Over the past week and a half I decided to update and organize all the music on my computer. Make sure spellings are correct, release year, record label, etc. As well as labeling the correct genre. After being halfway through “C” I already have added about 20 new genre. Why can’t metal, just be metal. Is a band going to be that upset that I don’t refer to their music as Atmospheric Post Blacked Sludge. Should I go back and just label everything as metal, or continue and see how many ridiculous genres.
Subgenres are pretty useful to know what you’re seeing. I listen to tech death or osdm or doom-death, but I’ll rip my ears apart if you try to feed me melodic death.
I listen to it all. A massive chunk of my day is listening/ looking for new music.
Good for you, but what I’m saying is that subgenres are useful for people with less eclectic tastes. When a genre in itself is too vast and puts Incantation and Jinjer in the same bucket, you need subgenres to distinguish them.
I just do the main genres and then combinations of those, if I feel that specific band has clear influences from a genre. Sometimes, I do subgenres, when I have many bands from some of the big genres and feel like I need more discrimination
I have to roll my eyes at the idiosyncratic ones like “ithyphallic metal”, and I place less importance on theme-based ones like Viking Metal, but I think most genres are pretty varied like that if you get into them enough.
