Originally Posted by: jiujitsu_jesusExactly! Take the whole "metalcore" scene, for example. There are so many idiotically-named subgenres - "thrashcore", "crustcore", "deathcore", "tech-core", even "calculus-core" - based on infitessimal formulaic differences that few listeners notice anyway. Why can't it just be HEAVY METAL?! :confused:

Same goes for jazz - when the genre tag on a Bunk Johnson mp3 file reads, "1940s Dixieland-Retro-era swing", you know things are getting out of hand.

why not just metal????is there a lite metal??? some purists just call it rock :cool: but to describe it needs something more than "rock" imo. i would say the doobies are rock and maiden-priest are metal......staind-rock ...pantera,korn(even korn),tool,system of a down-metal....limp biskit, lincoln park,kid rock-gay.....dream theater,early rush,yes-progressive rock(i can't see doobies and dream theater in the "rock" category together)....punk,new wave all other categories are useless in the rock section imo.