favorite metal 'genre' poll

A little traditional metal, a little thrash, a little hair, a little song, a little dance, the Batman's head upon a lance...

Traditional, thrash and doom got my votes. However, stoner rock is currently my flavor of the month.

Endless sub-genres have ruined music creativity and forced everyone to be pigeonholed into tiny marketing segments. No thanks.

I like bands that don't fit neatly into any genres.

Fat Freddy wrote:

A little traditional metal, a little thrash, a little hair, a little song, a little dance, the Batman's head upon a lance...

X 2 - lol!!!!

Where is the Batman? He's at home washing his tights!

S.D. wrote:

Endless sub-genres have ruined music creativity and forced everyone to be pigeonholed into tiny marketing segments.

What he said. I stopped giving a f### about "genres" a long time ago. For me, if it's a good band, it's a good band.

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I like bands that don't fit neatly into any genres

I do. Makes things easy to identify and possibly avoid. Kinda like stereotyping/labeling people, which I do as well. I probably wouldn't talk to 90% of this board in real life if I saw you.

Hard Rock/AOR, as if there was any doubt. The rest in order:

Glam Metal (I usually group many of these bands with the above)
Gothic Metal (I don't count symphonic bands, gothic metal is closer to doom)
Traditional Heavy Metal
Euro-Power Metal (though my love of this one has waned)
Power Metal
Progressive Metal
Thrash Metal
Symphonic Metal (used to be with Euro-power but it has also waned)
Doom Metal
Death Metal
Black Metal
Grindcore
Alternative Metal
Nu Metal (unlike metalcore, these band at least have indiviuality)
Metalcore

Interestingly, I have at least 1 favorite band out of all of these supergiants of the subgenres.


Traditional Heavy Metal: Dio

Power Metal: Symphony X

Thrash Metal: Kreator

Death Metal: Death

Black Metal: Dimmu Borgir

Glam Metal: WASP

Hard Rock/AOR: Rainbow

Doom Metal: While Heaven Wept

Progressive Metal: Ayreon

Gothic Metal: Type O Negative

Alternative Metal: Rammstein

Grindcore: Carcass

Metalcore: Avenged Sevenfold

Nu Metal: Slipknot


My favorite genres are power and prog, but my favorite bands are all over the place in terms of genre.

S.D. wrote:

Endless sub-genres have ruined music creativity and forced everyone to be pigeonholed into tiny marketing segments. No thanks.

I like bands that don't fit neatly into any genres.

arent we anti-establishment today

Death, thrash, doom...it's all good.

Really I don't much care for silly sub-genres either.

MoonChild wrote:

Traditional Heavy Metal
Hard Rock
Power Metal
Thrash
Glam Metal

That about sums it up for me too! You must be my parallel universe twin from India!

holydiver97595 wrote:

Interestingly, I have at least 1 favorite band out of all of these supergiants of the subgenres.


Traditional Heavy Metal: Dio

Power Metal: Symphony X

Thrash Metal: Kreator

Death Metal: Death

Black Metal: Dimmu Borgir

Glam Metal: WASP

Hard Rock/AOR: Rainbow

Doom Metal: While Heaven Wept

Progressive Metal: Ayreon

Gothic Metal: Type O Negative

Alternative Metal: Rammstein

Grindcore: Carcass

Metalcore: Avenged Sevenfold

Nu Metal: Slipknot


My favorite genres are power and prog, but my favorite bands are all over the place in terms of genre.

I'm with ya! My tastes are all over the map too! That's why I like talking about all these 'genres' and 'sub-genres', because I learn more about music that way - and I LOVE music! For me it doesn't destroy the music ... all the sub-genre-ing I mean. To me the genres are all like flavors of ice cream! I don't like each and every flavor, but I do like mixing them all up in a giant sunday!!!

Besides it's all in fun. I'm not a genre-nazi. I just like talking music. If you have no genres, you have no points of reference on a map! You can't talk about where you're going without understanding a map!

I mean ... when was the last time you went into an ice cream store and the person working the counter said ... 'what kind o ice cream do you want?' ... and you said "I DO NOT BELIEVE IN ICE CREAM GENRE DESCRIPTIONS! I believe that this is ruining the market for ice cream!" The person working there would not even know what to get for you! I guess you'd get a mish-mash of every single thing they have! ... and hells bells - if that's what you want with your music ... I guess that's okay. But for me - I like to KNOW what I'm getting into when I buy an album!!!!

Power

Traditional

Thrash

Hard Rock/AOR

Death

Technical or Slamming Brutal Death Metal, Old School Death Metal, Goregrind, Grindcore, Powerviolence, Deathcore, Beatdown Hardcore, D-beat, Crust, Raw Black Metal, Norsecore.

i picked Grindcore for the poll.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

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I like bands that don't fit neatly into any genres

I do. Makes things easy to identify and possibly avoid. Kinda like stereotyping/labeling people, which I do as well. I probably wouldn't talk to 90% of this board in real life if I saw you.

agreed on both counts.

mc666 wrote:

Technical or Slamming Brutal Death Metal, Old School Death Metal, Goregrind, Grindcore, Powerviolence, Deathcore, Beatdown Hardcore, D-beat, Crust, Raw Black Metal, Norsecore.

i picked Grindcore for the poll.

I've never even HEARD of some of those, man! But powerviolence sounds totally awesome.

I voted for traditional metal, thrash metal, and the one you forgot (speed metal in my case). I don't know if I had the options of voting for four genres, but I also really like most old-school death metal. I suppose power metal would have been an option for me as well, depending on what you consider power metal.

Nico wrote:

I voted for traditional metal, thrash metal, and the one you forgot (speed metal in my case). I don't know if I had the options of voting for four genres, but I also really like most old-school death metal. I suppose power metal would have been an option for me as well, depending on what you consider power metal.

I made sure when listing my favorite genres that I broke that up into power metal and Euro-power metal because they are two different metal styles.

here's all you need

Rock
Pop
Metal
Jazz
Blues
R and B
Country
Classical
Folk
Dance

Save some time and effort and typing.

that's all Walmart needs. i need more.

mc666 wrote:

that's all Walmart needs. i need more.

Precisely.

Nico wrote:

I voted for traditional metal, thrash metal, and the one you forgot (speed metal in my case). I don't know if I had the options of voting for four genres, but I also really like most old-school death metal. I suppose power metal would have been an option for me as well, depending on what you consider power metal.

I KNEW I was forgetting a genre! Good call on Speed Metal! That would be tied with Thrash for me.

Metallic Blaze wrote:

mc666 wrote:

that's all Walmart needs. i need more.

Precisely.

yep!

mc666 wrote:

that's all Walmart needs. i need more.

Like these genres for 12 year olds?


Technical or Slamming Brutal Death Metal, Old School Death Metal, Goregrind, Grindcore, Powerviolence, Deathcore, Beatdown Hardcore, D-beat, Crust, Raw Black Metal, Norsecore.