Why is Metal the dominant music genre on internet gaming forums?

[Noamuth]

Whoa, dashiz94, triple post. Careful, buddy.

When it comes down to it, when a rockets flying to a group of people a zombies head being blown off or an impossibly expensive car drifting around a corner while being chased by every officer in liberty city not many people want to hear,"UNDER MY UM-BUR-RELLA ELLA ELLA EH EH EH..."

That sums it up nicely~

Metal is all sorts of beautiful and there are so many types.. It just works, for me.

 

[Triforceformer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6kb5fvv6_A

194 BPM on Drums, Incredibly Fast Guitars, Good Bass, and Real Fucking Anger to back up the already intense lyrics = Kick Ass.

 

[Sparkytheyetti]

Go take your standard 4/4 timing rap, country, pop, or whatever and compare it to some 19/16 timing of a the beloved metal. Hail Meshuggah! On a personal note their are so many different kinds of bands that do different things to metal. Some go fast, some go slower, some play in a 5/7 timing. You just never know. Plus you can fit a metal song with every situation in life.

 

[mada7]

God damnit. Typed out a long post about why gamers are often into metal, but accidentally hit back a page... grr.

Anyway, I'll summarise, tongue in cheek:

- Gamers are often off kilter personalities, ugly people, oddballs or socially inept.

- Oddballs and the socially inept often have strange ideas as to what constitutes cool - e.g many nerdy people love sci-fi and fantasy, but most "normal" people find it juvanile and lame (I'm not paying out speculative fiction, I love it) - and I think this translates with metal culture; most people see hairy ugly people with ragged neck beards trying to make as much noise as they can, but metal heads see these awesome guys just being super mad hardcore and awesome (they aren't).

- Socially inept often have an identity crisis in teenage years, and are drawn to metal because they love the idea of being super hardcore and screaming alot and can find a social group to belong to in it's culture simply brimming with other dorky unpopular people to befriend.

- Ugly people need a way to look cool while remaining ugly or fat. Long hair, scraggly neck beards and and angry look give them the broodiness they are looking for, so they join the metal culture to be with their kind.

- The music is only secondary, and the appeal is in the culture... Because who the hell could listen to most metal and say "Yeah. That's the stuff right there. That grindy, screamy, terrible cacophany is going to be the stuff I vomit down my eardrums for the rest of my life and I'll love it." It must be a sound that you adapt to because some other aspect of the culture is cool. It simply is not good music, and I won't believe people listen to the stuff solely on its auditory merits.

I listen to metal because it sounds good no simpler reason than that. I am in awe of how great Iron Maiden sounds both recorded and live. I love the sound of All That Remains, Darkest Hour, Megadeth and Devildriver and Im sure Im leaving out some great bands in there as well.

My liking of metal has absolutely nothing to do with metal culture whatsoever I am not a frequent concert goer and dress like a run of the mill guy no one would look at me outside of a metal concert or by looking at hte music Ive bought and downaloded would assume Im into metal.

There is something about that music that just stimulates the right part of the brain for me that just gets me into the groove that no other genre can. I'll listen to other stuff and I dont judge other music types but for me there is nothing that compares to the sound of the right metal music.

I would challenge anyone that sees metal music as just loud noise mixed with yelling and being isolated/alone/socially inept to listen to iron maiden then come back and give their opinion of metal

 

[Firia]

Hells yes. I must locate an mp3 of that. I wish I was a little more knowledgeable about how do extract mp3s off of youtube vids. ;_;

 

[cleverlymadeup]

actually punk isn't very diverse really, it's more or less 3 chord rock. you can divide it pretty much into a few bands and the rest branch off from there

there's the big 2 which are Ramones and The Sex Pistols, then there is the major players which are The Clash and Dead Kennedys. you can possibly add Black Flagg or even the descendants in there but the last one really comes from the bigger ones

How is that not diverse? One group looks back to Brian Wilson; another looks to ska and reggae. And that's leaving out the bands that looked outside the rhythm & blues roots of the rest of rock music like the Pogues did with Irish traditional music and the Mekons did with Appalachia American country.

I think you just don't know enough about punk music to talk about it--you should explore it some, especially if when it comes to metal you like Judas Priest or Motorhead or Iron Maiden before they got Bruce Dickinson (at least the little I heard--their vocalist previous to him seems much more rock'n'roll).

i've heard some older Priest and Maiden, they actually got rid of the original leader singer of Maiden cause they'd be doomed to sound like a punk band for the rest of their career and they figured it was a death sentence for them

now where the diversity comes from is that every punk band out there can be called a clone of one of the founding members of the punk movement. yes they all had different influences at the beginning, the fact is most bands haven't really changed their sound over the years and have kept the same sound really.

now if you take a look at metal from the same time period and the metal of today, you do find some similarities in the bands but you also find a much different sound and output of the bands.

actually if you wanted to see true outsider art in the music field, you would have to look at Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubauten or Throbbing Gristle and a bit later Skinny Puppy

No, you wouldn't. You wouldn't have to go further into punk than Riot Grrl. Don't confuse 'outsider' with 'unorthodox'.

i'm not confusing it, bands like Throbbing Gristle and Kraftwerk were the outisders at the time, they were making a whole new genre of music and were and frankly still are misunderstood

actually you do see it at other shows as well, jazz, rock and the like. it's a way to show off the skills of the musician. sure some people might call it the musical equivalent of wanking but frankly everyone i've seen say that, especially the bands, are just jealous of the fact that someone can do that.

I think it's more that, unlike jazz and to a much lesser extent than rock, they're tired of the fans of those musicians acting like their music and their musical taste is superior just because it's more technical ;-D

Like I said--you never see someone who plays pibroch music on the bagpipes take the same attitude towards people who like "Amazing Grace" as some metal fans will towards those who are fans of other genres.

it's not, out of the newer bands that come out that decide not to do solos or feature a solo by any member of the band, you don't hear many musicians going "wow the dude in that band is freaking amazing" or you don't hear guitar magazines going all gaga over them

if you look at a list of guitar gods, they are mostly metal guitarists and frankly listening to a great guitarist shred is simply amazing. jazz guitarists are in the same rank as them because both forms are overly complex and technical

as for bagpipes, most people don't know any bagpipe songs and frankly most pipers aren't very good at suggesting one, so people only ask for what they know

as for it grinding to a halt, it really doesn't, most of the people will just watch and listen and admire the musician for doing that and give them the respect that they deserve doing something like that

Like I said--grinding to a halt. It's a matter of opinion. Of course most of the people there will react the way you said: there's a connection between metal fans and people at metal shows ;-D

take a look at tool when they play, usually they give all the musicians a bit of a solo during the show and really the pit doesn't grind to a halt but everyone else will sit and watch and then go nuts after they finish playing or hitting a great rift

 

[Shock and Awe]

Teenage angst probably, I like metal, but I prefer classic rock.

 

[Mr. PIP Boy]

Because Rap makes you 1.bleed from the ears, 2.suffer massive internal bleeding, and 3. when you here any line relating to any form of sex, gangs, and/or "cappin @$$3$" you internally combust! Metal is the better, safer alternative and it sometimes helps with videogames....sometimes.

 

[Cheesebob]

because most gamers are white suburbanite kids, in their late teens, and frustrated with their lives. so they listen to music that "speaks to them.

Now that, that is the truth.

Personally can't believe it, being an alternitive Rock and Rap fan, how much metal dominates game forums

 

[Lyri]

Hells yes. I must locate an mp3 of that. I wish I was a little more knowledgeable about how do extract mp3s off of youtube vids. ;_;

I'm a little busy atm but I'm sure I can find you an MP3 of it sometime soon. I know I have it on my old computer anyway.
Just a case of gettin' too it, the original song is awful.

 

[timmytom1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6kb5fvv6_A

194 BPM on Drums, Incredibly Fast Guitars, Good Bass, and Real Fucking Anger to back up the already intense lyrics = Kick Ass.

Now that sir, is awesome

 

[Scrambles the Death-Dealer]

Cause Rap sucks and Metal fits alot of the numerous action-filled game? Thats my reasoning as to why.

I want to have your children.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Never heard of Gfunk, any you can recommend?

Behold, G-Funk:

Spoiler

G-funk stands for gangsta funk, which is essetially producers taking funk tracks from the 70s and sampling them in songs.

The meaning of this video has began to saturate..The man is happy because the man has a car. Bless ^^

 

[Neurowaste]

I have liked metal before i got into gaming, and gaming didn't really affect my music taste, so, i guess it was just a coincidence for me. Well, not really because i took up drumming at a young age and Metal was the funnest most diverse music to play on drums. Plus, nothing better than owning on CoD 4 listening to mastodon.

 

[Fox1789]

cause metal gets me into the mood to kill things.. therefore i play better

 

[laikenf]

Proof that you don't need guitars to be LOUD AND AWESOME!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjsxIJ3NTSM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMoyM3gT9n4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEN4ECEpf2Y

Anyway, Metal is alright. I have to confess that I was never really into metal (I was more into hardcore, noise-core and industrial) but metal got me into drumming and music in general. I think metal appeals to gamers because a lot of gamers are really alienated teens (well most teens are alienated these days anyway), but there are certain games that carry out the themes and imagery that metal usually deals with, especially these days with all these high-tech consoles.

 

[KaiRai]

Metal gets you pumped when you're playing a game. Ever played Kingdom under fire: Heroes? Sums it up in 1

Also, I like it because it's energetic. Although I like a lot of different genre's of music

 

[Jaythulhu]

Whilst I'm not really into metal any more (when I was a teen though, hoooeeee), I still enjoy throwing on some rollins band, megadeath or judas priest when I head off to gib zombies in L4D, or terrorists in Vegas 2. There's something about fast, crunchy guitar and heavy drums that just goes really well with firing off large amounts of ammo into unsuspecting zombies or teammates (why are grenades so attractive to drunk gamers?).