People who say Metal music is boring and repetitive haven't actually listened to metal, amirite?

Most music is repetitive. That's why genres can even be named.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Same with artists and their songs. Not a lot of artists can make all their songs sound unique, they'll mostly have a certain signature style to them. Which is why if you like one or two songs from someone, you'll most likely like their other songs too.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I was thinking this too. I enjoy reggae, rock, country. There are a lot of repetitive themes in each of those genres. It does not deter me from enjoying them.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think also that familiarity helps people to discern smaller differences than the unfamiliar can. Like that old saying, "to a shepherd, every sheep looks different". So basically all genres you don't care about and don't know about will sound "just like noise" or "all the same", even as you're able to appreciate the depth and variety in genres you do like and have listened to lots of.

by Any-Blueberry-4010 1 week ago

And every genre sounds homogenous to you until you start listening to it more. This applies to everything from pop to classical to mumble rap and heavy metal.

by Potential_Sugar 1 week ago

In genres like krautrock repetitive is a selling point.

by raheem66 1 week ago

The way I'm thinking of it, Slayer might be a good example. It's super accessible and a popular band with young metal fans just starting to explore the genre (also popular with tweakers and aged whores). That music is 110% balls-out 100% of the time, and that's pretty much what they're known for. But to most people, it's absolutely horrible. I can understand why. If there's one thing most metal is not, it's background music, and background music is what a lot of people like.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I am a welder and metal is 100% my background music when I'm working. I listen to metal while I melt metal together.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's funny; I grew up playing instruments and got into metal pretty young. So I have a musician's brain and the concept of "background music" is one that I just can't relate to. If I'm working on something, I can't listen to music at the same time. It's similar to when friends are organizing casual hangouts and play music in the background - I can't help but listen to it and analyze it. It's distracting AF

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Ok but the people who don't listen to metal, maybe they have heard the most popular songs of rammstein or Metallica and definitely not all of them. So they don't know they are repetitive or that their songs are now worse. They just don't like this music. I am sure, even if they heard the metal music you actually find good, they still wouldn't like it.

by mistymclaughlin 1 week ago

Metal fan here and I absolutely hate slayer. Their instrumentals are fire, but in my opinion they are absolutely ruined by the vocals.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Slayer is something I cannot get myself into, either.

by Mackbahringer 1 week ago

The issue is metal haters don't even give it a chance. They think it's all death-metal. I had co-workers look at a Nightwish cover and say "oh, that's that music where some guy just screams" 🤣

by nellie10 1 week ago

Listening to Nightwish until someone screams

by Particular-Case 1 week ago

It's the same as people who say classical is 'boring'. Like there's a lot in between Brahm's Lullaby and Mussogorsky's Night on Bald Mountain.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

People who proclaim that "metal is just loud" usually do not know this, though.

by Unable-Date2189 1 week ago

I'm a metalhead, but even I can admit the genre is oversaturated with a million bands who sound exactly the same

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That applies to every music genre, but if you focus on the minority of unique sounding metal artists (like every other music genre again) you find a lot of diversity and good ideas.

by Embarrassed-Sign770 1 week ago

I think it's been like that since the advent of recorded music. Before that, I think a lot of musicians in the same genre sounded dramatically different when compared to each other. The best example I think is delta blues from the 20s and 30s, those guys sound like their all playing completely different types of music from one another, their styles are incredibly distinguishable. My theory is that this is due to each of them learning guitar from one single mentor, probably somebody who lived in their specific town, who probably also learned from one single guy. They had far fewer references to go off of at that time, so music was highly variable.

by Brittanyernser 1 week ago

fine by me, more of the same song i can listen to and jam out

by beahanbeth 1 week ago

Pretty much like every genre of music tbf

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Turns out theres only so much you can do with 12 notes eepecially when youre dropping like half of them to stay in key. The unfortunate reality is its been a couple hundred years and now were sort of hitting the point where most ideas have probably already been done in one way or another with 12 tone.

by Bauchmallory 1 week ago

I liked the hard rock and metal of the 1960s-1990s. It's alot different than the rock and metal today.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

And a million fans of each of those bands telling you you're favorite band sucks and isn't real metal lol

by brielleturcotte 1 week ago

People who say (insert genre) music is boring and repetitive haven't actually listened to (insert genre).

by Past_Sherbet 1 week ago

Metal vs pop. Metal sounds the same in the same way metal head thinks all pop sound the same. And so is anyone against rap. Or anything for that matter. People are judgemental. Let them judge so that you know who to avoid.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Generalizations are lazy.

by Matthudson 1 week ago

That's a lazy generalisation /s

by Ignaciobalistre 1 week ago

Mostly this kind of person hears what they perceive as loud noise and dissonance and any kind of music that uses dissonance and distortion as an art form will all sound the same to them. It's really just a personal preference, it does all sound the same to them because they can't get past the harmonic dissonance and use of distortion.

by Ok-Slide-8427 1 week ago

As with all genres of music the few good acts are usually buried under piles and piles of garbage. There's a lot more mediocre music than there is good in all genres, not just metal.

by Less_Succotash 1 week ago

true. metal music is fun and repetitive

by fleta65 1 week ago

As someone who studies classical music, I agree! For the small amount of Metal that I actually listened to, it was never boring or repetitive.

by wilson71 1 week ago

I had a friend in high school 15 years ago who played guitar in a metal band for fun and cello in the classical band at school for a challenge. He'd say they were insanely similar styles of music with very different instruments

by Anonymous 1 week ago

A lot of my friends who are into metal are classical nerds

by donnellyadrain 1 week ago

My former drum teacher told me that a lot of metal musicians are classically trained.

by amaramayer 1 week ago

I got into metal by originally making fun of it. 10 years, 20 gigs and 30 t-shirts later I'm listening to Parkway Drive daily.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't like metal but it's not because of that. It's just too "noisy" for me if that makes sense. I prefer a little more calm stuff like Pop Punk.

by leifhills 1 week ago

I've been listening to metal for decades at this point and really it's hit or miss as to whether someone is 'making noise' or 'expressing themselves' through the genre.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Oh yeah I can understand that fully people don't have to like it I just hate generalising

by TrainingLavishness 1 week ago

I've been a metalhead through my early and mid teenage years, now i think it's boring and repetitive. it's a valid opinion that someone can have.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

There are a lot of bands pushing the limits of metal. Just sticking with Slayer is gotta be boring as hell though

by Admirable_Plantain41 1 week ago

Metal is great. I don't hear anyone criticizing it as you describe, so I don't see this as an unpopular opinion.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I've found the opposite tbh plenty of really experimental bands releasing great stuff

by TrainingLavishness 1 week ago

"No other genre has fans trying so hard to defend the music and the fans of the music so much." Swifties have entered the chat

by nellie10 1 week ago

Ikr. Like legit as a metal fan they make me embarrassed to say I enjoy listening to it

by Anonymous 1 week ago

A Kpop fan would give a metal fan a run for their money. You can't even say something slightly negative to them before they will write a whole novel about why their favorites are the best. Heck you might even get a death threat if you are luckey.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

they're basically the same honestly (they get offended and quizz me if I dare to wear a t shirt of a band.I mean, I may listen to them religiously but people are allowed to be casual fans. It is not a bad thing)

by Anonymous 1 week ago

They're closer parallels than you think.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Metalhead into K-pop here, can confirm

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah most metal heads you meet in real life are pretty cool but they're insufferable on the internet.

by Robertsmikayla 1 week ago

Have you met a Swifty on here? Lmao

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Number of times*

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Well I mean of course we're gonna defend it. Hardcore metalheads are constantly looked down on by the mainstream for years

by TrainingLavishness 1 week ago

Not really. To be fair, nobody ever really thinks or talks about metal besides metal fans. The fans just keep on fighting windmills. My favorite trope is 'metal fans are not as mean and aggressive as they seem' - no, nobody ever thinks they seem mean or aggressive.. we all went to school with metal heads and know that they were often the quiet, shy, bullied kids.

by Remarkable_Product 1 week ago

Perhaps not all Metal. But for me, mumbling, growling, metal where I can't understand a single lyric is just boring.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This is true for almost any genre tbh

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Screamo ruined it's reputation.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Most people assume everything is death metal lol

by Anonymous 1 week ago

While this is true I bet you are a person who would say stuff like this about other genres you don't like lol

by harbershane 1 week ago

How many sonically boring and repetitive songs do you have to listen to to decide?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

But my point being then don't go around spouting that it's "all the same" when you haven't listened to it? I don't go around saying a certain type of movie is bad that I haven't watched

by TrainingLavishness 1 week ago

I like metal in foreign languages when I can't understand the words more

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Different strokes for different folks

by Lafayette79 1 week ago

and they certainly haven't ever heard crabcore

by Mohreleazar 1 week ago

Don't find it repetitive, but I really dislike it because it gives me anxiety.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Good Metal and all music in general lasted until about 2010s then it's repressed repetitive crap written not by the artists but by the labels in 3 min and 5 second loops to be replayed on repeat for crap pay on radio. There ARE good artists out there just gotta find them. and Probably LOCAL TOO!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

What's boring to someone else can be interesting to you. Different people have different tastes. It doesn't mean they're ignorant.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I may replace "Metal" with "Psytrance" tommorow and see what response it elicits.

by Secret-Young 1 week ago

Is there any other kind of music?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you think that metal is unique in that non-listeners who don't get the nuances of it are likely to criticise it in generic ways, then you're wrong. Metalheads also do exactly the same thing about genres they aren't into. Common generic criticisms would include: Metal: "It's just noise", "you can't even understand what they are saying", "why so angry". Hiphop/Trap "All sounds the same", "music for stupid people", "not real music". EDM "Has no soul", "not even real instruments", "gives me a headache" Indie "trying to be edgy", "lame and boring" Pop punk/emo "14 year old girl music" Etc etc. Generally these types of criticisms come from either ignorance or a tribal mentality to one's ‘scene'. Don't overthink it.

by ernestine87 1 week ago

What if I just don't like metal?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Not the same as saying it's boring and repetitive.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

What if you don't like it…because you think it's just boring and repetitive?

by TangerineMental4407 1 week ago

Not my point disliking metal is ok but it's ignorant to say that metal all sounds the same like electric wizard and Opeth do not sound alike

by TrainingLavishness 1 week ago

There's a lot of types of metal. I listen to types of metal that sound almost completely different from each other.

by fritschbridgett 1 week ago

I'm not into rock apart from some Japanese bands and Metallica. Give me some songs to listen to and I'll give it a chance

by Budget_Heart_9847 1 week ago

Metal is too broad to generalize. I've heard stuff that to me felt repetitive. I've heard stuff that just sounded like chaos. If you say metal that's categorizing Slayer, Motley Crue, Metallica, the locusts, and deathklok all into one category

by favianwitting 1 week ago

Someone who doesnt like x genre can always ignorantly say "it all sounds the same"

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I like metal but Chelsea Grin sounds repetitive to me

by Medical_Revenue_9648 1 week ago

Crush em has entered the chat

by johnstonrichie 1 week ago

I'm a metal head. I listen to it because it's all the same. I like the sound. It's like eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with different brands of peanut butter

by LiteratureLow 1 week ago

Mmm, swap out that genre with literally any other genre and you can make the same argument . (Except Crunkcore)

by Mluettgen 1 week ago

Strongly agree Rap is boing and repetitive

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Angry Music for Happy People 🧡

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Man o' War is pure poetry.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Those are also mostly the people that hate opera and jazz in favour of the repetitive and inane XD

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It is repetitive though, but I still enjoy it from time to time.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Same for every other music genre. Techno, ambient, dub, jazz, flamenco....

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah metal is an umbrella term like my favorite music is heavy metal, speed metal and black metal along with crust punk and d-beat punk. Music is a matter of opinion and I couldn't care if someone hates the music I listen to I will say though you can't truly judge a type of music until you've actually listened to it.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

People who say that have only listened to the same "style" of metal. YES, it gets VERY boring, very easily, if you listen to the same style. Just like any other genre. Or, have you not listened to the same "style" of 1950s pop music over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again? Thrash Metal is NOT the same as Melodic Death Metal. Different styles.

by Subject_Pride_5108 1 week ago

Metal is like punk. You're forcing it

by Akeeling 1 week ago

Or they don't like metal, which is completely fine. Not everyone has to like all the same things, and it would be incredibly dull if we all did. It's ignorant to think every should like every form of everything or, more importantly, everyone should like what you like.

by elysechamplin 1 week ago

I love me some metal and honestly digging through the underground is fun that's where you find all the good stuff

by lockmanautumn 1 week ago

Of course that's true. Everyone says that about genres they don't listen to. Rap, pop, eveything. ‘It all just sounds the same and repeats over and over'. Literally all music people want to criticize, that's the go to lol

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I feel like sludge and doom can be repetitive but sometimes that's exactly what I want

by Wild-Bad 1 week ago

From what I have gathered most people just don't like hearing what they consider a bunch of random screaming.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

When you dont like a music genre then it will always sound repetitive. Just like when you dont like a specific sport then all matches of this sport will look the same to you. I am not a big fan of dubstep. I can objectivly tell that not every dubstep song sounds the same but it still feels like it is all the same to me. But as I already said that is completly normal. The pop fan says that every metal song sounds the same. The metal fan says that every rap song sounds the same. The rap fan says that every K-pop song sounds the same. Genres only really feel diverse when you enjoy listening them and listen to them a lot..

by Margie49 1 week ago

Eh...I listened to one awesome metal song that was about Sergeant York....and that's thale only metal song I've listened too. Back to Country. I guess I like songs that tell stories....

by Fearless-Deer 1 week ago

Music in the same genre all start sounding similar. Certain sounds or voices become on trend. You notice it more when you look at the past few decades.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Listen to thrash metal and tell me it's boring

by tkuhlman 1 week ago

It totally is.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Imma hijack the metal discussion and say that the gutteral screams are 0 fun at all

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If it isn't released on tape only and have only 10 copies in existence it's to mainstream and boring XD

by Forward-Strike-1993 1 week ago

Great written and well produced music defies genres. There are plenty of great metal bands and some that are just average or completely sucky. If you let the genre define what you are or are not going to listen to than you are missing out. Genre is the flavor or the spice in the song writing. Take for example an older song that made a huge recent comeback Tracey Chapman- "Fast Car". You could play that song in the flavor of rap, rock, metal, pop or country. The song is great no matter what genre it is played in. The only metal I am against is racist metal or NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal).

by Anonymous 1 week ago

most people dont understand it. theres a reason pop hits are very simple with a catchy hook. the more complex the music gets the less people will want to listen to it. and metal is often fast and complex. (thats not to say metal fans/musicians are geniuses. just stating why the average Joe doesnt listen to Slayer)

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I generally think that with most art there is a form of it that people will like With all genres of music generally speaking, there is a piece that people who do not normally like it could still appreciate Really good example is people who don't like hip hop but like Hamilton

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Same with techno. Same with pop. Same with jazz. You are not mad at the observation, your ego loves the fact that you get something that others don't (apparently). I understand that all metal is not the same, I won't actually listen to metal, because I have no interest in the concepts, aesthetics and sonically does not tingle my brain. Where is your god now?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I used to listen to a ton of metal and still listen to it occasionally, and I want to say it is somewhat repetitive. Not the music itself, but the instruments. Once you're used to electronic music purely instrumental music needs quite a bit of creativity to still sound unique between 30 other songs with the exact same instruments. Simple example is something like Dragonforce. Each song is totally unique yet they all blend together. Then I listen to some of my favorite Hitech artists and am met with hugely different songs. Then I take it one step further and listen to my favorite Uptempo songs, a genre not knows for its melodies - it's basically distorted kicks. But while it's a very simplistic genre, you can rarely compare two songs of it. There's so much variation in the kick drum alone. With metal, that doesn't happen. I'd just alternate between arpeggios played by guitars and technical tracks with quick drummers.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I've listened to lots of metal. Copper, aluminum, stainless steel, they all make neat "dings".

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't like metal because they are just screaming with their throat that they will drink the blood of my horse through its broken neck.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

While I generally agree with you, I can also admit I am biased because I like metal. I think a lot of other music styles are boring and repetitive. I think it gets down to how the music hits you. If you can't form an emotional connection to something, it bores you.

by MathematicianLast 1 week ago

People who don't like the music I like just didn't listen to it the way I do.

by Weary-Claim5364 1 week ago

That's all music. Exposure is the thing that allows people to hear the uniqueness in a genre. So whatever genre you think sounds "all the same"…you could be called ignorant for that as well.

by Salvador18 1 week ago

Heavy Metal definitely helped me channel my anger in my adolescence

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I would argue that's true for pretty much any genre. The only difference between music and noise... Is what you like.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Then they haven't heard pop, hip hop or dance music, talking about repetitive. If anything, metal music is less repetitive then other genre's.

by onitzsche 1 week ago

Say what you want, but metal does have probably most interesting lyrics/stories in their songs. People who say "all metal sound the same" are probably ones who put on their 50+ song playlist that all talks about "my sad breakup with my girlll".

by Greenfeldercate 1 week ago

TRUE

by Anonymous 1 week ago

"they only sing about satan" and simultaneously "I can't understand a word they're saying" girl pick one

by Anonymous 1 week ago

They should try out Judas Priest. Their music is full of excitement and vigor, but also well written.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Or, you know, it's just not for them.

by No_Mission 1 week ago

Give us some suggestions. I'm willing to listen.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Metal is one of the most complicated genres of music and also my favorite :P it's diverse too. Also harsh vocals are wayyyyy harder to do than people realize. People think it's easy til you ask them to scream. I get that harsh vocals might not be everyone's cup of tea because it's hard to understand til you get used too it, but I love it. Also most people don't listen to music for the "music" but they want something to sing a long too. I remember I showed one girl an instrumental song by scale the summit and she said it wasn't music because there was no singing. When in fact it was music because instruments were playing. Also check out glacial planet by scale the summit if you love guitar virtuoso

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Every genre sounds all the same to an outsider. It's interesting to have been part of a genre then leave it for years and hear it again. I find it repetitive when I know as a teenager each song/album was a world of it's own.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I had this opinion of metal music until I listened to it and I stand corrected! It's amazing!! My favourite song is Chop Suey.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Depends on the metal, I mean a lot of generic Metalcore songs do sound the same, and you do need to train your ear a bit. I mean I've been listening to metal since 2006, including Death Metal bands like Death, Morbid Angel, and Nile; but a band like Devourment still kind of sounds like noise to me.

by Particular-Case 1 week ago

Or they just don't like it but feel the need to back their opinion in an intellectual way so they can sound smarter

by Remarkable_Bar8560 1 week ago

I've listened to it. It sounds very similar. Like basically every genre

by Flimsy-Tie-6058 1 week ago

Not all Metal is the same type, either. For example, Sabaton is far from the "Incoherent background noise with ear-piercing screaming" trope a lot of people imagine when they think of the genre. Every song has a different theme and a lot of focus is spent on the lyrics.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Also metal is a very broad category, people probably think of death metal or metallica as the only metal there is.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The screaming is embarrassing and try hard, that's all. I still like the first Slipknot album, that's my limit, if you spread out the screams so they mean more.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This is pretty much true of any musical genre. There are certain structures that you have to get accustomed to in order to finally hear the nuances. It's the same reason why foreign music always sounds samey to us (like Arab or Indian music, if you don't regularly listen to it)

by Outrageous-Brief 1 week ago

A friend of mine took me to a metal festival two years ago. I did not like metal before and now I do not like it even more.

by cydneygusikowsk 1 week ago