Talk:Funk metal

This article was nominated for deletion on 28 March 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Some of this bands rather fit in rapcore, Rap metal or Cheese Metal

What in the hell is Sublime doing on this page, THEY ABSOULUTLY NOTHING TO DO WITH METAL

FYI Faith No More is more closely associated wit San Francisco. (maxcap 20:57, 24 September 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Thats a lie

What? when this supossed funk metal was created? thats bullshit....Red Hot? theres nothin, thanks god, named funk metal, among people who listen real metal...whats next? reggae metal? country metal? tex-mex metal?

::Actually, country metal is a genre already - and there are plenty of dub artists who mix reggae with metal. You don't argue well. What would you call Infectious Grooves? A mixture of funk and metal seems like "funk-metal" to me.

Korn

Some of Korns songs was funk metal.

I haven't listened to them extensively, but I'd agree with that. They definitely sometimes have the funky bass and heavy guitar combo. They were mostly influenced by funk metal and, to a lesser extent, other forms of alternative metal, but they were the first nu metal band. Nu metal is their genre and that's what they should be classified as on Wikipedia.

Please erase this entry Funk Metal doesnt exist....why almost any other genre must be glued to the metal term?

a bit of musical culture

Excuse me, but what is the difference between funk metal and rapcore?

First off, there's usually no rapping in funk metal. It should be noted that many do not consider the singing style of RATM or RHCP to be rapping, though this is clearly up for debate. Second funk rythms tennd to be more pronounced and in every song in funk metal. However, I think its mostly a matter of opinion what groups go in where as neither genre has ever been popular enough to be well defined, at least to my knowledge. marnues 17:59, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, marnues. I, too, think that Anthony Kiedis' singing style in most of RHCP's earlier songs is quite hardly hip hop-connected. However, I remember that Zack De La Rocha said to be influenced by Public Enemy's Chuck D, as I read on the article about his previous band.

I personally would agree that de la Rocha raps and Kiedis does not. I've heard several people make the claim about both though so I went with that. marnues 18:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

merging genres

Merging "funk metal" and thrash metal? Why not?

Prince

I'm taking Prince off of this page, for reasons that I cited in much more detail on the Prince page. Essentially, Prince's music has both funk and bits of metal in it, but any of his songs with metal influences are almost uniformly more wide-ranging than being a simple mash-up of the two, and the metal influences even in his hardest-rocking music are very mild. I'll also just say that the term and style originated well after Purple Rain, which is probably his most rock and metal-influenced album as well as his most famous, therefore contradicting the "these artists help popularize the style..." part of this entry. Even on that album, there's little metal in the music aside from Prince's guitar solos.