Favorite Metal sub-genres and bands?

As most of you already know Metal is a very diverse genre with numerous sub-genres. So when reading previous questions about people naming their 10 favorite metal bands, 25 favorite, etc. I found it interesting that many of the answers included mainly bands from just one or two different sub-genres of Metal, so I thought I would mix it up a bit and ask this question again in a different way.

MQ1: Name your five favorite Metal sub-genres and some of your favorite bands from each sub-genre.

MQ2: Do the bands you just listed pretty much match up to your favorite Metal bands overall, or do most of your favorite Metal bands come from the same sub-genre?

BQ: What other music genres do you like, besides Metal?

Anonymous2010-09-22T05:29:46Z

Favorite Answer

Thrash ------ Megadeth / Anthrax / EARLY Metallica
Melodic Death Metal ------ Dark Tranquillity / Soilwork
80's/ "Glam?" Metal ------ W.A.S.P. / EARLY Pantera (Hear Projects in the Jungle) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTkdWeb60mU
Power Metal ------ Pyramaze
Progressive Metal ------ Opeth

The bands I listed are equal among my non-existent list of favorites. [With the exception of Metallica because they, in my opinion, became pretty terrible.]

I also like Rock, such as Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana and Godsmack.

Rt2010-09-22T06:17:25Z

Five favourite genres and fave bands

Thrash: Kreator (old), Possessed, Slayer (old), Overkill (old), Sacrifice (Canada), Artillery, Watchtower

USPM (american power metal) : Liege Lord, Manilla Road, Jag Panzer, Crimson Glory

Traditional Metal: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Accept, W.A.S.P., Mercyful Fate

Euro Power Metal: Blind Guardian, Scanner, Stormwitch, Grave Digger, Iron Savior

Glam Metal: Motley Crue, Dokken, Lion, London, Pantera (The Terry Glaze albums!!)

I also like to listen to Jazz Fusion, hard rock, some indie rock and some 80's pop songs

?2010-09-22T04:11:52Z

ALTERNATIVE METAL
Red
Blindside
Decyfer Down
Project 86

HEAVY METAL
Audiovision

SYMPHONIC METAL
HB
Scandinavian Metal Praise

PROGRESSIVE METAL
Theocracy
DarkWater
Narnia
Balance of Power

POWER METAL
Harmony
Rob Rock
Jacobs Dream
Seventh Avenue

HEAVY METAL
Whitecross

NU METAL
Brian Welch

MELODIC DEATH METAL
Immortal Souls

METALCORE
Sleeping Giant
A Plea For Purging
Confide
August Burns Red

RAPCORE
P.O.D

HARDCORE
Point of Recognition
Selfmindead

UNBLACK METAL
Slechtvalk
Vaakevandring
Sanctifica

THRASH METAL
Vengeance Rising
Seventh Angel

SPEED METAL
Deliverance
Temple of Blood

?2010-09-22T03:11:12Z

ill just chuck up my favorite bands from the different genres
as you know metal has so many its hard to put into one so ill just chuck em down bottom

metalcore/borderline death
8 foot sativa
suicide silence
parkway drive
job for a cowboy
bless the fallen
the black dahlia murder
all shall perish

death metal
aborted
benighted
bloodbath
death
loco
kataklysm
meshruggah
sinate

new American metal
lamb of god

nu-metal
korn
slipknot
mushroomhead

old school thrash
megadeth

awesome metal chillout beats
black label society
tool
opeth
sound garden
and good old kenny rogers

gaarakiller1962010-09-22T11:15:31Z

I can't really answer because I've just gotten into metal, but I like Children of Bodom, Coheed and Cambria, and Dragonforce. I love all genres of music, but not really into rap, hip hop, or R&B. Will listen to just about anything though.

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