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
Sonic Violence, Spine Wrench, Skin Chamber, Puncture, Skinny Puppy, Mentallo & the Fixer (not industrial metal, but Industrial), Cybernetic Erosion, Perturbator, The Jungle Medics
 
Voted black (though not the blood and soil far right stuff, I just dig the atmosphere). Closely followed by doom, but I could probably think of bands out of every sub-genre on that list I dig - nu metal a bit tricky tbf. I love deftones/RATM, but not sure they’d be classified as such