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Both those subs need some soap and water.

Or a match to start a grease fire.

r/progmetal is fine.

Metal is the anime of music

Distant Worlds - To Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X.

Japanese people being better than you.

Final Fantasy X - Otherworld. I blame the music from earlier Final Fantasy games for the seemingly massive crossover and similarity between the fandoms for anime, manga, and metal.

metal is the metal of anime music

I enjoy listening to metal, but I don't want to call myself a metalhead. I don't know why or what it is, but the difference is huge.

So many feels...

This is beautiful!

It's really not. Please just try and delve into the genre and you'll find some pretty amazing music.

Metal communities online are the worst. Thank God I've never met such butt-blasted people at shows and festivals.

If you go to more specific metal communities like r/Progmetal and r/Technicaldeathmetal you can meet some really nice people there.

Progrock is better

Too bad you fuckers don't have an active subreddit lolol

/r/progrockmusic? ~15 posts a day might not be much, but I'd hardly call that inactive.

Eh, I wish it was more active. Every time I tried to participate there I got little response. Figured it wasn't worth the effort.

why did you type eh

I'm Canadian.

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/r/metal is the ultimate exercise in elitism. Ban every single mainstream metal band in existence so that the death and black metal fans can pretend to represent the entire metal community.

Look man, if normal people can appreciate it without needing to overdose on irony and pretension then it's barely even metal.

It's not kvlt enough unless the recording sounds like it was made on an underwater 8-track with a dying goat in the background.

[Idk this band isn't banned and does pretty well on /r/metal when posted. What is that decent production quality, clean vocals and generally being a good band that I wouldn't have doscovered otherwise, gee good thing it isn't a Pantera, Metallica, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest circlejerk.

I agree. Metal albums should be produced and distributed for ocean lifeforms only. That's why my favorite metal band is Dethklok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmZYC4kBxJY

Basically this. /r/metal's blacklist is hilariously large.

It's true other metal subs have blacklists, but you can generally count them with two hands at worst; they're also typically very, very popular for the subgenre as well.

It's not massive, given the sheer volume of bands making metal.

Good metal != a majority of the metal ever made

Uh, what's your point?

The point is that the blacklist is not that restrictive at all, and helps encourage Metal most people, including many metalheads have not heard.

Uh, what's your point?

And helps encourage Metal most people, including many metalheads have not heard.

Metal no one had heard because it's shit. Blacklists only work if your community isn't filled with autists getting their dicks raw over the most obscure shit they can find.

Which generally isn't ever good; because if it were, someone would have fucking heard it already.

Metal no one had heard because it's shit.

So literally all Metal, other than the blacklist, is shit?

Blacklists only work if your community isn't filled with autists getting their dicks raw over the most obscure shit they can find.

People like finding obscure bands that others have not heard of, and sharing it. Why is this a problem?

Which generally isn't ever good; because if it were, someone would have fucking heard it already.

That's just not true at all. Many music styles are inherently atypical, or simply not promoted. By your logic, the best music going is Nickleback, Nicki Minaj, Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber.

So literally all Metal, other than the blacklist, is shit?

No, all metal on the black list is shit as well.

Why are you arguing then? It's in your favour that they're banned.

I'm not arguing. I'm stating a fact that all metal is shit. Those that listen to metal should off themselves.

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tbf, justin bieber is some of the best music going

Have you heard of this retro English metal death band iron maiden? Im just getting into them can i get some recommendations?

there's some great obscure gems from that time, try metallica and motley crue. none of the meanie elitists know about them apparently. \m/ brother

Except that many death and black metal bands are actually on the blacklist.

Yeah, all the 10 or 20 good ones lol

So, another elitist replying to a thread that [tries] to make fun of /r/metal being elitist.

Irony.

Not an elitist, just s tourist. Everyone that whines about the black list is really saying "I literally only like 20 of the most popular metal bands and I can't comprehend that people's taste evolve beyond that"

Nah, check his other posts. He's an elitist about it.

Or a troll. Likely given this subreddit, tbf.

Nah he posts nothing but power metal

Rofl.

So he's an elitist then.

Only listening to Power metal is for tourists

A lot of people into power metal are only into power metal, but it's not universally true at all.

In any case, you can hate Metal and still be elitist.

implying USPM isn't among the trvest genres

That would be blackened power metal. Satan's Host above all.

Speed/black?

Not really. USPM is different to blackened power.

Yeah, blackened power is better.

LMAO... that's just false!

...yes?

It's not our fault you don't even bother listening to anything else but the most popular bands of the genre

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OK so I'm hallucinating when there are Doom Metal and Power Metal bands on the front page. Considering that Black Metal and Death Metal make up more than 50% of the metal releases last year, you'd think they may have a lot more variety from posters.

implying Twisted Sister, WASP, and Suicidal Tendencies are underground black metal

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With all due respect, the poster who made that thread is not representative of /r/metal or /r/progmetal. She herself is an elitist.

It's not super-biased though. Usually when I post obscure trad or uspm it gets upvotes as well.

Well the Black/Death thing is also because the majority releases are of those 2 genres each making up about 25% of releases in a year. No I ain't pulling those numbers outta my ass either you can check the numbers on Metal Archives.

The reality is that heavy-metal enthusiast are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when some guy tells you that heavy metal is an actual musical genre.

Wimpcrush when?

r/metal We are not elitist.

Also r/metal https://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/7308rz/shreddits_official_banned_restricted_discussion/dnmz8s7

'Elitist' is a buzzword used by normies to justify not examining their surface-level tastes.

tbh this thread allows for the most pure combination of shitposting and self-aggrandizement i have ever seen as a metal autiste on such a shit sub i just might hngggggggg

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