Ah.

Very True, though both are too obnoxious for words. I can't bring myself to even try to listen too/understand this music.

Slam death metal is a useless genre name anyway. Do we need 'tremolo black metal' because some bands make a gimmick of playing nothing but tremolo riffs?

I would consider it more of a style within a subgenre rather than a hard-set subgenre itself, sort of equivalent to "bestial black metal" or "torture doom". It's a handy tag either way, in my opinion, as it helps distinguish thick and slow BDM bands (which I love) from the relentlessly technical, spazzy ones (which I'm not really a fan of).

Aren't the technical BDM bands usually labelled as technical brutal death metal?

Well, yes, but in my mind that's just as insignificant of a descriptor as "slam death metal" is. Point is that they're not really subgenres themselves, more like styles that, when labeled, serve as helpful divisions of one particular subgenre which can go in one of two relatively different directions.

God I hate the term "porngrind". A silly name for even sillier music.

Nu-NRG

it's a form of aggressive trance music. Sounds great, stupid name.

Drumstep.

Drum n bass with snare and kick drums in a four to the floor rhythm at half the original tempo, so it sounds like dubstep. Hence drum-step.
Logical, but sounds kinda silly.

Blackgaze. Stupid pretentious invention.

I'm sure it's already been said in this thread, but do you ever sit back for a moment and go "hang on a minute... we listen to a genre of music called Heavy Metal... heavy... metal. I occasionally do.

I know where you're coming from. Like if most metals aren't heavy per se!
Just like Hard Rock. Every rock is hard so........!

But if you see it like that, then every single genre in existence has a silly name.

Rock and Roll? Blues? Pop? Did the music industry or the public in general decide to use random words from their scrabble games to describe their music?

No sir, this thread is for those genres with names that are beyond silly and which won't make you think at all how they were originated but about how stupid they sound...or at least that's what I understood

Very true - arguably, I guess "pop" is the least oddly named of those mentioned, being an abbreviation of popular, while the others are more arbitrary. The same goes for classical and folk.

Heavy Metal sounds like what it is - That's probably the finest feature of it as a genre name.

Ultimately, I could bite the bullet and suggest that the way we handle music as a whole is quite "silly" Most of our depictions and descriptions of music rely on conflating the senses and appealing to non-sound-based descriptives like "heavy", like some kind of folk-synaesthesia.

I digress, rather.

Since I am the topic starter I think I am allowed a little leeway in what I bring up.
Of course I do know where it's coming from, I was merely reflecting on what the poster above me said.
Heavy Metal comes from the song Born To Be Wild by Steppenwolf and is since then used for music that was heavier in style than Hard Rock (which of course is a very good description since it is Rock and Roll music (stems from the movements made while dancing to it) that is a bit harder in style).

But let's continue with silly genre names. What about Hip Hop?
Are these people hipping and hopping to and fro or something?

The names "rap" and "hip hop" are kind of okay in comparison to the sub-genres they spawn.

Witness nerdcore, trip hop and other examples listed in wikipedia.

Randomly searching wikipedia, and I found this: Riot Grrrl. I mean...GRRRL? It is supposed to be some sort of Feminist Punk Rock that even has it's own scene in Washington D.C., this is coming from wikipedia but something spelled Riot Grrrl is too silly to even repudiate.

More non-metal examples: Indie Rock...Independent Rock...Going just by the term itself, doesn't that make lie 75% of Metal "Independent Rock" bands on a technical standpoint?

But...The most Silly genre name, the French Pop genre called "Yé-yé". It literally means "Yeah! Yeah!" or the like.

"Hey Joachuin, what type of music are you listening too?"

"Yé-yé"

"Yeah, tell me?"

"Yé-yé"

"Don't just agree with me, tell me the name of the fuckin' music."

Sounds like a bad Abbott and Costello Rip off.

does spooky metal exist yet? some kind of off-shoot of dark metal, using fisher price bells and stomach slapping blast beats perhaps.

I've never heard the term "spooky metal". I can't stop chuckling at how silly it sounds.

I think Oi! just sounds really dumb. Punk it seems just likes to give things really goofy names.

This. Not to mention I'm not a fan of the music. I'd rather just listen to drum and bass or dubstep, inevitable as it was for the two to be fused together officially as a sub-genre.

Now for my genre name hate: brostep. What in the name of all fuck is that? Ok, so American and Canadian producers(i.e Skrillex, Datsik, Excision, etc.) decided to take the primary focus of the bass in dubstep out of the sub or low-level range, bring it to the mid-level range, chop the wobbles into smaller pieces with a much more over-driven, aggressive sound, and, for good measure, pretty much use the spliced wobble patterns as guitar riffs to ensure that the music is essentially a replica of a metal or hardcore breakdown.

What kind of people did this new sound attract? Fraternity brothers. Go fucking figure. I remember when this movement really took off literally entire raves would be dominated by frat guys, "bros," who were too drunk to function, disliked anything that wasn't dubstep, and essentially were looking to make their presence known to a group of people who honestly didn't really appreciate it. I realize that sounds fairly biased of me to say, but to be fair, I attended raves and festivals with various promoters in a few different states and the situation was virtually the same. These people were pouring into hippie festivals for god's sake! Demanding "BASS BRO! DUUUUBSTEP BRO!" It was just not fun. To put it mildly, they were very resented.

Ultimately all of this led to the high driven, high energy, aggressive dubstep bring labeled "brostep." It is ridiculous to me that the term is used in serious conversations to discuss what is essentially a bastardized version of a genre that used to hold a considerable amount of esteem and respect alongside other electronic genres. I guess it was inevitable that the heavy and dissonant potential of dubstep would be exploited, I just wish it didn't have to be associated with "get drunk and fuck shit up" brotastic bros. Blegh.

If I sound butt hurt about this, it's because quite frankly, I am. I used to adore dubstep when it first came into the party scene. It was wonderfully different. Now I may as well be listening to a metalcore band.

I'm going to drag something in from the latest Varg nonsense blog post from this thread. http://thuleanperspective.com/2013/03/0 ... actise-ii/

His music isn't black metal, it is "Scaldic metal/music". Pretentious, though that's the least offensive part of the blog.

And why use Scald instead of Skald which I think might be the correct version of the word he's looking for? If we were to take things to a ridiculous length, scalding is an adjective for really hot liquid or gas capable of burning. Scalding music, hot shit! Maybe Varg is full of hot air.

Pretty much my thoughts. when the UK version first started showing up I had high hopes as I'm a fan of SCORN etc - dark, slow, dissonant bass music. What it turned into is just vile and I cannot stand it.

I know someone that basically calls themselves "Loli" because they dislike their actual name and until now I'd avoided making the connection. Not sure if I know find this amusing or slightly horrifying.

"Gabba" annoys me mostly because it just reminds me of the puppet off The Simpsons.

Hardcore nu-style Rotterdam Gabbo!

I still dont like either of those but its still interesting to hear what they were before they completely regressed into the trash they are today.

"Progressive" refers to the progressive radio format that appeared during the late 1960s, where the DJs had a lot of latitude and as long as they played rock music, could put on pretty much anything they wanted. The sorts of bands progressive radio stations tended to give airtime to (and that were ignored by other radio formats) became known as progressive rock. The progressive radio format died out due to the commercialization of radio in the late '70s and '80s, so "progressive" nowadays pretty much means "musically related to or using characteristics from the original progreesive rock movement", or more recently, "we play funny rhythms really fast and write ten-minute songs".