I Can't Believe That's A Genre: Official Thread

Inspired by the Deathcore thread, here's a list of silly genres. All are real with actual artists/albums you can check out. I'm not including samples because it would actually be a lot of work but also because part of the fun is googling for these crazy things yourself and reading articles/reviews of the insanity, let alone the sound samples you can find. If we want to talk silly genres, how about

Lowercase improv isn't really based around silence, it's just more willing to be soft and slow moving and not sound like music. The albums that have really long periods of silence seem to be the exception rather than the norm. You can still think Keith Rowe and Fennesz are ridiculous, but they're not for the reasons you claim. :P

AMG has some rather strange subgenres.

A Person wrote: DEMONIC  BLACK SATANCORE OF DOOM

hey, oi punk is the sh*t!
Whats not to love about good ol street punk with choruses consisting of nothing but OI! OI! OI OI OI!
I mean damn, that's good writing.

And my made up genre:
Applecore
or what about progcore? The combo of prog and....core would be, something?

Metal subenres.

Almost all of them.

-Death metal
-Black metal
-Blackened death metal
-Progressive death metal
-Technical death metal

-Doom metal
-Death doom
-Drone doom
-Funeral doom
-Traditional doom

OH JUST SHUT THE F**K UP YOU'RE MAKING ALL THIS S**T UP

That's an awesome idea for a genre, not omni-metal, but omni, which makes a deliberate attempt to include some element of all known genres. Some prog has been broadly like that but I don't think anyone's ever had a comprehensive attempt. It's extremely impractical though, probably not really doable, unless it was a one-off Amarok style composition, but to be impressive it would have to flow, not have sudden transitions.

You don't even have wizardcore

I am actually familar with wizardcore, I just left it out because I thought it was a bit banal. My favourite cores are the ones where it's not clear what they are- witness the glory of crabcore- whereas wizardcore is obvious.

Textbook wrote: These are funny but you're making them up. The most striking ones are the ones that are real.   I also think its funny when everyone hops on a genre that doesn't really happen. I remember Jungle back in the 90s, Jungle was going to be this big huge deal that would eat the world, books were out about it, it was all the rage. I think it was done for good in about four months.

I don't know about where you are, but here, Jungle was massive. I loved Jungle, used to go to the clubs and raves for days on end for the Jungle djs. I thought it was so much better than drum and bass, which could sometimes be so cold and technical. There is still an active underground movement producing the oldstyle Jungle sound, as oppposed to the drum and bass sound it sort of morphed into.

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