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Kawaii metal 2010
Serious instrumental metal under J-pop idol vocals and choreography. It reads like a joke on paper and works perfectly live.
- Heaviness
- 7
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 10
- Where from
- Japan
- Tempo
- 140-200 bpm
- Song length
- 3-4.5 min
- Written about
- Adolescence, Fandom, Food, chocolate and other deliberately trivial subjects, Metal itself, affectionately
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Kawaii metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 7 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 2010 | 100% | ×1 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Adolescence, Fandom, Food, chocolate and other deliberately trivial subjects, Metal itself, affectionately | 50% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 10 out of 10 | 60% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 86% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 8. Kawaii metal leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1The one to put on first
Babymetal, Babymetal 2014
Babymetal - Gimme Chocolate!! The video that convinced half the internet.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5One step further in
A Day to Remember, Homesick 2009
A Day to Remember - Homesick. The most effective sweet-to-brutal switching in the genre.
The first is Kawaii metal's own entry point. After it come Kawaii metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Garage rock revival 83%
A reaction to nu metal and radio pop: crisp guitars, plain production, narrow suits. It put guitar rock back on festival bills in the 2000s.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Kawaii metal.
The way into Garage rock revival -
Desert rock 81%
The hypnotic, jam-based side of stoner rock, with lots of space between the notes and a warm bass tone.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Kawaii metal.
The way into Desert rock
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 8.
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 8.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 8.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.