Taking a poll. What is your favorite metal sub genre and why?

>>71957146
nu metal
because i'm mainly into electronic music and nu metal is influenced by it

Doom. I like the groove based bass heavy riffs and it seems like there's more effort put into writing good songs than playing as fast as possible. There also seems to be more of a variation between a lot of bands (I know shitloads of them are cheesy black sabbath clones). Theres everything from heavy ass cowboy shit (wo fat, the sword) to evil coven shit (electric wizard, windhand) to psychadelic mindfuckery (elder, fuzz) and classic 70s jams (witchcraft, uncle acid) and desert car pilots (truckfighters). A lot of good doom albums totally shift gears a few times throughout, you never really know where the sound is gonna go. Good examples are nucleus by witchcraft and dead roots stirring by elder. I also really like black metal and drone, but more so when its fucking miserable winter.

>>71957195
please expand your horizons

Doom/Sludge

>>71957404
i listen to like 60 genres of music or something, a lot of them are electronic yes but cmon, my horizons are well expanded

>>71957146
Drone, my man. I like how it can just like take you away for a while with what is essentially, yknow, a drone.

>>71957146
Post-metal and sludge primarily

>>71957146
Black metal and old school death metal cause I'm not a fucking faggot hipster.

>>71957146
Thrash cause that's the one spics always gravitate towards. I got big into prog metal for a bit. Less Dream Theater and more Cynic though.

Sludge and Nu-Metal

here's a strawpoll
http://www.strawpoll.me/12671751

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>>71957146
Whatever the fuck pic related is.
It sounds gruesome, chaotic and unsettling. I love everything about it.

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>>71957146
OSDM. NU-MALES WILL DISAGREE

the fact that nu metal has more than 0 votes lets you know you have some serious fucking plebs in your thread OP

2nd wave Black Metal

>>71957774
I also posted in /meal/ so they're probably memeing it up there

>>71957788
>>71957700
you guys are both equally correct

>>71957813
THIS

Drone metal. It's just so suffocating, heavy, and atmospheric

>>71957627
Cavernous death metal

Doom, black, slam.

Weebgrind

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>>71957499
>not a faggot hipster
>black metal

>>71957813
I like em both

>>71957379
100% agree with this post

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Did not expect for black metal to take the top spot..

Black, best vibes and Deathspell Omega nuff said

Op why no grindcore option on the strawpoll

>>71957990
grindcore is derivative of thrash, also I forgot grindcorem alt metalm industrial, and others existed

>>71957969
It was only ever going to be black metal

>>71957379
This

>>71958010
I was honestly expecting thrash to take top

>>71958048
I think Black, Thrash, and Death Metals are the most respectable genres
but there's a ton of trash Death out these days (see >buttdeath) and I just see more discussion about Black than Thrash

>>71957844
>>71957627
czech out muh bois from az, Ceremented, for some murky cavernous meal

>>71957871
ewew
>>71958080
it's because /moo/ is full of hipster nu-male p4k /Fantano sheeps that just love bm bc of how pretentious the genre can be. corny shit senpai.

>>71958082
Already got both their demos senpai

>>71958080
I never really got into black metal beyond behemoth and little bit of bathory. Beyond that though I can agree with you on death and thrash.

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>>71958123
Neat shit. Can't wait for a full length. I saw them for the first time opening for Archgoat. Rad shit.

>>71958118
>>71958129
Yeah that's fair, but the /nbbmn/ dorks are more what I'm thinking of and from what I've seen I don't think they're "hipster nu-male p4k /Fantano sheeps" but I could be wrong
I got into BM from Crust so I don't really know much about the community surrounding it

>>71957146
I like Black Metal, Brutal Death Metal and Industrial Metal.

I like a lot of other metal subgenres but those are my favorite.

>>71958171
>/nbbmn/
Those threads are full of legit cats. But outside of /meal/ and /nbbmn/, BM fans are massive P4K/Fantano shitters

symphonic

Whatever the fuck Boris makes

>>71957404
why when nu metal is already the best subgenre

Black, but mostly atmoshit and dsbm.

I find it really cathartic, and a good way to work out my negative emotions. Feel free to call me a fag, but I just can't get enough of a good atmosphere created by an album.

Schammasch, Gratzug, Austere and Ellende are some of my favorites.

>>71959314
Have you listened to the other subgenres of metal?

>>71959597
yes, probably all of them even the niche ones like goregrind and funeral doom, why you ask?

>>71959627
Cool, just curious. I know a lot of people who are really into nu metal are fairly ignorant to the rest of the genre, but if you've sampled it all and found something you love, more power to you.

>>71957379
This, Doom is GOAT (and Death Doom is the ultimate Doom), and black metal and drone metal are still top-tier.
Also, Stoner.

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Death Doom
Melodeath
Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YXHLkvaH3A

Power metal, especially the American kind.

whatever genre this is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_ZIe9Tyyk

Black metal, because it's extremely varied and has lots of history to it. There's plenty of traditional acts and experimental acts, even today.

>>71958217
I like /nbbmn/ when it's not political shit (and not even legit shit like "wow, it sucks that traditional swedish cultural is being subverted by the government", just fucking memes). /DSG/ is the best gen tho, when it's made at least.

>>71960474
Agreed

>>71957379
Opinions on Spaceslug?

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Stoner/doom metal
It's super heavy and the riffs are some of the best that can't be found in most other subgenres. Also because I'm a lazy fuck and that kind of sound makes me go deeper into my laziness in ecstasy.

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>>71957146
>over 18
>listening to metal

Technical death metal (and/or progressive DM, experimental DM, avant-garde DM - stuff along those lines.)

I like the complexity/intricacy of it. I could go on but that's what it boils down to in the end. I like death metal more as a base than the final product; most standard DM is boring to me. Spice it up with some technicality and I'm more intrigued.

Death
Brutal Death
Slam Death

>>71957379
On the flip side, I think Grindcore may be viewed in the same way. the ability to focus raw brutality like 30 times into one album is severely under rated. I think being so explosive in short bursts is much harder because you don't really have an opportunity to develop anything.

>>71957379
So this post is telling me that if I have to get into any subgenre of metal, it'd be doom?

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>>71957146
Black metal. It's direct, raw, savage, yet quite beautiful in doing so. It's bursting with emotion and this album displays everything I love about it.

>>71958892
Boris isn't exclusively metal, they experiment with various genres and are quite good at it.

Thrash. It is aggressive, concise and straight forward.

Good thrash anyway.


Somewhat contradictory to what I just said, I kind of like prog metal aswell.

I've always been a blackie. Funnily enough I really listened to a lot of surf rock before getting into black metal.

Is there some good list of albums or guide to getting into metal? I love electric wizard, boris, and jesu but a lot of the 80s stuff sounds too corny for me.

>>71957146
black metal. it has some of the most versatility and room for creativity (inb4) purists

also it's angry and extreme which is what i look for in metal

atmospheric sludge metal
drone doom metal
progressive death metal
experimental black metal

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>>71961747
Watch it anon

Metalcore? Is it metal, or is it hardcore? Or is it the best of both? Vocals are what got me into it, started with Cancer Bats, which is more hardcore than metal I'd say but they definitely have a lot of Black Sabbath in them. I adopted The Architects into my library and while the lyrics registered as corny the overall delivery was really powerful. Really I think more than anything since metalcore is a catchall it presents itself as more versatile than either metal or hardcore (especially the latter) while they're already more versatile than most other genres as a product of their relatively niche placement in the spectrum of music. On top of it the bands are energetic, the crowds are usually amped, the music is loud and I have a good time.

Thrash Metal. It's the first one I got into and I've since expanded into a lot of other stuff, not just metal, but I always come back to

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>>71957146
Heavy metal

Prog metal
I like wank

>>71963292
>hates cheesy 80s stuff
>loves cheesy as fuck stoner doom
i dun get it

Stoner metal
I'm a chill guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UFOrfffGRg
panterrrrrrrra

>>71957146
Mung Metal
I like the smell it creates

>>71957146
Doom
I'm not a metal fan and I prefer the slower droning and Blues based riffs.

>>71957871
Disappointed this isn't a real thing.

>>71957146
Diamond metal. Because it's hardest metal known to human kind \m/

Melodic black metal

>>71957146
OSDM and thrash

>>71957600
Djent : ^)