Saying bands like Deftones or Korn aren't metal is just some absurdly weird gatekeeping
Yeah like wut? Cmon Puppies.
You can call it gatekeeping or me being a metal elitist, but I don't consider those bands metal. Yes, they have some similarities to metal in some of the stuff they do, but to me, they aren't metal. At the same time, as I said above, I really like a lot of those bands. I mean, Deftones is a top 50 band for me, maybe even top 25.
Perhaps my post came off as sounding a little elitist, which was not my intention. I just feel like Rolling Stone stretched the definition of metal too far just to fill out a top 100, all the while ignoring 99% of the great metal bands out there and the various genres that make up metal. I think the only reason they had Venom on there was to say they had a "black metal" band on the list, when Venom isn't even really black metal. Yes, they had an album called Black Metal, no, it wasn't a Black Metal album...
At any rate, this is all subjective anyway. And at the end of the day, I know I have very strong opinions of what band belongs in what genre of music. I'm aware some people won't agree with me and that's fine. I don't think any less of any of you if you consider the bands I mentioned as metal.