sideBOTS 1 - The Metal - Round 7 - This Would Make A Banger Theme

[Bad News Booty]

Or clear your cookies

 

[Death By Looch]

 

[Canadian Dragon]

any soft shit. getting marked down this week. im expecting METAL ENTRANCES. not softies

lfg

 

[Death By Looch]

Tells you how bad I am with this... when I saw Hells Bells was in I thought "damn, there's a huge favorite to win this round already"

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Tells you how bad I am with this... when I saw Hells Bells was in I thought "damn, there's a huge favorite to win this round already"

I feel like Booty and I may have to host a Metal 101 class in the lecture halls this summer

 

[Death By Looch]

Eh... hard rock, heavy metal... it's a fluid border between them.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Eh... hard rock, heavy metal... it's a fluid border between them.

I agree but ac/DC has never been cited as metal on any radio channel in my near 40 years on this earth and definitions matter

 

[Hoss]

When I saw Hell's Bells I was like "well I know which song is coming last on my list"

 

[Chris]

Tells you how bad I am with this... when I saw Hells Bells was in I thought "damn, there's a huge favorite to win this round already"

Nothing has ever made me question what I thought I knew about genres than battle of the songs

 

[Bad News Booty]

Honestly AC/DC always felt close enough to metal for me. But I gauge this stuff by whether or not I saw them in Headbangers Ball.
Anyway we are just waiting on @Crocker and @Wiseman

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Honestly AC/DC always felt close enough to metal for me. But I gauge this stuff by whether or not I saw them in Headbangers Ball.
Anyway we are just waiting on @Crocker and @Wiseman

I think, for me, it's a question of tempo, vibe and drums. AC DC is a rock n roll happy vibe, the drums are slow and all basic 4x4 tempo. They never play that fast , the drums are not being hit aggressively , etc...now obviously there's exceptions to every genre, and a lot of artists blend genres. But I just don't get metal vibes whatsoever from them. You can look at older bands like Sabbath and Ozzy, the vibe is clearly different than a party atmosphere. The lyrics also play a big part. Metal tends to be much darker, brooding and hits a lot of uneasy subjects. AC DC talks about rocking and fucking bitches for the most part. typical rock.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

now is there electric guitars and solos? yes. but that has existed in rock forever and is not a defining metal thing

 

[Canadian Dragon]

tbh it's really only the late 70s and 80s where the two genres have similarities I suppose. Once the 90s hit the genre is pretty easy to identify compared to it's rock cousin

 

[Bad News Booty]

Which is why when I started this I said hard rock would be fine. Cuz Hair Metal is more hard rock than metal and bands like Van Halen and AC/DC are very much in that middle ground. But Journey isn’t even close to that.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Which is why when I started this I said hard rock would be fine. Cuz Hair Metal is more hard rock than metal and bands like Van Halen and AC/DC are very much in that middle ground. But Journey isn’t even close to that.

Van Halen I agree on, ACDC not so much. Van Halen has that classic Hair Metal style (fast beat, ultra fast solos similar to Ozzy). I get your point though, it's valid enough.