Is Linkin Park "metal"?

[SexyGreyFox]

When you're old like me you just call it Rock music.
In that category I put everything from Buddy Holly to Led Zeppelin to Sex Pistols to Slayer to Ghost.

 

[Gray2233]

When you're old like me you just call it Rock music.
In that category I put everything from Buddy Holly to Led Zeppelin to Sex Pistols to Slayer to Ghost.

Makes me think of how my mother referred to every console as a Nintendo, be it a Playstation, Xbox, or anything else.

 

[p1RATE]

This isnt a great tree to be honest. Opeth are listed as Goth metal when they are Prog Death Metal.

I think you may have missed the intent of that chart. Cream are not a metal band either, but they influenced the development of early metal.

 

[Rroff]

Makes me think of how my mother referred to every console as a Nintendo, be it a Playstation, Xbox, or anything else.

I had an older relative who'd do that, would drive me up the wall a little, even a gaming PC was a "Nintendo" in some contexts.

 

[Scuzi]

I lost track of all the genres years ago. I know the point of the thread is due to a discussion between friends, but who really cares if a band is X or not? Would it maximise your enjoyment if you could slot it neatly into a category?

As has been said, that’s one of the really naff things about the general community who like heavier music, it comes across as elitist and something to beat others with if they don’t conform to someone’s own tastes, when really it doesn’t matter one jot.

Absolutely this.

I went to see Metallica in Dublin twenty something years ago with Linkin Park as the support act. They were booed off the stage and even had bottles thrown at them. Not because they weren’t playing well, but because they weren’t real metal. I’m not a huge fan of their music but it really was a pathetic display by quite a large proportion of the crowd.

 

[Grim5]

Having debate with a friend whether Linkin Park is "metal".

I argue that it being "nu-metal" which is considered to be a sub genre of metal makes it a metal band.

He's argument is that the metal scene is divided on the subject and points me at articles such as this.

So please give me your opinions is Linkin Park "metal"?

Their first 2 albums I'd describe as nu-metal-hiphop

Their latest albums, who knows, some lame ****

 

[OspreyO]

Having debate with a friend whether Linkin Park is "metal".

I argue that it being "nu-metal" which is considered to be a sub genre of metal makes it a metal band.

He's argument is that the metal scene is divided on the subject and points me at articles such as this.

So please give me your opinions is Linkin Park "metal"?

You're going about this wrong. You need to start undermining his favourite band by saying they are manufactured pop created for 8yr olds or such.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

This is one of those arguments that:
A) doesn’t matter
B) no one should care what the answer actually is because it’s utterly irrelevant

You either like the band or you don’t, whether it’s rock, metal, no-metal or tattooed on Taylor Swifts behind shouldn’t matter and doesn’t matter.

The fact of the matter is there are bands that don’t stick to one genre across their library and also mix genres on the same song, Linkin Park is one of those bands.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Makes me think of how my mother referred to every console as a Nintendo, be it a Playstation, Xbox, or anything else.

My Dad's Mum and an Uncle & Aunty thought music was just music so when they were told I had my first Dansette Mono record player in 1970 they would buy me an album - any album.
They usually went for the cheapest on the shelf and I could end up with Polish Polka Hits or BBC Effects.
I think I once had a Top Of The Pops Hit album - the older guys on here would remember them
This went on for years