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Old 10-10-2009, 06:34 AM   #61 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RezZ View Post
To say instrumental sill, tempo and such makes it more metal is certainly a bit fishy. Take the huge genre of Doom metal bands like Om and Sleep, they are know for a slow tempo and not exactly being virtuosos.
Not sure if you were referring to my matrix example

If you were, then it doesn't actually say that instrumental skill or high tempo is what makes metal. You just record different traits, then you have to figure out yourself what kind of traits you think of as metal. A question then could be when has proto-metal become real heavy metal? Maybe hard rock or eurodance could pop up elsewhere in the tree if you take it far enough.

There must be some core traits that define metal but I can't say right now what they are.
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