DarkKnight wrote: To be really honest, you'd be hard pressed telling most of the shit apart these days. Death metal, goregrind, thrash, etc. They all sound the same, and that is why I put them in 'nu-metal'.
Same thing with emo, and all it's subs.
Actually no.I have seen people that know so much about the music they listen to and to what genre they belong to , they sound like experts but in real it aint very hard for yourself to understand it.The bands itself already give you a hint by saying what genre they are.
Through times the music changed so much that you can't put it all under one genre.Sub- genres are to clarify things , not to make things harder to understand.For someone like you who never listened to any grindcore it will be very hard to understand what this is , how it was formed , what the history is of this genre and what influences there are.
You can't possibly put black metal and death metal in one corner.It is both extremely different.But only if you listen to both you understand it.For an outsider like you DK it all seems the same but it isn't.
Rock is all rock but even there you got a bit of sub-genres like punk rock or hard rock.
The lyrics and even the music itself in metal can be so different from eahc other that you can't define it all as just metal.