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Originally Posted by Crispy's Critter
well then I guess I'm out of touch. In the old days metal was just anything hard. Then all of a sudden it became the big thing to have to classify everything in it's own sub category, something I've never cared for or done. To me anything based on fast,heavy guitar riffs is metal. Now all of a sudden it's only metal if it's incomprehensible growling/screaming.
Apparently because I still like melody and technique over playing the same power chord as fast as you can over and over it means I have no taste in music.
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Well thats not what I said.
First off, there are plenty of metal bands with melody, so thats a weird statement.
I didn't say you had no taste in music... so theres no need to put words in my mouth. Nor did I say that metal = incomprehensible growling/screaming.
Atreyu and Avenged Sevenfold are just not considered metal.
Metalcore is basically the 'emo' equivalent of metal. That being said, there are some metalcore bands which are still considered 'metal', but those two specific bands aren't.
I'm not insulting them, or you, I'm just stating the general consensus.
And I agree, categorization is rather strange at times.