Metal music Fans??!

Metal music Fans??

What are the differnt types of metal i listen to a varity and when people ask i want to be specific but not list all my fav artsist! so like what are the meanings of the types of metal music?????????

There is actually a long list of different types of metal, I will try to list them all with a brief description. I also recomemd going to these websites.
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Standard Heavy Metal - Hard edge music. fast, harder version of Blues Rock. Breaking from blanket 4/4 drumming and using fast, flowing sets of Riffs rather than chords. The solos are faster, more technical, moving away from the slowly, emotional (technically emotional) solos of some Rock. The bass lines are thicker and more complex than those in Rock as well, making them a more integral part of the music.(Iron Maiden, Dio, Children of Bodem)

Black Metal - Is very primitive with very complex guitar and drums. The vocals are usually screamed. lyrics are based usually on death, dark themes and the occult. (Venom, Cradle of Filth)

Death Metal - hard, fast driving rhythms of speed metal with the dark, morbid obsession with death and despair. (In Flames, Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death)

NU Metal - NU stands for New Urban. Nu Metal has NOTHING to do with Real Metal at all. It is a form of Alt. Rock, which takes simple ideas form other genres and cross breads them. Be it Hip Hop, Rap, Hardcore, Industrial or straight up Pop. It's music. Nu Metal often features low technicality, simplistic song patterns, all purpose drumming, no solos, drop d tuning and one finger power chords. These things mean that the basic structures are not those of Metal and the very roots of the music are different. Bands like, Korn, Linkin Park, etc.

Thrash Metal

A faster, harder, more complex version of Heavy Metal. Taking influences from Punk. Even faster riffs and solos. The bass is generally simple but fast and agrees. Vocals are ALWAYS clean, but can be intense. The drumming uses large amounts of double bass rolls and fast snare blasting. Pretty much any 'extreme' band with clean vocals. Examples – Slayer, Testament, Exodus.

Melodic Death Metal

While all types of Metal can have Melodic forms, this one has grown into it’s own subgenre. Combing Death Metal with Power Metal, Melo Death is full of guitar harmonies and pounding drumming. Somewhere between Death and Power Metal in terms of technical skill, it’s sound is very distinctive due to the Gothenburg scene. Vocals are still growled, but higher and clearer than in Death Metal. Examples – At The Gates, Dark Tranquillity, Arch Enemy.


Gore Metal

Having it’s routes in Goregrind, Gore Metal crosses it with Melo Death Metal and produces what is just a straight up breed of the two sounds. The vocals are clearer and less distorted, but still growled. There is less distortion and more melody to the guitaring and more rhythm to the drumming. Examples– Carcass, Impaled, Carrion.

Power Metal

With it’s roots in Classic Metal and lots of influence from Iron Maiden, Power Metal is all about guitar harmonies and melodies. The drumming often gallops due to the pattern used. The solos are large and fancy, showing off the top of melodic skill. The vocals are usually high and soaring, similar to those of Glam Rock, Prog Rock and even Opera (as many Power Metal vocalists are classical trained singers) Examples – Blind Guardian, Helloween, Stratovarius

Progressive Metal

Taking the ideas of 70’s and 80’s Prog Rock and placing them in the setting of Heavy Metal. Full of highly complex instrumental sections, tempo and timing changes in every sort and style along with massively extravagant solos on any and all instruments. The vocals are high and soaring, much like those of Power Metal. Prog Metal occurs in all Metal sub genres as well as it’s pure form, showing it’s wide of influences and styles. Examples – Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, Andromeda

Industrial Metal

Metal (Almost always Thrash) crossed with Industrial. Lots of synth and electronic noises/effects and distortions, reverb soaked guitaring and a mix of growling and screaming vocals. Generally trying to take the machine sound of Industrial and play it with instruments. Examples – Meshuggah, Fear Factory, Stabbing Westward.

Doom Metal

Heavily influenced by early Black Sabbath, Doom takes someone from Death Metal in it’s sound and style. Vocals are slow and pained, any growls are long and low, rather than raged as in Death Metal. The riffs and drumming are slow and droning, to create a sad, depressing atmosphere as Black Metal tries to create a haunting, evil one. Examples – Electric Wizard, My Dying Bridge, Katatonia.

Gothic Metal

Simply Goth Rock played using Metal structures and styles. Often more clearly defined as to what is Goth Metal than with Goth Rock. Most bands tend to be from other genres, but with a Gothic edge and sound to them. Examples – Lacuna Coil, Type O Negative, Tristania

Folk Metal

What Goth Metal is to Goth Rock, Folk Metal is to Folk. Generally used by National Socialist bands as an off shoot from the Black Metal scene. Folk generally harps back to traditional Pagan music and styles to create it’s sound. Can be acoustic and keyboard laden but can be more brutal. Examples – Skyforger, Morgenstern, Viikate

Viking Metal

A particular bread of Folk Black Metal. Dealing with the history of the Vikings, the music is very fast and abrasive with galloping blast beats and shredding, distorted guitars. Like Melodic Death Metal, it’s a “style” that has grown into it’s own genre with it’s own sound. Examples – Enslaved, Bloodaxe, Moonsorrow.


I hope this helps.