 9n the 80s.

[DouglasS]

Gives me a headache

[Withano]

Nearly always no.

There’s a couple classics tho obvs

[reece(:]

Love metal

Youtube video

[hijaxers]

Heavy metal and Jazz makes me want to murder people, sorry but its being truthful.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Love

[Mystic Mock]

I definitely can get into Metal.

Obviously like all genres there are songs that I don't like from Metal, but overall yes I do like Metal.

Swing & Jazz on the other hand is a no.

[Nicky91]

yes


although the only music genres i dislike are Jazz and Lounge which are both so dull

[Alf]

There's quite a few Johnny's in here.

Spoiler:

if you want to know
What I mean, then just ask me

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Alf

There's quite a few Johnny's in here.

Spoiler:

if you want to know
What I mean, then just ask me

Is it to do with the Japanese Idol group?

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Is it to do with the Japanese Idol group?

Think it's more to do with Rotten, as in Johnny.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Think it's more to do with Rotten, as in Johnny.

****ing hell.

I over thought it.

[Alf]

A band in the 80s

What did Johnny hate?

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

****ing hell.

I over thought it.

Turns out we were both wrong!

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Alf

A band in the 80s

What did Johnny hate?

Very good.

He outsmarted us Slim Reaper.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Very good.

He outsmarted us Slim Reaper.

Always do, especially with Grim Sleeper.

[Tom4784]

I don't mind it, I feel like it can be a very repetitive genre though. I don't hate it but I don't live for it either. I can take it or leave it.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Alf

Like most things in music, the genre has regressed, it started regressing 9n the 80s.

Like virtually all genres, it's done the complete opposite of regress.

What started out as a handful of subgenres prone to thematic repetition has - again, like all genres - matured into a much more deep, varied ensemble of stuff to get stuck into.

A lot of the post-metal stuff right now is highly experimental and some of the most technically magnificent music on the planet. You only have to look at how some of the older black metal crypt keepers reacted to a band like Deafheaven coming on the scene (Short hair? Clean clothes? No Satan?) to see how much the genre has grown up.

If you mean mainstream popularity then sure. But metal doesn't need the mainstream anymore. My Chemical Romance were probably the last somewhat heavy/alternative band to capture the imagination of entire classrooms full of kids and flog merchandise to them. But the internet has fragmented everything, and made all kinds of everything more readily available. Very little has that much mass appeal anymore.

In terms of popularity I would say it's at the same level it's always enjoyed. That's the weird, cool thing about metal. It genuinely does exist in a bubble, apolitical and parallel to whatever else is in trend.

[Stu]

Other than nu metal. Nu metal was a regression. A ****ing funny one, though

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Stu

Like virtually all genres, it's done the complete opposite of regress.

What started out as a handful of subgenres prone to thematic repetition has - again, like all genres - matured into a much more deep, varied ensemble of stuff to get stuck into.

A lot of the post-metal stuff right now is highly experimental and some of the most technically magnificent music on the planet. You only have to look at how some of the older black metal crypt keepers reacted to a band like Deafheaven coming on the scene (Short hair? Clean clothes? No Satan?) to see how much the genre has grown up.

If you mean mainstream popularity then sure. But metal doesn't need the mainstream anymore. My Chemical Romance were probably the last somewhat heavy/alternative band to capture the imagination of entire classrooms full of kids and flog merchandise to them. But the internet has fragmented everything, and made all kinds of everything more readily available. Very little has that much mass appeal anymore.

In terms of popularity I would say it's at the same level it's always enjoyed. That's the weird, cool thing about metal. It genuinely does exist in a bubble, apolitical and parallel to whatever else is in trend.

Hair metal in the 80s set the genre on the downhill, the likes of Def Leppard, Bon Jovi and Motley Crue, were well loved but they were crap, mostly. Metallica did a couple of good tunes, but since then it's just turned into a terrible noise with no control.

[Parmy]

There was some classic albums in the late 70s early 80s..some great bands as well.

[Alf]

Many credit Black Sabbath for the birth of Heavy Metal. Some claim that this Beatles song was the birth of Metal.

Youtube video