I get confused when you start throwing black metal sub genres at me. Im just now discovering deafheaven and people describe them as blackgaze and I have no idea what that is nor what post black metal is. Deafheaven sounds like atmospheric black metal to me?
metals are usually shiny and solids. Have a low number of atoms and are usually good conductors. Metallids are a cross between metals have similarities of both. Non-metals have a high amount of atoms, usually a gas or liquid and bad conductors of electricity.
I'm not sure of the exact definition, but here are some properties: Metals: Shiny, ductile, malleable, solids at room temperature (except mercury), and good conductors of heat/electricity. Non-metals: Brittle, dull, poor conductors of heat/electricity, and mostly gases at room temperature. Metalloids: Also called semiconductors, have properties of metals and nometals.
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A metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds. Metals are sometimes described as a lattice of positive ions surrounded by a cloud of delocalized electrons. The metals are one of the three groups of elements as distinguished by their ionisation and bonding properties, along with the metalloids and nonmetals. On the periodic table, a diagonal line drawn from boron (B) to polonium (Po) separates the metals from the nonmetals. Elements on this line are metalloids, sometimes called semi-metals; elements to the lower left are metals; elements to the upper right are nonmetals. A modern definition of metals is that they have overlapping conduction bands and valence bands in their electronic structure. This definition opens up the category for metallic polymers and other organic metals, which have been made by researchers and employed in high-tech devices. These synthetic materials often have the characteristic silvery-grey reflectiveness of elemental metals. The traditional definition focuses on the bulk properties of metals. They tend to be lustrous, ductile, malleable, and good conductors of electricity, while nonmetals are generally brittle (for solid nonmetals), lack lustre, and are insulators. Rest all are non metals.
