Metal

1. what's your fav. subgenre?
- Heavy Metal - the original
  
  11
- Power Metal - melody and tons of doublebass
  
  3
- Doom / Stoner... - I like it slow, yet groovy
  
  1
- Death Metal - growls and ridiculous speed
  
  3
- Black Metal - disturbing imagery and screams
  
  1
- Thrash / Speed Metal - the original shred
  
  2
- ALL of the above and more :D
  
  5
- Progressive Metal - sound experiments and complex techniques
  
  2
- none of the above, but a different subgenre
  
  1
- none of the above - I hate metal!!!
  
  2
- Industrial Metal
  
  3

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December 29, 201212 yr

METALLICA!!!

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December 30, 201212 yr

Judas Priest!!

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January 13, 201312 yr

Yeah, Halford might be the best vocalist in metal and their arrangements and or instrumentation is amazing too .

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January 13, 201312 yr

Yes, Halford is one of the best voices in metal, without a doubt.

Their guitar arrangements are great as well!

I've been listening a lot to this band lately

Mastodon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WGNd8QR-U

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January 15, 201312 yr

Nice one :yes: .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO3D_-xQFog

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January 24, 201312 yr

Love the odd rhythms Dream Theater use

Really gettin' into the prog thing lately

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February 16, 201312 yr

All kinds of. Started listening to Heavy Metal in early 80s, Accept, W.A.S.P. and Ozzy.

Then came the Thrash & Power Metal era with Agent Steel, Flotsam & Jetsam, Helloween and some German Thrash Masters like Sodom, Destruction & Kreator.

Sodom´s and Destruction´s early stuff are in fact Black Metal. Venom "invented" Black Metal with their early stuff, though their music was pretty much like Motörhead, jusr rawer and with satanic over-the-top lyrics and imagery.

One name You really need to mention is Quorthon and his one-man band Bathory. Along taking Black Metal even to rawer, he invented so-called Viking Metal.

From early Death Metal inventors Possessed is my favourite with their absolute debut classic ´Seven Churches´.

But 2nd wave Scandinavian Black Metal was the real thing for me.

Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone, Beherit, Satyricon, Emperor...the list is long, and Evil. Mostly Norse, some Finnish some Swedish.

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February 26, 201312 yr

The genre's definitely had quite a run. I find it interesting that at one point grunge was thought by some to be the death (no pun intended :ninja: ) of metal but metal managed to stay around after it pretty much died out. Of course it may not be mainstream as most mainstream bands are pop now, but underground ect. anyway.

I'm a big fan of prog too :yes: .

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February 28, 201312 yr

I think Metal is definitely in good health right now.

I find curious the thing about grunge. Because before Nirvana exploded in 1991 with Nevermind (and that's when people began to use the term Grunge), some important Grunge bands were labelled as Metal, or Alternative Metal: such bands as Soundgarden and Alice In Chains.

Even Nirvana had a pretty heavy sound on their first album (Bleach). A much sludgier sound, closer to Melvins and Soundgarden.

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March 24, 201312 yr

I guess since there are so many styles that fall under the collective 'hard rock' umbrella, the easier it is for the lines of some of the sub genres to get crossed a bit. Also, unlike some much declined genres that will remain nameless :pinch: , it is in good health right now :thumbsup: .