So, what's your favorite band from each subgenre?

[Det Som Engang Var]

Melo death is Gothenburg. Melodic death is just that, melodic death metal. The former is a misnomer.

When I was younger I would make the argument that viking metal and folk metal are two different things, too. The former being shit like Moonsorrow and Tyr, maybe using keyboards, the latter using actual folk instruments. I'm not sure if I would bother arguing that anymore, but melo-death and melodic death are definitly different.

 

[nckissfan]

Death: Obituary
Thrash: Testament
Power: Iced Earth and Blind Guardian
Prog Metal: Fates Warning, Symphony X, Dream Theater
Classic: Iron Maiden and Judas Priest
Hard rock: KISS
Doom: Confessor


I love Nevermore, don't know what genre they really fall in.

 

[nutslap]

i always thought that if it sounded like hammerheart, it's viking.
only bands like morrigan, nachtfalke and ereb altor were in.

 

[guitarguru777]

REEESSSUUUUUREEEECTIIIIONNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dreadful]

Death: Death
Black: Bathory
Thrash: Slayer
Doom - Black Sabbath
Progressive: Dream Theater
Speed: Judas Priest
Folk: Falkenbach
Melodic death: Dark Tranquillity
melodic death doom: Katatonia
Metalcore: Throwdown
classic heavy metal: Ozzy

 

[Talking Backwards]

Melo death is Gothenburg. Melodic death is just that, melodic death metal. The former is a misnomer.

but melo-death and melodic death are definitly different.

Yeah, let's start splitting subgenres too so that the exact same subgenre ends up as more than one genre.

Melodeath is just the short version of Melodic Death.

Death: Opeth
Thrash: Nevermore/older big four
Power: Iced Earth/Blind Guardian/Nevermore
Prog Metal: Opeth/Nevermore
Classic: Mercyful Fate/Iron Maiden
Hard rock: Alice In Chains
Doom: Solitude Aeturnus
Black: Dimmu Borgir/Ihsahn
Melodeath: At The Gates/Carcass

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Death: Cryptopsy
Thrash: Nevermore (i think it counts)
Power: Manticora
Prog: Symphony X
Doom: Morgion or Theatre of Tragedy at the moment
Black: Borknagar
Classic: Black Sabbath

Not as bad as I was expecting 2005 me to say.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Ill do those that i know of that matt did

Ethnic Death Metal: Orphaned Land
Melodeath: The latest Dark Tranquillity
Classic Doom: Candlemass
Doom/Death: Mourning Beloveth
Viking Metal: Thyrfing
Funeral Doom: Shape of Despair
Gothic Metal: Tristania
Folk Metal: Finntroll (i dunno if that counts)
'Math' Metal: Meshuggah
Industrial Metal: Strapping Young Lad (?)
Heidnische Metall: Agalloch (no idea what that is, but agalloch deserve a mention)
NWOBHM: Priest
Stoner Metal: High on Fire
I-can't-speak-english-metal: Rotting Christ
Oops-a-little-too-much-on-my-acid-blotter-metal: Esoteric (its one big bad trip)
we-were-once-metal-but-now-we're-fag-electronica Metal: Theatre of Tragedy
haha-Jim-gives-Warrel-rimjobs-while-Loomis-drinks-the-cock-enlarging-youth-potion Metal: Communic. JK, Nevermore

This was a little bit more of the shit I was expecting.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

metal: priest
kinda gay metal: virgin steele
angry metal: overkill
nerd metal: skyclad
drunk metal: slough feg
racist metal: destroyer 666

 

[Morbides]

Meh, subgenre.