Favorite Metal Sub-genres (This time with a poll :) )

[Bryn]

Viking / Folk / Battle / Melodic death/ old black / symphonic black for me.

 

[ohiogrinder]

Yeah, not only did punk help create grindcore, but thrash as well.

lemme add that a lot of early black metal has hardcore punk influences as well..i.e, Darkthrone. Fenriz himself even states that these days he'd rather listen to crust/punk bands like Disfear and Severed Head Of State than any metal band.

 

[Sinisteria]

i dont really pay attention to sub genres. if i like something i dont care what subgenre it is. metal is metal, who cares if its black or death or power or whatever else. so i guess my answer is no preferance

 

[CAIRATH]

The fact that heavy metal is getting so few votes shows how much the taste of the average person on this forum sucks.

I voted heavy, death, black and thrash. Viking isn't a fucking genre and the rest mostly suck. I do like industrial but 'industrial metal' also pretty much seems like a non-genre to me.

 

[Ender Rises]

Since Ender is bound to check this thread;

Ender, your signature still sucks. What's the fucking deal with putting 100 oversized logos of mostly shit bands into an oversized sig these days? It's catching on like the plague, I swear. But yours may be the worst I've ever seen.

Yeah, I don't really like it. I'm gonna change it again today.

 

[Mort Divine]

Viking is a genre, wether you accept it as one or not.

 

[BlessedxForsaken]

Thrash,Death,Viking,Grind. I love them. :]

 

[Kreator/Destroyer]

i should reduce my sig from the parameters set in this thread...ehh what the fuck...i guess i will

 

[Susperia]

It's still too big.

 

[cookiecutter]

i dont really pay attention to sub genres. if i like something i dont care what subgenre it is. metal is metal, who cares if its black or death or power or whatever else. so i guess my answer is no preferance

I care because there is a lot of metal I don't like.

 

[Dän]

^ ageed,
although i wont not listen to a song or band because it comes from a specific genre

 

[Killbot]

I didn't realise this board was so into Thrash *takes note*

 

[cookiecutter]

^ ageed,
although i wont not listen to a song or band because it comes from a specific genre

I will be far less likely to try something from a genre I dislike, but I won't dislike it purely because it is that genre.

 

[Blinded By Blood]

Viking is a genre, wether you accept it as one or not.

No, Viking is a lyrical theme. Every Viking metal band can easily be categorized by a more proper genre

Until the day you can play a Viking and make it sound metal, there's no genre that's Viking metal

 

[cookiecutter]

Hehe, who were the two jokers who voted nu-metal?

 

[Mort Divine]

No, Viking is a lyrical theme. Every Viking metal band can easily be categorized by a more proper genre

Until the day you can play a Viking and make it sound metal, there's no genre that's Viking metal

Viking metal is not a lyrical theme, it is a sound and an atmosphere. It is Ancient Rites, Moonsorrow, Thyrfing, Mithotyn, (hammerheart era) Bathory, Einherjer, Falkenbach, Fjoergyn, Gjallarhorn, etc.

 

[skeptik]

No it's not.

 

[Mort Divine]

Yes, it is.

 

[Blinded By Blood]

Viking metal is not a lyrical theme, it is a sound and an atmosphere. It is Ancient Rites, Moonsorrow, Thyrfing, Mithotyn, (hammerheart era) Bathory, Einherjer, Falkenbach, Fjoergyn, Gjallarhorn, etc.

They're a mix of black and folk, which is what Viking is. Not a genre in and of itself

 

[Ender Rises]

^Agreed