Old Man Shouting At Clouds - What Genre Is That?

 

Posted this on Social Media this morning after recording that 57 second music clip using 7 string drop tuned guitar. A bit on that here:

It carries on from a previous post on OUR STRANGE MUSIC.  That is an expression Mattias IA Eklhund uses about his very odd (by Western Standards, but not by 5,000 year old Southern Indian standards) time signature and his harmonic lead wiggley wiggley he does. 

But this post was brought on by this RANT - OLD MAN YELLS AT METAL video: 

I agree with him that some young guys saying what he is doing "isn't metal" is rubbish. Metal has evolved into a zillion branches, and some young guys may only be familiar with some of the most recent.

This is probably mostly wrong but an attempt at such a family tree:

HP42 goes and plays a bunch of clips of recent metal, and I must say, most don't interest me at all.  Metal has changed from memorable riffs of LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT, PARANOID or even ENTER SANDMAN, to be more about a rhythm played on a downtuned guitar playing against the kick drum.

Recent stuff seems more extreme version of what LAMB OF GOD did. 

In my music+comic at the top of this page, I think you could describe what I am doing as simple ROCK&ROLL, with a metal, downtuned guitar tone and double pedal kick drum. But then the synth stuff probably makes it go to Industrial something something.  I guess that is one of my styles that doesn't sound like someone else, and that is fine by me!

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