What Is Your Favorite Metal Sub-Genre?

[Thoth-Amon]

Dude... we get it. You like Nightwish. Awesome.

Anyway... to answer the pertinent question of this thread:
Black Metal. Its got speed and intensity and aggression like Thrash and Death but its got atmosphere and beauty in its ugliness.
Thrash is a very close second, followed by old school death and then traditional heavy metal.

 

[The Butt]

Voted black metal.

Also I love non-extreme metal (doom, some tradional, etc) and Nightwish is trash. Sorry.

 

[Kara-Shehr]

In order for me:

1. Black
2. Death
3. Thrash
4. Power
5. Prog
6. Doom

And theres bands in between that but idc what genre they fall into I just love em'.

 

[nataSfOtsaeB]

Fucking death metal.

 

[eveningninja]

I chose Progressive Metal basically because adding/latching on Progressive to any sub-genre of metal (e.g. Progressive Black, Progressive Thrash) is for me pretty much always a good thing. There are plenty of times I don't want to listen to straight-up prog., but almost anything is better when it has at least some progressive elements.

 

[MWM]

Old-school death metal is #1 for sure. Technical death is also great.

Due to the lack of good bands/albums in the power metal genre, I don't necessarily listen to much of that anymore. Thrash is another favorite of mine, as well as stoner/doom metal.

I listened to EW's "Come My Fanatics..." album baked off of my ass and it literally seemed like the album stretched on for an eternity, which wasn't a bad thing.

 

[Tallerthanatree]

Death metal.

 

[asgard1980]

I have voted for Black Metal. But I also like Death Metal, Pagan/ Viking and Folk and a some Doom Metal