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CladInShadows on 21 October 2015
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padib said:
Toxy said:

 

Music "That one of the fine arts which is concerned with the combination of sounds with a view to beauty of form and the expression of thought or feeling" - Oxford University Dictionary

Okay, so does Metal, Techno, and Screamo music contain a combination of sounds and forms expression/thought/feeling? Check. 

 

A quick summary: Heavy metal and its subgenres are another genre of rock music It was developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It contains many roots with blues rock and psychedellic rock and is known for loud sound. - Weinstein 2000.

 

I rather go by the information that I have supplied, at least I have provided sources. 

And going by your definition "the art or science of composing or performing music."

Artists that play these different genres of music 'perform' and they 'compose' their songs in order to craft music.

You sir, are grasping at straws and have invalidated yourself with the definitions that you have provided in order to disprove me... because I was rude? Eh.

 

It does not matter what your opinion is. Music is music. Fact. I am not trying to assert any authority over what is and is not music. That is what you and Spurgeon are doing. 

 

Just because you have some sort of bias or you dislike something, does not make that thing 'not music'. 

 

You also say I am presuming? Presuming what? That music is music? That makes zero sense and does not even deserve a proper response.

I guess I'll have to repeat myself. If I scream, I may be expressing a feeling but it may not be music...

To drive my point home, is this music to you?

kthx

As a fan of metal, I think screams and growls have more in common with percussive instruments than traditional singing. If the growls follow a rhythm, goes with what the other instruments are playing, and are pleasing to the ear of the listener, it's absolutely music.