Talk:Pirate metal

Other bands

Wouldn't Alestorm qualify? 174.62.68.53 (talk) 03:12, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Christopher Bowes's reaction about pirate metal as an official genre

https://www.reddit.com/r/Alestorm/comments/3l357i/pirate_metal_is_officially_a_genre_laddies/ according to this he thinks it's awful, not sure if he's sarcastic or not but he's still awesome for responding to fan posts (Chris is hyperchrisz) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.142.156.209 (talk) 22:01, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

In light of this interview (and his general demeanour), I'm positive he wasn't serious, yeah. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 00:59, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

How Subgenres Work

A genre is considered a subgenre of another genre when it can be entirely encompassed by the parent genre. For example, all black metal can be described as extreme metal, as the core elements that encapsulate black metal music by definition will also be considered a form of extreme metal. Since all pirate metal bands cannot necessarily be described as power metal, folk metal, thrash metal, or speed metal, it cannot be described as a subgenre of any of these genres. It's an entirely different genre that has stylistic origins in quite a few various metal genres. If you look at all bands described in this article, unless they all could be described as any of the above genres on top of pirate metal, pirate metal cannot be described as a subgenre of these genres. However this is not the case. If you want to link to this article on other subgenre pages from which it originated, do it in the "Other Styles" or "Related Styles" section. As subgenre is not an accurate word for the genre. Vortiene (talk) 05:06, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

"Piratical jargon".