Quote (Zodijackyl @ Tue - Dec 7 2010 - 14:41:12)
Too much overlap and ambiguity between styles, as well as the flow chart type thing not making sense - "Swedish metal" (i.e. Entombed, Dismember) doesn't lead into "Melodic Death Metal", yet both feature examples from the same In Flames album. The emphasis on geographic separation also detracts from genre separation - regional separation of black metal has been completely irrelevant starting with the second wave, which is where they split from the "first wave" or proto-black metal bands - there was enough distribution of the music that bands from all over the world were aware or each other and influenced by each others styles - US/Greek/Canadian/Norwegian black metal has a ton of stylistic mixing that is not explained. How do you manage to have 5+ subdivisions of black metal without mentioning Transylvanian Hunger, an album which has practically spawned a subgenre of clones?
"Medieval Metal" and genres like that are out of place too, as is most "folk metal". Power metal with violins, or folk music with a rock drum beat and power chords on guitar doesn't really reflect on styles, and there is a lot of nonsense as far as making up subgenres for every band rather than simply considering that a lot of these bands have little or no metal in their style.
smoke weed and enjoy the music you uptight cunt
