101 rules of black metal

[Gego]

isoFlux Wrote:However, Tool is Metal: Progressive Metal. They have a super-heavy, dark sound, use bass everywhere (the insrument and the lower ranges), use riffing everywhere, and feature some guitar solos (even if they aren\'t traditional). They lack the progrssive attitude in the songs (not the pretentious, operatic vocals and styles of bands like Yes, Queensryche, or Dream Theatre).

In any case, "Metal" is a VERY broad category, encompassing almost every genre mentioned above. Its like the "root" genre from which sooooo many come from (Death, Doom, Heavy, Gothic, Thrash, Speed, Power, etc etc). Hell, even Jethro Tull has some Heavy Metal leanings in songs like Aqualung.

Tool never was and will never be a metal band. Super-heavy, dark sound? I bet you\'ve never heard any metal bands. You can hear bass on pop songs man. Guitar solos appear only in metal hmm interesting.
Nobody uses only word \"metal\" to describe band\'s genre. Metal bands are those which played in 70\'s-80\'s before other subgenres were separated/invented. You wouldn\'t call these bands metal now becouse it\'s closer to hard rock. I\'m talking about bands like Skid Row.

From your words i understand that hardcore is progressive metal too! Well more metal than Tool.