Over the past week and a half I decided to update and organize all the music on my computer. Make sure spellings are correct, release year, record label, etc. As well as labeling the correct genre. After being halfway through “C” I already have added about 20 new genre. Why can’t metal, just be metal. Is a band going to be that upset that I don’t refer to their music as Atmospheric Post Blacked Sludge. Should I go back and just label everything as metal, or continue and see how many ridiculous genres.
I have to roll my eyes at the idiosyncratic ones like “ithyphallic metal”, and I place less importance on theme-based ones like Viking Metal, but I think most genres are pretty varied like that if you get into them enough.
I can agree with.
Yeah the metal genre thing is just descriptors of sound and most metal bands that I listen to vary wildly in that regard. Mostly because bands that are the exact same genre in metal tend to sound exactly the same, which becomes kind of boring.
I don’t organize by genre. It’s way too difficult and time consuming for what you actually get out of it. But it’s good for talking to your buddies about it so they can get an idea of a band and know if they’re worth checking out or not for them based on that description.
Maybe I do just that, come up with a few basic genres for a guide. Rather than ever damn sub genre.
Yeah. I basically do like… thrash, death, black, heavy, industrial, power, folk
Everything you listen to can basically fit into those ones.
Usually industrial and folk metal can easily slip into one of those too.
I think that is going to be the plan.
I just do the main genres and then combinations of those, if I feel that specific band has clear influences from a genre. Sometimes, I do subgenres, when I have many bands from some of the big genres and feel like I need more discrimination
Sometimes, it’s not a feeling, but whatever I find on discogs or musicbrainz. It has to make sense, in the end, I guess.
Dude, I have combed through so many sites, just to be like "Hope this is the right sub-genre for this band " going to just do simple basic bitch genres.
Subgenres are pretty useful to know what you’re seeing. I listen to tech death or osdm or doom-death, but I’ll rip my ears apart if you try to feed me melodic death.
I listen to it all. A massive chunk of my day is listening/ looking for new music.
Good for you, but what I’m saying is that subgenres are useful for people with less eclectic tastes. When a genre in itself is too vast and puts Incantation and Jinjer in the same bucket, you need subgenres to distinguish them.
