User talk:In Flames
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[edit] A welcome from Sango123
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-- Sango123 (talk) 20:19, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Wiki-Project Metal
Hi!
I have flipped through the Wiki-Project Metal page, and I was wondering how I could become a "member"... I've been participating in the creation/edition of:
- Aarni, a Finnish Avant-Garde Metal band. I created it completely, and many parts have been modified (but few added) by another member. I also created an article for Bathos, an Aarni album.
- [[Mallcore], the derogatory term for metalcore and nu-metal. I added pictures, a better structure, trivia, external links, and provided protection against vandalism.
- Disturbed, the nu-metal band. I vainly attempted to state the disagreement concerning their genre in the article. After a lot of edit war, I gave up due to lack of sources stating the disagreement.
- Random pages where I added information and internal links concerning the Avant-Garde Metal band Fantômas. (Bernard Herrmann and The Omen)
I am relatively new on the Wikipedia website, but I know how to create/edit/improve articles in an efficient manner. I don't know if I have to like give a candidature for the WikiProject Metal, so thats why I wrote you. ^^
If you want more information, you may want to look at my user page, but it is very messy and I have spent absolutely no time working on it (apart for collectioning userboxes). I have looked through your user page, and it seems we have a lot in common. If you want, you can email me at zouaviso@gmail.com .
Thanks in advance,
--Zouavman Le Zouave 18:35, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- :) Thanks for the change on the user page! I wrote it when it was late at night, so I probably didn't pay much attention to capitalization. Oh so the adherence to the WikiProject isn't that big of a deal, I see... As you may have seen, I am very involved in the fight against Mallcore and other rubbish styles of "music". If you have any interesting sources that could be useful in order to state the criticism that certain metalcore/nu-metal bands receive by real metal fans, don't hesitate to send me a message ^^
Thanks again!
--Zouavman Le Zouave 21:01, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
The problem with Mallcore is that the fans of the nu-metal and metalcore genres (usually teenagers) are willing to do ANYTHING to classify Disturbed, KoRn, or Marilyn Manson as "Heavy Metal", "Extreme Black Metal" (yes I've heard some idiots call Marilyn Manson that ^^), or metal in general... So in the end, people knowing nothing about metal (like journalists that study music in general) propagate the idea that the definition of a metal band is a tribe of nine satanic teens in constant conflict with their parents and whose band includes a drummer, a percussionist (if the drummer was talented enough, there should be no need for a percussionist), three guitarists, two full-time vocalists with the exact same voice, a bassist, and a DJ... And Ozzy Osbourne doesn't help...
Yeah, the only sources I could find did not fit the Wikipedia standards either. On the Mallcore article, I had written facts about Encyclopaedia Metallum and Mallcore, and how certain bands were refused, etc... However, I've stopped taking care of this article...
I think if we get enough Wikipedians who hate mallcore, we might be able to change some articles around (the last part of the introduction of the Disturbed article really disturbs me.) What do you think?
--Zouavman Le Zouave 23:09, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Oh, don't worry I wasn't saying that all teens listen to metalcore/nu-metal. And I'm a teenager too so :p
I use the term Mallcore a lot ^^ to make it short, its a term designating the Nu-Metal and Metalcore genres... I usually like Avant-Garde metal, Doom Metal, Power Metal, Melodic Death Metal... I'm some kind of musical Indiana Jones, I like to look for new stuff... However I'm not only a metal fan, I love Nirvana (not the famous songs, though), Rage Against The Machine, and Classical Music...
Yeah, the Wikipedians contesting our opinions will find sources classifying mallcore bands as Disturbed or Slipknot Heavy Metal or whatever... so, we ought to get allied and contest this idiocity...
Actually, I got a separate email adress for MSN Messenger. Feel free to add me ^^
zouave4ever@hotmail.fr
--Zouavman Le Zouave 12:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Hey
Hey,
Read this and give your opinion:
Talk:Disturbed (Proposition for Statement)
And pass it around so that other people can say what they have to say!
Thanks in advance,
Z.L.Z.
