Slam death metal

Epic.

When I make these threads, it’s not because I want to point out the seemingly endless genre labels that form within metal. I’m just saying which metal subgenres suck.

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BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT $L@M

There are only five major categories of metal, all of which have extremely distinct sounds and deserve to have their own name.
>traditional heavy metal
>thrash metal
>black metal
>death metal
>doom metal
The rest is splitting hairs.

>no progressive metal
>no power metal
>no symphonic metal

All derivatives of traditional heavy metal, and more specifically Iron Maiden.

Don't even mention symphonic faggotry

The term has more to do with popular appeal than raw heaviness, and doom is fairly niche in all its incarnations.

Stoner metal without overt Sabbath worship (Kyuss, Elder, Truckfighters, etc) is not doom and arguably closer to rock than metal so you shouldn't take it into account when considering the genre as a whole.

Why isn't the "doom" sound called traditional heavy metal? It's arguably the very first "metal" sound, and the sound that the term "heavy metal" was originally applied to in the first place. Why is it considered a subgenre of heavy metal? Shouldn't doom just be "heavy metal" and everything else, including the sound that we think of as "heavy metal" today, is a subgenre?

boomer metal

Early on, the term heavy metal was not really well defined at all. It wasn't until the late 70s with Judas Priest, Motorhead, and NWOBHM all picking up at the same time that metal was thought of as a really distinct genre and not just a word thrown around to descibe particularly fast or loud rock music. The sound of the bands in this period became what metalheads now call "traditional heavy metal". Doom was an outgrowth of trad that focused on a specific sonic aspect, in this case the heavy, slow riffs that some bands (particularly Black Sabbath) had used to create an evil atmosphere. Thrash came from trad in a similar way by focusing on speed and aggression and mixing in elements of hardcore punk. Other extreme genres came mostly from making thrash sound faster and more evil.

I know, but if we all ageee that Sabbath was the first metal band, then shouldn't "tradional heavy metal" be anything that sounds like Sabbath? Like doom? Wouldn't that be the purest form of heavy metal?

>Grindcore
>Mincecore
>Crustgrind
>Deathgrind
>Goregrind
>Pornogrind

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Yep, all me kiddo

Anything with "core" or "grind" in the name belongs in the trash.

>hating fun
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almost none of it is
some sludge could be
>War metal doesn't sound much like black nor death metal
look at it as "bestial black metal"

>if we all ageee that Sabbath was the first metal band
That is not universally agreed upon. Sabbath usually gets the nod because of their influence (especially towards occult imagery) and their later career output being undeniably metal, but their early albums are closer, musically, to blues rock than to the heavy metal they inspired. Doom only came later by combining aspects of Sabbath's sound with the already existing basis of trad. It wasn't a direct outgrowth of their music which is why it's not the parent genre.

>Sabbath
I love Black Sabbath, but In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is heavier than almost anything in their debut (except for maybe the title track) and it came out two years prior.

every point people try to make that sabbath "isn't the first metal band" is so fucking stupid
so what some songs in the 60s were heavy? none of the bands had a formula of making riff based heavy distorted guitar songs like sabbath did. if they did they would have had a longer shelf life than one single

heaviness alone is not the defining feature of metal, there's lots of very heavy music that is not metal

Trolling metalheads is too easy. Sorry sweaty but your music is garbage.

What if I fucking love metal and trolling other metalheads?

XD

You're one of the good ones

Every metal/hard rock genre:

Black Metal (1st wave)
Black Metal (2nd wave)
Symphonic Black Metal
Depressive Suicidal Black Metal (DSBM)[Black/Doom]
Atmospheric Black Metal
Melodic Black Metal
Blackened Death Metal
War Metal
Melodic Death Metal (Classic)
Melodic Death Metal (Modern)
Death Metal (Classic) [OSDM]
Death Metal (Modern)
Technical Death Metal
Brutal Death Metal
Slamming Brutal Death Metal (Slam Metal)
Death-Doom
Deathgrind
Goregrind
Grindcore
Speed Metal
Thrash Metal
Crossover Thrash
Groove Metal
Sludge Metal
Classic Doom Metal (Epic Doom)
Gothic Metal/Gothic Symphonic/Symphonic Doom
Drone Metal
Funeral Doom
Gothic Doom
Stoner Doom
Stoner Rock/Metal
Progressive Metal
Glam Metal
Hard Rock
Heavy Metal
Power Metal
Folk Metal
Symphonic Metal
Pagan Metal
Viking Metal
Nu Metal
Industrial Metal
Alternative Metal
Grunge Rock/Metal
Post Metal
Deathcore
Metalcore

>implying meal is food

>Classic Doom Metal (Epic Doom)
that's called Traditional Doom Metal

>it's all just doom

Amazing. Not a single good genre.

>no black thrash

Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal

Heavy Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Doom Metal are genres.

Atmospheric Black Metal, Funeral Doom Metal, Slam Death Metal, Power Metal are sub-genres

Deathgrind's good my man

>no symphonic deathgrind
>no blackened doomgaze
>no symphonic pornogrind
>no post gloomcore
>no neo-doom
>no experimental powerviolence
>no sludge deathcore
>no brutal crunkcore
shit list man

>symbolic methal