Talk:Essential Charts/@comment-65.95.65.108-20190226205846/@comment-38535605-20190228203104

"I think Kill em all (metallica) came out months before Show no mercy, and it's also a more influential and better (in my opinion) thrash album."

Yeah, that's a reasonable argument. I went with Show No Mercy because it displays the speed metal influences of early thrash metal and because apparently it had an influence on death metal, but Kill Em All is acceptable too. Keep in mind it doesn't go for the very first, just for an early example.

"there's no melodic, prog, or tech death"

"There's no nu-metal"

"There's no funk metal"

I just couldn't make them fit. I could only give 2 spots to death metal (or else entire other genres would have been missing). And nu-metal and funk metal would actually belong on the indie / alternative rock cateogory, since both genres were developments out of alternative metal, itself a derivative of alternative rock.

"There seems to be a rather arbitrary line drawn between which sub genres are represented and which aren't"

Well, I went with alternative rock instead of funk metal or nu-metal because that's the "parent" genre for both, and I couldn't put more albums because the section was busy with other genres.

"Basically I just feel like there's genre-defining classics that are mssing while other stuff I wouldn't really consider essential classics are included."

Which ones you wouldn't consider essential classics?

"I don't want to shit on it as much as I have been."

Critizing is fine though, as that way I can improve the chart. I have already been getting a lot of suggestions that have made it to the last version of the chart.