They literally are not a metal band lol As a lifelong fan of all things in the metal genre I decided to try listening to them just to see what the fuss was about. I listed to most of 2 albums. One seemed to shift from new age to indie to something that sounded like the soundtrack to a movie, the other mostly sounded like electro pop music.
Both albums had short segments of sort of heavy nü metal sounding guitars kind of tacked on almost like an after thought. It seemed completely disjointed and the various parts didn’t really fit together at all.
If you like this kind of music fine, I’m not going to tell people what to listen to. Some of it was actually pretty good here and there. I just don’t understand this overwhelming need people seem to have to call them a “metal” band. Why would anyone want to call it that? They seem like one of those bands that would prefer not to be pigeonholed into a genre.
It’s almost like if you had a band make an hour long album of classical piano music and the composer stopped every 10 minutes to recite some bland sanitized rap lyrics for 30 seconds and everyone decided it was the greatest hip hop record of the decade
Saying something is or isn’t in a genre when a lot of people are on both sides is gatekeeping, and ultimately is only a waste of energy for the gatekeeper.
See: all electronic music being techno in the 00s and then EDM in the 10s—you can get pissed off that people are calling something by the wrong name, but they’re all still gonna do it.
When there are lots of people on both sides, that’s called an opinion, not gatekeeping, ffs. Gatekeeping is when most agree something fits a loose definition but not some unreasonable personal requirement.
The only part that irritates me is that I can’t understand why people keep doing it. Even though it’s not my favorite music they are a very talented band they don’t need to glom on to a genre to be popular I don’t understand why anyone even wants them to be a “metal” band
After having listened to a decent amount of their music I feel like if there were ZERO heavy parts it wouldn’t make a difference since that’s like maybe 20% of what they do
It makes me head hurt 😢