For those who don't think Metal or Screamo doesn't take talent

August Burns Red is known as a "screamo" band and to most people would not call this music, and label it as talentless crap.  What does this song not have to make consider it music?  It has a melody, difficult rhythms’ and chords, different styles of singing, a bridge, a chorus (that does not suck), and a full rounded sound.  Individuals that call this talentless have a closed minded view when it comes to music, and probably is uneducated in the music world.  Even if you do not like this style of music you have to respect the musicians, and what they do.  For example, I do not like country music; however I have respect the genre because it is just a different style of music, and because I have an obsession for Taylor Swift (got to love the guilty pleasures).  There is always exceptions to music and every genre has a band that makes the genre look bad.  For example, some metal band have songs about killing someone.  Metal is not the only one with this problem.

Being a musician myself, my favorite part of this specific genre of music is the talent behind the vocals that is being played, because when most people listen to music all they pay attention to the singer (or lead vocalist).  For example, how many people can name five of their favorite bands’ drummer?, that is highly doubtful.  Now ask them to name the lead singers, I bet they can name tons more.  For example, name the drummer for KISS.  Oh look you cannot do that, but now names the singer for Kiss that's easy, Gene Simmons.  Next time you listen to one of your favorite songs, listen to the music behind it.  Before you tend to bash a song or certain genre, look at these musical elements behind the singer or screamer.  The point of this post is not to say that metal is the best genre of music out there.  Honestly there is no best genre; if you love music, you love all music not just some.  Even if you don't like a genre then you can at least respect it, and recognize it as music.

People often look over the difficulty of the music playing behind vocalists.  In this specific song the band has "break downs".  A break down occurs when the music all of a sudden slows down and grooves, in other words it breaks away from its normally fast tempo.  For all the non-musicians that do not know much about the talent it takes to cut the tempo in half time (cutting the beat from 140 beats per minute (bpm) to 70bmp), it is difficult.  Another common style in these times of songs is a double bass pedal that the drummer uses.  So as opposed to only having 3 limbs playing in most genres of music, now all 4 limbs are doing something different simultaneously.  Ask a drummer if this is harder, because being one myself I know how hard this is.  Look at these kinds of things before you bash a band or genre.  This concept goes for all kinds of music that tend to be overlooked.

 People in these kinds of bands tend to have gauges, abnormal piercings, and tattoos everywhere.  It is just a part of the style of the music.  Every kind of genre has a style of dress or different things they do.  For example, country music are rednecks, pop singers like Katy Perry and Lady Gaga have outrageous hair and outfits, and oldies rock was into the face painting with metal shoulder pads (KISS).  All of these trends are abnormal but cannot be made fun of because in reality they all look stupid, but music as well as dress is a way of expressing of your own personality.  Make sure that you do your research before saying a type of music is bad or unskillful, because you better have a great argument against metal.  Talk to musicians that you know and ask them what is hard to play, because I would say that metal is one of the most difficult kind of music to play.