The result was speedy keep per WP:SNOW. I hesitated to do this because I put in a "keep" !vote myself (although it was originally "neutral"), but Torchiest's source (as well as other editors' points) seems to prove notability; in addition, no one other than the nominator has said "delete". Non-admin closure. Erpert (let's talk about it) 06:57, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
A genre that has yet to prove its legitimacy outside of semi-unreliable Allmusic. Most, if not all bands and artists that call themselves alt-metal are generally easily classified as another legit genre. F-22 RaptörAces High♠ 17:23, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
*Neutral. I'm not sure why you consider Allmusic to be semi-unreliable (first time I ever heard that term, lol), but the article does need serious work because it seems to focus more on individual bands than the apparent genre itself. I'll flag it for rescue. Erpert (let's talk about it) 17:41, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Keep. Torchiest's source seals it for me. Erpert (let's talk about it) 07:10, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
But all of you people are just bringing up a bunch of random sources that most are not even from a music-based website, and stating that as your argument to keep this article. It would be greatly appreciated that people who actually specialize in music articles would be the only ones allowed to vote, because so far, nobody has made their POV arguments on what alternative metal is without going on Google, stating a number of results. Big deal, I can type in "pirate metal" and get 1,150,000 results when that is clearly part of the folk metal genre, or even typing in some absurd thing like "bloody metal" yields 5,070,000 results. Using Google in this argument is invalid to me. One more thing is, I've must've asked this like a thousand times, What is the difference between nu-metal and alternative metal?. Essentially, it can't be proven I guess.--F-22 RaptörAces High♠ 03:38, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]