which sub-genre of heavy metal/rock do you dig the most?

Some of my favorites:

Prog Rock and Metal (e.g. Pink Floyd, Mastodon, Rush, Dream Theater, Opeth, Queensryche)

Classic Rock (e.g. Hendrix, Aerosmith, AC/DC)

Classic Metal (e.g. Blue Oyster Cult, Sabbath, Deep Purple)

Doom/Stoner Metal (e.g. The Sword, High On Fire, Queens Of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Wolfmother, Priestess)

NWOBHM (e.g. Iron Maiden, Angel Witch, Diamond Head, Judas Priest, Motorhead)

Death Metal (e.g. Arch Enemy, Children of Bodom, Enslaved)

Classic Rock Revival (e.g. Jet, Airbourne, Earl Greyhound)

Alternative Metal (e.g. Alice In Chains, SOAD, White Zombie)

Alternative Rock (e.g. Smashing Pumpkins, RHCP, White Stripes)

Pop-Rock (e.g. The Strokes, The Killers, Weezer)

Thrash Metal (e.g. Megadeth, Slayer, Pantera)

Neo-classical metal:

Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Vinnie Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen, Galneryus, Tony MacAlpine, etc

NWOBHM:

Iron Maiden, Angel Witch, Judas Priest (arguably in NWOBHM), Saxon, Tygers of Pan Tang, Diamond Head, etc

Stoner Rock/Metal:

Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Acid King, Witchcraft, Witch, Kyuss, The Sword, Wolfmother, etc

Classic Rock/Heavy Metal:

Led Zeppelin, Blue Oyster Cult, UFO, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, etc

Instrumental rock/metal:

Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Shawn Lane, Blues Saraceno, John Petrucci, etc

Power Metal:

Helloween (80s), HammerFall, Dark Moor, Sonata Arctica, Gamma Ray, etc

Post-rock:

This Will Destroy You, Explosions in the Sky, God is an Astronaut, Russian Circles, etc

Indie Rock:

of Montreal, The Bravery, Frank Ferdinand, Bloc Party, etc

My favorite band is Despised Icon, but I don't really like the over-all sub-genre of Deathcore. I wouldn't even categorize them there, but it is what it is.

Thrash Metal has been my favorite for a long time, but I'm kind of growing weary of it at this point. The same ol same ol growling and riffs are getting a little lame to me.

Iron Maiden and Judas Priest are some of my favorite bands, I also love some Metal Church and Accept, so you could say I really like Classic Metal and NWOBHM.

Death, Possessed, Morbid Angel, and the like never get boring or old sounding.

I dig Death Metal the most right now.

New Wave of British Heavy Metal my dad can listen to Iron Maiden

Black Metal - Abigail Williams (is called Black?)

Deathcore (seen/ met four of the bands mentioned on Wiki on Metalcore)

Metalcore (the kind with Hardcore vocals like hatebreed)

Heavy Metal

Groove metal - A Life Once Lost

Prog metal - Tool and Arsonist Get All The Girls

Real hardcore punk

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Buried, I met: White chapel, Abacabb, All shall Perish, Animosity, Arsonist Get all The Girls, Emmure, For The Fallen Dreams, Sworn Enemy, and Tony Danza Tapdance. just to name some bands (hehe).

1. Classic Metal

2. N.W.O.B.H.M.

3. Thrash Metal

This is hard! Either Classic Metal, Thrash Metal, or New Wave of British Heavy Metal. I can't decide which is the best!!!!!

Black Metal

Death Metal

Punk Pop

These are My absolute favorites

Classic Rock

Classic Metal

Progressive Metal

NWOBHM

Doom Metal

Stoner Rock

Power Metal

Symphonic Metal

Thrash Metal

Jazz Fusion

Thrash-Kreator, Sodom, Toxic Holocaust, Megadeth, Testament

Old school and melodic death-Death, (old)In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, Kalmah, Norther, At the Gates, Dark Lunacy, Arsis.

and instrumental rock...paul gilbert, buckethead, jason becker, marty friedman.

i like very technical stuff

p.s. grunge and nu metal blow cock

I usually lean towards grunge and classic stuff, but in essence it's all mostly great because artists in these genres do possess talent and songwriting ability... unlike our friends in the Top 10 singles charts who get picked up by Disney executives and are told what to do.