what makes metal, metal........

[Raphael]

I have stopped labelling music for a while. I found that it is almost impossible to label music these days without start an argument. Music labelling a marketing tool for the music industry. Every day, the Record Executives are using it to draw fans to buy what they are selling. A lot of music recording are cross breed from many genre. I just buy what I like these days and without worrying what my friends are going to say.

[LK-13]

listen to what you like.
don't worry about labels or being on the "cutting edge"
labels are not worth the bother.
and the "cutting edge" is soon blunted.
just remember:
LOUD!
I wanna hear it,
LOUD!
RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES!

[Andrew Breecher]

I have stopped labelling music for a while. I found that it is almost impossible to label music these days without start an argument.

I agree. Most of the music in my iTunes is labeled "Alternative". There's a non-label! I think if it's a little heavier I label it "Rock" - which is really more of a nostalgic label; it includes Metallica, Def Leppard, The Pixies, Meat Loaf, Midnight Oil, and Queen. It's more about what I've "rocked out to" in the past than about what's really rock. I don't even have a "Metal" category.

Maybe it's also because most of the stuff I have that I'd consider metal is on tape, and not on my computer.

Andrew.

[Nick]

Ah, geeze, I was all set to get into a discussion of metalurgical analysis and comparative alloys.