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stacycat69

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Nov 17, 2007 12:24

Hey drankthetea? (Or anyone else)

Whats the difference between death metal and deathrock? :-)

Comments 8

malakhgabriel November 17 2007, 18:29:43 UTC

Death metal has harsh vocals and is rather fast and is, well, metal.

Deathrock is old-school goth rock, generally with horror elements.

I think.

Duh dicemonkey November 17 2007, 19:35:42 UTC

Well you first mine, then refine death rock to get death metal. ;-)

Re: Duh mrhuggles November 20 2007, 05:18:39 UTC

I lol'd, verily.

drankthetea November 18 2007, 01:07:28 UTC

Death rock - rock done by people into the goth thing, but more chipper than goth stuff (I believe)

Death metal - completely different. It's a form of metal. Minimal focus on anything actually being dead unless it's a gore band. Most death metal people are relentlessly cheerful.

Different musical elements make up both. Clothing styles different. Death metal is mostly a male thing, but not exclusively so.

mrhuggles November 20 2007, 05:21:41 UTC

So death metal is defined by its style, and death rock is defined by what the songs are about?

drankthetea November 20 2007, 15:09:50 UTC

Sort of. There are some subjects more common in death metal, but the sound of the music is what throws it in that category. Death rock is about the subject matter, but there is a certain element of the sound of the music, as well. Most of what I've heard is generally uptempo and has shades of punk and dance music. I never heard a death rock song that couldn't be danced to, although we usually called it something other than 'death rock.' Death metal you mosh to. There is no graceful dancing to that! :-)

agoblin January 16 2008, 19:08:46 UTC

An extra syllable.

korperschwache January 25 2008, 05:39:05 UTC

Death metal = loud, heavy, corrosive-sounding music with harsh (often "cookie monster") vocals and extremely upfront guitars / drums, often playing complicated riffs and patterns, mainly played by long-haired dudes who look like they just got off work from a loading dock. Think Cannibal Corpse, Death, Obituary, Exhumed, Autopsy, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, etc. (you can see a theme developing here in the names alone). Of course, there's now about a zillion subcategories based on whether or not they play complicated / simple stuff, focus exclusively on gore or not, incorporate other elements like doom / black metal, do or don't have Slayer / Venom / Sodom in their pedigree, or come from Florida or the Scandanavian area ( ... )