Talk:Music Theory/Metal
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I want to add/correct some things about the metal article. Well, I don't think metal has been "invented" in the US. Well the real creators of metal are the 60's/70's bands Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin among others. In their music are the riffs and patterns that became so typical for Metal Music to be heard first (and especially in Black Sabbath's music). Well I don't think it is necessary/useful to split up Heavy Music into so many different styles, I'd say the only styles within metal music are:
- Heavy Metal
- Speed Metal
- Hard Rock
There's no need to split them up further, because they all use the same clichees all over again. Well there's one more thing to say: It's no specific thing for goth bands to use locrian mode, I suppose many of those bands don't know what locrian is. Listen to the most known goth bands, you'll hardly ever find a locrian mode in there. Much more specific for goth is the HM5 (Harmonic-Minor, 5th mode, which is also called phrygian dominant, and which is created by raising the third of the 5th step, so that in A-minor the E-minor on the 5th step becomes a e-major chord).
That's all!
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No way; there are many differences between the metal genres listed, and I believe they are fine the way they are. The only thing I don't really like about this article is the end where it talks about how seven string guitars tuned to drop a are not uncommon. I don't agree with this and I don't like how it states it. -MetalGeoff
Heavy Metal, Speed Metal and Hard Rock? Where would NWOBHM come in then (unless it's grouped with Progressive or Power Metal)? Or NuMetal? Or even Black Metal. None of those genres even remotly resemble Heavy Metal, Speed Metal or Hard Rock.
Although I agree, Metal has way to many sub genres.
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[edit] hold up
There's no such thing as "blues metal". Aerosmith and GnR are hard-rock/rock 'n' roll bands. Where on earth do you come up with this stuff?
[edit] Visual kei
Visual is not a music style, nor is it metal. The music style visual belongs to is J-Rock.
[edit] What?
There ar elements in this that are outright erroneous (swedish death metal wasn't popularised by In Flames etc.) and there is, well, a lack of knowledge present. I mean, for example, there is just no point in the description of progressive metal - Opeth are in a completely different genre to Dream Theatre etc. etc.) The various subgenres are totally valid though, although hair metal is exactly the same thing as glam metal, There are one or two missed out, and they're badly fleshed out. Basically, whoever wrote this dosn't have anywhere near enough knowledge to write this, or perhaps, not the time to do it properly.
[edit] Theory of metal
are there any books that discuss the actual sounds of metal (specifically the extreme sub-genres)... that's what i want, a music theory book about death metal. 64.230.107.230 (talk) 19:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
