Now everyone knows that heavy metal music has a ton of subgenres, but which one is your favorite? Also you can talk about anything metal related such as a new band you discovered, music videos, an album you own, what you like/dislike about metal, etc, etc...
thegrav wrote:Left out Hardcore :p Unless you lumped it under Nu Metal..
However Heavy Metal!
Do you mean hardcore punk or extreme metal? Extreme metal genres are doom, death, black and thrash, these are subgenres of metal that are considered more hardcore than your typical heavy metal.
Stormrider wrote:I hate all the sub generes, it's one branch of rock to me and I leave it at that.
Yous sound like Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister.
It's just overthinking something as simple as metal. Anything that makes me bang my head is good enough for me.
Me being compared to Lemmy? I am touched!
Well Lemmy never considered Motorhead a metal band he always classified the band as good ole "Rock n' Roll". When asked if he has a problem with Motörhead being called a metal band, he replied: "I do, because I come from way
before Metal. I’m playing Rock n’ Roll and I think Rock n’ Roll should be sacred – it is to me. I don’t see why it should not be for everybody else." Yeah I agree for something as aggressive and simple as metal it has a ridiculous amount of
subgenres, oh well it gives you something to poke fun at, at least. Plus once you familiar with the different styles of metal it's not to hard to distinguish one type from another.
Thrash all the way! Speaking of which, anyone else going to the Big Four live theater broadcast concert on the 22nd? It's going to be possibly the greatest metal concert of all time. OF ALL TIME!!! (but Kanye jokes aside, it really will be mind blowing...)
MasterDRD wrote:Thrash all the way! Speaking of which, anyone else going to the Big Four live theater broadcast concert on the 22nd? It's going to be possibly the greatest metal concert of all time. OF ALL TIME!!! (but Kanye jokes aside, it really will be mind blowing...)
Where are Thrash's big four playeing?
I heard they were all going to be at sonisphere in august.
I voted thrash although i agree with the sentiment of anything that i'll bang my head to.
Multi-chioce would have been good too.
I'm not sure whether Fintroll and Enseferum count as Viking Metal or Folk metal, but they are two amazingly awesome bands. Look 'em up!
I would've liked an option of 'Death-Viking-Folk-metal', but I just settled on folk. Anything I can headbang to will suit me though, as long as it's HARDCORE (and not Iron Maiden. Preparing for barrage of insults and hate mail for that).
P.S: Also, Meshuggah is pretty freaking hardcore. Check 'em out!
MasterDRD wrote:Thrash all the way! Speaking of which, anyone else going to the Big Four live theater broadcast concert on the 22nd? It's going to be possibly the greatest metal concert of all time. OF ALL TIME!!! (but Kanye jokes aside, it really will be mind blowing...)
Where are Thrash's big four playeing?
I heard they were all going to be at sonisphere in august.
I voted thrash although i agree with the sentiment of anything that i'll bang my head to.
Multi-chioce would have been good too.
I left out "multi-choice" because a lot of people listen to more than one subgenre of metal and because of that it would probably be the most popular option. Also the poll is about your favorite heavy metal genre, not all the heavy metal
Some of you guys are complaining about the amount of subgenres of metal, well if you think heavy metal's bad you should see rock!
* 2 Tone
* Acid rock
* Alternative dance
* Alternative metal
* Alternative rock
* Anatolian rock
* Arena rock
* Art punk
* Art rock
* Avant-garde metal
* Baroque pop
* Beat
* Bisrock
* Black metal
* Blackened death metal
* Blues-rock
* Brazilian rock
* Britpop
* Bubblegum pop
* C86
* Canterbury sound
* Cello rock
* Celtic punk
* Celtic metal
* Celtic rock
* Chicano rock
* Christcore
* Christian punk
* Christian rock
* Christian metal
* Christian ska
* Coldwave
* Comedy rock
* Country rock
* Cowpunk
* Crossover thrash
* Crunkcore
* Crust punk
* Cuddlecore
* Dance-punk
* Dance-rock
* Dark cabaret
* Darkwave
* Death 'n' roll
* Deathcore
* Deathgrind
* Death metal
* Death rock
* Deathcore
* Doom metal
* Dream pop
* Drone metal
* Dunedin sound
* Electric folk
* Electro Punk
* Electronic hardcore
* Electronic rock
* Emo
* Experimental metal
* Experimental rock
* Folktronica
* Folk rock
* Folk metal
* Folk punk
* Freakbeat
* Funk metal
* Funk rock
* Garage rock
* Garage punk
* Glam metal
* Glam punk
* Glam rock
* Goregrind
* Gothic metal
* Gothic rock
* Grebo
* Grindcore
* Groove metal
* Group Sounds
* Grunge
* Gypsy punk
* Hatecore
* Hard rock
* Hardcore punk
* Heartland rock
* Heavy metal
* Horror punk
* Indie pop
* Indie rock
* Indorock
* Industrial metal
* Industrial rock
* Instrumental rock
* J-ska
* Jam rock
* Jangle pop
* Jazz rock
* Jersey Shore sound
* Krautrock
* Lo-fi
* Lovers rock
* Madchester
* Manguebeat
* Manila Sound
* Mathcore
* Math rock
* Medieval folk rock
* Medieval metal
* Melodic black metal
* Melodic death metal
* Melodic hardcore
* Metalcore
* Mod revival
* Nardcore
* Nazi punk
* Neue Deutsche Welle
* Neo-classical metal
* Neo-folk
* Neo-prog
* Neo-psychedelia
* New prog
* New wave
* Nintendocore
* Noisecore
* Noise pop
* Noise rock
* No wave
* Nu metal
* Oi!
* Ostrock
* Pagan rock
* Paisley underground
* Pinoy rock
* Pirate Metal
* Pop punk
* Pop rock
* Post-Britpop
* Post-grunge
* Post-hardcore
* Post-metal
* Pornogrind
* Post-punk
* Post-punk revival
* Post-rock
* Power pop
* Power metal
* Power violence
* Progressive folk
* Progressive metal
* Progressive rock
* Protopunk
* Power pop
* Psychedelic rock
* Psych-Folk
* Psychobilly
* Punk rock
* Punta rock
* Queercore
* Raga rock
* Rapcore
* Rap metal
* Rap rock
* Riot Grrrl
* Rock and roll
* Rockabilly
* Rock noir
* Rockoson
* Sadcore
* Samba-rock
* Screamo
* Shoegazing
* Shock rock
* Ska punk
* Skate punk
* Skate rock
* Sludge metal
* Soft rock
* Southern rock
* Space rock
* Speed metal
* Stoner metal
* Stoner rock
* Street punk
* Sunshine pop
* Surf music
* Surf rock
* Swamp rock
* Symphonic metal
* Symphonic rock
* Synthpop
* Thrash metal
* Thrashcore
* Trip rock
* Twee pop
* Unblack metal
* Viking metal
* Viking rock
* Visual kei
* Wagnerian rock
* Wizard Rock
* Zeuhl
Blokus. For what you said a nuclear holocaust is going to kill EVERYONE you love and their going to come back as radioactive zombies and eat you alive.
Blokus wrote:Lol metal is for angst ridden 14 year old boys. Most people stop listening to that garbage when they graduate from middle school.
Half right.
14 year old boys say they listen to 'metal' because then they are in the same 'crowd' as other people who listen to 'metal'. Then they grow up and realize that they really don't need to pigeon-hole themselves like that and can just say 'I like a whole bunch of stuff, sorry i can't neatly classify it for you because that really isn't important'.
I like metal as in the judas priest/iron maiden type metal. But that stuff where some dude with long hair in his face mumbling into a mic while a bass and a guitar wail speed solos....nah, that's kinda fruity.
I was a metalhead back when I was 14... And I didn't start listening to it to be 'cool' or to 'fit in' with anyone; I listened to rap before that, and what % of teenagers do you think listen to rap/find listening to rap culturally relevant/cool? No, I was honestly converted, first to rock, and then to metal, by the sheer power of the music. I remember the first couple rock songs I listened to off some demo tape used to move me almost to tears with their sheer emotional power...
Or classical metal, same difference. There are too many genres for metal, I am at times suspicious that they don't mean that much.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed getting slapped by the awesomeness of that clip. LIKE A SUPER-NOVA! Too awesome for existence.
That was an absolutely awesome video I like how the musician was able to keep a fast tempo without letting the song get boring or repetitive. I approve of your tastes (thumbs-up from me).
Posting some Canadian metal, because frankly I don't think it gets enough publicity.
Annihilator:Canadian heavy metal band formed in 1984 by the leader and only permanent member, vocalist, guitarist and bassist Jeff Waters. The genres they play are Thrash metal, progressive metal, speed metal, heavy metal and
groove metal.
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Anvil: A speed metal band that started in 1973, by high school friends Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner started playing together. After Hard 'N' Heavy, Lemmy Kilmister asked Lips to play guitar for Motörhead to replace "Fast" Eddie
Clarke, but Lips declined. They also released a documentary film called Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
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Rush: While more well known for there prog and hard rock, they did dip into heavy metal occasionally. Although the heavy metal sounded more like the traditional metal made famous by bands such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin,
instead of "New Wave" metal like Iron Maiden and Saxon
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Voivod: Starting out as a speed metal band, Voivod have added a mix of progressive metal and thrash metal to create their own unique metal style. The band found mainstream success in the late 1980s with its most successful album
Nothingface (1989). They are also French Canadien.
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Anyways. I just thought I'd steal the spot light of this thread for a moment.
Bathory, a Swedish metal act basically one manned by a man named Quorthon. He basically was one of the first black metal musicians and started Folk Metal.
Sadly a few years ago he died. And I feel his work is very VERY unappreciated.
Jimi Nemesis wrote:You forgot Prog Metal and Melodeath.
PLEASE don't say they are fusion Genres....
Well Progressive metal is a cross between Progressive rock and Heavy Metal so technically it is a fusion genre whether you like it or not, but Melodeath is just another genre of Death metal.
Shadowbrand wrote:Anyways. I just thought I'd steal the spot light of this thread for a moment.
Bathory, a Swedish metal act basically one manned by a man named Quorthon. He basically was one of the first black metal musicians and started Folk Metal.
Sadly a few years ago he died. And I feel his work is very VERY unappreciated.
No worries about taking the spot light, in fact feel free to post more metal-related stuff if you want, I would appreciate as I'm always willing to see and try new things (plus it keeps the thread alive). I also encourage others to do so as
well, as long as you're comfortable with it and it's related to heavy metal (in otherwords on-topic).
Its funny.. Growing up my older sibs were into Barry Manalow or Styx/Rush, plus lots of top 40 crap.
I took a left turn and found Punk, Wendy O, Ramones, Buzzcocks.... Didn't learn to apprieciate Metal til after High school. Warlock was a revelation.
Now.. I listen to almost any thing in the hard rock/metal catagories.
Heres a new band, been around for maybe a year...
Devils Gift.
Cheesecat wrote:Posting some Canadian metal, because frankly I don't think it gets enough publicity.
Annihilator:Canadian heavy metal band formed in 1984 by the leader and only permanent member, vocalist, guitarist and bassist Jeff Waters. The genres they play are Thrash metal, progressive metal, speed metal, heavy metal and groove metal.
Anvil: A speed metal band that started in 1973, by high school friends Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner started playing together. After Hard 'N' Heavy, Lemmy Kilmister asked Lips to play guitar for Motörhead to replace "Fast" Eddie Clarke, but Lips declined. They also released a documentary film called Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
Rush: While more well known for there prog and hard rock, they did dip into heavy metal occasionally. Although the heavy metal sounded more like the traditional metal made famous by bands such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, instead of "New Wave" metal like Iron Maiden and Saxon
Voivod: Starting out as a speed metal band, Voivod have added a mix of progressive metal and thrash metal to create their own unique metal style. The band found mainstream success in the late 1980s with its most successful album Nothingface (1989). They are also French Canadien.
Excuse me Sir, what are you doing? How you dare to speak about Canadian metal without speaking of STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and DEVIN TOWNSEND??!?!!?! He's a fething genious!!
There is a difference between the Queen of metal and the Metal Queen.
Lee AArons first 'hit' and probably best known song is "Metal Queen".. it kind of falls into the same catagory as Ace of Spades for Motorhead, its the only song many people know.
Cheesecat wrote:Posting some Canadian metal, because frankly I don't think it gets enough publicity.
Annihilator:Canadian heavy metal band formed in 1984 by the leader and only permanent member, vocalist, guitarist and bassist Jeff Waters. The genres they play are Thrash metal, progressive metal, speed metal, heavy metal and groove metal.
Anvil: A speed metal band that started in 1973, by high school friends Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner started playing together. After Hard 'N' Heavy, Lemmy Kilmister asked Lips to play guitar for Motörhead to replace "Fast" Eddie Clarke, but Lips declined. They also released a documentary film called Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
Rush: While more well known for there prog and hard rock, they did dip into heavy metal occasionally. Although the heavy metal sounded more like the traditional metal made famous by bands such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, instead of "New Wave" metal like Iron Maiden and Saxon
Voivod: Starting out as a speed metal band, Voivod have added a mix of progressive metal and thrash metal to create their own unique metal style. The band found mainstream success in the late 1980s with its most successful album Nothingface (1989). They are also French Canadien.
Excuse me Sir, what are you doing? How you dare to speak about Canadian metal without speaking of STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and DEVIN TOWNSEND??!?!!?! He's a fething genious!!
Well due to popular demand I'll post some more Canadian metal (also it's kind of embarassing how some Spanish guy knows more about it than me ).
Strapping Young Lad: Was a Canadian extreme metal band formed by Devin Townsend in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1994. The band started as a one-man studio project; Townsend played most of the instruments on the 1995
debut album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing. By 1997, he had recruited permanent members; this line-up, which consisted of Townsend on vocals and guitar, Jed Simon on guitar, Byron Stroud on bass, and Gene Hoglan on drums,
lasted until the band's dissolution. Containing elements of death metal, thrash metal, black metal, progressive metal and industrial metal, Strapping Young Lad's music was characterized by the use of complex time signatures,
polyrhythmic guitar riffing and drumming, blast beats and Wall of Sound production.
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Lee Aaron: A Canadian rock and jazz singer. She had several hits in the 1980s and early 1990s with titles such as "Metal Queen", "Whatcha Do to My Body", and "Sex with Love".
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Personally im stuck between alt/numetal.
I listen to mostly Mushroomhead, Deftones and Mudvayne but there's some other stuff too like Black Dahlia Murder and Meshuggah.
Since that is what i predominatly listen to, numetal ftw.
Well currently heavy metal is in first place, with thrash in a distant second, both black and folk metal are tied for third. Glam and Speed metal prove to be an unpopular choice and Doom still hasn't received any votes!
Cheesecat wrote:Well currently heavy metal is in first place, with thrash in a distant second, both black and folk metal are tied for third. Glam and Speed metal prove to be an unpopular choice and Doom still hasn't received any votes!
The problem Speed Metal has is it's sort of the in between point between Traditional Heavy Metal and Thrash. The most famous Speed Metal bands would become Thrash (Lica and Deth mainly) and are more associated with Thrash than Speed Metal now.
Everyone secretly loves Glam/Hair but are too embarrassed to admit it.
Slarg232 wrote:[
Punk Rock tried to kill the metal.
This line is SOOO Wrong its barely funny.
Punk wasnt about killing Metal. It was about rebelling against Disco and the corporate top 40 bubblegum crap that was out at the time. Metal was just as fringe as Punk at that time. In fact most punks listened to metal as well. Or like me... Alice Cooper, which is a class all by himself.
Cheesecat wrote:Well currently heavy metal is in first place, with thrash in a distant second, both black and folk metal are tied for third. Glam and Speed metal prove to be an unpopular choice and Doom still hasn't received any votes!
The problem Speed Metal has is it's sort of the in between point between Traditional Heavy Metal and Thrash. The most famous Speed Metal bands would become Thrash (Lica and Deth mainly) and are more associated with Thrash than Speed Metal now.
Everyone secretly loves Glam/Hair but are too embarrassed to admit it.
Agreed speed metal is very much a transitional area between heavy and thrash. To me its sounds like a faster version of heavy metal but a less agressive version of thrash. Also not all famous speed metal bands turn into thrash,
Motorhead is a well known band and they stayed true to speed metal. I've never been a big fan of hair metal it sounds too "popish" for my tastes.
Jimi Nemesis wrote:You forgot Prog Metal and Melodeath.
PLEASE don't say they are fusion Genres....
Well Progressive metal is a cross between Progressive rock and Heavy Metal so technically it is a fusion genre whether you like it or not, but Melodeath is just another genre of Death metal.
Prog metal isn't really a fusion of prog rock and metal, it's just to metal what prog rock is to rock, the next step up, if you will, in the musical evolution.
Also, melodeath may be a "subgenre" of Death Metal, but it's one of the most important branches of metal at the moment, with Bands like Dark Tranquillity, Arch Enemy and Opeth being much bigger players on the world stage than say, Mayhem/Burzum/Darkthrone or Cannibal Corpse/Obituary/Nile
Cheesecat wrote:I have question for DakkaDakka which do you guys prefer "traditional" heavy metal or "new-wave" heavy metal.?
Examples of "traditional" heavy metal:
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Gonna have to dissagree. Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Saxon and motorhead all fit into the classic metal area, for being the opening the door to metal, Kiss, Alice Cooper, AC/DC and Led Zepplin were all heavy melodic rock bands with a big influence on metal, but not quite metal.
If Black and Folk are new wave. Then I must say new wave.
I respect Iron Maiden and Saxon however. But really this is the gak that gets me to school these days without just saying "feth" it and be a drug dealer.
Shadowbrand wrote:If Black and Folk are new wave. Then I must say new wave.
I respect Iron Maiden and Saxon however. But really this is the gak that gets me to school these days without just saying "feth" it and be a drug dealer.
Black and folk metal aren't part of the "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" (or "new wave" metal as I like to call it ) because a) those genres aren't exclusive to England and b) they are not straight heavy metal.
@ghosty: Nice! Living in SoCal and being in the music scene for years I am one of the A7X fans that can say I saw them at the Chain Reaction before they even had a CD! Can't remember who the hell they played with though!....
Well, it's over 50 votes now, heavy metal is still in first, thrash is tailing further behind, gaining votes folk is now tied for second with thrash, leaving third place (black metal) all by itself. Doom metal hasn't received any votes, yet.
(Also shadowbrand post as much Black metal stuff to your heart's content)
thegrav wrote:DOOOM! metal! What is?? Band examples?
Doom metal is here, DOOM!!! I TELL YOU, DOOM!!!
Anyways doom metal is a form of extreme metal, that uses a slower tempo and has a "thicker" or "heavier" sound to it. Both the music and the lyrics intend to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom.
I read that list five times, I know what speed, power, viking, doom, and death are, but not a damn clue about the others. I didn't see melodic death metal on the list so I had to work my brain to figure out if I knew anything in other subgenres.
Subgenres suck, I just vote metal aka all of the above. \m/
Gandair wrote:I read that list five times, I know what speed, power, viking, doom, and death are, but not a damn clue about the others. I didn't see melodic death metal on the list so I had to work my brain to figure out if I knew anything in other subgenres.
Subgenres suck, I just vote metal aka all of the above. \m/
Alright, so that leaves us with alternative, nu, black, folk, pirate, fusion genres, glam, stoner, thrash and groove metal.
Alternative metal: Is a genre of heavy metal that gained popularity in the early 1990s. It crosses both alternative rock and metal.
Nu metal: Is a cross-genre that blends heavy metal elements with other styles including electronica, funk, glam rock, gothic rock, grunge, hardcore punk, hip hop, industrial rock and jazz.
Black metal: Is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking in oftentimes droning or hypnotic patterns, and unconventional song structure. It places more emphasis on creating a specific atmosphere of dread or depression than death metal or thrash metal, something it shares with doom metal.
Folk metal: Developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with folk music.
Pirate metal: Metal about pirates, ARRR!!!
Fusion Genre: Another name is "cross genre" is a music genre which combines two or more genres. For example, rock and roll originally developed as a fusion of blues, gospel and country music.
Glam metal: Also called "hair metal", glam metal was as much a visual thing as well as musical. Glam metal artists adopted make up, long hair, accessories and flamboyant, gaudy clothes. Musically, glam metal songs are traditional heavy metal songs with pop-influenced catchy hooks and guitar riffs.
Stoner metal: It combines elements of psychedelic rock, blues-rock and doom metal. Stoner metal is typically slow-to-mid tempo and features low-tuned guitars, a bass-heavy sound, melodic vocals, and 'retro' production.
Thrash metal: This genre is more aggressive compared to its relative, speed metal, and can be seen in part to be a reaction to the lighter, more widely acceptable sounds and themes of glam metal. Instrumentally its characterized by its fast tempo and aggression, the lyrics often deal with social issues using direct and denunciatory language, an approach which partially overlaps with the hardcore genre. The "Big Four" bands of thrash metal are Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, and Slayer, who simultaneously created and popularized the genre in the early 1980s.
Groove metal: Sometimes called "post thrash" or "powergroove", it's pretty much sounds like thrash except for the guitar has a groovier sound to it.
Hey Shadow, I listened to both your songs now, I have to say the first one is suitably brutal and awesome. The second I don't quite like as much, but it sounds like a cross between folk and black metal.
I love my Industrial Metal. Any heavy head I introduce such music too fall in love with it. Think of it as very heavy guitar sounds mixed with electronic noise and samples. It really moves away from basic, everyday metal.
Some examples...
Ministry
NIN ("down the spiral" times)
Unit187
Front Line Assembly
...
My fav is The Birthday Massacre however they don't really fit under Metal. Some of their stuff is heavy, others more turned right down. Still, I love variety in a band. vid last below..
Shadowbrand wrote:If Black and Folk are new wave. Then I must say new wave.
I respect Iron Maiden and Saxon however. But really this is the gak that gets me to school these days without just saying "feth" it and be a drug dealer.
Black and folk metal aren't part of the "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" (or "new wave" metal as I like to call it ) because a) those genres aren't exclusive to England and b) they are not straight heavy metal.
Actually I made a mistake you don't have to be an English band to be part of "New Wave of British Metal", you just need to reject the "Blues" influences of "Traditional" heavy
metal, (ex. Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath) incorporate elements of punk, increase your tempo, and adopt a "tougher" sound than "Traditional" metal.
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STONER METAL! 
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