Soldato
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I'm with Dimple on this one. I am also of the generation that saw the genesis of rock categorisation and sub-categorisation. It annoyed me then and it annoys me now.
Long live rock!
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I also agree with Mr Poole to a certain extent - my comment was deliberately facetious because he was using grammatical semantics knock another persons opinion. Pointless badgering gets on my wick and misspelling something doesn't invalidate someone opinion as it is just that - their opinion.
However there is basis for a musical evolutionary argument based around the development of music. At what stage does a sub genre become a genre of its own? Rock came from Blues so based on this one could arguably call rock blues, and ergo metal blues. In fact there is undeniably elements of blues in many metal bands music.
My personal feeling is that there is a great amount of crossover and as such Metal is still in the majority of its forms a sub genre of rock. There isn't enough separation in the styles to strongly suggest an argument to the contrary IMO. It's not like comparing swing to rock or classical to hip hop.