One of the weird parts of being into metal is the realization of exactly how intense metalheads are with genre labels. Even I, a noted non-snob, and guilty of being overly descriptive and picky about labels. God forbid you throw around a subgenre tag falsely or not understand the history of a style. We’ll say a band is technical progressive blackened death, and two things happen. One, people will argue whether your label is precise and perfect (“what’s really prog about this?!?!” or “I hear more thrash than black due to the blastbeats…”); two, you likely already know a bunch of bands that have tried a similar style and can unpack weird mish-mashes of genre without actually hearing any music. So yes, metal is a weird yet awesome assemblage of sound and subgenre, as well as personality...
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