What are your favorite metal 'sub-genres'?

I know we all love metal here, and some of us (like me) like other types of music as well! I love music in general.

However, metal is my first love in music. What are your favorite genres of metal? Metal is after all, such a wide genre itself nowadays.


For me it looks like this:

1. European Power Metal (the melodic power metal stuff, I just love this. Some might refer to it as 'flower metal' Ala, Avantasia, Heavenly, Crystallion, etc)
2. American Power Metal (the thrashy power metal stuff, ala Iced Earth, Manowar, Brainstorm, etc)
3. Classic Metal (or just straight up heavy metal! ala, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, etc)
4. Symphonic Gothic Metal (ala Within Temptation, Leaves' Eyes, Nightwish, etc)
5. Progressive Metal (Dream Theater, Symphony X, etc)
6. Thrash (ala, Testament, Exodus, Sodom, Kreator, etc)
7. Melodic Metal (ala, RATT, WASP, TNT, etc)
8. Glam/Sleaze Metal (ala, Motley Crue, Guns and Roses, etc)
9. Melodic Death Metal (ala, Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, etc)
10. Symphonic Black Metal (Cradle of Filth, Ancient, etc)
11. Hard Rock/AOR (Bon Jovi, Brother Firetribe, etc)
12. Doom Metal (Trouble, Candlemass, etc)
13. Death Metal (Obituary, Nile, etc)
14. Black Metal (Immortal, Antestor, etc)
15. Progressive Hard Rock (King's X, Extreme, etc)
16. Metalcore (ala Mindrage, Shadows Fall, etc)


As you can see, when it comes to Metal - I pretty much like it ALLL!!!

Floridan Death Metal (both brutal and melodic)
Swedish Blackened Death Metal
Norwegian Black Metal
Teutonic Thrash
Bay Area Thrash (thrash till f*ckin death!)
American Power/ Heavy Metal (anything Manowar inspired)
European Flower Metal (anything with symphonies, keyboards, eloquent female vocals, mythic dragon lands, etc. . . you know, the epic cheese )

My Top 5:

Thrash Metal
Death Metal
Progressive Metal
Power Metal
Classic Heavy Metal

*this list is subject to change

For me:

1. Death metal
2. Black metal

With a smattering of doom, grindcore, the Cro-Mags and the first two Maiden albums.

Thrash
Glam/Hair
Traditional

Thrash and crossover.

Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore, Traditional Black Metal, Doom Death, Blackened Thrash, Deathcore, Goregrind, Death Thrash

mc666 wrote:

Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore, Traditional Black Metal, Doom Death, Blackened Thrash, Deathcore, Goregrind, Death Thrash

...and Doro!

ultmetal wrote:

mc666 wrote:

Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore, Traditional Black Metal, Doom Death, Blackened Thrash, Deathcore, Goregrind, Death Thrash

...and Doro!

well, i've always considered her a sub genre of her own, but i didn't think that would fly here.

SlaytanicPOWER wrote:

Floridan Death Metal (both brutal and melodic)
Swedish Blackened Death Metal
Norwegian Black Metal
Teutonic Thrash
Bay Area Thrash (thrash till f*ckin death!)
American Power/ Heavy Metal (anything Manowar inspired)
European Flower Metal (anything with symphonies, keyboards, eloquent female vocals, mythic dragon lands, etc. . . you know, the epic cheese )

Cool list dude!!! I love all that stuff!!!

Death, black, thrash, doom and drone.

heavy and thrash

First:
HEAVY METAL
HARD ROCK/GLAM METAL
SPEED METAL
THRASH METAL(all from the 80s or with a 80s sound)
And then:
HEAVY ROCK from the 70s
BLACK METAL from the 80s and 90s
DEATH METAL (specialy between 1988 and 1993)

What Stender said

Off MetallicBlaze's list....pretty similar to mine:

1. European Power Metal (the melodic power metal stuff, I just love this. Some might refer to it as 'flower metal' Ala, Avantasia, Heavenly, Crystallion, etc)

2. American Power Metal (the thrashy power metal stuff, ala Iced Earth, Manowar, Brainstorm, etc)

3. Classic Metal (or just straight up heavy metal! ala, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, etc)

6. Thrash (ala, Testament, Exodus, Sodom, Kreator, etc)

11. Hard Rock/AOR (Dreamtide, Tyketto)

7. Melodic Metal (Ten, Pink Cream 69, )

8. Glam/Sleaze Metal (ala, Motley Crue, Guns and Roses, etc)

9. Melodic Death Metal (ala, Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, etc)

13. Death Metal (Obituary, Nile, etc)

10. Symphonic Black Metal (Cradle of Filth, Ancient, etc)

14. Black Metal (Immortal, Antestor, etc)

16. Metalcore (ala Mindrage, Shadows Fall, etc)

Metallic Blaze wrote:

SlaytanicPOWER wrote:

Floridan Death Metal (both brutal and melodic)
Swedish Blackened Death Metal
Norwegian Black Metal
Teutonic Thrash
Bay Area Thrash (thrash till f*ckin death!)
American Power/ Heavy Metal (anything Manowar inspired)
European Flower Metal (anything with symphonies, keyboards, eloquent female vocals, mythic dragon lands, etc. . . you know, the epic cheese )

Cool list dude!!! I love all that stuff!!!

Classic metal, American power metal, doom, thrash, hard rock and some death/black.

1) Thrash
2) Death Thrash
3) Death Metal
4) Folk Metal
5) Black Thrash
6) Classic Metal
7) Doom Metal
Goregrind
9) Traditional Black Metal
10) Viking Metal

Oh yea, if you sub-sub some categories then I'm with Lurideth

Folk Metal
Viking Metal


Two more great, great sub-genres.

Glam/Sleaze/Hair Metal
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(big gap)

Symphonic Metal
Gothic Metal
Industrial Metal
Traditional Metal
European Power Metal

American Power Metal ala Metal Church/Omen/Armored Saint.

Bay area Thrash.

European Power Metal.

NWOBHM often called classic metal.

Sleaze/80's

Hard Rock/Arena Rock

Melodic Death

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Oh yea, if you sub-sub some categories then I'm with Lurideth

Folk Metal
Viking Metal


Two more great, great sub-genres.

my blackened-death was in an attempt to include one of those.

But in any case!

http://www.myspace.com/throneofodin

Throne of Odin, great Viking Metal that's from where I live

Classic metal
Power metal - both the American and European varieties
Classic Thrash - a la Metallica, Megadeth, Testament
Progressive metal
Some symphonic metal
70's "proto-metal" - Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, old Aerosmith, Led Zep

QuothTheRaven wrote:

70's "proto-metal" - Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, old Aerosmith, Led Zep

I was going to add this, but couldn't think of the right word. Probably my favorite genre of music.

Anything that doesn't have WOOOOARRRRGH vocals.