My friends says that heavy metal is a version of metal,but my father say no there is no kind of music called metal,there is nu metal and death and heavy metal,who is right?my friends or my father?
A lot of the confusion these days is with Metal and Metalcore. Metal: Absu Opeth old Metallica Funeral Winds Slayer Morbid Angel Moonspell Satyricon Behemoth NOT Metal: Avenged Sevenfold Bullet for my Valentine Atreyu Black Dahlia Murder HIM Suicide Silence Bring me the Horizon Anything that ends with -core is NOT Metal. Also, if you're not sure whether a band is Metal, or Metalcore, look up the band's photo. If it's a bunch of guys with girl's jeans and Emo hair, it's Metalcore (not Metal).
Depends on which metalhead you ask. Some consider nu metal/screamo to be metal, and some will only consider the harder forms of metal(black,thrash,and death) as metal. But to answer your question; I don't think just the oldish stuff (which I'm assuming means bands like Black Sabbath,Iron Maiden,Judas Priest,80s thrash bands) is metal, although traditional/heavy is my favorite subgenre of metal. I listen to a lot of new (not nu),albeit,underground/foreign metal bands. But I'm a fan of metal through and through,so I obviously appreciate the influences the oldish bands had on the genre, but I also appreciate what the newer bands are bringing to the genre.
This is a bit confusing but metalheads do not consider older metal bands to be the only real metal. I think what makes it confusing is that a lot of them don't consider the more popular poser bands to be metal (i.e. Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, Disturbed, Killswitch Engage, Slipknot etc.) typically bands that fall into the subgenres of screamo, emo, metalcore, deathcore, nu metal and so on. However bands that fall into the categories of death metal, black metal, thrash metal, progressive metal, doom metal and the like, they do still consider to be real metal. Personally I could care less whether people consider poser bands to be metal or not, I just don't listen to them so it doesn't really bother me. I also consider metal and rock to be two separate genres today, yes metal did get its start as a subgenre of rock, but it has just evolved and changed so much over the years that there aren't many similarities anymore. It would be like comparing humans and apes, just because humans are a branch off of apes doesn't mean they are the same. Just compare Nickleback to Nile and tell me they both fall under the same genre.
