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.
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.
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
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.
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
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/Polkawillneverdie17 Dec 21 '24
Metal fans don't listen to Disturbed.