What's the difference between rock and metal?!


Question: I'm trying to organize my music and I keep on having trouble deciding whether a band is rock or metal. I try to go off the tone of whether the band just sounds heavy, or punkish. Does a bunch of screaming generally mean metal? But then there's the punk screaming and then the real throaty rah rah rah screaming. Any thoughts?


Answers: I'm trying to organize my music and I keep on having trouble deciding whether a band is rock or metal. I try to go off the tone of whether the band just sounds heavy, or punkish. Does a bunch of screaming generally mean metal? But then there's the punk screaming and then the real throaty rah rah rah screaming. Any thoughts?

Anything that is Metal is in fact also Rock. Rock is a sub genre of metal.

The boundaries of the sub genre Metal are constantly moving. Bands that may have been considered Metal in the past might not be now.

In essence you could ask 5 different people whether a list of bands are rock or metal and they will each give you different answers.

That being said Metal tends to be heavier in style (hence the name heavy metal) and the guitars are usually downtuned.

Metal just as a general category is heavier riffs, long and intricate solos, sometimes more than one solo in a song, heavier, faster drums with more bass/double bass, the song/lyrical subjects are generally deeper and/or darker and the vocals are often (but not always) more like growling or, on the other end of the spectrum, extremely high-pitched. However, there are metal bands who don't follow every one of these rules though they at least usually espouse one or two and usually more.

Punk is NOT metal. It doesn't even sound like metal. It's a category in rock. But to me, rock and punk are different. Punk basically sounds like really fast rock music that has not matured. More raw. Less put-together. Less professional, not to be too blunt about it.

Old Metallica=metal
Old Green Day=punk
Guns n Roses=rock

If you listen to these, you can hear huge differences.

EDIT: To an answerer below - Metal wouldn't have actual screaming?? Do you not consider Slipknot metal? Tyr is not metal? SLAYER is not metal? Exodus is not metal?? Dude, what kind of metal do you listen to??

Metal breaks Rock.
Rock bends Metal.

Metal is rock. I don't get why people can't get that... It's a subgenre of rock, which is as broad genre that ranges from anything to metal to punk to alternative to other stuff.

Anyway, if you're going to organize bands, you're going to have to break down the genres. I suggest you look the bands up, but metal is not just a bunch of screaming. I guess it could be in some way, but it really depends on what you mean by screaming. Vocals generally are high-pitched, throaty, or "Cookie Monster"-like. Guitars usually if not always play main riffs, and may often add short guitar licks. There's usually a solo. Guitars are sometimes distorted too, but if they're not, distortion is most likely made up with speed.

Metal is a category of rock pretty much like pulp fiction is a category of literature. Metal is more or less categorized as very fast-paced, simple, repetitive, beat and chord progression behind highly distorted guitar, and horse-sounding screaming lyrics. I suppose the earliest form of Metal was Acid ala Led Zeppelin.

METAL HAVE HEAVIER RIFFS FASTER DRUMMING AND LOUDER SINGING


SLAYER-METAL
SLIPKNOT-METAL
LAMB OF GOD-METAL
KID ROCK-NOT METAL

Rock = Bon Jovi
Metal = Megadeath

metal wouldn't have actual screaming, but the vocals would be kinda raspy and scratchy. heavy guitar and drums is more metal. punk is usually really choppy. rock would be a song that doesn't fit in any other catergories

edit: peter: metal is a sub-genre of rock... you have it all mixed up!

Rock:
Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or synthesizers. Other instruments sometimes utilized in rock include harmonica, violin, flute, banjo and less common stringed instruments such as mandolin and sitar. Rock music usually has a strong back beat, and often revolves around guitar, either electric or acoustic.

Rock music has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly, which evolved from blues, country music and other influences. According to All Music Guide, "In its purest form, Rock & Roll has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody. Early rock & roll drew from a variety of sources, primarily blues, R&B, and country, but also gospel, traditional pop, jazz, and folk. All of these influences combined in a simple, blues-based song structure that was fast, danceable, and catchy."

In the late 1960s, rock music was blended with folk music to create folk rock, blues to create blues-rock and with jazz, to create jazz-rock fusion, and without a time signature to create psychedelic rock. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences from soul, funk, and latin music. Also in the 1970s, rock developed a number of subgenres, such as soft rock, heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock, and punk rock. Rock subgenres that emerged in the 1980s included synth-rock, hardcore punk and alternative rock. In the 1990s, rock subgenres included grunge, Britpop, indie rock, and nu metal.

Metal:
Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion and fast guitar solos. The All Music Guide states that "of all rock & roll's myriad forms, heavy metal is the most extreme in terms of volume, machismo, and theatricality."

Heavy metal has long had a worldwide following of fans known as "metalheads" or "headbangers". Although early heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, they were often critically reviled at the time, a status common throughout the history of the genre. In the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal followed in a similar vein, introducing a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed.

In the mid-1980s, pop-infused glam metal became a major commercial force. Underground scenes produced an array of more extreme, aggressive styles such as thrash metal, which broke into the mainstream, and death metal. Since the mid-1990s, styles such as nu metal, which often incorporates elements of funk and hip hop; and metalcore, which blends extreme metal with hardcore punk, have further expanded the definition of the genre.

Metal is more harder, more brutal & more aggressive.
Rock is tame compared to metal.



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