r/Music • u/imatmydesknow Concertgoer • 6d ago

music Slipknot enters Spotify's 1 Billion streams club with "Duality"

https://lambgoat.com/news/49390/slipknot-enters-spotifys-1-billion-streams-club-with-duality/
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u/LouisArmstrong3 6d ago

Pop metal.

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u/RMCaird 6d ago

Popular metal? Sounds good to me, the more people who are into metal the better. The more people who know the bands I like, the more I can talk about them with others. 

Not everyone gets off on being the only person in a room to know some obscure metal band that exclusively plays in 19/16 timing just because they can. 

Liking things others also like is ok buddy.

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u/MyNameisClaypool 6d ago

Maybe it’s “pop” because it’s good?

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u/MouthJob 6d ago

Yellow acorn

What are we doing?

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u/DIRTY_KUMQUAT_NIPPLE 6d ago

The metal community is the fucking worst with this gatekeeping shit

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u/Gockel 6d ago

^ true badass Mayhem fan over here

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u/Cowboy_BoomBap 6d ago

Who fucking cares

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u/FartVirtuoso 6d ago

Ah, yes. The most metal thing one can do: categorize.

I mean, I listen to mostly tech death, but I’ve never once had the impulse to call out things that I find to be less “legitimate,” less heavy, or just more popular than that genre as fake metal or something. It’s just an odd way to spend one’s time.

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u/GigaSoup 5d ago

Pop is just short for popular.

Do you also think Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, and Pantera qualify as pop metal too?

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u/ehtywer96 6d ago

okay what about it. explain.