My Least Favorite Metal Genres
Vložit
- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- After making a video about my favorite metal genres, I wanted to make the companion video to that! What are the metal genres that I don't usually go out of my way to listen to over others? The ones that simply don't click or that I have criticism of? Let's go over that in this video! But let me know down below what your list would be!
OST: Undertale OST/Toby Fox - Ruins
Intro by my lovely partner Near!
/ @nearsgarden
Check out some J Morris video essays by following this link if you're interested!
• Let's Talk About Nattr...
Check out some J Morris heavy metal / rock album reviews down below!
• Tool: Fear Inoculum --...
Check out more J Morris album reviews in general! :)
• BTS: Map of the Soul: ...
#metal #heavymetal #list #videoessay #essay #jmorris #jmorristhereviewguy #themetaltempest #powermetal #dronemetal #blackmetal #gothicmetal #numetalcore #metalcore #numetal #noisecore
I wanted to make a companion video to my favorite metal genre/subgenre video by talking about some of the genres that don't (usually) click with me all too much for one reason or anything/genres I have some criticisms of. What would be your picks for the genres/subgenres that no matter how hard you try, usually just isn't your cup of tea?! I can't wait to hear; as well as your thoughts of this list and if you agree or disagree! I'm always down to discuss and find new recommendations to change my mind because I simply love music lol. But for now, cheers, rock on, stay heavy and have yourselves a fantastic rest of your day or night, depending on when you see this!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
As a Power metal fan I respect your opinion. I’ve been too busy slaying dragons, getting drunk at the local tavern and saving damsels in distress to care any way.
Cheers from the frozen realm of Sweden 🤘🇸🇪
Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal And DSBM are my favorite subgenres of Metal.
I like a few Power Metal and Metalcore bands too. I feel like some bands stand out even if all the other bands within that subgenres are horrible, lol..
"I'm not here to play Dungeons and Dragons, I'm here to rock." - Dave Mustaine on Power Metal.
Based Dave.
Not a black metal fan then, huh
Modern metalcore/deathcore,every band sounds the same these days. I can’t stand the generic breakdowns anymore. It’s pushed me towards more extreme blackened metal genres these days.
The older metalcore stuff like parkway drive are good though.
Definitely agree. Have made entire videos about the loudness war, breakdown obsession etc. As a metalcore love, it really sucks a lot of times.
In my opinion Thrash metal and Progressive metal are the two greatest genres in metal.
Honestly very diverse genres, love both very much!
I totally agree with progressive but besides a few bands (Enforced is really good) thrash died awhile ago.There is so much good black metal coming out these days even in America which is surprising to me.
Thrash didn't really died. Sure, maybe it lost the innovative factor, but is still pretty strong@@Hellenicheavymetal
Not even gonna watch it and just guess it's Powermetal, Folk metal, and melodeath
One of those are correct! And there are six in total. :]
Fancy seeing you here.
Ngl, I woulda been pissed if melodeath was included in this video. Thinking about Finn "Melody and death metal don't belong together. Anyway, lemme tell you why emo/scene metalcore bands are great" McKenty.
3 of my favourites, so it better not be 😅
@@LongLiveRockAnRoll It's the 3 the snobs like to bitch about the most
Melodeath is the best metal genre imo
Great video Tempest. I knew my favorite genre Power Metal would be here.😂 good stuff.
My lease favorite genre is anything with rapping. I'm fine with some rap music. Just can't handle the combination.
Haha, totally okay and I adore power metal genuinely as an aesthetic and what it stands for! no bad blood with it whatsoever. :] and that's valid! I definitely can see why that'd be a big turn-of!
Not even a metal guy, but this came up on my recommended, and it was quite interesting and well done that I still watched until the end. I’ll definitely be checking out some more of your content
Babe wake up the best metal CZcamsr just dropped a video
You're so sweet!! Thank youuu
@@TheMetalTempestYT you’re welcome I’m glad they do :)))
Can't stand the various metal genres that try to mesh metal with pop music like pop metal, rap metal, etc. I feel like these genres simply miss the plot of being metal bands, in that they're mainstream pop/rap/whatever bands that simply use the metal instrumental lineup but utilize it pretty poorly.
Amen. I think it's few and far between how many hybrid metal bands are actually...great.
Electric Callboy is sacrilegious (Pop influences, metalcore breakdowns, techno) but i love them
Try Candiria
I would only like power metal if it was not in standard E tuning most of the time and get some lower screaming thrown in there
I definitely would fuck heavily with some power metal that has some different fun influences or diverse things, for sure. I'm sure they exist but I just need to find 'em or talk to someone well-versed in it lol
@@TheMetalTempestYT Have you heard of wintersun? They feel very much rooted in power metal but also have influence from MeloDeath, Black Metal, and Folk Metal. I'd check them out if you haven't already.
My fav power metal band is Galneryus. Guitar is in standard D# there and. I dont like power metal most of the time but this one is a real gem
@@thetempest9330 I was coming here to bring up wintersun
As a big fan of gothic metal I definitely see your point. The music often kind of feels like it was made for those cheesy vampire films and shows that dominated the Cw in the early 2010s. I love My Dying Bride something fierce but you know damn well at some point just for fun I played “Like Gods Of The Sun” over a “True Blood” clip to see if it worked.
Oh my God why is the CW comparison so good. The Vampire Diaries headass lol.
@@TheMetalTempestYT no lie that was part of the inspiration for me taking up the genre. I heard a HIM song and thought “huh, the vampire diaries much?” But then actually got into some romantic literature along with My Dying Bride, Tiamat, Katatonia, Paradise Lost, Anathema, let me dream, mindrot, etc. I right now am into My Dying Bride a lot. They were influenced by my favorite band of all time SWANS and I just really picked up on that.
Damn...i love power metal. Ive never seen any "wankery" power metal tho. I think thw production is not overdone at all. I personally love it for its cheesy ness. Its fun i love fun metal. Which is why i love Anthrax, Dethklok, Gwar, Etc. but hey no heat towards you.
And that's totally valid! All the bands you mentioned I also like and I'm a big fan of metal that doesn't take itself THAT seriously and it's one reason I enjoy a lot of the bands I like. I'm a big advocate for metal that's just goofy and fun and I definitely could've mentioned that here alongside power metal.
cheers!!
@@TheMetalTempestYT yeah I understand that. It's something I need to be in the mood for but yeah I totally understand
The only metal genre I absolutely don't want to touch is NSBM. I don't even care if the music is good or not; why would I want to listen to a genre that's built around the adoration of an ideology that is racist, ableist, homophobic and transphobic to such a degree they actively tried to extinguish these kinds of people when I'm trans and have autism myself? I'm not one to hate anything but this is an exception.
Modern metalcore: I grew up on 2000's metalcore but modern metalcore sounds bland and uninspired to me. Don't get me wrong, there are some great bands in that scene but overall from what I've heard it's not for me.
Nu metal, but only because I've heard so much of it in modern metalcore it started sounding bland. This is especially the case with Linkin Park.
Real
I didn’t know much about gothic metal until now, but as someone who loves all sorts of doom metal and gothic rock, I’d like to know bands that I should check out.
Type O Negative, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost and Lacuna Coil are great places to start in my opinion.
@@TheMetalTempestYT I actually looked up some bands and started with early anathema (which I’ve heard of before) and Katatonia, I’ve added their stuff to my doom prog and goth playlists.
do yourself a favor and listen to "October Rust" by Type O Negative
Tiamat. Check out Wildhoney. It's meant to be played beginning to end though to grasp it. It's a trip.
Gothic and power are like the best genres lol
Glad to hear you like 'em!
I absolutely love gothic metal, consider it my favorite niche within metal, and even flew from California to Germany just to catch Draconian live, but I totally get your complaint lol. It's easily the least "metal" subgenre around and definitely has no idea how to be concise. It also doesn't help that most of the best gothic metal bands (The Gathering, Tiamat, Katatonia, etc.) seemed to stumble into the genre, were great for reasons that had nothing to do with being metal, and left the genre as easily as how they came in. But there are some bands that do have the heaviness to back it up without being too polished, namely early Tristania (people forget how nasty that tone is), 90's Katatonia, some Novembre black metal sections, and turn-of-the-century My Dying Bride (The Dreadful Hours especially). And people forget how much gothic metal influence is in Agalloch's music too!
Anyway, as to my least favorite metal genres: Probably glam or drone, but more controversially: Every time i listen to a traditional heavy metal album, they will have one or two songs that kicks up the speed and goes full USPM and I think "this sounds great, why can't they just do that again?" and feel disappointed in the entire rest of the album.
Also what’s your favorite black metal project? Mines bergtatt by ulver
Oooh that's a great pick. I'd say either Forgotten Paths by Saor or Frozen Bloom by Olhava in terms of modern stuff. plenty of classics I enjoy as well but those are two I go back to often. i'm a big atmospheric BM fan and blackened folk metal! :]
@@TheMetalTempestYThaven’t listened to it but I will on my way home on the bus
I think Gothic Metal is done best by Germans (wider definition). Erben der Shöpfung, Elis, ASP, Lacrimosa. Love this stuff.
About The whole Raw BM thing , I think there's a difference between the Euro Stuff and the American
Fun video and I can understand it completely for me I am not that into the harsher sub genres yet I don't know if I ever will but songs with only screams are not my thing for now. I am also a huge fan of power metal but I can see what you mean with your points in this video but I am glad you at least like Blind Guardian that is one of my favourite bands. I also have not dived too deep in gothic metal but there is one I like that is more symphonic metal they have relativly short songs with one exception. The name is Blackbriar only has 2 albums and three EPs just got signed to a record label and I have seen them live six times. In my opinion they are really good at building atmosphere in their songs, my first reactions to one of their newer tracks that I heard live was: "wtf this is so creepy, I love it." Which is about Bloody Footprints In The Snow which is one of their longer tracks at about 5 minutes. They sing about folklore and sometimes very personal things, The Seance is about feeling ignored disguised as a song about ghosts.
Definitely agree that Sunn 0))) is the best drone metal (wearing my "ever breathe a frequency?" tshirt today). When I really started getting serious into metal, it was power metal (BG, Helloween) and gothic metal that did it for me (as well as black metal and melodic death metal). Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Lacuna Coil, early Within Temptation, Tristania, Sirenia, Sins Of Thy Beloved...loved it all. As for genres I like the least, it has to be a couple of your favorites: nu metal and metalcore (mostly the former). Perhaps it's an age thing, but they don't grab me like other genres do.
My least favorite metal genres...
*Power Metal* - As someone who grew up on hiphop, NYHC and thrash metal u can probably see why power metal basically is just too damn goofy for my liking...
*Black Metal* - I can appreciate bands like Blut Aus Nord or Deafhaven i.e. bands who utilize black metal and push it to different levels, however, the standalone 2nd wave Norwegian black metal sound and aesthetic is just really not my thing and frankly all the clichés about the black metal scene (gatekeeping, elitism, sketchy politics etc.) I've actually encountered.
*Slam Metal* - Basically death metal without all the elements that could possibly make death metal interesting to the habitual listener. Sorry, to me it's a genre that mostly sounds like someone violently trying to flush a clogged toilet.
i think sucks 2 suck by alpha wolf is a good example of a good nu metalcore song personally
Ik u say Power Metal is not really your cup of tea. Pefectly Valid!!! I just want to ask if you know of the band Virgin Steele? Theyre like Power Metal but more heavy and more badass i suppose u coudl say!! (While still keeping some of the cheese factor there) :3
Heavy metal,power metal metal with flutes and other folk instruments
Even as someone who can definitely enjoy and vibe with some Power Metal, enough that you could consider me a fan of it, I 100% get where you're coming from with your criticisms. I love what the subgenre is trying to be but I also feel like it has a really bad tendency to blend into itself and just wind up repeating a lot of the same stuff. Power Metal is something I enjoy when it succeeds at being original and actually does something that will stick with me.
I think one of the biggest reasons a lot of Power Metal falls into that trap I call blending into itself is because they go for those fantasy and/or sci-fi themed lyrics you talk about, which can absolutely work and sound beautiful, but a lot of Power Metal tries to achieve this by just throwing either vaguely fantastical or vaguely futuristic sounding lyrics together without any actual coherent meaning, so there ends up being no actual story to tell with something of value in the lyrics, instead we just get LARPer mumbo jumbo trying way too hard to sound cool.
That's so true! I think it's trying to make it thematic over trying to have depth and dimension and that is at the cost of feeling nice!
@@TheMetalTempestYT It's for these reasons that I actually think one of the better Power Metal acts I've heard was Rhapsody of Fire in their earlier days. To my understanding their first several albums were telling a consistent story about a hero simply known as the Warrior of Ice going on a quest to defeat evil and defend his homeland, it's easier to appreciate the music because of this, there is genuine meaning to the lyrics and not just a theme for the sake of a theme.
My least favorite is deathcore, pornogrind, grindcore, funeral doom, death/doom and NSBM/ red and anarchist black metal, mostly because of how nihilistic or totally fucked up it is. It sounds like two cars crashing into each other at 150mph.
Power is actually still my favorite but I am not as into it as i used to be, and Lovebites should change your mind about power, because they're amazingly heavy
That's totally fair! I'll check out Lovebits. And agree with a lot of your picks, though I do like quite a few of those a lot as well. Nihilism in metal ain't for everyone!
whilst I'm a big powermetal fan I do have to agree with you on some of the bands. I do tend to stay with the same bands and, give the newer ones a listen and go "meh" My least favorite? As usual I don't know all the subs so I would have to go with black metal, screamo, and most "core" I've tried to get into them but the vocals mainly just annoy me.
Like You feel about Nu Metalcore, that´s exactly how i feel about Deathdoom. Love me my Doom, love me my Death, but in combination, it almost always fails to click with me. Strange, but, well, if you just mix together the worst parts of both genres ... it just fails more often that not.
Other genres i cannot get into are:
- P*Grind - Strage because i do love Goregrind and most other grind subgenres
- Power Metal - Just can´t stand any cheese on my Metal, which is why a whole lot of Symphonic and Gothic stuff falls flat too, but Power Metal is kind of the tip of the iceberg in this sense, ... and then there´s this hypermasculin thing and the glorification of warriors / war, that turns me off so badly. Sorry to Helloween, You were my first love in metal and You will always be.
- Practically all of Black Metal, except in DSBM there were moments where it clicked with me, and the first Mayhem is good, but otherwise ... I just can´t stand this "We are so dark and evil" attitude. I want my Metal pissed off, scream the shit out and then it´s gone; with most of the Black Metal i heared i feel worse after listening. I don´t want that. Dwell in Your darkness if You will, i won´t come with You. Get over it. Oh yeah, and as an anti dogmatic thinking person, dogmatic anti christianity is about as attractive to me as dogmatic christianity. Get over that too.
- Melodeath - just boring
I think our favourite and least favourite genres aren't defined by the BEST bands but rather by how much we can find enjoyment from a "mediocre" example of that genre.
For example - I LOVE music in most Metal subgenres but Metalcore is near the bottom of my favourites because I just can't tolerate listening to mediocre Metalcore anywhere near as much as I can tolerate listening to mediocre examples of my favourites - Trad Heavy Metal and Power Metal.
Speaking of Trad and Power - I feel like there is a whole spectrum of bands that are called "Power Metal" which might appeal to people who think they don't like Power Metal.
Bands like Iced Earth, Virgin Steele, Crimson Glory, Slough Feg, Jag Panzer etc. etc.
They're all in the "US Power Metal" side of things, and I feel like that's generally a big rougher and more aggressive.
The thing I love most about Power Metal is the feeling of fighting and defiance.
Power Metal that feels "triumphant" in a way that feels "unearned" mostly rings hollow for me - that's why a lot of Euro-Power don't resonate with people - it's just too "happy".
Power Metal isn't music that people actually RELATE to emotionally - it's music that people ASPIRE to emotionally.
I actually prefer music that brings out an aspirational and motivational side of myself rather than relating to or resonating with feelings I have.
So in the best Power Metal - I feel like it's music that does battle with the darkness, as opposed to the embracing of darkness that comes with other Metal subgenres.
I have the exact same list 💀
LOL, glad we can agree!
Death metal and black metal and any other subgenres of metal that has very hard to understand the vocals or whenever the music itself sounds like it's literally just a bunch of racket. I do love speed,power,industrial,symphonic,Doom,nu,hair,and even some thrash
I don’t really dislike any subgenre, but I think some subgenres are less capable of producing catchy stuff given certain conventions and pressures to remain marketable within the scene among all the other bands playing the exact same style.
Strong agree on black metal. The loud minority of elitist nerds will hate on me for it, but I much prefer bands like Panzerfaust, Necrophobic or Schammasch to raw black metal or whatever is considered trv kvlt these days.
As for doom metal, I think there’s a lot of potential there but I think they should utilize more of the many tools they have at their disposal. Tempo changes can make a doom song sound super heavy.
A lot of “brutal” subgenres try to out-brutal each other which often ends up with a monotonous wall of noise and blastbeats that is simply boring to listen to IMO.
I have a love/hate relationship with prog metal, since it can get far too preoccupied with “being prog” to the point of sacrificing listenability and innovation.
Karencore-falling in reverse trapt puddle of Mudd kiss kid rock Ted nugent Aaron Lewis jason Aldean Morgan wallen sam hunt Kanye west tom Macdonald Adam Calhoun maroon 5 Meghan Trainor staind drake AJR Chris brown toby keith
LMAO love it
My least favorite Metal genre is Post Metal because the name doesn't make any sense at all and it just sounds so stupid
Do you know there is a distinctive between Gothic Metal and Gothic Doom? Bands like Draconian and Type O Negative tend to be on the Doomier side. Do you have opinions on that variation?
Heh, finally someone who agrees with me that powermetal can sound over-engineered and mostly style over substance. I also share your opinion on drone metal too! Love me some noise too but it has to be more on the shoegaze side for me. These were some refreshing takes, in the sense that you're the first one I've heard talk about metal who knows what I mean with flat sounding music.
With power metal I agree with ya even tho I grew up with it most power metal bands sounds the same to me
With gothic metal I also agree with you on that and I like my moody stuff but it feels the same
My least favorite genres is death , black , even though I like bands from groove it doesn't make me groove ,and later nu metal (post 2001)
For me it’s grind and slam can’t get into them at all. Power is def a go to of mine when I’m looking to fall out of this world and escape to another
Would love to hear your thoughts on some of the new bands getting attention like infectious jelqing
That's some proper whiteboy shit
Never heard of drone metal. Went and listened to a couple Sunn songs....sounds like music that would be in a loading screen for a video game like Doom...or maybe a horror movie background.
Easy: deathcore as it’s quite one note & aggression for aggression sake which is really off putting as metal can be more than that. (Honestly it’s what I thought all metal was before I heard it properly)
For me, I don't see genres. If a band/song sounds cool to me I'll listen to it. If I don't like it, I don't listen to it. Simple.
I agree about Gothic metal for sure but I don’t know if I am missing something or if I’m hearing something else but Paradise Lost seem 100 percent genuine and are a broad varied wonderfully beautiful band that with complete sincerity can go from terrifying brutality to essentially new wave music.Then again I don’t see Type O Negative with the level of depth other people do
Power Metal
Folk Metal
Pirate Metal
Hardcore
Metalcore
Which is weird because I like deathcore
I don't like raw black metal at all, but when black metal traits are implemented in other genres they become my favorite bands. Cradle of Filth added more melodic elements, Psyclon Nine and Dawn of Ashes both are industrial bands with Black Metal style vocals. Those are my 3 favorite bands.
u should definitely check out some japanese power metal bands if u haven’t already like versailles, jupiter, minstrelix, and matenrou opera! once i started listening to them it literally became one of my favorite metal genres and i couldn’t get enough of it lol
If you like female vocals, check out unlucky morpheus and yousei teikoku if you haven't yet.
@@DrNiper unlucky morpheus are great! also the other band fuki is in, light bringer. aldious, tears of tragedy, octaviagrace, mai yajime, and cross of vein as well. i still need to get into yousei teikoku more though, which album do you recommend?
@@xxxloren Yes pretty much anything Fuki is in is good :).
Yousei teikoku has a pretty clear difference between their older discography, which is more industrial with electronic sounds, and newer stuff which is more based on the traditional band instruments. For the older sound I recommend Gothic lolita propaganda, and from the later output I'd recommend their newest album The age of villains.
A lot of modern metal music, while not all of it is bad, mostly just feels boring and like it's trying to be popular. Stuff like metalcore just feels like someone tried to make metal but listened to way to much pop and stuff like that. It just feels like a pop band tried to turn into a metal band. And don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good modern music, it's just that a lot of modern metal just doesn't hit like the 90's and earlier. Death metal also just sounds like it's trying to be cool and scary but when i can't even tell that they're speaking english and their voice just doesn't even sound cool, why would I bother listening to it? Some stuff that I love is actually some songs off of the Aske album by Burzum but the difference with that is that his screaming sounds fuckin' sick. Specifically the song Spell of Destruction. It's got a slow, groovy riff and it sounds like the screams of the souls of the damned or some shit. It's awesome.
Also, I've noticed a lot of good music coming out of Australia in recent years. It's not all metal; there's a lot of good psychedelic rock and stuff, but, for instance, the band Battlesnake. They're a heavy metal band from Australia. They released their first song in 2019 I think. Nightmare King. It's awesome. They're probably super underrated in my opinion and they're probably my second favourite band (just below King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, who are also Australian). Check them out. I think they said in an interview once that the way they started was they were watching some people playing in the tv and one of them said, "We can do that better", and proceeded to, in fact, do that better. lol.
I'm not sure what genres I like the least besides black metal. I dislike black metal for petty reasons, really. I feel like all genres always have that one band that is just good to you. I said I'd check out the different metal subgenres but for a long time I've been stuck listening to death metal up to noisecore too.
Anything to do with grindcore. Love death metal and deathcore but some of these obscure subgenres like pornogrind as a example where half the song is some perverted audio clip to do with f***ing and then 10 seconds of actual song i just dont understand how people can like it.
I listen to manowar, and soke alt metal like korn and such. But uf you happen to listen to something you cant even understand the lyrics too... Remember that i dont consider that music and this is coming from me also listening to tool wvery single day. If you cant be even as coherent with your style or lyrics as even the chaos of some korn or tool songs, please stay away from my aux cord forever, or ill damage my ears so i dont gotta hear it. If its noise its noise, hence drone metal for me usually but not always. Mind you the people hearing my words who want to clap back if they knew me, theyd say im funny fir lsitening to breaking Benjamin in the same playlists as these
for me its:
Djent: for me its quite repetitive and random that its overstimulating in some occasion. the ironic part is that my fav band is mechina
Metalcore: too emo and weak for me tbfh
Deathcore: it just isn't heavy but they're trying so hard to be heavy by putting other sfx in it while traditional and modern dm still feel more eldritch and abysmally heavy without even using anything.
Nu Metal: I could love horrorcore as a hiphop genre but like its the same reason for Metalcore
DSBM & RawBM: its corny sounding, no explanation needed
Thall: this is literally dissonant death metal but trying to be deathcore
Thrash: i might get hate for this but its quite boring and not heavy. its probably because i'm into War Metal already so it feels weak as hell. but i can't deny its influence to extreme metal as a whole
Doom: the same thing as Thrash... i found a better genre. funeral doom, blackened doom and drone really pleasing but the original is just so boring
Sludge: a easily replaceable genre. i would rather listen to slam and mincecore than this and its sounds weak as hell
Groove: i prefer regular hard rock heavy metal
For me my dislikes is nu,metalcore,industrial,any avant garde that's trying way too hard to be different, any rap metal with the exception of body count ,crust and any fusion thats more punk dominated
Bring on the pain!
Hell yeah!
Metalcore and the associated whiney-ness makes me want to explode.
I personally have a problem with NSBM for obvious reasons and otherwise I think that modern metalcore is getting kinda boring and oversaturated currently, even though I like metalcore and also some of the modern bands
Noisecore and emo metal for me. Other than that. I don't like whatever Ghost is. I have nothing against Ghost. I am have no problem with people listening to ghost but for some reason Ghost fans get offended that I don't like ghost.
I am into dearh metal, grindcore and black metal but for some bizarre reason Dir en Grey clicked with me and they are my favorite Japanese band. I know a lot of people who are into what I normally listen to hate Dir en Grey but they are my guilty pleasure and I love everything they have put out so far. I never get offended if people don't like them.
So I don't get why people get offended when I say Ghost isn't really my thing.
For me it’s powermetal and sludge metal
Power metal, Core metal(this includes death core, metal core, noise core, etc.), and most black metal. I can appreciate, respect, and in some ways enjoy the instrumental aspect of the genre, but to purposely under produce and at times make it sonically unpleasant to listen to is beyond me. The Black metal vocals. I'm a Death Metal guy, I love my guttural growls. Layer it with high screams ie. Deicide then that provides some evil sounding vocals. Black metal shrieks doesn't sound evil to me. With DSBM it works. I also like the more avant-garde black metalesque band(s). Melodeath and the Gothenburg Death Metal bands with a few exceptions. The buzz saw guitar tone cool but over played. These bands aren't brutal enough except for Unleashed, Grave, and a couple other ones I more respect than really enjoy. NU metal except for a few songs from Korn and a song here and there from other bands just don't like the genre.
That's perfectly fair. Black metal I think has lost a lot of the genuine fear it used to strike into listeners. Maybe that's just being desensitized, dunno.
You can call me gay all you want, Blind Guardian have a special place in my heart the elitists cant take away
For me:
Slam: If most of it wasnt some bands being woman bad woman die now and using movies to hide sexsexi sm I'd listen to it
Metal core: A bit too nasal for me
Porngrind: Much easier watching porn then listening to it.
I really like USPM. Helstar, Fifth Angel, Manowar, Virgin Steele, MANILLA ROAD, MAN!!
EUPM I'm way more selective on. I like Running Wild and Blind Guardian and that's it. Anything that sounds like Helloween (ew) or Sonata Arctica (EW) I will stay far far away from.
I do not understand drone metal. Never liked it, never will.
I usually just stick to thrash, death and trad metal. Sprinke in some USPM and traditional doom. Voivod's breaking new ground for me since I never liked ANY prog metal before but now I find myself listening to Mastodon and shit sometimes.
Fair enough! Voivod is in a massive lan eof their own LOL
I don't really like black metal, I guess the classical one like Mayhem and similar stuff. I love the guitar riffs, but usually it is just too much, I don't dig the lyrics for the most part. Although, I like some black metal subgenres, like symphonic BM (Carach Angren, Xanthochroid, Dimmu Borgir is also pretty cool), atmospheric BM (Saor, Can Bardd, Sojourner)
Also, Thy Catafalque is amazing
Most hated are metalcore, numetal and deathcore. Early Killswitch Engage, Cannae and Darkest Hour are among the exceptions
Don't really have favourites hmmm
I didnnt know Loathe were considered nu metalcore. I first heard them live a few weeks back and they were fucking amazing. I dont know what it is about their records but i cant really get into them. I also just cant get into thrash.
Absolutely agree with you because most metal genres have a few innovators and a host of boring derivative copycats who don't interest me
Glitchcore. This comes from a code orange fan. GOD! It is so damn annoying when they fuck up a great song by glitching it out and making it sound like tv static that shit hurts my ears dawg like what are you even doing here. It makes the songs sound overproduced and it’s the metal equivalent of brianrot. Just looping and wierd high pitched scratches like what in the Marilyn durst am I listening to right now. And they usually put it on their best songs too.
Thought glitchcore was hyperpop subgenre, artists like twikipedia Saturn, pitfall, Lei, osquinn etc. I personally love this side of music but if there is a metal version of it I'd def be interested in checking it out.
That's so valid. I feel like as someone who likes electronics and glitch in music, I tend to think it's really cool when bands like Zombieshark do it right. But I can understand completely why someone wouldn't like that!
@@TheMetalTempestYT yeah it’s wierd I like industrial like nine inch nails and their glitch/drone stuff at the end of their songs adds to the atmosphere I guess I don’t like poorly done glitchcore. Like if your making a metalcore burn burner head banger don’t put have odd tone switches. I think it’s all about context and atmosphere
@@Unpleazantinteraction eh… I’d say hyper pop is probably where this should stay the only band I know to do this is code orange and it seems more like a gimmick than an actual song enhancer
@@drdeadbread7616 I can def see where ur coming from cuz the reason the glitchy vocals work so well is because it's over an electronic trap beat as opposed to scream vocals over metalcore riffs.
I wanna like black metal and grindcore but the mixing just turns me off ,I also like death metal/deathcore but I think the lyrics just seem like cheap shock horror ,btw I don’t mind gore in music but when it’s about where the sun don’t shine I can’t stand it . Major respect to the bands this can apply to and I think infant annihilatior has more talent than Taylor swift
Death metal is the best genre of metal and No one can say otherwise
My Dying Bride is a gothic doom metal band not a gothic metal band 😊
Would say Slam, DSBM, and Thrash,
Why thrash?
@@MetalKid69 just not my type of vibe, i listen to a lot of diffrent genres, in and out of metal, but thrash i just don't feel the appeal
I oersonally cannot stand 90% of Doom becuase its too freaking slow. I love only a handfull of doom bands like Swallow the sun and novembers doom.
I agree with u about power metal.
Whatever Sleep Token is... that's my least favorite genre of metal.
When prog metal isn't djent or mixed with something else like death metal, im also not a fan.
But the typical responses from extreme metal listeners like folk metal, power metal, etc don't feel right to say because I think there are some goated releases in all those genres that by no means transcend their stereotypes.
I can't stand power metal either! I like maybe two or three songs from the genre as a whole. The high vocals grate on me so much and the guitar solos all sound the same. I want my metal to sound dark, angry and heavy!
I disliked Metalcore for the longest time. Not anymore. But it is still not the favourite one. Power Metal? It is pop music for metalheads. And Nightwish are the goats. But exactly because it is so soft I don't listen to other bands except Nightwish...
I don't listen much to Folk Metal. And don't forget about Pirate Metal.
My view on drone metal
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
LOL I get you so much on this.
@@TheMetalTempestYT Great take. I would flat out say drone sucks. I don't get why anyone likes it.
I knew you would say you don't like power metal. That, we're on the same page. At least you like Helloween. They're the best power metal band, no ifs ands or buts. When you said gothic metal, I keep saying, "No, no, no, no!" And fake cried. 😢 Lol.
Awww, I'm so sorry! I love a decent chunk of gothic metal it's just a lot of the bigger ones I can't get behind haha. And yeah, Helloween is incredible! Blind Guardian and Sabaton are also some bands I really appreciate and like :]
Helloween, Sabaton and Blind Guardian are in my top 10.
@@MetalGildarts top 10 metal bands? Helloween I agree, the other two I disagree, but that's just me. Helloween is only in my top 25 only because the other bands I love more. But yeah. Helloween is an awesome band!
@@takodabostwick8507
My current top 10(in no particular order:)
1.Iron Maiden
2.Judas Priest
3.Nightwish
4.Gojira
5.Helloween
6.Blind Guardian
7.Sabaton
8.Amon Amarth
9.Megadeth
10.Avenged Sevenfold
@@MetalGildarts my list is very basic, but here's mine. Kinda of stuck in the 80s, even though I'm 27.
1. Motorhead
2. Iron Maiden
3. Metallica
4. Black Sabbath
5. Megadeth
6. Judas Priest
7. Dokken
8. Sepultura
9. Saxon
10. Death
instead of all the sub genre bs,, cant it be just METAL?
slam, all core bands of any kind although i don't mind some Trivium and Shadow of Intent. But they sound kinda melodic death metal at times. Power metal besides a handful of bands, female fronted symphonic metal besides like 3 bands. oh and nu metal. Never liked it.
I can't tell if you're 17 or 37
i dont know either, but im pretty sure he used to sing for survivor
You are absolutely correct with power metal. It is very much wank metal. I recommend looking into wind rose and osyrn they are way more loke the clasic power metal
Windrose are fantastic!
The whole Stoner /Sludge / Doom trend
I absolutely hate Death Metal and Black Metal. I feel like they are trying to hard to be edgy and genting your voice doesn't make it "heavy" for me. Even though I feel like it does pair well with Doom Metal or some goth bands. Especially when clean vocals chimes in and sets a different tone as the song drags on.
So you don’t like metal then, got it.
My least favorite genre as a whole is black metal. Perhaps it's the sound or the overall edginess I feel from the lyrics (this coming from a nu-metalcore fan who doesn't mind the potential cheesiness it brings), but it's never really resonated with me, unless it's combined with something else.
I do like BLACKENED genres sometimes, though. For example, a few days ago, someone showed me this blackened deathcore trap fusion project CHXEU. I know, crazy combination, right? Absolutely just disgusting (in a good way) vocals over trap beats. It shouldn't work, but it somehow does.
I feel like the blackened influence is something I've heard a lot and I agree wholeheartedly. I fucking love blackened folk metal, blackened deathcore, blackened death metal etc. But a lot of black metal simply misses the mark if it's true blue.
symphonic, industrial, gothic metal, anything where if I can unplug your computer and your set is ruined, I don't want it especially in the realms of deathcore in the wake of To The Hellfire
metalcore in the 2010s
nu metal, with System of a Down being the exception
sludge, doom, stoner, etc. get on with it
also I love the raw black metal band Black Cilice. the riffs be riffin
Fair enough LOL symphonic almost made this list as well
And oml I've made entire deep dives into how Lorna Shore and specifically infant annihilator permanently changed the lane of deathcore
What's specifically not tickled your fancy for newer metalcore? Because I adore it and can see a lot of the flaws still so ik curious if we overlap at all opinion wise
@@TheMetalTempestYT new metalcore (not nu metalcore, which also sucks) or as I call it "Architectscore" suffers from the guitarist going "hey guys, how many breakdowns and cliche lyrics do we want in this overproduced, bland, soulless, boring ass album?" and the answer is always "yes"
bands where, again, if I can unplug your laptop and your set is unplayable
@@xtransxcorexsystem of a down is not nu metal
Sorry bands more then anything else like GHOST. SLEEP TOKEN. METALLICA KORN ZACK Wylde IRON MADIAN BLACK SABBATH
Power metal is the only one I can say fucking sucks for me, no other ones I dislike very much
power metal - same reasons as you
war metal - plain boring as it all sounds the same besides for blasphemy and the first mayhem album
drone metal - the entire subgenre is so boring
slam - besides for a few songs, obvious reasons
regular death metal - except for a few morbid angel obituary and entombed songs it's so boring
modern metalcore - it's not metalcore or metal tbh it's more just rock, but i hate it a lot so i haven't listened to it a bunch
nu metalcore - sooooo samey. not specifically a combination of metalcore and nu metal like loathe knockee loose vein etc the actual genre like thrown and whatever other bands are in it. so boring
deathcore (besides melodic and lorna shore) - i used to love it but now to me it's so samey and doesn't really do anything, each genre is exactly the same even prog deathcore
bonuses: thrash metal mathcore and black metal
thrash is boring, mathcore is samey but i love a lot or it and a lot of black metal i just cannot get into
Power Metal, Symphonic, Deathcore, and Thrash for me😢
Oooh, I love deathcore/thrash but I get why someone might not like 'em. Glad we can agree on power metal and symphonic metal though; the latter nearly made this list lol.
@@TheMetalTempestYT i love old deathcore (The Red Chord, Ion Dissonance, Early Underoath, As Blood Runs Black, Animosity) but i just hate the production Of modern deathcore
My least favorites are glam/hair metal (it's not metal), most of the "core" and "grind" subgenres, the combination of rap and metal (I hate rap), nu metal (though there are a couple of bands that I like).
oh boy. let's poke the bear. ahem..
doom metal
sludge metal
beat-down
downtempo
modern osdm
Djent
metalcore and nu-metal because they are NOT METAL
OK boomer
My least favorite are Gothic Metal, Symphonic Metal and Power metal. They all just seem too paint by the numbers boring to me. I like the idea of them, symphonic black metal is sick and I love Paradise lost, for instance, but it just seems that the pure versions of those genres are just to generic for me to pay any interest
Fully agree with pretty much all three of your picks. Symphonic nearly made it but most of my feelings overlapped with gothic, lol. cheers
Nu-metal is by far the worst form of metal.
Any metal genre that has the word "core" in it. Power metal, folk metal, heavy/boomer metal, glam and speed metal,thrash metal and NSBM.
Power metal was initially on this list so fair enough LOL
@@TheMetalTempestYT I forgot drone and doom metal, thanks for bringing them up.