Heavy Metal Subgenres

During metal's decades-long history roughly 8 billion subgenres of the music emerged, each with its own unique style, sound and obsessive fanbase. Veteran fans can turn to the opening Metal Genre Identifier to make sure they never deviate outside their preferred category of metal. But for everyone else, below you will find Cracked's quick guide to understanding how all of those genres work and why you've given up metal when you were 14.

ALTERNATIVE METAL (ALT. METAL) - Think System of a Down, when the band's message puts the lyrics and music in the backseat and violates them for a couple of hours.

BLACK METAL - Think Burzum, Immortal or Emperor, as well as hilarious costumes, shrieks, anti-Christianity and Satan. For additional information, refer to this video.

CLASSIC HEAVY METAL - Think Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath; basically THE music people in polo shirts are referring to when they talk about "Heavy Metal."

DEATH METAL - Think Death or Morbid Angel. For its melodic equivalent, think Dark Tranquility or In Flames. Fans of Adult Swim should think Dethklok. Death Metal often deals with death, brutality and violence, though not as much Satan as Black Metal.

DOOM METAL - Think Pentagram or Saint Vitus. Slower and "heavier" than other genres. Basically "Funeral March" Metal.

FOLK METAL - Think Eluveitie, Finntroll or Korpiklaani: Metal with violins or other folk instruments.

GLAM METAL (HAIR METAL, POP METAL) - Think Motley Crue, Poison, early Pantera. Also think gigantic hair, tons of make-up and guys who stole most of their stage clothes from their moms.

GOTHIC METAL - Think Moonspell or Paradise Lost. It's... it's metal for goth kids. What more do you want?!

INDUSTRIAL METAL - Think Ministry or Nine Inch Nails. Metal for Generation Y (as in "whY were you ever born?")

METALCORE - Think All That Remains, As I Lay Dying or Killswitch Engage. All the melody of growl-y metal vocals with the guitar virtuosity of punk rock.

NEO-CLASSICAL METAL - Think Yngwie Malmsteen: when music school kids get their hands on electric guitars and an Iron Maiden CD.

NU METAL - Think Korn. Metal for people who don't like metal.

POWER METAL - Think Blind Guardian, Kamelot or Stratovarius. Power Metal often deals with fantastical, metaphysical themes and vocals so high only dogs can hear them. Bulk of the audience composed of Dungeons & Dragons fans.

PROGRESSIVE METAL (PROG METAL) - Think Andromeda, Opeth or Symphony X. Probably the most complex and ambitious metal genre, drawing inspiration from classical music and jazz fusion in terms of compositional structure, which unfortunately makes it the Hipster of metal.

SPEED METAL - Think Motorhead. Heavy Metal that is... like, really fast, man.

SYMPHONIC METAL - Think Haggard or Therion. Metal with lots of keyboards or other symphonic instruments.

THRASH METAL - Think Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica or Slayer. The metal you were most likely to see on TV when people still cared about metal.

Viking Metal - Think Bathory. Viking Metal often deals with themes like the illusion of free will and the innate evil that all men have, rejecting the notion that human existence holds meanings, it tends to muse on the nature of infinity and immortality, as well asIT'S METAL ABOUT VIKING SHIT, GEEZ!

Metal Music History

Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that evolved from thrash metal in the early 1980s. [1] Some of his trademark song is the theme of violence or death, low rhythm guitar (downtuned rhythm guitars), rapid percussion, and dynamic intensity. Vocals are usually sung by grunt (grunt death), guttural growl (guttural growl) or growling death (death growl). Singing techniques as is also often called "Cookie Monster vocals".Some of the pioneers of this genre is the album Venom Welcome to Hell (1981) and Death to the album Scream Bloody Gore (1987). Death metal then developed further by bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Entombed, God Macabre, Carnage, and Grave.Then 2000'an era, Death Metal is growing very rapidly. Many bands dropout death metal flow into the reformer in metal music. Bands include Inhuman Dissiliency, disavowed, Viraemia, Hiroshima Will Burn, Amon Amarth, Inveracity, The Berzeker, Dying Fetus, Necrophagist, Condemned, and much more.In Indonesia, the genre begins its motion and development in the 1990's with the thrash metal band Rotor in Jakarta. Indonesia Death Metal major movement comes from the initiative by Grindcore band from Malang, Rotten Corpse, who worked for the first time (which is unknown) Death Metal music. The appearance and the game would Rotten Corpse Death Metal is a sign of the birth of a new musical individual, called Death Metal. Some other Death Metal bands pioneer in other areas, such as the Trauma of Jakarta, Insanity and Hallucination from Bandung, Death Vomit from Jogjakarta, Slow Death of Surabaya then developed with bands that are considered as a senior because of their experiences such as: Disinfected, suck , Plasmoptysis, body of Bandung, Torture Tomb, Funeral Inception of Jakarta, Cranial Incisored Yogyakarta, Semarang Grind Buto. Abysal.Blast Torment of Padang, Total Damage from Bukittinggi, and Hell Corpse of Batam, DeathSounD from Pontianak, Chain 86 Tegal, Genocide the Kraken from Cirebon.Death Metal music development in Indonesia has developed very well. Among terusulkannya a central forum of lovers Indonesia Death Metal, Death Metal forum called Indonesia, the Indonesian called Death Metal or abbreviated IDDM. Then also appeared Indogrind.net, staynocase, and others. Currently, new bands Death Metal will voiced 'sounds death "metal event. Death Metal bands in Indonesia now include Death Sound, Asphyxiate, Bleeding Corpse, Death Vomit, Siksakubur, body, Internal Darkness, Destruction, Kill Harmonic, Grind Buto, Infected Voice, Brain Ass, Hatestroke, Sickmath, Genocide the Kraken and so on.Indonesia Death Metal Developments after the creation of IDDM, is an indication and the inauguration of Death Metal communities throughout Indonesia to go on public or show themselves to the public respectively. As at present, a lot of Death Metal Indonesian community groups in their respective areas already menun jukkan themselves on the Internet. Communities are still part of the Indonesian Death Metal / IDDM. IDDM is one of the web interface as the place to exchange ideas and aspirations to media for advertising / promotional albums and merchandise. These communities include Death Metal Force Malang, Bandung Death Metal, Bekasi horde! Death Metal, Jogjakarta Corpse Grinder, Pontianak MetalForce, Magelang Militia Death Metal, Death Metal Surakarta, Ngawi Corpse Grinder, Semarang Death Metal, Death Metal Bali to Dublin Death Metal and many more communities across Indonesia.Some death metal subgenre:

    Technical death metal - Death Metal were developed with diatonic tones, is an outgrowth of Death Metal music to the more complex. Often associated as a merger between death metal with progressive rock and jazz fusion. For example: Death, Suffocation, Cynic, Necrophagist, Origin, Genocide the Kraken.
    Melodic death metal - heavy metal mixed with some elements of death metal, such as death growl and blastbeat. For example: At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity, Arch Enemy, In Flames,
    Progressive death metal - a combination of death metal and progressive metal example: Opeth
    Brutal death metal - Brutal Death Metal is an outgrowth of Death Metal itself. Brutal Death Metal is one of the developments that managed to generate growth again in the Death Metal genre. Brutal Death Metal slamming-Gore produce Brutal Death Metal, slamming-Groove Technical Brutal Death Metal, Goregrind slamming.
    Deathcore - a mix of metalcore / groove metal with death metal, death metal is a genre that more lead to Post Hardcore music. For example: Job for a Cowboy, The Red Chord, Despised Icon, All Shall Perish, Winds of pleague
    Death / Doom - a mix between doom metal and death metal
    Blackened death metal - Blackened Death Metal are the proposals made by the Death Metal bands who want to combine elements of black metal back to Death Metal as it did in the First Era of Death Metal, Death Metal where they smelled odors Black Metal. For example: Behemoth, Marduk, Belphegor, God dethroned.