The Differences Between The Metal Genres

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I've made this video to show ya 15 important subgenres of metal music!

● Heavy Metal ● Thrash Metal ● Black Metal ● Death Metal ● (Speed Metal) ● Metalcore ● Doom Metal ● Groove Metal ● Gothic Metal ● Glam Metal ● Progressive Metal ● Nu Metal ● Folk Metal ● Power Metal ● Neoclassical Metal ●

* Notice that Speed-Metal is a confusing and unspecific term. Nowadays this term is practically dead. The genre refers to (often European) metal music that is much faster than Heavy-Metal, but more melodic and less raw than Thrash-Metal. Today, many other metal genres could also be ascribed as Speed-Metal (Power-Metal for example!), which makes it very confusing.

* I ommited Symphonic-Metal because I think it's a useless and nonspecific term for a seperate metal genre. I think many metal genres can be 'symphonic'. For example there's Symphonic Black-Metal and Symphonic Death-Metal. Moreover, some metal genres are nearly always 'symphonic', among which Gothic-Metal and Power-Metal.

[pittmo]

Or in other words:
Heavy metal: You accept there is a beast.
Doom metal: You preach about the beast.
Gothic metal: You idolize the beast.
Black metal: You serve the beast.
Death metal: You are the beast.
Speed metal: You ride with the beast.
Power metal: You live to fight the beast.
Viking metal: You die fighting the beast for valhalla.
Thrash metal: You are going to f***ing kill the beast.
Metalcore: You are afraid of the beast.
Glam metal: You are too drunk to care about the beast.

[THElarry]

metal isn't that satanic at all
*satanic metal screaming in the distance* oh that's just black metal don't mind him

[conormurphy]

Can’t believe you forgot “Blackened proto-prog pirate neo-bloodthrashed deathcore viking metal”

[revennt_]

"It all sounds the same to me"
-Mum

[Bodge]

Imagine going through 9 months of pain and labour while sacrificing large parts of your life to give birth to a child that says that thrash is trash.

[Someone-jpxt]

Teacher: “Turn off that metal.”

Me: “Actually It’s Classical Glam Doom Folk Irish Djent Heavy Death Thrash Metal. It’s a Nu genre.”

[lucasr]

Time on video, Music Name, Band Name

0:11 - Painkiller - Judas Priest
0:26 - Whiplash - Metallica
0:40 - En vind av sorg - Darkthrone
0:54 - Dawn Of Possession - Immolation
1:09 - Heroes of our time - Dragonforce
1:20 - Overcome - As I Lay Dying
1:35 - Genesis - Dreams After Death
1:48 - 5 minutes Alone - Pantera.
2:01 - Sensorium - Epica
2:15 - Death To All But - Steel Panther
2:30 - Lost Not Forgotten - Dream Theater
2:44 - Blame - Korn
2:58 - Heathen Throne - Ensiferum
3:13 - Living In Victory - Hammerfall
3:27 - Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca - Charlie Parra Del Riego

[sougotomukherjee]

Metal Everyone Else Knows:- Nu-Metal, Death Metal, Etc.
The Metals I Know:- Potassium, Aluminum, Etc.

[quickscopeoneeighty]

What about post-industrial black funeral folk wave neo-slam gump metal?

[karenpilar]

Nobody gonna talk about how Metal is so good that it has it's own genres.

[mikeleago]

Back in my day, there was only two generes.
Stuff that sucked
Stuff that didn’t suck.

[nwolf]

You forgot post apocalyptic reindeer grinding Christ-abusing extreme war pacan fennoscandian metal

[johnfuchs]

Heavy Metal - Judas Priest - Painkiller
Thrash Metal - Metllica - Whiplash
Black Metal - Chaos (It's a cover of Darkthrone) - En Vind Av Sorg
Death Metal - Immolation - Dawn Of Possession
Speed Metal - DragonForce - Heroes Of Our Time
Metalcore - As I Lay Dying - Overcome
Doom Metal - Dreams After Death - Genesis
Groove Metal - Pantera - 5 Minutes Alone
Gothic Metal - Epica - Sensorium
Glam Metal - Steel Panther - Death To All But Metal
Progressive Metal - Dream Theater - Lost Not Forgotten
Nu-Metal - KoRn - Blame
Folk Metal - Ensiferum - Heathen Throne
Power Metal - Hammerfall - Living In Victory
NeoClassical Metal - Charlie Parra Del Reggio - Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca

[steff_ilie]

Normies after hearing these metal genres:
iS tHaT MeTaLliCa?

[IbtissamTrabelsi]

Weapon version:
Death metal: minigun
Black metal: flamethrower
Doom metal: double-barrel shotgun
Power metal: sword and spear
Glam metal: baseball bat
Metalcore: machine pistol
Deathcore: grenade launcher
Thrash metal: assault rifle
Groove metal: battle rifle
Folk metal: bow and arrow
Gothic metal: dagger knife
Heavy metal: revolver
Grindcore: chainsaw

[huolong]

Each time I listen to Power Metal I feel like chasing dragons with my sword

[plasmakitten]

We're missing Symphonic Metal, where all the *really* extra people hang out

[williampaterson]

Bands I noticed that were featured: (Can you help fill in the gaps?)
0:11 - Judas Priest.
0:26 - Metallica.
0:40 - Behemoth.
0:54 - ?
1:09 - Dragonforce.
1:20 - Bullet for my Valentine.
1:35 - ?
1:48 - Pantera.
2:01 - ?
2:15 - Steel Panther.
2:30 - Dream Theater.
2:44 - Korn.
2:58 - ?
3:13 - ?
3:27 - ?
(Thanks for helping)

[MadaraUchiha-mwee]

And people still says this is Rock music

[DamienXavier]

Can’t we just agree that metal in general is a good thing?