Quote Originally Posted by jrgen
I wasn't going metal elitist. I was just stating that industrial isn't even remotely related to metal or rock music. It's either very experimental electronic music or a bunch of sounds made with everyday objects, such as shopping carts, pencils, duct tape or whatever. Industrial != industrial rock.
OK... but I never actually metioned 'Industrial', just 'Industrial metal'. If I did say industrial, it aws simply because I couldn't be bothered writing metal, and assumed that, from the context, people would understand what I was meant (in a thread about metal, and a post in which 'industrial metal' has already been mentioned, it's probably safe to assume that the poster is not going to drag un-related genres in for no apparent reason).

Quote Originally Posted by Crushed Hope
Unity is not something I strive for honestly, I am perfectly fine with being close with a few and separtated from the rest. Anyways, the reason for genres are simple: The reasons Traitor mentioned, and for this: Say you ask for some metal music and you like Sonata Arctica, someone will be able to suggest say Rotting Christ. Chances are you will hate it.

Therefore you will ask for power metal that way you will not get black metal. Eh.

Yes, I know Grindcore is a subgenre of punk, I just included it in my list as many times with bands like Napalm Death it ends up being combined with death metal.
Yeah, that makes sense. But sometimes you get arrogant music journalists who come up with non-existant genres to make themselves sound smart, or elitist jerks who invent genres to exclude other's from the private cliques.