Current 93 is Metal ?

[alltshirts4you]

Sorry for my ignorance, but i need help.
I have a big problem with categorization of rock bands. Our customers say that categorization of bands is a little bit wrong For example Current 93 is put to Metal category. What do you think about it? What category will be the best for Current 93? Goth, Metal, Pop Art, Punk, Rock?
Thank you for any help you are able to give me.

[richardm123uk]

Current 93 is Folk music.

[richardm123uk]

Current 93 is Folk music.

[beakripped]

It's difficult to categorize a lot of music, especially with the likes of Current 93. Personally, I refer to the vast majority of their work as Experimental because it's such a broad and yet vague term. A few years ago a Toronto record store had a World Serpent and Related category but that may not be apropriate now.

I don't know... Metal? Hardly. Folk? Too limiting... one would have to disregard the dozen or so albums they've recorded that aren't folk but which are nonetheless major works in the C93 discography. Industrial? Worse than calling them Folk. I don't think Goth or Punk would do either, although in my mind C93 has touched upon all these areas.

Then again, you could always file the different albums under whatever category you think they'd fall under. I've seen this with Ulver who have albums listed under two or three different categories - Metal, Folk and Electronic.

Then again (again) why not call them Rock, as you already have? Although I don't necessarily agree with the categorization one could always answer that their idea of Rock is more eclectic than someone else's.

[Karnos]

The best term to categorize C93 solely for costumer service (so that you can find them) is as "Eclectic".

I saw an "Eclectic" section on a music store in Barcelona, and it had C93, Death in June, Fire+Ice, Der Blutharsch, The Moon lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud and a big etcetera.

And in Monterrey I found Brighter Death Now's "Innerwar" on the New Age section! :lol:

[alltshirts4you]

Thanks all! Most likely we will add new category, but what category will be best between "Eclectic" and Folk music?

[SwansSoilMe/SwansSaveMe]

Eclectic. But that's a strange category for people to remember to check when in a record store. I'd file them under Rock. Their flavor I think falls mostly into two divisions, Industrial and folk-rock, and a mix of these is what really hits it but there's no category for it.

I once found Legendary Pink Dots under Electronica in a really good store...but almost missed it because all I'd looked in was Rock.

[Spotbowserfido2]

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Most likely we will add new category, but what category will be best between "Eclectic" and Folk music?

"Eclectic" - whether referring to music, art, or literature is the great E PLURIBUS UNUM which makes the mix palatable and acceptable in a personal mode. Perhaps "Itchy" might be a suitable compromise?

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Rover

[The Silent One]

"I Arise" is metal-ish, as are "Broken Birds Fly", "Horsey" (the LP version), "Tree", "Panzer Ruin (In the Hands of Gillespie)", "Black Ships Ate the Sky", and "Black Ships at Edom and Nineveh".

As for industrial, if you mean the avant-garde type, "Great Black Time" and "From Broken Cross, Locusts" foot the bill; For the more modern, dancey type, very little.

Straight folk was never a Current 93 thing, but "Black Sun, Bloody Moon" and some of the songs on Earth Covers Earth approach it.

The best term is experimental with mostly traditional instrumentation. Or, simply, "apocalyptic folk", a term of Tibet's invention referring to artists like him and Douglas P. who don't necessarily produce folk music but often write rather dark, vaguely eschatological lyrics making them, well, apocalyptic folk.

[eth]

I don't think of Current 93 as belongning to a genre. They're rather a part of a certain scene, a scene that encompasses a wide variety of styles. I would place them in a section, preferably somewhere in a dark corner, with Nurse With Wound, Death in June, Coil etc. and perhaps some outsider folk classics such as Comus, Simon Finn and Bill Fay.