Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Troll metal

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The result of the debate was keep. – ugen64 02:04, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Troll Metal

"Troll Metal" is not a valid category of Heavy Metal music. The information currently present on the page is insufficient to provide enough motive to identify "Troll Metal" as a genre. The only band mentioned that consistently deals with "troll themes" is Finntroll (most of the page's content consists of information on Finntroll), and one band cannot warrant its own genre. The other bands listed, for example Ancient, have sparse relation to "troll themes" in their works (in Ancient's case, only one EP is vaguely described as "dealing with troll themes"), rendering the "genre" completely insubstantial. This article should be deleted. OnwardToGolgotha 23:35, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, neologism. --bainer (talk) 00:46, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: I have to admit, this article is remarkably funny in its absurdity:

"Finntroll's album covers represent trolls with very different physical appearances. One looks strong and tall and is green, one other is more elfic, his skin is gray-blue and he has pointy nose and ears, one other looks like a dwarf and others are smaller, strong, green, with big noses and pointy-hairy ears. Troll metal is often related to forest metal, since trolls live in forests and we can hear sounds of the forest in various songs."

It must have been written either by someone really inept or, ironically a troll who probably won a bet with his buddies as to how long it would remain undetected. OnwardToGolgotha 06:06, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete imaginary music genres —Wahoofive (talk) 23:45, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• This is neither a vote to keep nor delete, simply an observation - alas, despite the ridiculousness of the genre, it's not imaginary. I can't voice for all the bands, but Mortiis and Arckanum are quite regrettably real. And yes, they do in fact dress up like trolls for performances.
• Keep The article needs rewriting but I dont see why it should be deleted? Neologism? Imaginary genre? "Troll metal" returns 11,900 hits on Google, almost all of them dealing with the musical genre. Seems quite notable to me. -CunningLinguist 06:51, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep The article definitely needs to be cleaned up - but it shouldn't be deleted - a lot of metal genres are defined by the topics that they sing about (viking metal, battle metal etc) - if troll metal is deleted then these pages should also go.Gil-Galad
  • Yes, you're right they should go. Thanks for mentioning it. Maybe instead they should all be merged to a page called Metal subgenres, but there's so little useful information on ANY of them (except some dubious lists of bands) that it's silly to have all those separate articles.—Wahoofive (talk) 18:19, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, funny but true!  Grue  12:50, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Goblin metal and forest metal are not really valid genres, according to Google. But this one is, even though it's a joke and often used in a joke context. By the way, the lister for this VfD, OnwardToGolgotha, was banned permanently a couple of days ago for sandbox vandalism. --Idont Havaname 02:35, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I agree with all of the keepers above. Salleman 23:44, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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