whats the best subgenre metal style?

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
doom	24
death	10
stoner	10
drone	9
sludge	8
avant garde	6
black	6
glam/hair	6
thrash	6
viking	5
post	4
nu	2
hair	2
rap	2
speed	2
gothic	1
grindcore	1
grunge	1
alternative	0
groove	0
power	0
progressive	0
neo-classical	0
metalcore	0
industrial	0
funk	0
folk	0
crust	0
symphonic	0
christian	0

― Zeno, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:27 (sixteen years ago)

...or yr favourite

― Zeno, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:28 (sixteen years ago)

war crust

― scott seward, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

this week anyway

― scott seward, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

industrial hair

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:32 (sixteen years ago)

glam viking drone

― scott seward, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:35 (sixteen years ago)

symphonic stoner

― circa1916, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:36 (sixteen years ago)

Boris , in short?

― Zeno, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:37 (sixteen years ago)

Where's shoegaze???

― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:37 (sixteen years ago)

I do like the Boris. I don't know how symphonic they are though.

xpost

― circa1916, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:38 (sixteen years ago)

Sludge, Doom and Stoner all run together for me.

― circa1916, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:39 (sixteen years ago)

if you say "folk funk" ten times in front of a mirror, g love & special sauce appear and then they molest your swimsuit area.

― scott seward, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:40 (sixteen years ago)

of course not,but after everyone combined styles above, i thought Boris as a rare example of a metal band who
blended everything they could
xpost

― Zeno, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:41 (sixteen years ago)

Really, I can dig on some Black, Death, Doom, Speed, Stoner, Thrash, Crust, Drone, Sludge and Viking. I'm a total dilettante when it comes to METAL though.

― circa1916, Saturday, 6 June 2009 00:54 (sixteen years ago)

Is anyone just plain old heavy metal any more? I guess not. No NWOBHM, so I vote viking.

― Matt #2, Saturday, 6 June 2009 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

viking.

― ian, Saturday, 6 June 2009 01:26 (sixteen years ago)

Blackened Technical Death or fuck you

― Gordon Brown Reason to Live (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 June 2009 01:26 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/1/6/1/11613_photo.jpg

― ian, Saturday, 6 June 2009 01:30 (sixteen years ago)

symphonic viking funk

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 6 June 2009 01:34 (sixteen years ago)

L-R: Hey Hey, You You, I Don't Like, Your Girlfriend, No Way No Way, I think you need a new one

― Gordon Brown Reason to Live (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 June 2009 01:35 (sixteen years ago)

but rly this is between black, grind, stoner, drone, thrash, and folk for me.

narrow it down and i probably end up picking between thrash and stoner and grind.

stoner v grind

.......

fuck.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 6 June 2009 01:42 (sixteen years ago)

blackened pagan drone.

― ian, Saturday, 6 June 2009 03:32 (sixteen years ago)

fuck this bullshit. gotta be death

― mark cl, Saturday, 6 June 2009 04:24 (sixteen years ago)

when u wanna hear METAL u pick death amirite

― mark cl, Saturday, 6 June 2009 04:25 (sixteen years ago)

black & doom behind it but let's not kid ourselves

― mark cl, Saturday, 6 June 2009 04:26 (sixteen years ago)

NWOBHM FTW!

― staggerlee, Saturday, 6 June 2009 04:50 (sixteen years ago)

avant-metal all day every day

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 6 June 2009 05:34 (sixteen years ago)

false metal

― 6335, Saturday, 6 June 2009 05:35 (sixteen years ago)

CANADIAN WEREWOLF TRUE PITCH BLACK METAL

― Vas Djifrens, Saturday, 6 June 2009 06:07 (sixteen years ago)

metal-metal

― litcofsky, Saturday, 6 June 2009 07:51 (sixteen years ago)

Furniture Metal

― Nate Carson, Saturday, 6 June 2009 10:10 (sixteen years ago)

Shrimp Metal

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 6 June 2009 10:11 (sixteen years ago)

unblack

― ¥€$ (gnarly sceptre), Saturday, 6 June 2009 10:17 (sixteen years ago)

No option for "symphonic melodic black", so voted for plain old black. Am about to listen to immortal!

― f1f0 (Pashmina), Saturday, 6 June 2009 10:33 (sixteen years ago)

dylan metal

― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 6 June 2009 10:58 (sixteen years ago)

speed metal (Agent Steel!)

― Ludo, Saturday, 6 June 2009 12:09 (sixteen years ago)

i just sold an agent steel tape the other day at my store! dude was so happy to find a copy.

anyway, they were great.

― scott seward, Saturday, 6 June 2009 12:44 (sixteen years ago)

I voted the John Zorn option.

― Mordy, Saturday, 6 June 2009 12:52 (sixteen years ago)

chainsaw dadhate

― Kerm, Saturday, 6 June 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)

i just sold an agent steel tape the other day at my store! dude was so happy to find a copy.

anyway, they were great.

heh cool. i've just adopted them as my metal puppet, cause they are great and relatively unknown. :)

― Ludo, Saturday, 6 June 2009 13:41 (sixteen years ago)

Ludo have you heard Gore? (the band not the genre)

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 6 June 2009 13:51 (sixteen years ago)

THRASH

JUMP IN THE FIYA

― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Saturday, 6 June 2009 13:52 (sixteen years ago)

No Pirate Metal, no cred. Does Hollywood Metal count as its own sub-subgenre these days?

― Matt #2, Sunday, 7 June 2009 08:58 (sixteen years ago)

Ludo have you heard Gore? (the band not the genre)

nope, will check 'em, thx. (*patriot-mode* heard Gorefest though, dutch legends)

― Ludo, Sunday, 7 June 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)

(heh Gore's dutch too, apparently)

― Ludo, Sunday, 7 June 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)

Which is why I asked you!

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 7 June 2009 19:42 (sixteen years ago)

ah! i am pedalling soulseek right now.

― Ludo, Sunday, 7 June 2009 19:45 (sixteen years ago)

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f381/sensualvixen75/Heavy_Metal_Satan_Fingers.jpg

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Sunday, 7 June 2009 20:24 (sixteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Metalmania_2007_-_Korpiklaani_-_Jonne_J%C3%A4rvel%C3%A4_04.jpg/800px-Metalmania_2007_-_Korpiklaani_-_Jonne_J%C3%A4rvel%C3%A4_04.jpg

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 7 June 2009 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

voted avant-garde obv

― the England guy that throws the balls (country matters), Sunday, 7 June 2009 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

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hmm maybe i should get my high school doom metal band back together

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 12 June 2009 14:08 (sixteen years ago)

i love that ahab album! so great. i don't think they put out anything after that.

― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:27 (sixteen years ago)

I have the Ahab album on vinyl, but i missed the boat on the demos album that got a vinyl issue before the album came out :( It sells for more than i can afford on ebay :(

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 June 2009 16:22 (sixteen years ago)

i didn't vote in this thing. i love all kinds of metal. except american metal. hahahahaha. just kidding. i'm sure any day now a great american metal band will be born. in the meantime, there's always kylesa. and old good bands who refuse to go away. like immolation.

― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 16:39 (sixteen years ago)

Herman I like Prog and I like Metal but I don't give much of a fuck about Prog Metal and when I want that Metal fix I want it Black Black Black.

― Pasta of Muppets (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 June 2009 16:40 (sixteen years ago)

Aside from genres being arbitrary and all but still.

― Pasta of Muppets (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 June 2009 16:41 (sixteen years ago)

Can't remember if I voted black or grindcore or if I voted at all

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 12 June 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

i get all my prog from tech-death. i pretty much love everything that wilowtip records puts out. it's the one thing that me and filthy phil can agree on. the new gorod album is sooooo good.

― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

who is doing the best subgenre of doom then?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

the russians.

― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

or maybe the estonians.

― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:04 (sixteen years ago)

i mean, is their anything more killer than russian funeral doom in the 21st century? i think not.

― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:04 (sixteen years ago)

the israelis aren't far behind though. their mix of sludge, doom, noise, and electronics is pretty hard to beat.

― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:05 (sixteen years ago)

yeah but what about their music

― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Friday, 12 June 2009 21:35 (sixteen years ago)

so does this mean that Electric Wizard is the best metal band of all time

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RnRDizzBM0

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:08 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO7VP34n2Ps

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:09 (sixteen years ago)

Kerr you and your many sockpuppets gotta be chuffed at this result but nice as it was when 28 minutes of Boris and Sunn O))) ("Her Lips Were Wet With Venom") came onto my iPod shuffle earlier today, I couldn't shake the feeling afterwards that I hadn't been truly moved, enriched or otherwise

I get this quite a lot with doom :(

― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

louis and his 5 sockpuppets should stick to avant garde metal then..

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:14 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj9IAvv32wE

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:14 (sixteen years ago)

If I had voted more than once, Black would have seen some LJ love, no question.

― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:21 (sixteen years ago)

Gets me thinking. I wonder if any of the other three had a _reason_ for voting Viking either

I voted Viking because I like Tyr! I like Vikings too!

― Matt #2, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

i just reviewed a great new album by an AMERICAN viking metal band. Hammer Horde. really good stuff. from Ohio, even!

― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

I'm surprised that "technical" wasn't even a category. The poor showing of "black" is a bit astonishing really. But it is an acquired taste and many true metal heads that I know hate black metal, so perhaps it isn't surprising that it didn't reach critical mass.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:40 (sixteen years ago)

Black Metal is definitely getting more accepted ,bigger and certainly more "hip" in recent years. But Death always was much more popular and i think BM has a long way to go to catch up.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:46 (sixteen years ago)

funnily enough i used to hate BM but started to hear stuff i liked, while with DM, i could never get into outside of maybe Entombed and Coffins.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:46 (sixteen years ago)

I love how louis thinks everyone is like him and has sockpuppets btw

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 13 June 2009 12:19 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nUJX9PKxec

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 13 June 2009 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXWS36lzyGQ

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 13 June 2009 12:22 (sixteen years ago)

Scott > do you like Slough Feg?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 13 June 2009 12:22 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxZU-vRbvcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nJDLWn-hXs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_92u3KtajW4

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 13 June 2009 12:50 (sixteen years ago)

if you like Wolves In The Throne Room check that ^

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:06 (sixteen years ago)

http://images.eu-xmedia.de/thumbnails/1601451/2047131/origfile=yes/image.gif

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 14 June 2009 13:41 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

You just have to face it... DOOM dominates. It is the best metal subgenre, it is the most progressive and interesting and emotionally powerful metal it is the highlander and destroys all metals to become the one.... slowwwwllllyyy.

BOW TO DOOM.

― Randolph Carter (Viceroy), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

are you quoting lj?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)

when did whiney decide nu-metal nostalgia was hip? only 2 votes here and fuck all in the alltime metal poll.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:32 (fifteen years ago)

i voted some nu-metal in the fuck-all poll.

― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:35 (fifteen years ago)

listened to tons of stoner rock, doom & black metal over the past 10 years or so, but lately find myself spending more time with bands that looks back to thrash, NWOBHM, power metal, even glam. i'm especially psyched when there's an element of prog to tie a bunch of different ideas/riffs together. thinking in particular of hammers of misfortune and christian mistress (recent favorite). nostalgia?

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

also like tougher, more streamlined bands with traces of those sounds: black breath, even high on fire. metal classicism, i guess.

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

Have you heard Dawnbringer yet? the album on profoundlore is great.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

huh-uh. thanks for the heads up. reviews make it sound very promising. any similarity to the 1st skeletonwitch?

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:58 (fifteen years ago)

I'm not really familiar with Skeletonwitch. It definitely has a NWOBHM vibe to it.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 27 September 2010 23:04 (fifteen years ago)

love the 1st skeletonwitch, beyond the permafrost! the second not so much. their basic sound is kind of NWOBHM via black metal. necro but slick, raspy vocals, blazing twin/harmonized solos.

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Monday, 27 September 2010 23:07 (fifteen years ago)

Wouldn't say Dawnbringer was BM influenced .

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 27 September 2010 23:17 (fifteen years ago)

so i guess they dont sound alike

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 27 September 2010 23:18 (fifteen years ago)

― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 23:18 (fifteen years ago)

never

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 27 September 2010 23:21 (fifteen years ago)

basement hard rock insanity!

― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 September 2010 23:28 (fifteen years ago)

this still makes me chuckle

Rap metal is the only one I can tolerate, so that.
― Tuomas,

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 27 September 2010 23:30 (fifteen years ago)

whiney were you ever in a rap-metal band?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 15:34 (fifteen years ago)

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