question time for all GMD

[Krigloch the Furious]

who is the best band to recommend for each genre.
like a must have for said genre.
1...2...3......go!

edit: and I dont mean your favorite band.... just a good representative of each genre.

 

[Mort Divine]

Black: Burzum
Death: Possessed
Power: Helloween
Thrash: Overkill
Gothic: Tristania
Folk: Skyclad
Viking: Bathory
Heavy: Manilla Road
Prog: Pain of Salvation (They have really reached a status to which they can't be ignored by prog fans)
Metalcore: Overcast
Melodeath: In Flames
Doom: Pentagram
Post-black: Arcturus
"Avant-garde": uneXpect

EDIT:

My initial list was still essentials imo but meh

 

[Mr_Haze]

One band for each genre? That's tough

 

[swizzlenuts]

Black: Mayhem's First
Thrash: Slayer - Show No Mercy or Hell Awaits
Death: Morbid Angel
Heavy: Manilla Road or Iron Maiden
Doom: Black Sabbath or Saint Vitus
Power: Helstar
Progressive: Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian

 

[Mr_Haze]

Black: Darkthrone
Thrash: Slayer
Death: Morbid Angel
Heavy: Mercyful Fate
Doom: Pentagram
Power: Blind Guardian

edit: changed to one per each... essentials

 

[audiophileguy]

thrash-heathen
death-morbid angel
heavy-priest or maiden
doom-pentagram(relentless turned me into a doom fan)
europower-blind guardian
american power-metal church

 

[Slayed Necros]

Black: Bathory/Darkthrone
Death: Demigod/Morbid Angel
Thrash: Vio-Lence/Kreator

 

[Travisty]

Thrash:Metallica-Kill 'Em All
Death:Cannibal Corpse

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

black metal: Emperor - In the nightside eclipse
speed metal: Megadeth - Rust in Peace

 

[Matt]

Black metal - Emperor
Death metal - Morbid Angel
Symphonic black - Bal-Sagoth
Progressive - Symphony X
Power - Blind Guardian
Progressive death - Opeth

 

[byrne]

Thrash: Slayer
Black: Mayhem (just DMdS though)
Death: At the Gates
Doom: Black Sabbath
Heavy: Judas Priest / Iron Maiden (pretty much on par)

 

[Under The Oak]

Thrash - Slayer
Death - Morbid Angel
Black - Darkthrone
Doom - Black Sabbath
Heavy - Judas Priest
Power - Helloween
Prog - Dream Theater

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

what about the viking "genre"? what do you guys think? Bathory? Thyrfing?

 

[Mort Divine]

Bathory or Falkenbach tbqh.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Heavy: Judas Priest
Thrash: Slayer
Black: Darkthrone
Death: Morbid Angel
Doom: Black Sabbath
Power: Blind Guardian

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

heavy: Iron Maiden, they are basically the personification of heavy metal.

 

[Matt]

what about the viking "genre"? what do you guys think? Bathory? Thyrfing?

Possibly Enslaved

 

[audiophileguy]

i think ensiferum would be the best band to introduce someone to viking metal. my nephew and his buddies liked it a bit and they mainly listen to radio rock.

 

[The_Isle]

i don't think the real essence of viking metal is in the exalted exhortations of past heroes ala Ensiferum, Moonsorrow. Vikings were pillaging pirates after all so a cold, evilish element should be present i.e. Bathory, Enslaved

 

[ohiogrinder]

Black Metal: Darkthrone
Death Metal: Morbid Angel
Doom Metal: Disembowelment
Grindcore: Assuck
Prog/Power Metal: don't like power metal
Thrash: Celtic Frost
Metalcore: The Accused