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Old 11-22-2008, 01:04 PM   #133 (permalink)
Rainard Jalen
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Originally Posted by jackhammer View Post
Why are there so many sub genres in Metal? Indie is Indie at the end of the day, Reggae is Reggae etc.
'Indie' is a bad comparison, as it's not really a genre to begin with - it's just an 'idea'. A great deal of the sounds that might be characterized as 'indie' tend to have virtually no stylistic elements in common at all.

Aside from that, I'd say that there are probably more 'sub-genres' associated with 'indie' by fans of alternative music than there are sub-genres associated with 'metal'.
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