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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Love Ghost! Not my favorite, which is probably Gloryhammer, but still top five.

Why is iGhost disliked by metal fans?

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

It's not disliked it's just not a metal band

[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 6 points 1 day ago

You can like what you like, I just don't think Ghost is Metal.

[–] kettuli@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s hardly even metal if you look at it from atop some grindcore mountain.

[–] decolo@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Let's be real, its pop rock, but that doesn't make it less fun to listen to

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's not even disliked, it's just a running gag that Ghost's subgenre is "Scooby Doo chase music"

[–] Toasticus@piefed.social -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Because Ghost is not going crazy with solos, screeching/belching/barking lyrics out, isn't recording their material in some hollowed out and echoed building somewhere. They also aren't catering to lyrics about how it'd be a wonderful day to be devouring some flesh and fucking the eye sockets of a skull. But you wouldn't know that with the vocalist doing said belching/barking/screeching lyrics until you read what the song is about.

So basically, Ghost is not liked because it's not catering to metal edgelords.

The downvotes prove me right. :)

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 1 points 13 hours ago

Now hold up. I like Ghost a lot, and play it regularly, but it's just not metal. It's great music, but not all great music is metal, just like nok all metal is great. It's rock. There's nothing wrong with it being rock. It doesn't make you less of a man, or less hardcore to like rock.

If someone tried to call a jazz band classical, I'd be similarly annoyed with them. It's not metal because it doesn't have any of the hallmarks of the genre and doesn't sound like metal. And no, that doesn't mean they're doing something new and groundbreaking. It means they're calling themselves the wrong thing.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s as bad a take as the genre elitists.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

ThE dOwNvOtEs PrOvE mE rIgHt

Yeah this guy is either a troll or an idiot.

[–] Toasticus@piefed.social -2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You and your butt buddies are just offended because I ran your face in your own shit and you cannot handle it. You are a living example as to whom I am referring to and you keep it up.

You are the idiot here.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 1 points 16 hours ago

Resorting to homophobia. Classy.