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Cyber metal 1998
Mechanised death metal with cold digital production, dual vocals and science-fiction themes.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 6
- Where from
- Europe
- Tempo
- 120-180 bpm
- Song length
- 3.5-5 min
- Written about
- Machines and humanity, Dystopia, Transhumanism, Science fiction, specifically
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | Cyber metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 100% | ×3 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 7 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 1998 | 92% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 6 out of 10 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 99% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, era 1, melody 1 out of 7. Cyber metal leads the next by 2 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Godflesh, Streetcleaner 1989
Godflesh - Streetcleaner. It sounds like an industrial city collapsing, which is the subject.
- 2The one to put on first
Fear Factory, Demanufacture 1995
Fear Factory - Demanufacture. The kick drum sounds like a pneumatic hammer, deliberately.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Industrial metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Cyber metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Djent 97%
The name imitates the sound: seven- or eight-string guitars, heavily compressed palm mutes and polyrhythms. Meshuggah built the vocabulary; a generation of forum users named it.
4 steps from Cyber metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Djent -
Progressive metalcore 97%
Metalcore with eight-string guitars, ambient passages and structures borrowed from djent.
4 steps from Cyber metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Progressive metalcore
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Both, trading off put 72 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 7.
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 7.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.