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Theres a big article on MTV.com talking about the greatest metal bands of all time, they made their own top 10, with no sign of GUNS N ROSES, which brings up a good question  is GNR a metal band or a hard Rock band?
Id like to just hear some input

Last time I checked GNR was Hard Rock.

Hard rock not metal and i think this will be dead horse very soon

theyre deffinetly not a metal band. even though on vh1s top 40 or 100 (i dont remember) metal songs...

sweet child o' mine was 2 or 3 :peace:


but.. i would deffinetly consider them hard rock/rock n' roll.

Fuckin' shit...what kinda fans are you??? Guns are nothing but a boy-band!!!

Hard Rock - no question bout them not being Metal.

their hard rock, but yea they were on vh1s metal video countdown with sweet child and welcome to the jungle or it might not have been video countdown it might have been just songs, i dont remember, but they were on there

definately not metal. hard rock!

HARD ROCK : ok:

Pop

The only Metal band i ever seen on the hitlists is sepultura i think... roots 8)

Hard Rock

Well, i would say Guns N`Roses is a Hard Rock band, with some Metal Elements... Back in the days.. when we dident have
all the Black Metal bands we have today, we could talk about GnR as a "Metal band" I would say Hard Rock band, with Metal elements...


btw. Oh my God is a more Metal sounding song then a Hard Rock song.. too me anyway..

To answer the VH1 question, the song was WTTJ that was number 2, behind only Sabbath's Iron Man.

Secondly, GN'R is a blues based hard rock band with shades of metal.  Not a lot, but just a little bit, for example YCBM and ISE.

think ill agree with that

I geuss Guns N Roses is a hard rock band but I definielty consider Appettite For Destruction a metal album

Well i would have said hard rock aswell. But i tunes where i have all my music including all my guns stuff,seems to be slightly confused or they have a shite way to classify the music.

the genres that GNR are classed under

AFD - Rock
Lies -  Metal 
UYI 1 - Rock
UYI 2 - Metal
TSI ? - Hard rock
The live album - Metal
The "civil war" EP - Heavy Metal
GH - Rock

so looks like even i tunes doesnt know how to classify GNR.

Guns N' Roses was never a heavy metal band.  They have too much blues and groove in their songs to be considered metal.  As Scott Ian said of Judas Priest, they were the first pure metal band because they removed the blues element that Sabbath had in their music.

Metal may rock, but it doesn't roll.  GN'R had too much roll, too much groove to be metal. 

Having said all that, the new band feels a little more metal to me, particularly in their interpretation of some of the old songs.

Ali

Huh  ??? :nervous:

GNR has never been anywhere near metal. GNR is rock/hard rock with a punky edge (AFD and TSI?).

Sure i agree with ya,but im just telling you how i Tunes classify GNR.

Hard rock.

Metal has never applied to them.

Hard rock

Hard Rock - no way in hell are GN'R metal.  I wouldn't really say there are elements even, except maybe when Slash used the BC Rich in YCBM, and even then it's only his tone and not the music.  Too much blues to be metal.  VH1 clearly have no idea what metal is.  And they call SCOM metal?!  Idiots.  :-[

Well,

GnR made a genere by them selves... Its not plain Hard Rock, and its not plain Metal, its not plain Blues..

its a meltingpot, with all the generes in it.. they even have som Folk Rock element in it..  :rofl:


Lets just call it The Guns N Roses style..

Blues based hard Rock, but to deny the metal elements is foolish.  WTTJ and Coma, to give just two examples are metal songs.  It may not sound like Immortal, but then neither do Iron Maiden and they're metal.

they "were" HARD ROCK n' roll  :peace:

i dont agree to what Nu Gunner wrote here is mine:

AFD- Hard Rock N Roll
Lies- little mor blues in the live like suicide songs, and then some nice songs
UYI 1, 2- Hard Rock
TSI?- PUNK!

thats what i think 8)

hard rock, metal can be bon jovi to pantera..

Guns N Roses are, and are ever been, a Hard Rock band.

  Axl ran an ad looking for a "Heavymetal Punk Glam guitarist, Blues influenced."  Slash answered.

That was the story they gave on an Mtv interview in 1988.

Anyway, I think that is the perfect description of what they were when the original band played clubs and recorded Live! Like a Suicide and Appetite for Destuction.  As they went on they added some Folk(Gnr lies)and became less glam.  Use Your Illusion was the product of this transition, It had the anger of Metal with the Bluesy sound and mellow Folk.  They also showed a lot of growth with Epic Rock.  This album was a nice melting pot of styles.                                                                         

The most important thing about GnR music is that every song sounds completely different from the last, no one song sounds like another.  This still holds true today with the new songs.  Plus they have added more styles to the mix like industrial and teckno, while doing Jazz improv between songs in concert.  That is what makes this band so great,  They dont put any limits or boundries on themselves.  Instead they embody all music and fit it in under what is called Rock n Roll. :peace: 

Guns n' Roses are a Hard Rock group in my opinion.

I think Hard Rock.  But there's people around here that say they only listen to metal yet they wear all kinds of GNR shirts.  I'm not sure if they actually listen to them or if they're being posers....

Gn'R is definitly Hard Rock, 'cause there are a lot of differences bettwen them and a metal band, like Iron Maiden for example...

Hard Rock
The only tune that sounds a little metal to me is crash diet  ::)

Hard glam rock.

STADIUM ROCK sounds good to me, its got that different sound unlike hard rock or metal. some songs could fit either category but in general they are a STADIUM ROCK BAND............  agreed  8)

Hard Rock. I don't know how anyone can even question it.

me......i can question it...STADIUM ROCK   :yes: :yes: :yes:

Not at all. GnR songs are to blues driven for stadium rock.

Blues influenced hard rock with traces of various other genres.

Not at all. GnR is 100% Stadium Rock.....yes some songs fit into every category, rock, soft rock, metal, punk, blues,hard rock, nov rain could be classical for fucks sake but the band as a whole is STADIUM ROCK....end of  ;)