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:	post by ShadowSD at 2009-11-24 20:05:36

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Metal is only an attitude applied to western rock and blues influenced music.

I long for the day when the statement "metal = rock" regarded with the same sentiment as "The Earth is flat".

Metal's roots go far beyond and before American music like blues, country, and rock, and can be found in European compositions from centuries ago such as those I referred to above. While it is true that the instruments common to a metal band evolved through jazz and then blues and then rock, resulting in common techniques on those instruments being forged in those genres, technique and arrangment of instruments are NOT paramount in music; note choice and mood are.

A Bach Fugue in a minor key has a lot more in common with metal than "I wanna hold your hand..."

Metal is its own genre, and the misconception that it's merely a subgenre of rock has been disproven time and time again by the music itself.

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