Andri's Guide to Music Genres

January 9, 2023 12:16 PM

Do like punk and metal and want to know more about the individual genres? Do you also like learning how these genres are made? Do you enjoy hearing about very serious art from people who love it and don't take it seriously at all? Can you watch Youtube videos? Then Norway's Pagefire is for you! Led by the prolific Andri from Pagefire, their Youtube guides to music genres (and accompanying music videos) are equally funny and informative.

Each video begins with an overview of the genre, its history, and the culture around it (which may be more or less complimentary depending on the genre), moves on to a jokey explanation of how to, with the lowest effort possible, make it, and then concludes with a music video.

Bit of a content warning: A lot of the genres covered are metal genres that deal with violence and misogyny, and Pagefire does mention these things, generally to mock them. Gore (e.g. on album covers) is mosaic'd out. There's a couple of kind of edgy jokes in the Grindcore video but they get over that impulse pretty quickly.

How to make Grindcore
How to make Norwegian Black Metal
How to make Goregrind
How to make Folk Punk
How to make Pornogrind
How to make Cybergrind
How to make Harsh Noise Wall
How to make Wizard Rock
How to make Gorenoise
How to make Unblack Metal (Christian Black Metal/White Metal)
How to make Backpedal
How to make Nintendocore
How to make Nu Metal
How to make Murderfolk
How to make Horror Punk
How to make Slam
How to make Speedcore
How to make Post-Punk
How to make Doomerwave
How to make Thrash Metal
How to make Norsecore
How to make Power Metal
How to make Powerviolence
How to make Crust Punk
How to make Doom Metal

There's a lot more on the channel, including individual entries for the music videos and videos for Andri's Nekonomicon project, but I really wanted to highlight the guides here.

posted by Pope Guilty (6 comments total)

What?? Disgrace -- they are missing the canonical: Eastern European Death Metal Polka Bands
posted by sammyo at 12:45 PM on January 9, 2023

I watched one of the videos. Is there anything similar to this series but a bit more serious, and without all the super-rapid edits? I enjoyed the video on power metal, but it also gave me a headache.
posted by alex1965 at 1:48 PM on January 9, 2023

did you say genres of music? ENJOY!
posted by robbyrobs at 3:17 PM on January 9, 2023

These are wonderful! And… there is enough here that you can begin to do it too! Thanks for the inspiration.
posted by njohnson23 at 5:08 PM on January 9, 2023 [1 favorite]

Hey, it's like Ishkur for Metal! Cool!

Oh, I see the everynoise link, tnx robbyrobs! Ishkur's guide is done by a person, not an algorithm, and I very much enjoy the editorial blurbs for personal education, and that's what I miss with everynoise.
posted by gakiko at 4:10 AM on January 10, 2023

Nah, Ishkur's Guide but for metal is Map of Metal.
posted by Pope Guilty at 6:42 AM on January 10, 2023 [1 favorite]