Why does everyone on the Escapist love metal so much?

[Takoto]

I hardly ever listen to metal... D:

 

[happysock]

Metal isn't my favourite but I have no problems with listening to it.

It's relaxing lol

 

[sramota]

Because nothing parodies genocidal maniacs like Death Metal,
it's bleeding hilarious!

 

[Collymilad08]

The escapist is obvious just full of people with excellent taste.

 

[oneniesteledain]

Metals, along with plastics, make so much in our modern world possible. Without certain conducting metals, you wouldn't even have the computer on which you type, for example. They're key in producing cars, computers, electricity (and delivering said electricity to your home), eating utensils, and countless other everyday items.

On a serious note, I can't speak for anyone here, but number of people I know who game are into metal and heavy music. Maybe it's just part of gaming culture?

 

[Kruxxor]

Now, right off the bat let me tell you, I'm not trying to bash metal here. The only music threads I've seen here are all "what metal bands do you like" and they're all the same handful of bands. What happened to people liking varied types of music? What happened to Classic rock? What happened to Alternative? What happened to Punk rock? Does nobody in the gaming community care about anything other than sub-par lyrics masked by the Open E and power cords of metal?

I like a mix of things. For example on my playlist I have, Nightwish, Linkin Park, Disturbed, Slipknot, System of a Down, 50 Cent, Eminem, Kelly Clarkson, Sugababes, The Black Mages, a lot of work by Nobuo Uematsu, Motoi Sakuraba, Tenpei Sato, See-Saw, Yuki Kajiura, Mussourgsky, Beethoven, Ludvico Enaudi, Utada Hikaru, Craig David and Jay Chou.

That's just to name a few.

 

[FallenRainbows]

I don't. To me its just noise. But ya'know I don't care what other peopel listen to, providing I don't have to on the bus. DIE CHAVS!

 

[Collymilad08]

I don't. To me its just noise. But ya'know I don't care what other peopel listen to, providing I don't have to on the bus. DIE CHAVS!

Indeed, indeed - hate those little ****ers

 

[KamachoMcSagget]

Frankly, I don't like much metal, as a matter of fact to me most of it feels like ear rape.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I like all types of music. Though Im more favorite to the club type music, I like some metal. Mostly popular metal

 

[Yadoso]

Why not?

People can call thier favorite music whatever they like. All of those bands have elements of what can be considered metal. (i.e. loud guitars, screaming, in your face attitude)

Posing in Bob Dylan style black and white photo with a cigarette hanging trendily out your mouth and listing off a bunch of obscure underground indie bands you're 'into' does not make you an authoritive voice on music.

Well, not to be a chode, but that's Ringo Starr in my picture. But that's neither here nor there.
Anyway, I didn't claim to be an authoritative voice on music. I'm merely saying that calling bands metal that clearly aren't clutters understanding. I mean, you don't call a band that uses synths and guitars an electronic band, right? So you shouldn't call a band incorporating a few metal elements metal.
(For the record, none of those bands I listed spare perhaps BTMI! are really obscure.)

But surely the beauty of having different musical styles and genres is the ability to blend them together... to not always have an exact definion what kind of music it is.

Most of the biggest, most succesful artists are the ones who take many different styles and put thier own stamp on it.

The fact that it can't be genre defined makes it great.

For example: Queens of the Stone Age = Stoner Rock, Metallica = Metal

But some of the QOTSA stuff is more metal sounding than a lot of Metallica's stuff, and Metallica have some stoner rock riffs in thier 90s material.. It doesn't matter if people don't know what to call it as long as they enjoy it.

What genre is Bowie? The Beatles? U2? Tool? They all cover many styles and the music world is a better place for it.

True, a lot of the best bands defy typical genre categorization. But I all was attempting to convey was that genres exist for a reason and you shouldn't misplace bands. I mean, really, all I was trying to say was that the Foo Fighters aren't metal and only using metal riffs doesn't make it metal. Look at Radiohead; they use lots of keyboards, but nobody really calls them electronic. But they're incorporating an element.

 

[VargRaev]

if there is one thing that Pisses me off, its when people base all their metal hate on shit bands like Slipknot and other Nu-metal shit.

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

another week......another metal thread, but i digress.

OT: i don't mind metal but i prefer stuff like king blues gallows poison skid row matchbox20, 30 seconds to mars etc

 

[Latinidiot]

it's the medium. pop music is discussed on TV and radio all the time, and the internet is a medium where you can choose the things you want to hear about/watch.

 

[Krajin]

I guess its just a scene thing, like people who watch MTV like...whatever it is they do cause its not music anymore, people who like basketball or "pimp out cars" like rap, people who like vampires like emo music....gamers i find just seem to prefer the metal...and metal is awesome.

 

[mannaroth]

Metal is the King thats why! It's past Portal perfection.

 

[Agema]

I guess its just a scene thing, like people who watch MTV like...whatever it is they do cause its not music anymore, people who like basketball or "pimp out cars" like rap, people who like vampires like emo music....gamers i find just seem to prefer the metal...and metal is awesome.

I agree, I think people get into metal because so many fellow gamers like it (or vice versa). Although where the link between gamers and metal started I've no idea, because when I started playing computer games in the 80s, it didn't exist.

 

[AkJay]

Because most of us are angsty teenagers who hate everything because we think it is cool to hate everything, so we listen to bands who hate everything, which mainly consists of "Metal" bands.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

I don't like metal, the closest thing I like is post metal, like post rock with metal influence.

Main genres I like are punk/post punk and pop music.

Metal is for n00bs

 

[lwm3398]

Metal? No thanks. Only Scandinavian Metal gets chicks anymore.