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:	post by Distrust-Kevin at 2005-03-01 20:11:52

Sam Black Church
Biohazard
Agnostic Front
Tree
Comin' Correct
The Business
Madball
S.O.D.
Full Blown Chaos

All of these groups sound nothing like each other, yet all are labeled as hardcore (with the exception of S.O.D. who actually used to label themselves hardcore but fans label as thrash)
For instance, if Sam Black Church were a brand new band today, I would bet money that people would call them a metal band. 10 Years ago metal bands were for the most part shunned. So most of the bands at the time would label themselves hardcore in order to fit in. Also, many 80's metal bands at that time (Sepultura, Slayer, Nuclear Assault, Napalm Death, amongst many others) converted to a slower, chunkier, more "hardcore" sound to stay in the game, and now that hardcore has been on the fall and metal on the rise, these bands seem to be changing back to their original syles.
That being said, my point is, what's the deal with all this label shit? You are either underground or you're not. My group (Distrust) has had more labels slapped on us than I can count. We've been called Thrash-metal, Death-metal, Hardcore, Metalcore, Thrashcore, Speed-metal, and Black-metal (well one guy called us black metal). One mans opinion of what is or is not such and such style of metal will more often than not differ from the next.
I have a friend here in Haverhill named Jason who will argue for hours with anyone and he INSISTS that MESUGGAH is a hardcore group. Do you call Mesuggah "hardcore"??? no? well this guy does. no shit. And he will come up with every reason in the book why they are indeed hardcore and not metal. Are you getting bored reading this yet? or confused? Well that's how I get when I see all this metal-core sucks or death-metal sucks or hardcore sucks etc. because like the example above, one "genre of music" can have many different sounds. Does Bolt Thrower(death-metal) sound anything like Deicide(death-metal)? I dont think they do.

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