re: Trivia question

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Without the aid of Google

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FFS, man, do you want an answer or not?


I looked and couldn't find anything definitive. My best guess is that most of the early bands misspelled their names and the genre itself (if it even qualifies as anything but "alternative metal" other than in a contrarian sense) trends towards superficial distinctions like that.

But, hell, Google is smarter than any of us and it doesn't appear to know.