Hey, a question to those more versed in technical metal and the like - what do you think, if someone arranged the following piece for, say, guitar(s) and drumset:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uUwxRayWI4

... what that kind off pass off as metal? Just something I thought to myself.

It has the "harsh" percussive character, very little of what you could call "melody", the phrases (which often consist of mere chord progressions) kinda revolve around the root all the time, then there are the "breaks" and crazy time signature changes - I can literally some sort of crazy DB/toms build-up and then the guitar suddenly goes BEEP accompanied by a muted cymbal, at some specific passages ;)

(0:43 or 0:56)

Then at the end when he alludes to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, it's almost like suddenly the keyboard tuned in with cheesy synth choirs and the song is heading for an "epic" finale... some of the "kinda more sophisticated" metal bands I've seen like to feature some sort of popular melody (like Hall of the Mountain King... which is classical, but has been a popcultural cliché for an eternity) or "classical sounding" chord progression like a quint fall sequence in the middle of their song... or at the end ;)

And then, the unexpected, abrupt ending! So metal :DD