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The genre should be changed to metal, they indentified as one (and still do) and apart from sap, jar of flies and some specific songs (which are more acoustic rock or ballads) their songs are metal (heavy metal/alternative metal/metal with some sludge metal charachteristics). Uedelia ( talk) 09:21, 24 January 2024 (UTC) reply

In the musical style section, three out of six of the genres cited aren't styles of metal, but all six are styles of rock. The lead genre is supposed to be general to encompass all those sourced genre, if it doesn't include half of them then that's WP:UNDUE. Issan Sumisu ( talk) 12:29, 27 January 2024 (UTC) reply