Because Ghost is not going crazy with solos, screeching/belching/barking lyrics out, isn’t recording their material in some hollowed out and echoed building somewhere. They also aren’t catering to lyrics about how it’d be a wonderful day to be devouring some flesh and fucking the eye sockets of a skull. But you wouldn’t know that with the vocalist doing said belching/barking/screeching lyrics until you read what the song is about.
So basically, Ghost is not liked because it’s not catering to metal edgelords.
If someone tried to call a jazz band classical, I’d be similarly annoyed with them. It’s not metal because it doesn’t have any of the hallmarks of the genre and doesn’t sound like metal. And no, that doesn’t mean they’re doing something new and groundbreaking. It means they’re calling themselves the wrong thing.
Love Ghost! Not my favorite, which is probably Gloryhammer, but still top five.
Why is iGhost disliked by metal fans?
It’s not even disliked, it’s just a running gag that Ghost’s subgenre is “Scooby Doo chase music”
You can like what you like, I just don’t think Ghost is Metal.
It’s hardly even metal if you look at it from atop some grindcore mountain.
Let’s be real, its pop rock, but that doesn’t make it less fun to listen to
Because Ghost is not going crazy with solos, screeching/belching/barking lyrics out, isn’t recording their material in some hollowed out and echoed building somewhere. They also aren’t catering to lyrics about how it’d be a wonderful day to be devouring some flesh and fucking the eye sockets of a skull. But you wouldn’t know that with the vocalist doing said belching/barking/screeching lyrics until you read what the song is about.
So basically, Ghost is not liked because it’s not catering to metal edgelords.
The downvotes prove me right. :)
That’s as bad a take as the genre elitists.
If someone tried to call a jazz band classical, I’d be similarly annoyed with them. It’s not metal because it doesn’t have any of the hallmarks of the genre and doesn’t sound like metal. And no, that doesn’t mean they’re doing something new and groundbreaking. It means they’re calling themselves the wrong thing.
https://youtu.be/0PakoE1eBps