Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pirate metal (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 18:22, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Pirate Metal
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Bull genre. What pirate metal is is basically no more than folk metal with lyrical themes about pirates. In this same argument, is Kamelot called Philosophy metal? Is Slipknot called Angst metal? I don't think so-- F-22 Raptör Aces High ♠ 17:36, 21 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. Non-notable sub-genre. wjemather bigissue 18:07, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Not unless we have Ninja metal too. Colonel Warden (talk) 07:27, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete and Salt: Ahhh ... another example either of (a) Garage band: "OMG, we have to play in a unique "metal" genre or else no one will notice us! (sound of flipping through a thesaurus); or (b) Obscure music blogger: "OMG, if I don't invent a new "unique" metal genre, no one will read my turgid crap! (sound of flipping through a thesaurus).  I've always wanted to get ten metal heads in a room, play ten cuts of death/doom/heavy/goth/black/power/thrash/metalcore/grindcore and see if more than three of them agree on any subgenre.  Obvious failure of WP:NEO.  Given that this is the third recreation, I advocate salting this idiocy.   Ravenswing  18:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Some say pirate metal is a subgenre of folk metal. And it is true if we talk about Alestorm. On the other hand if we talk about Running Wild, it has nothing to do with folk metal. So the only common thing we have amoung the few bands, claimed for pirate metal - is the lyrics and themes. So it is difficult to define a metal subgenre based only on lyrics, but I think pirate metal should be something more complex than that. It is a way to burst your fantasy, imagination - just like many metal bands have lyrics on knights and kings. 10:58, 24 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Firesword bg (talk • contribs)
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