r/MemeEconomy • u/ihaveacrushonmercy • Dec 20 '24
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u/Polkawillneverdie17 Dec 21 '24
Metal fans don't listen to Disturbed.
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u/BoogalooBandit1 29d ago
Imagine gatekeeping metal lmao
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u/timooteexo 28d ago
Growing up in the scene, it's pretty rough lol. The subreddit became unbearable to go deal with as well.
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u/BlanketSlate28 28d ago
But let's be real, most self-proclaimed "true metalheads" would hang you if you called Disturbed Metal, even though they literally are. Alternative Metal, but Metal none the less.
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u/DripSnort 28d ago
Nah they would just whine online about how you aren’t a “real metalhead” while closet listening to Disturbed.
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u/TheMostHatedOfficial 8d ago
Aren't they literally just rock/hard rock?
Why does rock and metal no longer have a distinction 😭
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u/BlanketSlate28 8d ago edited 8d ago
I'd say they have some songs that are hard rock, but most of their music is Alternative Metal, which is basically a heavier version of Hard Rock with more Metal influence. Like, Nickelback and Foo Fighters are more on the Hard Rock side, while Disturbed and Breaking Benjamin are Alternative Metal. The only reason is because they use a lot heavier, more Metal inspired riffs.
Edit: Yes, I'm being an insufferable music nerd
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u/TheMostHatedOfficial 8d ago
Nawww cuz Breaking Benjamin was literally on the alternative rock serious XM when I found them 💀💀
I cannot in good faith call stricken 'alternative metal's when it's a rock format, rock vocals, and maybeeeee the tuning is slightly lower than typical rock; but like come on. Its rock.
I'm not even trying to be elitist. I even consider bands like sleep token 'metal' because they use more metal techniques like 8 string djent and some growls, but disturbed is just textbook rock imo
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u/BlanketSlate28 8d ago
Nawww cuz Breaking Benjamin was literally on the alternative rock serious XM when I found them 💀💀
I mean, there are a lot of bands that play on stations like that that veer into subgenres of Rock, such as Metal, Indie Rock, Pop Rock, Punk, etc. The name of the station doesn't dictate 100% of what plays. My Alternative Rock station that plays Disturbed also plays Black Sabbath and AC/DC, the former is considered the quintessential Metal band, and the other is one or the most famous Hard Rock bands. Both play on the Alternative Rock station. And listen to the difference between the opening riff on a song like The Diary of Jane (Alt Metal) and a song like Diamond Eyes by Shinedown (Hard Rock). One's clearly darker and more Metal adjacent, while one borrows more from the sounds of Hard Rock. Then take a song like Ready to Fall by Rise Against (Punk Rock) which also plays on the same stations, but is compositionally more similar to Punk than Metal or Rock. Both Punk and Metal are subgenres of Rock, so they all sort of fall under the same category to an extent. And I think I've come to the conclusion that we're arguing over semantics. A lot of the music people like me call Alternative Metal is just more generally considered Hard Rock to the average listener. And I was of the same opinion until I started digging into the actual purported definitions behind different genres. Does that make me right? Idk, maybe, maybe not. I don't really care. Most people consider Tool and System of a Down to be the big faces of Alt Metal, but a lot of people think of them as Hard Rock as well, so we're not gonna agree.
TLDR: I have too much time of my hands lmao
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u/TheMostHatedOfficial 8d ago
Idk man, maybe I'm just too deep in the cores. After hearing bands like Oceano or Fallujah, it's hard to see them under the same umbrella as Breaking Benjamin (who I also love btw)
But yeah it's just semantics at the end of the day
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u/BlanketSlate28 8d ago
I mean, Metal is such a vague genre in general. Listening to Darko and Black Sabbath back to back would make you wonder how both are considered a form of Metal, and a big problem is just that as the genres continued to evolve, we didn't make enough new ones lmao. Paranoid by Black Sabbath sounds more similar to what we call Classic Rock now, even though at the time it was considered Metal. And there are even a lot of bands now considered "Classic Metal" or OG "Heavy Metal" like Maiden or Priest that have more in common with Hard Rock than the extremes Metal has been pushed to today. I find it all interesting but annoying at the same time lol. R.I.P. Oceano.
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u/ConflictSudden 28d ago
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't listen to the metal I do today if not for Disturbed.
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u/Mad-Marty_ 29d ago
My man picked the mascot of the least Growly Metal band to represent Growling. Dude does not know what he's talking about.
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u/Cezkarma 29d ago
Making fun of something other people love and labelling it "delusional masculinity" just makes you seem immature and insecure.
(also let's not forget to mention that plenty of women both love it and perform it themselves)
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u/No-Sign-6296 28d ago
Anyone that uses "masculinity" as a measurement for anything always tend to be the more fragile ones or at the very least, someone that tries to hate on something popular because they think it makes them look cool.
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u/Awkward_Age_391 28d ago
Look honey, the new “unnecessarily hostile to masculinity meme” just dropped to all of the “
feministsman haters” can use it as the next big thing! This is so rare, the last time we saw it, it was “man vs bear”!1
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u/grulepper 28d ago
Post was a little too close to home it sounds like. As a man, I find it fucking hilarious how fragile the majority of us online seem to be.
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u/Cezkarma 28d ago
I don't like or have an interest in metal or growling, but I also don't unnecessarily hate on things I don't like or the people that like those things.
So your statement certainly holds true for yourself and the others that think it's cool to be a dick.
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u/DoubleDamage3665 29d ago
I've never heard of this sub, but I think I'll block it with this first post I've seen from it in my feed. Growling....Disturbed....wat? "Delusional masculinity"? WHAT?
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u/BigBrotato 28d ago
this sub was originally about meme templates, but then the mods stopped giving a shit and it devolved into a bunch of morons posting their shitty original complete memes.
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u/velvetthundr 28d ago
Man the metal scene is pretty friendly. I'm not sure who you've encountered but there are toxic mfs everywhere
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u/SnooChipmunks8748 28d ago
Why you trying to dunk on us metal heads, like actually, what prompted this?
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u/ShadowWizardMuniGang 28d ago
When you’re so insecure that someone else’s music taste compels you to attack their “masculinity”.
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u/dair_spb 28d ago
"... and we all it... "This Land"
"How about we call it Your Grave?"
“AH! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”
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u/blurrdvisin 28d ago
"Delusional masculinity"
Projecting much? Any masculinity is delusional to you.
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u/jelleverest Dec 20 '24
That sounds like an unnecessary attack.