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I have a very serious question for metalheads

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BeoPuppy:
*yawn*

that's all I can say about them, really.

KharBevNor:

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Emphasis on instrumental prowess over vocals (depends on the subgenre, brutal death is an exception to this sometimes) Gothic and symphonic metal often puts vocal prowess at the same level as instrumental. Black metal also does this, but in a completely opposite direction, with brutal, cold and simple playing undercutting powerful emotional screams. I wouldn't say brutal death EVER does this. I'd say more 'never puts an emphasis on vocals over instruments' and 'makes use of dramatic or melodramatic vocal styles'. Even then there's exceptions.
Fast, rarely harmonic riffing (except for power metal, which harmonizes like, ALL the time) Speed is not essential in metal. At all. Funeral doom anyone?
Highly distorted guitar (again, power metal's usually the exception) And classic metal. and some prog metal. and some folk metal.
Obviously, violent, occult/pagan, and/or defiant lyrics You can get christian metal that even I would be hard pressed to define technically as anything other than metal, but yeah, if you wanna be troo. A different but slightly flawed perspective I once saw on it was the idea that metal lyrics across genres are united by being dissatisfied with the state of the modern world and either conjuring up images of different worlds, urging progress, regression, or destruction of this world, or urging the individual to leave the modern world, either to space, drug induced bliss, the afterlife, the forests or w/e. Again though, there are probably exceptions, as I believe that whole theory was simply an argument against Green Carnation being a metal band.
Fast precussion (especially in death and thrash) again not always necessary. I'm not even sure percussion itself is necessary at all, if you're pushing some extremely brutal brand of sludge.
And a general lack of the 'hook' or single melody associated with more commercial forms of music. Ironically, actually, because of its ridiculous simplicity a lot of black metal can be hooky, imo.

I'm not sure if this really does much to distinguish it from hardcore, but I have a difficult time putting it into words.
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Yeah, it's a hard thing to quantify. Basically, it all boils down to: If you're troo, you'll fucking KNOW.

Trollstormur:
I've stopped trying to explain metal to people who aren't in the know.

instead, I put on Bathory's "Woman of Dark Desires" and say, "this is metal."

KharBevNor:
That, no-one could argue with.

Although I personally would go with 'The Return of Darkness and Evil'. Mainly as that's, basically, my favourite song title, well, ever.

Rizzo:
Sick of it all are good if you only buy one album. I find hardcore can get a bit generic at times. They really were one of the original, ground breaking hardcore bands but they never really modified that sound.
Also, as has been said, if you're tr00 then you'll know metal when you hear it. The best metal has the words blood, krieg and weiner in the title of the songs.

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