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Originally Posted by MicShazam
Specifically about that Amaranthe song though, I think the " If you're going to play like a pop band, don't try and pretend to be a metal band" line is pretty damn weird. You make the rules of metal? They're not "pretending" anything. They're doing a thing, if anything, without pretensions. Get your head out of your boring 80's metal elitist butt.
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No, I don't make the rules of metal, but you've got to draw the line somewhere. What elements of metal does Amaranthe have? They have growls and generic power metal riffs, but everything else about them is pop. So they technically have metal elements, but I personally would never consider them to be metal and they don't feel like a metal band to me. To each their own, I don't care if people like them.
"boring 80's metal elitist" I didn't know that could be applied to someone who's a fan of a lot of nu metal bands and considers Blue Cheer, Gun, and Golden Earring to be metal before Black Sabbath.
and before an argument starts about "you only consider stuff you like metal", Limp Bizkit is metal. They suck, but I would never try and argue that they aren't a metal band.