Questions tagged [metal]
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.
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Some older mainstream music no longer available on Vinyl "as new"? Only "second hand" market?
I am very new to the world of vinyl. I I really like Das Modell and Stripped by Rammstein.
I could not find any vinyl records of these two songs. When I do a web search, I always come up with used ...
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Glam Metal vs Hard Rock
Can anyone explain the difference between glam metal and hard rock? I found songs like Sweet Child o Mine by Guns n' Roses in wikipedia as both glam metal and hard rock but songs like Bohemian ...
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I don't understand the Lyrics of Limp Bizkit new "Dad Vibes"
I don't understand at all why it goes in this song. Even a translator could not help. It looks like random words or some slang. I am not native speaker in English.
Can someone explain to me what the ...
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Who invented circle pits?
I've been looking for some time into the matter, but did never run into a proper conclusion: who actually invented circle pits?
I know it's a metal fans phenomenon, but I also ran into people circle ...
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What's the heaviest metal that uses a capo?
Some examples of musicians that use a capo on their guitar are Lisa Loeb (as seen in recent Geico commercials), and the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie.
As a musician who plays hard rock, I am ...
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Are there satellite TV channels for fans of Extreme Metal?
I and my brother are two fans of the extreme metal genre.
We have searched our receiver's channels lists in several satellites (Hotbird, Eutelsat, etc.) but found none of the channels streaming this ...
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Have any artists incorporated physical pain with composition and performance?
Self-harm, suicide and pain in general are all central themes in many subgenres of metal (especially black metal). Some performers have been known to cut themselves with razor blades on-stage during ...
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What are all the "-core" genres in metal other than metalcore, deathcore, and grindcore?
I know there are several but I'm looking for a definitive list of all the genres that end in -core. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're here to stay. I'm asking here because r/metal and other metal forums ...
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Is Cobalt's "Eater of Birds" considered experimental within the realm of extreme metal?
Cobalt's Eater of Birds seems to be considered their defining album. I am asking specifically about the titular song, which is also the final track of the album, but any thoughts on the album itself ...
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What are some of the earliest examples of songs featuring blast beats in triple metre?
For those who may not know, triple metre most often applies to songs with time signatures of 3 or 9. For the purposes of my question, I will include 6, 12, etc. even though they are usually considered ...
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Is there a sizable audience for very long rock/metal songs?
I am a huge fan of rock and metal, in particular all things experimental/progressive. It is fairly common for prog albums to feature extended track lengths, and or the last year or so, the longest ...
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Any suggestion for my music taste considering my Last FM statistics?
I am an idealist, big metal head fan of Avantasia's band and translator giving Arabic rhetorical translation for several materials and doing song remixing and covering for Japanese, English, French ...
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Has anyone heard of the EDM genre "Trance Ragecore"?
Its a mix between trance and Trap Metal but has darkpsy elements in it I was wondering if anyone's heard of it its fairly new and I was wondering if someone could find some Trance Ragecore Tracks and ...
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Why is Heilung so related to metal?
According to Wikipedia, Heilung is classified as "Experimental folk", while some other use the term "Neo Folk". They describe their music as "amplified history from early medieval northern Europe".
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Rock subgenre of "Darkness" by SPF1000
Listen to this song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs3WV3Fu-kw&t=
Its called Darkness by SPF 1000. It was in an episode titled "Battle of the Bands" from The Grim Adventures of Billy & ...