They just sound so similiar, i cant really tell a difference
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This can be either really easy or really complicated.
The easy way is there is queen and there is black sabbath.
But what about now?
Well, there is stuff like shinedown/nickleback/volbeat which I’ll argue all fall under the umbrella of ‘rock’ where metal got a ‘brutal’ in terms of sound and lyrical content.
You can best understand this by listening to two different songs:
[Exhibit A: Die to Live by volbeat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBZi7JIdSps)
[Exhibit B: Hammer smashed face by Cannibal Corpse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGe6-xzbISw)
Now, both of these songs utilize a lead guitar, bass guitar, drums and lead singer. The presentation is where you get the difference.
Metal (of which cannibal corpse is pretty metal for metal) is the not mainstream rock and roll. It’s stuff like above. Mosh pits and black on black on black and tattoos.
Then there are variations of all of the above. There’s a lot of cross over. There is also the ‘core’ stuff (metalcore, deathcore, hardcore, post hardcore) the genres are over specific and not really conducive to anything except for meticulously categorizing things on a computer at this point.
**tl;dr to summarize metal is grungy and angry sounding but also that’s followed by the aesthetic that the scene follows. rock and roll is what divorced dads listen to when they “fire up their hog” with their bandanna on to feel like a badass.**
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