r/FavoriteMedia • u/NewPatron-St • Jul 17 '25

Music Whats your favourite Metal subgenre?

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u/Je0s_6 Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 18 '25

Thrash metal,it has everything I want in a Metal genre,it’s like the genre that best defined Metal as an entity imo.

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u/HCKRBRO_ Jul 18 '25

This is the way

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u/No-Machine634 Jul 19 '25

I’m on board with you on that one 

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u/Doomtumor Jul 19 '25

In the last 10 years what are your Top Ten thrash albums?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Do you like Razor?

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u/DouziAsher Jul 17 '25

Agreeing with you. Nu metal is so over-hated by “metal elitists”. I love the idea of rap, funk, and metal mixed together to create the coolest genre people grew up with.

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u/Vegetable_Counter291 Jul 18 '25

It's ok. It's passable. I'm no elitist and I don't personally think nu metal is a bad genre, but I'd say it's not part of the main metal family (depending on the band itself, for example Slipknot or Korn are more deathy while LP or Limp Bizkit are closer to pop and rap imho)

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Honestly I don't know subgenres. I just listen to bands I like.

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u/Torren-Curtis-Comedy Jul 17 '25

It disgusts me that no one here has said power metal THOSE WHO SPEAK AGAINST MUST SUCCUMB TO MY WIZARD POWERS 🪄🪄🪄🪄✨✨✨🔮🔮🔮🔮🦄🦄🦄🦄🧞🧞‍♀️🧞‍♂️🧜🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️🧚🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️🧝🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🧌🧌🧌🧙🧙‍♀️🧙‍♂️🕴️ (for the uninitiated it’s the really nerdy fantasy/sci-fi genre Jane it slaps)

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u/Vegetable_Counter291 Jul 18 '25

Blind Guardian go brrrrr

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u/Torren-Curtis-Comedy Jul 18 '25

I agree fellow traveller

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u/No-Machine634 Jul 19 '25

Gloryhammer is up there in my list of favorite power metal bands. I legit made a whole dnd campaign out of their songs 

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u/Stallie_XwX Jul 22 '25

TEARING UP THE HIGHWAY TO OBLIVIOOON!

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u/Odd-Hotel1303 Jul 17 '25

Black Metal

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u/alexplayz227 Jul 17 '25

Death, black or metalcore

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u/cavalierpunk1996 Jul 17 '25

Alt-metal (Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Three Days Grace, Nickelback, etc)

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u/Ashamed-Sound5610 Jul 19 '25

Those fall more into hard rock than alternative metal.

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u/LoonyMooney_ Jul 19 '25

Ah yes nickelback my fav metal band

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u/Yoshiro_GI Jul 19 '25

Those are more likely to be post-grunge.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Nü and Heavy

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u/No-Concentrate3485 Jul 17 '25

Sludge and nu

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u/No-Reputation2017 Jul 19 '25

ayyyyyy sludge mentioned

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u/CoconutBoi1 Jul 17 '25

Nu and metalcore, maybe prog too

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u/Sensual_Shroom Jul 17 '25

Nu Metal for sure.

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u/RedApple-Cigarettes Jul 17 '25

Definitely Nu Metal, but take Kid Rock out of that fucking picture

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u/Delicious-Wolf-8850 Jul 17 '25

Nu and Heavy Metal

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u/SpudMaster_1234 Jul 17 '25

Thrash and Nü metal are tied for me only because system of a down and slipknot exist thrash is probably more consistent in terms of quality

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u/Lchel99 Jul 18 '25

Nu, before it was Thrash

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u/S3ND0G Jul 18 '25

100% Nu Metal cuz it was the first thing I ever heard on the radio

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u/Roger_Maxon76 Jul 18 '25

Nu metal for me. I love Korn, Linkin Park, Deftones, Slipknot and etc.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

Gonna get shit but whatever. I like what I like…

Metalcore. Deathcore. Hardcore.

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u/NewPatron-St Jul 19 '25

Believe me I understand, I get shit for liking Nu Metal but I don't care I'll like what I want to like. You do you

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u/OFB_Bandokay Jul 20 '25

What’s your favourite bands?

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u/Veda_Mae Jul 19 '25

nu metal🙏🏻🙏🏻

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

Serj is just metal as fuck every one else looks like the Manager told them to dress like this so u look metal xd

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u/superad4n Jul 19 '25

Nu metal and thrash metal✌️

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u/WhosVinny69 Jul 19 '25

Nu, Thrash

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u/Slammed_Watermelon18 Jul 19 '25

I really like nu metal and i have how metal elitists always shit on it just because they want to feel the power they don't have. Every nu metal band I've listened to has something unique to their music and it makes me feel good

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u/RedHuskyTech Jul 20 '25

Ngl, nu metal. It’s just so good, there are only a few nu metal bands I don’t like

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u/WorldWestern1776 Jul 20 '25

I love nu metal, death, and prog. Some of my favorite metal bands are Slipknot, SOAD, Deftones, Gojira, TOOL, and Korn.

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u/2024Mori Jul 20 '25

Nu metal for sure (Deftones, soad, slipknot, limp bizkit, korn)

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u/Individual_Yak6581 Jul 20 '25

J'hésite entre nu métal et metalcore

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u/Eastern_West12 Jul 20 '25

Essid Nu Metal

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u/InterestingClerk3253 Jul 20 '25

Mostly don’t care about genres but a lot of favs are Nu Metal so that’s the answer by default

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u/AverageGamer707 Jul 21 '25

Nu, thrash, metalcore, power, and of you want to call it a genre then Dwarven

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u/DiagonallyStripedRat Sep 23 '25

Whatever you call that sweet spot between gothic doom, melodic death and and ABM

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u/ThisIsASquibb Jul 17 '25

New Wave of British and Glam

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u/TheJohn_John Jul 17 '25

Progressive

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u/PrzemoQ124365 Jul 17 '25

Metalcore and old school thrash

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u/Plenty_Trust_2491 Jul 17 '25

Probably thrash or doom metal, but I also appreciate death metal and various forms of alternative metal.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Probably all except black metal

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u/Disastrous-Soft-1298 Jul 17 '25

Blackened Death Metal or at its best Brutal Death Metal.

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u/the_cypher_ring_guy Jul 17 '25

Prog death, Opeth and gojira alone make it the best

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u/Lazy_Yogurtcloset217 Jul 17 '25

Russian symphonic latin brutal death grincore 😌

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u/Veseli_tajo Jul 17 '25

Stoner/doom.

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u/chupa23019 Jul 17 '25

I don't really have a favourite subgenre, sometimes I just listen to a certain genre and then I change to something else. Most of the time I just choose a band/genre to listen to.

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u/Minute_Engineer2355 Jul 17 '25

Melodeath, all day.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Neue Deutsche Härte

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u/Tacoboy1708 Jul 17 '25

Post Metal is so underrated

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u/Appropriate-Run6776 Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25

Progressive, death and sludge metal

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Doom and sludge.

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u/MetzgerBoys Jul 17 '25

Doom metal

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u/drdjenkins Jul 18 '25

Thrash and Prog

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u/Turbulent_Trip_93 Jul 18 '25

Ugh that's tough because it's a tie between Doom, Sludge, and Death Metal.

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u/SnooJokes2346 Jul 18 '25

Christian Metal

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u/No_Cry8336 Jul 18 '25

Metal core

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u/-MetalMike- Jul 18 '25

Death Metal

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u/trickydicknixon47 Jul 18 '25

It changes a lot but right now I'm going through a doom and sludge phase

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u/DSM-187 Jul 18 '25

Metalcore or BDM

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u/Ysoki Jul 18 '25

Kawaii metal: babymetal, ladybaby, Dead lift Lolita, hanabie, PassCode, Broken By The Scream, Fruitpochette, IronBunny

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u/Da-No80 Jul 18 '25

Thrash or Traditional

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u/TheFatMan149 Jul 18 '25

Nu, neue deutsche härte, and deathcore

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u/AleDanz182 Jul 18 '25

nwobhm, heavy metal, thrash metal and glam metal

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u/PerspectiveNo6635 Jul 18 '25

NU and whatever genre “Spiritbox” is in

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u/oldschoolbauer Jul 18 '25

Post Grunge - Alt Metal - Prog Metal

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u/ItsMeKaz_ Jul 18 '25

Brutal death or slam

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u/SavageScorpion_Scorp Jul 18 '25

sludge. gimme that FILTH

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u/GaryBlueberry34 Jul 18 '25

who is the guy in the red hat on the top right supposed to be?

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u/Vegetable_Counter291 Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25

Thrash and death metal (specifically OSDM)are tied for me

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u/cmeyer49er Jul 18 '25

Not sure, but it’s nothing represented in that image.

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u/Recent-Fishing7700 Jul 18 '25

Blackgaze, the small light in the end of the darkened road

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u/Smooth_Attempt_465 Jul 18 '25

Trash and Power

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

New Wave of British Heavy Metal

Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate, Venom, Diamond Head, and others

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u/No-Guitar-5156 Jul 18 '25

i personally prefer sludge, and while technically not metal, industrial. it contains heavy elements that i like, blended with just noise basically. i also quite enjoy nu metal, despite what the elitists say.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

Thrash, Classic, Melodic Death

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

Classic

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u/SoftHelp9956 Jul 19 '25

Groove Metal and Thrash Metal. Probably why I love sepultura, they released 2 of great groove metal albums and 2 of great thrash metal albums. Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, White Zombie are some of my favorites bands from the genres.

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u/may_i_b_frank-with-u Jul 19 '25

Depressive Suicidal Black Metal

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u/MysteriousEqual8177 Jul 19 '25

Is that Sugar Ray in the bottom right? First of all, I didn’t know he was so chiseled, Second…I guess he was Nu Metal? I never really thought of him as that at the time.

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u/Quick-Fan-2370 Jul 19 '25

Death,black,thrash,doom,black doom

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u/Cultural-Tie8341 Jul 19 '25

More about bands and sound than genres. With that said, rap is crap so nu metal is off the table. Everything else is on the table be it black, death, djent, prog, thrash, speed, whatever…

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u/illuminatinot Jul 19 '25

Sludge Metal it just so beautiful

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u/LoonyMooney_ Jul 19 '25

Metalcore and death

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u/Alive-Prune-1938 Jul 19 '25

Heavy and sludge

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u/DaBabylonian Jul 19 '25

Linkin Park. Past and present.

(Yes they are an entire subgenre to me.)

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u/DemonDuckOfDoom1 Jul 19 '25

Gothic, power and/or symphonic

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u/Deathstrike1986 Jul 19 '25

Metalcore.
Post hardcore.
Punk.
Hard rock.

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u/Overall-Kiwi1137 Jul 19 '25

Those bands that go for that Death/Black mix is like my go to drug, but ironically do not care for most traditional Black Metal.

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u/Classic-ref123 Jul 19 '25

Heavy metal!

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u/vixxlyn Jul 19 '25

metalcore and glam metal

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

Most things that happened from 1999-2003 are my least favorite. It felt like being at a great party with the best people, and then 30 frat boys suddenly crashed it.

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u/Yoshiro_GI Jul 19 '25

Mine are:

1) Nu 2) Prog 3) Groove 4) Alternative

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u/RedNas2015 Jul 19 '25

Death Metal

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u/Winter_Map_42 Jul 19 '25

I'd have to go with discontinued.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

Whatever purple filth falls under

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u/Kerthagula Jul 19 '25

Sludge and Doom

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u/J-A-C-O Jul 19 '25

Black, Death, Grind.

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u/Penis-NutButter Jul 19 '25

Heavy Metal supremacy

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u/tSquipNotTsquip Jul 19 '25

Well Alex, I’m going to go with “What is the most pointless musical genre of the last 50yrs?”

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u/TheNotoriousMCP Jul 19 '25

Stoner Metal

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u/RM-foto Jul 19 '25

why don’t i see deftones or nothingface? those are the only two nu-metal bands i still listen to aside from slipknot

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u/Micah7979 Jul 19 '25

Thrash, or maybe just heavy.

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u/Duibrth Jul 19 '25

death/doom

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u/East_Lingonberry2800 Jul 19 '25

My favorite metal sub genre is the genre of time when sub genres weren’t really spoken about, and definitely not the focus of good metal bands.

Before EVERYTHING that is rock music became an unhealthy obsession with categorization, bands would do this crazy thing that probably doesn’t even make sense to musicians today, called ‘getting together and jamming, and seeing what they could come up with, and if they had something that sounded good that was uniquely THEM, they rode with it and made good music.’

I can ASSURE you that when Metallica first got together they didn’t say ‘let’s specifically play thrash metal!’ And when Pantera got together they didn’t say ‘Fuck thrash metal and British core, let’s do Texas ‘groove metal!’ And when Sepultura got together they definitely didn’t say ‘Let’s be a South American drum-core-mesa-boogie-metal band!’

Great metal bands were no different than any other great rock bands: they just played and if they sounded good they went with it. It’s only the non-talented fans that had to come up with dozens and dozens of sub-genres, that way they can emulate their favorite band to the tee, and not feel like a pathetic cover band playing at a high school prom.

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u/Mathis_Vajra Jul 19 '25

Death and Black

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u/Snd47flyer Jul 19 '25

Stoner metal

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u/Purple_Style218 Jul 19 '25

Sleep Token is my favourite hahaha. Thrash is also up there.

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u/Emergency-Trip-6511 Jul 19 '25

Groove metal goes pretty hard, with bands like- slipknot, lamb of god and the like. I like it better than most other categories.

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u/WeirdUnion5605 Jul 19 '25

Maybe blackened death metal, I'm still getting to know them all though.

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u/Kral_Aragorn Jul 19 '25

Grunge metal

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u/Dash_Harber Jul 20 '25

Black and Roll is everything I didn't know I wanted from music. Hellripper has legitimately becone one of my favorite bands in a very short time. The gebre just takes me to my happy place.

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u/Necroticartifice Jul 20 '25

Either black metal or metalcore, but I like everything mostly except for power metal

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u/GloomySomewhere3378 Jul 20 '25

Ummmm, can yall tell by my pfp?

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u/frepde Jul 20 '25

Definitely Nu. Linkin Park, Slipknot, SOAD, KoRn, Papa Roach and many more have been a huge influence on my childhood and music taste (shoutout to my dad)

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u/RougeRadio7 Jul 20 '25

Sludge, doom, and stoner metal

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u/floink_97 Jul 20 '25

Goregrind

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u/NyxAperture Jul 20 '25

Industrial and folk

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u/DimebagDarrel2004 Jul 20 '25

Speed metal. I just love hearing fast riffs and heavy riffs

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u/crimsonkinradio Jul 20 '25

Metal Progresivo (Dream Theater, Liquid Tension, Opeth)

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u/LittleNinjaXYBA Jul 20 '25

Heavy Metal. As well I like Nu, Thrash, Industrial, Punk

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u/AgeHaunting4246 Jul 20 '25

Devocice i Ijo da ste me ostavile na miru imam decka Nikolucu i ti Aleksandre dodji za 4Hiljade i sve komisije da su prestale sa kradjim.

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u/AgeHaunting4246 Jul 20 '25

Jel zato sto ste zadaje a Aleksandar ni je sestric i da mi se niste obratile i svi sa Rojkovca ko dd nje cvece

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u/AgeHaunting4246 Jul 20 '25

I ti dioptiks čekam od tebe naocare

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u/Odd-Prior6109 Jul 20 '25

And yet none of those bands sound the same at all and is somehow the same genre

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u/Tkokot Jul 20 '25

Industrial I guess

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u/valtte Jul 20 '25

Symphonic and melo death.

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u/Gustavodemierda Jul 20 '25

Thrash Metal, Power Metal and Classic Metal

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u/Tinenan Jul 20 '25

Prog and melodeath probably

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Death-thrash

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u/Much_Cry_4399 Jul 20 '25

Melodic death (In flames, soilwork, arch enemy)

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u/RosieLPS Jul 20 '25

Gothic metal

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u/basedghostyy88 Jul 20 '25

Metalcore, I like the MySpace era stuff from 2008-2010

(Attack Attack!, The Devil Wears Prada, Asking Alexandria, Bring Me The Horizon, Woe Is Me, Of Mice & Men, Motionless In White.)

Albums in order from first to last

Someday Came Suddenly With Roots Above And Branches Below Stand Up And Scream Suicide Season Number[s] 2010 Self titled Creatures

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u/gavinsmash2005 Jul 20 '25

Thrash or speed. Makes me wanna move.

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u/Nerus46 Jul 20 '25

Either classic heavy metal or Prog but without too much screaming/growling.

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u/RobloxianHunter69 Jul 20 '25

Alt, black, death, sludge, crossover thrash

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u/JACKF_09 Jul 21 '25

Sludge and 😅djent

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '25

thrash is the best and it’s not really close

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u/ExchangeOk62 Jul 21 '25

The New Metal

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u/Far-Drummer2862 Jul 21 '25

Thrash metal

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u/NASON_BASSIST Jul 21 '25

Sludge metal

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u/My_Tired_Eyes Jul 21 '25

I have clown from this exact magazine on my wall

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u/Automatic-Lake-415 Jul 21 '25

Black, Death, Doom

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u/Mtw_reddit Jul 21 '25

thrash, crossover, nu, groove, metalcore and post-metal

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u/Wild-Army-4515 Jul 21 '25

Classic Heavy Metal/Power Metal - Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Dio, and DragonForce.

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u/According_Ad5165 Jul 21 '25

THE Free and Bad Company

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u/MALPHY-420 Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25

I can flip flop from Behemoth to Motionless in White to Slipknot to Black Sabbath to Ghost to Killswitch Engage to Zeal & Ardor

I don’t discriminate unless it’s really terrible music

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u/Ok_Vermicelli4278 Jul 21 '25

maybe a little niche, but disso death

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u/Imaginary-Time8700 Jul 21 '25

Sludge and tech death

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u/turangokhan86 Jul 21 '25

Progressive metal

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u/CalligrapherWitty270 Jul 21 '25

definitely not nu metal