Best Metal Subgenre

[liam shart]

Vote!

If you vote for the third option, you suck on balls.

EDIT: I know, I know. I thought I was in the music section. But vote anyway.

[osiris]

This really belongs in the Music Section.

[liam shart]

Shit, whoops. Can a mod move it?

[osiris]

Shit, whoops. Can a mod move it?
They can, but they don't normally do that. In fact, I haven't seen a moved topic since Emuse was moved.

[asdfkjhg]

black metal ist the kriegest

[the187]

Dude, fuck all the "Metal Sub-Catagorization". That is just bullshit labeling. It comes down to "Does the metal Shred, or is it a bunch of i can scream and put on eye-liner puss-metal".

For Example....

Shredtastic: Lamb of God, Chimera, Black Label Soc., Slayer, Pantera,

Queer: Trivium, Job for a fagboy, Nickelback

thats my 2 cents

[temp100]

Dude, fuck all the "Metal Sub-Catagorization". That is just bullshit labeling. It comes down to "Does the metal Shred, or is it a bunch of i can scream and put on eye-liner puss-metal".

For Example....

Shredtastic: Lamb of God, Chimera, Black Label Soc., Slayer, Pantera,

Queer: Trivium, Job for a fagboy, Nickelback

thats my 2 cents
Nope, and trust me, I've had this argument 10,000 times before. Genres are useful. Even someone who has never heard metal before could acknowledge the huge differences between power metal, black metal and thrash metal.

Anyway, doom is my favourite followed by thrash. Doom is such a varied subgenre.

[h4z4rd]

Death metal and power metal for me. Also good ole classic heavy metal kicks ass too.

[jijiji]

That poll fails. doesn't include doom, folk, power metal etc. but has crust, nu and... hair metal?
Other.

[SatanTheSith]

What the fuck is crust metal? You fail for not including doom or power metal.

[asdfkjhg]

at least you could have included zombie metal.

fucking fail

no troll metal?! rust metal? jeez

[Superior_to_you]

Thrash

Thread over.

[esruC]

Thrash/Crossover.

Groove/Stoner metal is good, too.

[Deamatix]

Industrial blackened death metal
Melodic symphonic black metal.
Technical progressive blackened thrash.
Technical melodic death metal
Progressive melodic symphonic Swedish folk black metal.
Brutal industrial technical jazzy death metal.
Symphonic melodic progressive Christian death trash.

[liam shart]

What the fuck is crust metal? You fail for not including doom or power metal.

I know, but I could only fit 10 options. I definitely should have included power metal, but the rest are legitimate options as well.

To answer your question regarding crust: you know how crossover is thrash/punk? Crust is like black/death/doom metal merged into punk (but it's a very diverse genre). Some would argue that it's more a subgenre of punk than metal, but I disagree.

That poll fails. doesn't include doom, folk, power metal etc. but has crust, nu and... hair metal?
Other.

Just because nu-metal and hair metal are terrible doesn't mean their existances as genres are voided.

[a7x1337]

Dude, fuck all the "Metal Sub-Catagorization". That is just bullshit labeling. It comes down to "Does the metal Shred, or is it a bunch of i can scream and put on eye-liner puss-metal".

For Example....

Shredtastic: Lamb of God, Chimera, Black Label Soc., Slayer, Pantera,

Queer: Trivium, Job for a fagboy, Nickelback

thats my 2 cents
i'm not a jfac fan, but i don't see how you can dismiss them, especially when you've got chimaira on the 'good' list

[Kellenator]

Nope, and trust me, I've had this argument 10,000 times before. Genres are useful. Even someone who has never heard metal before could acknowledge the huge differences between power metal, black metal and thrash metal.
...to an extent, I'll add. Obviously it gets ridiculous when people make up genres like Swamp Metal, Fantasy Metal, Space Metal... I usually classify a sub-genre of metal as one of the following: heavy, power, thrash, death, melodic death, black, doom, progressive, folk, symphonic. If it's really necessary, I'll put two of them together (e.g., Pagan Reign - black/folk, Possessed - death/thrash).

[jijiji]

Just because nu-metal and hair metal are terrible doesn't mean their existances as genres are voided.

Hair metal is metal. I only pointed it out due to its overall suckage and the fact crossdressing men doesn't strike us as "metal." Besides, it was just a commercial fad. What recent hair bands can you name?

Just for the record, though, I like Twisted Sister...

As far as nu-metal goes, it isn't metal. I can't remember where I found this but I'm going to paste it here :uhoh:

NU stands for New Urban, coined by a certain Mr. Davis of a certain band Korn. Nu Metal has NOTHING to do with Real Metal at all. It is a form of Alt. Rock, which takes simple ideas from other genres and cross breeds them. Be it Hip Hop, Rap, Hardcore, Industrial or straight up Pop. It's music. Nu Metal often features low technicality, simplistic song patterns, all purpose drumming, no solos, drop d tuning and one finger power chords. These things mean that the basic structures are not those of Metal and the very roots of the music are different.

[SatanTheSith]

You got it from here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/A2702990

[I Like Me]

Melodic Death for sure.

Once Sent From The Golden Hall is definitely my favorite album.

[Fungus Amungus]

I choose other, because genre labels suck big fat donkey dick.

[I Like Me]

Not really.

Guy 1: Hey man, check out this new dying fetus album!
Guy 2: Alright, what kind of music do they play?
Guy 1: Metal!
Guy 2: Sweet. I love metal! Iron Maiden is the shit!
Guy 1: Who the fuck is Iron Maiden?
Guy 2: ...
Guy 2: This Dying Fetus shit isn't even music. I hate you. I'm going on a killing spree.

Genre labels prevent school shootings.

[SatanTheSith]

Not really.

Guy 1: Hey man, check out this new dying fetus album!
Guy 2: Alright, what kind of music do they play?
Guy 1: Metal!
Guy 2: Sweet. I love metal! Iron Maiden is the shit!
Guy 1: Who the fuck is Iron Maiden?
Guy 2: ...
Guy 2: This Dying Fetus shit isn't even music. I hate you. I'm going on a killing spree.

Genre labels prevent school shootings.

A true prophet.

[ZX-6RR]

Long gone are the days of such sub-genres of thrash, speed, power, black, death, and doom. Now we have shit like porno-grindcore screamo...core.

I mean, what the fuck is porngrind, and why should I give a shit?

I'd say good old fashioned death metal, or melodic death metal.

[SatanTheSith]

Yea I dont like all this core shit either.

[sparrky]

Melodic Death Metal,


for ever and ever and ever.

[Sezril]

Crust is pretty much just every form of extreme music of the '80s thrown into a blender, with special emphasis on gloomier dread-filled music like Discharge and Venom. It's very metallic, very punkish and very cool. Listen to Hellhammer (black metal fans should be doing this anyway), Amebix, Doom, Crude SS and GISM for the gist of it. Similar but different, close together yet so far apart...

To answer the thread's initial question: probably thrash metal.

[Lividum]

The only metal that matters: heavy. Nothing can beat the original. Hai I don't ever think I've posted here before. By the way, I don't care about the subgenres, because the way I see it, there's true metal and then there's the rest that the youngins listen to that don't matter to classic-loving assholes such as myself.

[asdfkjhg]

Crust is pretty much just every form of extreme music of the '80s thrown into a blender, with special emphasis on gloomier dread-filled music like Discharge and Venom. It's very metallic, very punkish and very cool. Listen to Hellhammer (black metal fans should be doing this anyway), Amebix, Doom, Crude SS and GISM for the gist of it. Similar but different, close together yet so far apart...

Amebix is pretty war.


To answer the thread's initial question: probably thrash metal.
traitor :wah:

[SepulSchizo]

Thrash please.

Sepultura 85-96

80s Metallica

Death

Kreator

Destruction

etc, etc

[Thor the Mighty]

32 votes and only a portion of them went to black metal. folly. apox on your mothers i say.

[h4z4rd]

Not really.

Guy 1: Hey man, check out this new dying fetus album!
Guy 2: Alright, what kind of music do they play?
Guy 1: Metal!
Guy 2: Sweet. I love metal! Iron Maiden is the shit!
Guy 1: Who the fuck is Iron Maiden?
Guy 2: ...
Guy 2: This Dying Fetus shit isn't even music. I hate you. I'm going on a killing spree.

Genre labels prevent school shootings.

Spot on, That's the exact reason why we need subgenres.

[Chiff]

Melodic Death Metal

[BiteMe]

32 votes and only a portion of them went to black metal. folly. apox on your mothers i say.

Black metal ftw!

[burningcow422]

black metal



melodic death metal is my favorite though


picky picky i know.

[temp100]

Crust is pretty much just every form of extreme music of the '80s thrown into a blender, with special emphasis on gloomier dread-filled music like Discharge and Venom. It's very metallic, very punkish and very cool. Listen to Hellhammer (black metal fans should be doing this anyway), Amebix, Doom, Crude SS and GISM for the gist of it. Similar but different, close together yet so far apart...

To answer the thread's initial question: probably thrash metal.
Discharge is pretty cool. People underestimate their influence.

I've been meaning to get some Amebix for a while.

The only metal that matters: heavy. Nothing can beat the original. Hai I don't ever think I've posted here before. By the way, I don't care about the subgenres, because the way I see it, there's true metal and then there's the rest that the youngins listen to that don't matter to classic-loving assholes such as myself.
Welcome to the music section. You'll find headphones to your left and Judas Priest to your right.

...to an extent, I'll add. Obviously it gets ridiculous when people make up genres like Swamp Metal, Fantasy Metal, Space Metal... I usually classify a sub-genre of metal as one of the following: heavy, power, thrash, death, melodic death, black, doom, progressive, folk, symphonic. If it's really necessary, I'll put two of them together (e.g., Pagan Reign - black/folk, Possessed - death/thrash).
Yeah, some people take it too far. Troll metal :lol:

[os_g]

Hair Metal for me, although this fell in my generation.

The writing was spretty over the top, but I love guitar and some of the best riffs came from Hair Metal. Unfortunately you have cookie cutter failers like Trixter and Britney Fox that gives this genre a bad name.

[psychomonkey62]

Symphonic melodic progressive Christian death trash.

Kinky... :)

[Osiris5217]

You forgot sandwich metal and latex metal! Those 2 and hotsauce metal are the best!

[Daucus Karota]

lol why is Hair Metal getting the most votes:eek::ahhh:
I like Mötley Crüe and Hanoi Rocks

[asdfkjhg]

it isn't....

your eyes are crooked

you scared me for a second

[david_slupper]

I like every subgenre but thrash is definitely my fav.

[Daucus Karota]

it isn't....

your eyes are crooked

you scared me for a secondit was

:rollseyes

[Edgecrusher]

What would bands like Meshuggah, Mnemic, and TesseracT be under?

[asdfkjhg]

it was

:rollseyes

:rollseyes:rollseyes:rollseyes:rollseyes:rollseyes :rollseyes:rollseyes

[Unhinged]

What would bands like Meshuggah, Mnemic, and TesseracT be under?
I would consider Meshuggah prog metal. That's what I voted for.

[SatanTheSith]

What would bands like Meshuggah, Mnemic, and TesseracT be under?

I only heard of meshuggah but I think they're thrash.

[ZX-6RR]

Meshuggah = math metal

[Edgecrusher]

Meshuggah = math metal

no, not really.

Meshuggah is much more natural than Math Metal.

Math Metal is technical just to be technical, whereas Meshuggah
is focused around grooves (their newer stuff, at least)

[GALLIENVS AVG]

Meshuggah = math metal

Nice avatar. And sig, too.

[SatanTheSith]

Nice avatar. And sig, too.

I concur.
10 times

[Daucus Karota]

:rollseyes:rollseyes:rollseyes:rollseyes:rollseyes :rollseyes:rollseyes

lol what happened
now Prog got the most votes :lmao::ahhh:

[hipocritical]

Planetarium Metal

[h4z4rd]

LOL @ math metal wtf is that? Actually I don't really want to know.

[AsHopeDies]

I've heard Dillinger referred to as math metal. Seems like if it's really technical and all over the place then there are somehow equations involved lol

Anyway, I voted other, Melodic Death FTW

[DrGyro]

i honestly hate genres and disputed over genres, for example i took a look at branding meshuggah and let out a chuckle. but in terms of metal, which im not into much anymore, death metal is the shit. partially because im amazed by opeth, that does shit no metal band does. anybodys got bands they can throw my way that sound like that? anybody hear of sun o)))?

[AsHopeDies]

i honestly hate genres and disputed over genres, for example i took a look at branding meshuggah and let out a chuckle. but in terms of metal, which im not into much anymore, death metal is the shit. partially because im amazed by opeth, that does shit no metal band does. anybodys got bands they can throw my way that sound like that? anybody hear of sun o)))?

If you like Opeth's acoustic album (Damnation maybe?) you'd probably really like Katatonia.

[Sezril]

and if you like Opeth's non-acoustic albums you'll most likely enjoy Katatonia's Brave Murder Day album. It has Akerfeldt on vocals and is way better than any Opeth album, in my opinion.

[SatanTheSith]

and if you like Opeth's non-acoustic albums you'll most likely enjoy Katatonia's Brave Murder Day album. It has Akerfeldt on vocals and is way better than any Opeth album, in my opinion.

Its good, but not as good as still life, MAYH, Morningrise, Orchid, or blackwater park.

[Thor the Mighty]

LOL @ math metal wtf is that? Actually I don't really want to know.

yeah just hearing that reminds me of my armless 3rd grade math teacher trying to play a guitar.

[temp100]

and if you like Opeth's non-acoustic albums you'll most likely enjoy Katatonia's Brave Murder Day album. It has Akerfeldt on vocals and is way better than any Opeth album, in my opinion.
I prefer Dance of December Souls, even if BMD has Akerfeldt.