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Terath -> RE: Christian Music? Help me out! (3/16/2008 5:41:00 PM)
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Well, subgenres are tricky, but essential. For instance, there is so much difference between, say, Iron Maiden and Hatebreed that we need to differentiate. In general, subgenres are determined largely by fans and authenticated by magazines. This works most of the time. The problem comes with contraversial subgenres, such as nu-metal. To those who listen to it, they often violently affirm that it is real metal, whereas people who listen to metal from before the 90's, which they consider "true metal," violently affirm that it can't be metal at all. Same goes for, say, metalcore. Then it's largely up to debate and is often not settled until the genre is dead. For instance, few metal fans of any subgenres today would call glam metal "real metal," especially those of us from the extreme metal persuasion.
Well, there's plenty of good metal songs they could have used, but didn't. I can even say exactly why: the struggle to stay mainstream and sell a lot of games. I read an Army publication targeted at teens which reviewed the game. Though I can't quote it verbatim, there was a line that essentially said, "we wish that you didn't have to spend so much time practicing on the metal songs, which we don't like much in the first place." Truth is, the majority opinion is away from metal these days. In fact, I can think of some perfectly suitable song lists, as far as lack of profanity/adult content and a good distribution of difficulty is concerned. They could have too, I'm sure, but they didn't. As I Lay Dying would have been a much prefered choice over "Black Magic Woman" any day. Sadly, that's what the majority seems to like. The main reason why the game has metal songs at all is because they contain difficult and legendary guitar riffs and solos, and they would undoubtably lose a sizable portion of the market, those who revel in metal. They don't have the guts to even pull off a subgame based on metal. GHII: Rocks the 80's had very little as far as real good, real famous metal songs, and instead of trying again and doing better this time around, the GHIII subgame is based entirely on Aerosmith, which, correct me if I'm wrong, is arena/pop rock through and through. Not that I have anything against them-I thoughroughly enjoyed playing "Same Old Song and Dance"-it's just that I'd never buy a whole game based on them. If you ask me, they should have pulled out GHIII:The Big Four, which featured solely songs from the Big Four of thrash. Maybe we'll get lucky on GHIV.
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