#metal subgenres

[everybodyshusband]

well... more commonly known metal sub-genre, at least :)

please reblog if you can for increased sample size, etc :)

#i'm curious!!!! #metal music #heavy metal #death metal #polls #husband rambles #metal subgenres #metal

[adriheavymetal]

80s Metal forever☺💯🤘

#80s #80s metal forever #metallica #80s bands #80s thrash #best metal ever #best decade #heavy metal #glam metal #rock n roll #best decade for metal #metal subgenres

[trupowieszcz-moved]

heavy metal lyrics: the prophecy yeahhhh evil wizard superhell i hate living in britain

thrash metal lyrics: the government sucks and im insane

power metal lyrics: HELL YEAH DRAGONS BABY

death metal lyrics: i love fucking corpses

black metal lyrics: Yesternight whilst I was sauntering throughout the Carpathians I consorted with Lucifer on a cataphalque

#DO NOT ASK ME ABOUT METAL SUBGENRES I DIDNT INCLUDE. I DONT LISTEN TO THEM AND IT WOULD NOT BE ACCURATE

[jonathanbiers]

eddie was both the lead guitarist and vocalist in corroded coffin up until the upside down happened to him.

he healed, regained his strength, made up for the months he was in the hospital and couldn't play his guitar. he wasn't even that rusty really, just a little weak in the hands after everything. he's impatient and easily frustrated about it but looking back, it doesn't actually take too long to get back to where he was.

the problem is his voice.

the health of his vocal chords wasn't exactly the first thing on his mind when the bats were going at him and he was screaming for his life, it wasn't even on the list. and when he tried to get back into jamming with the guys and found he couldn't hit the notes he used to and it fucking hurt when he tried, he was absolutely crushed. that was an outlet for him, a way to get the complex emotions out in the form of poetry, to bare the softest parts of his soul and then shield them with killer guitar solos and brain-melting drums, now taken from him.

enter robin, who's become a close friend after everything they went through together. they bond over being queer in a small conservative town, they butt heads over eddie's smoking habit, they listen to each other's music and come to actually like it, they vent to each other about their romantic misadventures, they become best friends rather quickly.

so robin's heart breaks for eddie when he tells her about this newest thing the year of '86 took from him. she does her best to reassure him, she hugs him and lets him mope as long as he needs, they watch eddie's comfort movies together, and it helps him feel less like shit.

then one day, the two of them and steve are on a little impromptu road trip, and they're singing in the car. eddie's heard robin sing before, she likes to put on silly voices and sing along to the top-40s eddie loves to tease steve about. but he's never heard her sing before, not like this, not to a song she obviously has tremendous love for. her voice is warm and the song she's singing is a little soft and eddie is captivated in an instant. he has to stop himself from pulling over on the highway just to urge her to pursue a career as a musician.

robin tries to brush it off, jokes, "i'll do it only if you let me join corroded coffin."

"done," eddie agrees without second thought.

robin thinks he's joking too, but he's not. he's so not joking, he's too busy trying to imagine what it would sound like. he thinks it'd sound pretty fucking good, such a soft voice to balance out the harshness of their music. he knows robin's capable of other styles, too, he's heard her impressions of the screaming sometimes utilized in his preferred genre, her natural speaking voice has a nice bit of rasp to it, but something about the gentleness with which she was singing in the car just speaks to eddie. if it'd be anything like what his mind is conjuring up, he'd describe it as hauntingly beautiful, and he just has to hear it for himself. even if nothing comes of it.

robin still thinks he's joking when he sets the mic up at corroded coffin's weekly band practice, which both steve and robin had taken to attending. but he isn't, he digs his notebook out of his backpack and hands it to her, walks her through the melodies and she picks it up quick. she's been in band for years, music is something that just comes naturally to her. eddie doesn't know why the fuck he didn't think of this sooner.

it ends up sounding just as good as he imagined. her range isn't the same as eddie's used to be but it works, it morphs their music into something mesmerizing, something that bends the limits of the genre. robin sings eddie's lyrics on tuesday at the hideout mostly to entertain eddie because she loves her friend so much even though he's fucking crazy, and at least half a dozen people approach them after, tell them how different it sounds from what they're used to, how instead of being put off by it, it just works. they seem just as blown away by it as eddie was.

robin joins the band officially not long after that, and they start gaining attention locally. anyone who listened to them before would tell you they were good, but being a woman-fronted metal band wasn't all that common yet, and paired with the new elements robin's voice brought to the songs, they stood out from their peers a lot more easily. they're playing in a dive bar in indianapolis when they're approached by a scout from a record label, and they all just kind of look at each other, a mix of disbelief and happiness and seriously is this fucking happening right now?

they don't take it - eddie's heard of the record label this guy is from, and they're known for screwing over their artists and leaving them scrounging for enough to put food on the table. but it's a push for the five of them to start taking it a bit more seriously, start on an actual cohesive album instead of a bunch of songs with little relevance to each other slapped together on a cassette.

eddie and robin work together on the lyrics, and their first self-made album ends up being something that's hard to pin down to one specific genre. but it's good shit, eddie can tell, they get some tapes made and sell them when they play at bars around indiana. the offers keep coming, but they're smart, and they know their worth. they wait for the one that fits, and it's fucking perfect.

#stranger things #eddie munson #robin buckley #eddie munson headcanons #robin buckley headcanons #can you tell one of my favorite subgenres of metal is when the music heavy and the voice soft #platonic robin and eddie is everything to meeeee #* #*writing

[smolsleepyfox]

I think the most insane thing about metal as a genre is that it's held up to be this counterculture of people who don't fit in, of going against the mainstream (as was the idea back in the day).

And then you go in and it's just edgy straight men who don't even know their outfit is heavily influenced by gay fetish wear.

It's gotten way better over the past 10 years and depends on the subgenre ofc - there's a lot of cool queer folks too, but man.

#what's up I'm writing about metal for a paper and found some things i didn't want to know #foxy speaks #i mean shit i did some simple calculations for a paper two years back and in the five biggest metal labels i knew in only 20% of the bands #there was a single woman. two of them were in two bands even. most were singers. #and that's fucking basic maths. not to speak of uh. having entire subgenres knows for being fash #i love metal but as someone who hopes for more than “eh not my problem” on human rights issues in an artist's own front yard it's not ideal

[mrtequilasunset]

Idk what the metal scene is like in Revachol but Piss and Fuck remind me of these two metalheads i know, so.

They try to impress Cindy with the pictures they took of their new look.

#disco elysium #pissfaggot #fuck the world #cindy the skull #i think there should be a subgenre in elysium called PaleMetal #sounds something like atmospheric black metal #also these two are totally the type to say 'i listen to underground shit you probably don't know it' and its fucking. mayhem #or behemoth #also they definitely only have one bullet belt that they share because it was expensive #anyways cut to them smearing their corpse paint bc they started making out in the bathroom at a show #Piss definitely got the sword from the same place as Lilienne #Cindy could not give less of a shit #also goes without saying but click for better quality #I'll draw kim and harry in these shirt sometime if i remember (bc theyd steal them too) #my art

[mushroomjar]

I don't know why exactly but that last post got me curious: Saw blogs, what music do you listen to? One of my favorite things about the franchise is the soundtrack so it feels appropiate to ask

#saw #saw movies #saw franchise #saw posting #sawposting #in case you're curious about my music taste i listen to mostly everything and i mean that i really do #but my favorite type of music is vocaloid music. lately i've been listening to a lot of goth hard rock and metal though #i also really like punk music. i like pop too but i don't listen to it as regularly #i'm also into genres like speedcore and breakcore especially if they're vocaloid #also my favorite metal subgenre is kawaii/idol metal #and i also listen to rnb rap and hip hop from time to time. i don't listen to a lot of acoustic music but sometimes i do #my favorite music artist is aurora i love her so much and every song she makes is just like me fr #anyway tell me what you like to listen to. saw has good music so i wanna know what saw fans listen to in their spare time #cat rambles

[irhabiya]

ivee come to the conclusion that i dislike or am indifferent to most metal music my favorite genre of music just happens to be a metal subgenre...

#metalheads are so elitist as if the overwhelming majority of metal music isn't straight up auditory slop. just like other genres #i'm pretentious about the subgenres i like and dislike too but why do people act like metal music is exempt from that i don't get it

[disquiet-doll]

do you listen to any punk music?

punk is one of those genres where i genuinely do not know what counts as punk or not, so probably but idk lol

oh, except that i do love the one album by the distillers i ever got around to listening to in full (Coral Fang) and i'm 99% sure that counts

so i guess if the question is "any" then yes!

#ask #Anonymous #also my siblings are both pop-punk fans so i've heard a good amount of songs in that subgenre i don't hate through them #but my understanding is that's a similar deal to if i was asked about metal and talked about a bunch of nu metal i like #and i don't want to be killed. so.

[twinknote]

just learned the band i’ve been completely obsessed with for the past month disbanded last year. -600 emotional damage

#crying and screaming and buying a gun #and i’m having such a hard time finding another band that even comes close to their sound #the life of a picky music nerd #it did inspire me to do some research on japanese subgenres and subcultures which was cool tho #me on the lookout for cool japanese metal bands 👀

[adriheavymetal]

#metal memes #every metal is metal #heavy metal #metal subgenres #boring people #metalheads

[queer-and-nerdy]

this has been tumbling around in my mind for the last week so now i have to expose all of you to it. shoutout to @wellgoslowly for listening to this in person

lockwood LOVES listening to classic rock and metal (as well as a few older pop-punk but he'll never admit to it). anything from the seventies and eighties (he pretends that no other era of metal exists and if you even say the phrase "nu metal" around him he WILL see red and draw his rapier). it doesn't matter who the band is or what subgenre they are, as long as the song was released pre-nineties he loves it, although he tends to prefer more mainstream bands and artists (respect) like ozzy osbourne, judas priest, kiss, etc. the only band he will break this rule for is metallica - they are his all-time favorite band and i will die on that hill. and when i say he WORSHIPS james hetfield... that is an UNDERSTATEMENT. james is like a pseudo-father to him. he doesn't want to put posters on his walls so he keeps a scrapbook of pictures cut out of old magazines of james, lars, kirk, cliff, even jason and rob. he is a number one dave mustaine hater and will defend lars's drumming skills until he's blue in the face. lucy got him a signed copy of ride the lightning for his birthday one year and george didn't see either of them leave lockwood's room for a week. there are only three things he loves in this world: his family, his friends, and james hetfield.

lucy, i feel like, has the most whiplash taste in music. like, yes, we can all agree lucy is your average indie pop listener and i am a major supporter of that hc (i know what linnie’s playlists sound like) but i guarantee you when she shuffles her most-listened-to playlist it goes from crane wives immediately to cannibal corpse. she loves death metal, deathcore, goregrind; the nastier the better (except for black metal - iykyk). the era doesn’t matter to her either although she tends to gravitate toward the older stuff. think opeth, cryptosy, morbid angel, deicide, obituary, venom, slayer, even xavlegimaofffassssitimiwoanindutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx - she loves playing the “can i figure out the name of the band given the logo” game and if she loses she listens to them. she finds it a great way to unleash her stress and anger without hurting herself or others or even taking it out on a case. she doesn't like to mosh (autism) but she loves watching people in the pit at concerts. she drags lockwood and george to the store to help her pick out plushies to give to corpsegrinder. one night she goes to a taylor swift concert and rushes out at the end to make it to sanguisugabogg in time. she's also a big female-rage/female-led fan (fem supporting fem yk how it is). if there is even a single fem-presenting band member she is instantly ride-or-die (within reason, of course). any time conquer divide/castrator/cyrpta do an eu tour she essentially becomes a roadie.

george. oh, george. my beloved kin. the only one who understands me and i him. his taste in rock and metal is... i don't know a better way to describe it other than neurodivergent fruity. it needs to have some kind of element to it that he can latch onto other than just the music - costumes, over-the-top production, detailed lore, etc. like lockwood, he doesn't really care about the subgenre; as long as he likes the sound he'll listen. he tends to frequent more of the nu/prog/melodic/symphonic side of metal, though. he's your average autistic ghost fan and makes it everyone else's problem. he knows all the lore and has dedicated his life to every incarnation of papa (primo is his favorite but he loves them all). he can tell the ghouls in every era apart in an instant and is a consistent quintessence ghoul kinnie. he will not hesitate to get into twitter beef to defend his opinions (bro's in the trenches of toxic ghostwt). he's one of the most well-known ghost accounts on every social media platform and actively writes fanfiction (about the characters, NOT the real people), character analyses, and essays. he's also a HUGE sleep token fan (he understands their lore better than vessel himself and has created a youtube commentary channel just to break down each of their songs) and ice nine kills fan (he's a number one ricky armellino lover and has forced lockwood and lucy to watch all of the horror movies that the silver scream one and two are based off of). he loves avatar and made his own ringmaster costume (lucy walked in on him trying to recreate johannes's makeup and slowly backed out of the room; the situation was never mentioned again) and when chris motionless unveiled his new hair he screamed so loud that the others thought someone had broken into portland row (lockwood had to restrain him while lucy hid his laptop to prevent him from ordering purple hair dye). he has a ziplock bag of (definitely expired) marshmallows that he calls his “rammstein concert care package.” he pretends to be a gatekeeper but the instant someone mentions even a passing interest in any of his favorite bands he will burst into tears.

skull enjoys smooth jazz.

#big fan of projection in this house #they all listen to rock and metal but none of their subgenres overlap #and i love them for that #george's paragraph is just an autobiography #i've been diagnosed with chronic george karim kinnie syndrome. it's incurable #this went off the rails so sorry #metalhead aaron’s hcs strike again #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #george karim #netflix lockwood and co #lockwood netflix #lockwood and co #anthony bloody lockwood #save lockwood and co #queer-and-nerdy

[veryfrickingqueer]

Powerwolf were damn right with Metal Is Religion because hell it absolutly is and it's a statement evry metalhead I've ever met agreed. No matter if they even liked the band or like powermetal.

One of the most beloved dudes in my life is hugely leaning to trash metal, not a big Powerwolf Fan and he still was unbelievable excited about seeing one of my Powerwolf shirts, the one with the "Metal Is Religion" on the back.

I've made friends just because of that statement on my back, later learning, through my bad french and their bad german, some of them aren't Powerwolf fans but deeply into viking metal.

I deeply confused my friends because once in Austria I just started talking with a group of random middle aged men cus of this statement on my shirt.

And I kind of think like, isn't that lovely? Having something that unites, no matter what language or ethnicity or gender or whatever. Bonding over something so "normal" but so deeply different in itself, even though you like completly different genres, you're still united because it's still metal.

#i haven't experinced this with other music genres even before I was a metal fan #metal is religion #sure as hell it is and I live by that #powerwolf #metal #metal music #i sure as hell ain't gonna tag every single metal subgenre cus who has the time

[anotherpapercut]

sometimes I question the way spotify organizes things into genres. their genre playlists often have things that don't fit at all and this year my wrapped said I only listened to like 19 genres and there's just no way that's true. I have about 10 different genre playlists just that I've made and listened to this year alone not counting all of the stuff I've listened to that I don't have a genre specific playlist for

#are they counting like all subgenres as just 1 genre?? bc thats the only way i could maybe see it #i have 3 different types of punk playlist alone lmao and 1 of those is a catch all with a mix of a bunch of different ones #i also listened to a bunch of local artists this year ranging from instrumental jazz to stoner metal #i want to see the list spotify. show me the full list of these genres #especially because it puts like fall out boy for instance on pop punk and emo and mall goth and even actual punk playlists #so which genre are they actually counting it as #also one of my coworkers got 'meme rap' as a top genre and we could not figure out who it was classifying as that #bc he didnt know any of the people listed as artists in that genre lmfao #also remembering when a friend got dream smpcore

[necrotic-warzone]

#spotify wrapped #i predicted thar stripped raped and strangled would be my top most listened to so i was almost right #cannibal corpse #metal #brutal death metal #i dont know anything about subgenres #normal metal #metal to do your work to #metal to stress about your grades to

[butchviking]

what the fuck genre are lorna shore

#i dont understand metal subgenres at all. #some guy tried to talk to me about this band a while ago and he said some words i did not recognise #but im finally having a proper listen n idk they remind me of cradle of filth. but deathier. or blacker? im not sure i know the difference #something something symphonic black deathcore? are they -core? i still dont understand -core either. #what are the words im looking for. what is this called. i gotta start learning the words for music or the metalheads r goign to laugh at me #(posting about bands to delay tidying my home ^_^ )