metal music?

Question

Thier are alot of different types of metal music. Death metal, Glam metal, punk mental, ans so one. Can you name all the types?

Answer 1

You asked for it:

Heavy Metal

A 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. Examples – Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Holocaust.

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.

Death Metal

A faster, harder, more complex version of Thrash Metal. The guitaring is very fast and distorted with even more complex riffs, backed with highly fast double bass rolls and blast beats. Basically takes everything of Thrash and makes is faster, harder and more complex. But the KEY thing is the Death Metal growl. Low and guttural, coming from the stomach, this growl is often hard to listen to in the untrained ear, but often not as unclear as first thought. Death Metal must have this vocal style to be Death Metal. Examples – Death, Morbid Angel, Cryptopsy.

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.

Black Metal

Black Metal went the other way from Thrash. Also with increased speed, by taking an often minimalist approach to the music, the vocals are high pitched shrieks, simple abrasive guitars, almost none existent bass and ultra fast blast beat drumming. The production tends to be poor to enhance the atmosphere of the music. Many bands also use Electronic Synth elements in the music to add to this atmosphere.
Examples – Mayhem, Darkthrone, Immortal.

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.

Multi-Genres

There can be many cross breeds of genres, as well as involving the “styles” below. Such as: Prog Power, Prog Thrash, Prog Industrial, Blackend Power Metal, Blackend Thrash, Blackend Death, Industrial Thrash, Industrial Death, Thrash/Power, Thrash/Death, Death/Black, Death/Doom, Gothic Doom, Gothic Black, etc etc.

Be it that the music is a straight up cross bread of two genres (eg Thrash/Power), one base genre with clear influences from another (Blackend Thrash) or one style set to another, where the basic way the music is played is changed some what (Prog Power).

Styles

Answer 2

Heavy
Speed
Death
Black
Pirate
Viking
Extreme
Progressive
Core
Glam
Thrash
Funk
Nu
Rap
War
Melodic Death
Christian
Doom
Sludge
Goth
Grind
Power
Neo-classical
Symphonic

Answer 3

Everything is fine Katz but you definition of what you called Gore Metal is wrong darls
quote " 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.

First of all its called GRINDCORE the reason being that its a cross between Hardcore, a bit of Death Metal and some Thrash Metal ..the vocals are clearer? have you heard Napalm Death or Carcass ever? less distortion and more melody to the guitaring? I don't think Carcass is a good example of what you're trying to expose here, Carcass's "Symphony of Sickness" less distortion more melody ?? kidding right? more rhythm at 200 mph to the drumming ok in bands like Napalm Death and Terrorizer

Not trying to outshine your knowledge at all I think your answer is great, but Carcass was a band that evolved from Grindcore (they became famous for their unique style) to a more melodic stuff that could not be categorized, perhaps you are basing your answer on Heartwork or Swansong albums, .so I honestly believe Carcass should not be under that category

Under Industrial Metal you forgot to mention some of the most important exponents of this genre "Laibach" "Godflesh"

Just trying to help Katz, please dont take it personal.. : )

Cheers

Answer 4

Goth Metal, Industrial Metal...

Answer 5

metal is no music

Answer 6

I would say all of the ones that KatzPlace, and sndprssr said. But why would you want to know them all and see if we know maybe all or most of them??? but gothic metal is my all time favorite.

Answer 7

love metal

Answer 8

wow metal has variety types

Answer 9

speed metal

Answer 10

gothic metal

Answer 11

mrs.kats you forget blooded metal