Poll: What is your favorite kind of METAL music!...(not Gear)...I like Gear

[BathorysGraveland2]

Nitpicks?

Nah, it isn't nitpicking. More like a basic understanding of how genres work. Since the entirety of heavy metal is so damn diverse, it is more or less necessary as well. No one wants to fall into the idiocy of "but it's all metal!! Fuck sub genres".

 

[Xarathox]

For some reason, I just now got the Metal Gear joke in the title. Phew, I'm slow sometimes. -.-

 

[Bamba]

I dont have a single favourite subgenre. Thrash metal, Progressive Metal, Speed Metal, and Power Metal are all my main favourite metal subgenres. I also enjoy Post grunge and Alternative metal, even though they arent really considered metal subgenres.

Bands that I enjoy listening to from these genres are Metallica, Dream Theater, Daughtry, Power Quest, DragonForce, Arthemis.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Well my favorite metal bands of all time are In Flames, Dark Tranquility and Metallica so I guess Death Metal wins 2 to 1.
Been listening to a lot of Amon Amarth recently as well.

 

[Nazulu]

I'll just some it up as classic metal, though I really like Avenged Sevenfolds 4th and 5th album.

Black Sabbath is still my favourite out of all, and Metallica is a very close second.

 

[William Dickbringer]

Since most picked rock or metal in the favorite bands thread...

curse you having to pick between pagan and folk boils down to do I like amon amarth the best or eluveitie

 

[Hyenatempest]

But I like Amon Amarth, 3 inches of blood, In flames, AND Equilibrium!
CAN'T CHOOOOOOSE!!!!

 

[NeutralDrow]

You have Grunge, but no Power Metal? What is this, I don't even.

Pokemon, then. I can set some battles to Design Your Universe by Epica.

 

[KefkaCultist]

Uh, not to be an elitist dick-waffle, but as a big metal head, I disagree with a lot of your categorizing in the poll.
-Grunge isn't even close to being a genre/sub-genre of metal...
-"Pagan metal" isn't an actual genre (But I don't consider any "[instert religion] bands" separate genres personally). Amon Amarth is firmly in the melodic death metal sub-genre of death metal and, even though this is the first I've heard them, Hagalaz' Runedance sounds really folk metal-y, so why isn't it in that category? Aso, I think that a lot of bands that you'd maybe consider to be "pagan metal" would be very folk metal oriented.
-Death metal is a VERY broad category (almost as broad as just saying "metal") with numerous sub genres. For your examples, Meshuggah is progressive death metal, and I'd consider Behemoth to be black metal actually (but I can also see them categorized as regular death metal with some black metal influence as well).
-Nine Inch Nails is not Nu-metal. Nails is most definitely industrial.
-I dislike joke answers to polls. They throw off the data. Also, you must make all joke answers involve "bacon" in some way if you insist on using them.

With all that out of the way, here's my answer. As you can see, I have a large interest in the whole metal genre, so I really don't have one favorite genre. I like bands/songs from all and hate some bands/songs from all as well. If I had to pick a few genres/sub-genres that really define my taste in metal they'd be: Doom metal, thrash/speed, progressive metal/progressive death metal, black metal, classic metal, stoner metal, industrial, and melodic death metal.

EDIT: Upon rereading, my post does kinda make me out to be some elitist dick-waffle. Oh well, I have the right to be a knob-head about a certain topic, may as well make it metal genres. lol

(EDIT: For TL;DR just look at what ron1n said v)

 

[ron1n]

Just for the record, Amon Amarth are not a 'Pagan' metal band. They're a Melodeath band.

In fact the whole poll listing is just...ugh -_- (EDIT: What Kefka said ^)

 

[Defenestra]

Where's the power metal? The symphonic metal? The pirate metal?

Seriously, Alestorm is awesome. But three choices that I'd be torn between (two and a half, really, there's not a lot of pirate metal) just aren't on your list.

 

[Artemis923]

I prefer Swedish Black Metal.

 

[NoeL]

Where's the symphonic metal option? Nightwish 5eva (it's more than 4eva)!

Then there's Epica, After Forever, Within Temptation, Therion, Leaves' Eyes, Forever Slave, Edenbridge...

Oh, and what about power metal? Where's my option for Sonata Arctica, Heavenly, Avantasia, Kamelot, or hell - even DragonForce?

 

[cennsor]

adding my voice to the choir of: "where's prog?"

(even though some don't consider it to be a subgenre of metal as much as of rock. but then again, you put grunge in there, so..)

 

[ToastedCorpser4Lunch]

Power metal, and how dare you not put it in the poll options.

 

[Saulkar]

Industrial Metal:

Power Metal:

Electronic/Cyber Metal:

Not really on the list. XD

Well these are more or less my pet genres of metal that I enjoy.

 

[Zombie Sodomy]

What does Blue Oyster Cult count as?

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

What does Blue Oyster Cult count as?

I believe it would fall under either classic rock or hard rock.

 

[KefkaCultist]

You have Grunge, but no Power Metal? What is this, I don't even.

Pokemon, then. I can set some battles to Design Your Universe by Epica.

Why not Pokemon AND power metal!?
It is the only true answer.

 

[Epic Bear Man]

For your poll, I went with Pagan metal, only because of Amon Amarth.

However, I'm more of a metalcore guy, even though that's technically Hardcore with some metal influences.

And speaking of Hardcore, why the fuck do we have like fifty billion different types of -core? You've got deathcore, metalcore, grindcore, deathgrind, "crunkcore", cinnaboncore, any sort of word that possible exists-core. I mean holy crap, do we really need to differ the bands THAT much?