r/Metal101

I like metal in general. Im not that scared little boy who thinks growls are too spooky. However. The metal i like the most are the ones I can mostly understand what is being said. So Grindcore, Power Metal, Symphonic, Heavy, and Speed and Thrash are my favorites.

so I’ve recently gotten back into metal and I don’t really like a lot of the mainstream because it’s too theatrical and I don’t like underground because it’s just a wall of noise so can I have some recommendations?

What do you guys think about System of a Down?
They got me into metal about a year or 2 ago. I started with nu metal, but gradually disowned the genre and listened to more of thrash, osdm, and traditional. I’ve seen hate on soad by elitists, but I’m going back and listening to them right now and they don’t really sound like your average nu metal band. Not really even nu metal at all. Anyway, just wanna know what elitists think.

Death metal is my favorite genre of music. I’m obsessed with it, not just the classic sound of death metal but also all its off-shoots. These are all the ones I know of: regular death , technical death, deathcore, brutal death, melodic death, progressive death, blackened death, symphonic death, grindcore, goregrind, and slam. Which sub genres am I missing?

I’m going to a show tonight and i’m not sure how i’m supposed to move, i can’t really headbang because it just hurts and makes me incredibly dizzy🫩 so, what else can i do? i’ve gone to raves n other shows before but i was really just jumping the whole time im not sure if that’s entirely acceptable or what im supposed to be doing for this genre😓

Whenever I stumble upon modern Metal that does its EDM crossovers, I’ve only found three distinct flavors of that so far. I separate them by pioneering bands.

•The Rammstein flavor. Metal crossing over with Italo, Eurodance and Trance seems to only come in the Rammstein flavor.

• The Linkin Park flavor. Metal crossing over with IDM, Glitch and Trip Hop seems to only come in the Linkin Park flavor.

• The Limp Bizkit flavor. Metal crossing over with Trap, Bass and Crunk seems to only come in the Limp Bizkit flavor.

The common thread among all of them are extroversion and hifi production, which only works with a limited set of EDM sub genres to incorporate.

How do we get out of these pigeonholes? Should we get out more and explore less obvious possibilities than these so far?

Looking for some bands with none-stop high tempo music for the gym. I don’t want to make a playlist. I simply want to choose a band and go without having to skip. I usually use Hatebreed, Slaughter to Prevail, Whitechapel or Make them suffer. Please send me some suggestions !