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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
I'm going to advance a radical theory: one can not only like an album from an unpopular subgenre, said album can even be one's favorite. Why let others opinion of the subgenre define not only your tastes, but your classification? To use my earlier example, if one worked at a record store, and a person came in and talked about how they loved early Korn and wanted something similar but just as brilliant, "Roots" would be a great recommendation. Whereas, in the same scenario, if someone came in proclaimed their love for "Cowboys From Hell", "Roots" would not be the album I'd recommend.
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There is nothing radical there, just simple logic really. Its really no different from somebody going into a music store saying how much they love death metal and the store attendent recommending a a Slayer record to them, instead of recommending a Metallica record.
There is a simple genre tracer line here: Thrash= Groove= Nu Metal.
Each one derives from the other but the genres are different. Some of the thrash bands such as Overkill added groove elements once that genre had taken off with Pantera, but Sepultura were the only really big band who jumped ship from thrash metal to groove metal on Chaos AD, but they never jumped ship to Nu Metal, the only well known groove metal band that jumped ship to Nu Metal were Machine Head for a couple of albums. The only link that Sepultura has to Nu Metal, is that they were the most influential of all groove metal bands on that genre. Their savage ethnic influenced style of groove was a huge influence of Korn but thats about it, groove and Nu Metal are cousins, as thrash and groove are cousins. Iron Maiden were a huge influence on thrash, but I see no valid reason to lump them under the thrash banner.