Genres with least variety

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Metal

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Add in country and you got the trifecta for most creatively bankrupt genres.

rap

Op probably no exposure to metal outside of metalcore

If you take the variety in metal and divide it by the potential for variety in metal it’s almost 1 so metal does a good job with the little variety it has

Sorry mate I don't care for your "XBOX IS A GOD TO ME" "OVER THE WHEAT FIELDS OF EVROPA" "guitar wank solo" "THE CORPSES ROTTING FLESH" "FUCK YOU MOM IM A GOOD BOY MOMMY" "wank guitar solo". There's a reason metal's fans are all socially inept neckbeards.

Blues but I don't think that's a bad thing. It's part of the challenge to do something interesting within the constraints of the genre.

That's not really a compliment, just goes to show how much time people waste trying to make metal music even though they're not making anything new.

metal and rap are children's music

Objectively it would have to be either folk, country, blues rock, or indie rock. Folk has its standards by which variety has to be lost. There's too much to refer for country in terms of how much people have made fun of it. Blues rock has been the same with peeps still trying to copy Zepp/Stones even today. Indie rock always has that same laid back atmosphere/aesthetic, even on more upbeat exceptions like The Smiths. Metal's variety is huge considering how different the genre sounds from its 70s beginning to its 80s punk infused feel to its 90s extreme phase to its more whackier or atmospheric stuff that it has excepted after that. Hip hop has potential to be the most variable genre, but doesn't show it often.

Hey you pieces of shit, name 1 METAL album. Fucking soyboy pricks. Too busy sucking D and listening to Neutral Milk Hotel to appreciate good music?

Master of Puppets

>Name an album that sounds like Master of Puppets
This triggers the anti-Metal soyboy cucks

Metal has a ton of subgenres which is impressive as its technically a subgenre of rock itself. Somehow it still manages to all sound the same.

ITT: Indie rock listeners

While i agree with this

Id rather listen to metal than pissy soyboy alt rock and indie anyday.

Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold

All of them because they all sound the fucking same. Screaming over fast distorted guitars.

These people probably think "screamo" is a genre of music

>ignoring metal with singing
>ignoring metal that is slow
Sounds like you know nothing about metal to me

personally i think that a lot of thrash albums sound alike, they have the same fundamentals a lot of the time. This is true with all metal subgenres, while they are all different in their own right the bands within their subgenres all sound alike with little deviation

Anyone who thinks metal has zero variety is showing how little they pay attention to what's happening musically rather than just paying attention to the surface noise. It's fascinating that a group like Death Grips hasn't been mentioned in a topic like this considering how repetitive they are structurally. Metal has the best structures in popular music besides progressive rock, and unlike progressive rock it isn't all wank but creative takes on pop hooks (that do need attention though to listen to rather than other faggot ass Sup Forumscore music with its shitty muh two measure melodies.) If you aren't listening to metal nor is it your favorite genre of popular music, you're an objectively shitty music listener as that means you give precedence to surface level gimmicks with no real longevity in your music over actual songwriting.

they have things in common because that's the nature of a genre or any category ever, congratulations for pointing it out
>rap music all sounds the fucking same. Talking rhythmically over hip hop beats
>music is all the fucking same. Just a bunch of sounds for your ears

I don't, and I'm fucking proud of it because metal sucks balls. It's the kind of music Sup Forums and Sup Forums listens to, no bueno.
Listen to jazz you philistine, outgrow your manchild phase.

Jazz is shit. All of it sounds the same.

Sup Forums drinks water, so stop drinking water

Joke's on you, I said that metal has the least variety, not that is hazer zero variety. You just got trolled epic style.

This is not even remotely true with an album like Master Of Puppets, which is nowhere near typical thrash album tempo on all but two tracks, and even on those tracks it doesn't maintain it for long. Not to mention the melodic instrumental, the clean guitar bits, focus on smooth riff transitions, drums that focus on groove over intensity which affects the rhythms of even the riffs (really the entire album), and James' vocals that are closer to blues vocals are all large aspects of the album that aren't common in thrash at all.

Jazz

Jazz has none of the visceral intensity of metal though. It's a great genre, but it doesn't come close to having metal's intensity and aggression even when it goes free jazz.

I think you fail to understand the meaning of variety. Your argument is so bad it pisses me off.

>Sucking dick and mice are the same thing, they're both things that are present in our planet

You fucking imbecile.

Guys do you not realise? The point of a genre is to group music that sounds the same together.

Yeah but the point of comparing variety is that some genres have the songs grouped up much closer to the average sound of the genre than others.

fair

while metallica and others paved a way for a genre, there's tons of copycats in thrash metal which latch onto the "sound" of the genre. In the case of thrash its defined by the big 4

Tfw only reason people dont shit on punk this much is because they think anything fast and heavy is metal and dont know shit about punk.

Ngl having a hard time finding metal that doesnt have both at the same time. I wish they ditched the vocals more often in metal but it seems inseperable.

Yo dude prog has much more interesting jams, sophisticated arrangements, different instruments, musical phrasing and songwriting variety than comparatively boring metal ever will.

There is literally more variety in the different ways a jazz ensemble can perform a standard than in the whole genre of metal

Baroque pop

>Somehow it still manages to all sound the same.

This. Metal is one of the most dull genres.

you guys are fucking retarded

Listen to jazz fusion and get your mind blown, the rapid tempo, near polyphonic interplay between several distinct sounding virtuoso level players is miles above the indecipherable wall of noise that technical metal is able to offer.

>metal all sounds the same
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Sure, but there are copycats in every genre. Not to mention thrash isn't just defined by the Big 4 which would be ignoring thrash bands that were pseudo-death or pseudo-black metal like Celtic Frost or Sarcofago who were immensely influential in terms of what developed afterward, but also sounded nothing like typical thrash. There's also bands like Voivod and Watchtower who took a more progressive approach to the genre with the resulting aesthetic also being wildly different from the bands mentioned so far.

Voivod and Watchtower are literally the best bands in all of metal. If metal had more bands like them; not only would the genre have actual variety, itd also be patrician.

>Voivod and Watchtower are literally the best bands in all of metal

Oh look a pleb who doesnt even recognise true talent in his genre of choice.

Who are your picks then?

You are a literal pleb if you think you can choose "the best" from such a large and diverse genre.

I dont think people like you "get" metal.

Metal doesnt want to be mainstream.

It doesnt want to be popular.

Metal wants to be hated, metal is abrasive, metal is brutal, metal is like a band named "holocaust abortion" with an album called "legalize murder" and the front cover is a zombie ripping a baby out of a womb.

Everytime metal goes mainstream metal heads hate it.

Hair metal, nu metal, fucking disasters that brought in hordes of normal fags.

Metal is the only genre that hasnt been swallowed and destroyed by pop, and the only genre that retains its orginal ethos.

Punk music died the second it went pop
Real rap is dying as we speak because they wanted to become top 40 clowns.


Metal marches on.

You will never hear this shit on the radio and they want it like that.
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Prog is shitty take on ideas of classical and jazz because rather than taking the ideas of more complex art music then applying them to popular music to specialize in what popular music does (like the metal genre), prog chooses to try to act just like the art music it's inspired by, which causes its downfall as it cannot reach those levels being stuck in popular music structures. The end result of prog is a genre that is nowhere near as sophisticated or complex as the music it takes ideas from nor is it the wild, energetic, powerful, visceral music that popular music should be.

>Ngl having a hard time finding metal that doesnt have both at the same time
...are you saying that doom metal is all clean singing, or that all clean singing is only in doom metal? What about bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, really the entire trad/power metal genre which tends to be on the faster end despite its fair share of slower sections but is all clean vocals? Or most doom that goes outside the epic doom/trad doom subsections that tends to have harsh vocals? Please, continue to show that you have no clue what you're talking about. Fucking retard.

Why suggest me jazz fusion if you wanna talk polyphonic interplay? Why not free jazz like Coltrane's Ascension or something more contemporary like Threadgill's In For A Penny In For A Pound or something that manages to combine indian/jazz music without watering it down fusion style like Joe Harriott's Indo Jazz Suite? Not only were you willing to offer me goddamn cheeseball fusion (though some is good admittedly), you think ANY of that measures up to metal's visceral intensity? Cuz it doesn't. It's complex, so it's a good mental exercise, but that's the only way it can keep you engaged. No hard hitting intensity of metal.

>the indecipherable wall of noise that technical metal is able to offer
Perhaps you aren't very much a good authority on the music if it still sounds indecipherable to you, no? Another retard.

Dude, you know that progressive thrash and technical thrash metal are a thing, right? Hell, you know that there's bands in other genres who also do odd shit with exotic chords and odd time signatures as well, right?

>progressive thrash and technical thrash metal
>exotic chords and odd time signatures

>He cares this much about a genre of music

Faggot

what in the heck

Not if complex, well arranged jazz fusion metal is so rare in metal and sounds so much better than everything else.

Well, metal's a pretty cool genre because at its best it uses aspects of composition itself rather than adding some gimmick shit that sounds goofy. That can range from anything from colorful chord choices to weird time sigs to having certain structures to having a particular choice of vocalist singing a certain way. It's brilliant how much can truly be achieved using just guitars, bass, drums, and vocals.

Well, it depends. Like you have a band like Cynic, right? Jazzy as fuck with vocoder vocals dueling with harsh death metal vocals and shit.

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The whole package is very colorful and unique, perhaps even easy to listen to for someone not used to the genre (which seems to be just about everyone but two to four posters ITT.) But it ends up lacking the heavy intensity of metal as a result of all the additional subtleties added of jazz.

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Fantastic band

>Prog is shitty take on ideas of classical and jazz

Oh look another meme who takes prog too seriously. Prog is all about the freedom of experimentation. Its not a guaranteed hit but at least something excitingly unique is being made at all. Take it for what it is.
And metal is totally better because for not even trying to be that ambitious. Wow! Great logic m8.

>metal marches on

Why do metal fans always talk like this like they're in some warrior rpg or some shit?

I know most of the jazzy bands but honestly, i dont feel like it works as well as a extreme metal fusion. The scales and phrasing of jazz fusion is done better justice by the softer genres (as much as i hate to say it, thrash) of metal.

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Congrats all you needed to do was say doom metal is a good example of instrumental downtempo metal music instead of typing in a autistic essay about mainstream metal bands everyone knows cause 'muh metal is being hurted!!!'

a whole genre can´t be bad, don´t take the b8

>a whole genre can´t be bad
What is hip-hop

I still like their demos since they still bring the riffs.
For what it's worth, Cynic sounds the closest to jazz because of the harmonic choices, Masvidal's soloing, and Reinert's drumming which is just more erratic jazz drumming. But I agree because tech thrash somehow manages to be more consistent as a genre compared to tech death which gets a bit wanky.
Not really. There's a reason a distinction is made between prog and experimental rock. If this was true at all then all prog wouldn't be so similarly structured with long songs or stick to conventional tonality and timbre sets.

Of course i recommended Fusion you fucking tool. It uses electronic instruments and has much stronger rock elements; unlike practically all other types of jazz, thus making it more comparable to metal and more likely to provide this 'intensity' you seek.
What were you going to do? Compare fucking free jazz to metal? Totally not apples and oranges right?

Well, if that's you, then maybe you should read what you wrote (it's hard to find bands that DON'T have both.)

But fusion doesn't have that level of intensity, even in its craziest forms (Dark Magus, At The Mountains Of Madness) it's very tame compared to metal. I brought in free jazz because it's a hell of a lot more crazier than fusion, and arguably did blasty drumming long before metal or punk did.

Yet you wrote a whole retarded paragraph based on what was clearly a typo

We probably have differrent ideas of intensity which honestly. Is fine.

I mean prog rock still tries to remain decently recognisable as rock so experimentation up to that extent.

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