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

Your favorite(s)?

  • Heavy Metal: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Pantera

    Votes: 14 24.6%
  • Prog-Metal: Dream Theater, Opeth, Tool

    Votes: 10 17.5%
  • Thrash Metal: Metallica, Slayer, Overkill, old Sepultura

    Votes: 21 36.8%
  • Death Metal: Death, Cannibal Corpse, Bolt Thrower, Obituary

    Votes: 22 38.6%
  • Grindcore: Napalm Death, Carcass

    Votes: 7 12.3%
  • Power Metal: Dragonforce, Iced Earth, Dio, Nevermore

    Votes: 6 10.5%
  • Black Metal: Dimmu Borgir, Bathory, Mayhem

    Votes: 23 40.4%
  • Viking Metal: Enslaved, Moonsorrow

    Votes: 10 17.5%
  • Glam Metal: Kiss, Guns "n" Roses, Poison, Van Halen

    Votes: 6 10.5%
  • Industrial Metal: Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails

    Votes: 4 7.0%
  • Metalcore: Unearth, Killswitch Engaged, Trivium, As I Lay Dying

    Votes: 5 8.8%
  • Nu-Metal: Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Linkin Park

    Votes: 2 3.5%
  • Other

    Votes: 9 15.8%

  • Total voters
    57
ohiogrinder said:
if it weren't for punk rock merging with metal in the 80s, metal would've become stagnant. you can't argue with that FACT.
Yeah, not only did punk help create grindcore, but thrash as well.
 
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.
 
Décadent said:
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.

I know you're referring to ender's sig, but I only have the band names sig, because I want to show peeps here what my favorite bands are.