it has more in common with funk than metal.
let's just call it aggro-funk, then it wouldn't be a subgenre of metal, right?
I've been thinking recently about sentiment like this and wondering if that's a fair assessment.
I mean I guess I understand the sentiment of "This is not in any way like any other metal that exists, therefore it's just aggressive versions of the other Parent Genre", and in reality I agree with it in the vast majority of cases.
But honestly I can't really pinpoint what is Metal and what isn't in definiable terms to where I can say definitively that this song isn't metal:
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I can hear where it differs and where it branches off, but don't all sub-genres? Isn't that the point? And I also definitely hear the metal influence. It's right there. To my ear it sounds rather like watered down Melodic Death Metal.
Maybe I just suck and don't understand?
If anyone could tell me the difference I'd honestly love to hear it. Or like, I don't fucking know a link to some extensive overly long musical analysis on the subject.