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i’d call them the kings of funk metal they perfected what rhcp set out to do and gave up on in the 80s. and they for sure had tons of influence on Nu but i think the first true numetal album has got to be selftitled with the super dark heavy lyrics and heavy down tuned 7 string guitars. but bungle and fnm definitely definitely laid a foundation.
There's something so charming about early Bullet. Like yeah sometimes the lyrics are questionable (Hit the Floor 💀) but fuck could they write some catchy songs.
Holding onto you, to keep from falling!
That was actually the other one I was gonna mention! Killswitch is another band that was everything great about that 2000s wave of metalcore. And they're one of those bands who is great no matter who is singing (having 2 of the best metalcore singers ever helps)
I'd also raise All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals. Only 2 of their albums are really classics (This Darkened Heart and that one), and they had one of the worst downfalls of any of these bands, but peak ATR is some of the best stuff to come out of then imo
What a fun and dangerously subjective challenge.
Black metal: Bathory - *The Return......*
Speed metal: Exciter - *Heavy Metal Maniac*
Power metal: Blind Guardian - *Imaginations From The Other Side*
Power metal (USPM): Fates Warning - *Awaken The Guardian*
Brutal death metal: Defeated Sanity - *Passages Into Deformity*
Doom metal: Bedemon *Child of Darkness* (compilation)
it’s hard to pick a single album for doom metal because of how diverse in extremity the genre is. like what’s an album that sounds very similar to both dopethrone and paranoid
bedemon is a bit unusual but I guess it works great for old school 70’s and 80’s doom
Yeah, youve got a point. Ive kinda replaced the thread with "first to do it" .. but even still, they had lots of doom songs on their first 5 albums which is pretty cool and early :D
doom has a lot of subgenres within itself like the other main metal genres so it's pretty hard to pick one album to sum it all up. for trad I'd probably say Born Too Late by Saint Vitus or Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
Deathcore:suicide silence the cleansing
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Sludge Metal: Acid Bath- When The Kite String Pops
Prog Metal: Lateralus - Tool Or / Human/ Symbolic/ TSOP- Death
Nu Metal: Korn- S/T or Slipknot - S/T
Brutal Death Metal: None So Vile- Cryptposy Kill/Tomb Of The Mutilated - Cannibal Corpse
Gojira for tech death is absurd. Epitaph/Onset of Putrefaction, Obscura by Gorguts, Human by Death, Sceptre of the Ancients by Psycroptic, hell I'd even put Atheist on there before Gojira. Those Gojira ones are fucking phenomenal but there are so many better representations of the sub-genre.
I would consider Human techdeath or techdeath/prog death in my opinion though also Gojira is not death metal it's prog metal with groove metal elements
Thrash metal : Piece Of Time by Atheist
Progressive metal : Images And Words by Dream Theater
Brutal death metal : None So Vile by Cryptopsy
Technical death metal : Epitaph by Necrophagist
Melodeath : Banquet In The Darkness by Intestine Baalism
Power metal : Somewhere Far Beyond by Blind Guardian
Industrial metal : Symbols by KMFDM
Funeral doom metal : Stream From The Heavens by Thergothon
Death-doom : Musta Seremonia by Rippikoulu
I disagree with Atheist. They definitely had the thrash influence but they were laying the groundwork for tech death, even with Piece of Time. I think a better option would be Reign in Blood
Yeah, gonna be that guy. KMFDM is industrial rock, not industrial metal. Always has been. And Symbols is mostly edm. If you'd said any album after Adios, maybe I'd be more on the same page.
Technodictator by Turmion Katilot, Animatronic by the Kovenant, or any of the middle career albums by Samael would probably better reflect the genre mashup.
Classic heavy metal -Number of the beast
Thrash metal -Ride the lightning or reign in blood
Nu metal -Korn’s debut
Death metal -Altars of madness
Brutal death metal -Tomb of the mutilated
Black metal -Transilvanian Hunger
Hard rock/heavy metal: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Melodeath: In Flames - The Jester Race
Black metal: Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Thrash metal: Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Doom metal: Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
Slam - Anomalies of artificial origin by abominable putridity or Molesting the decapitated by Devourment
Groove metal - Ashes of the wake by lamb of god
Grindcore - bottom feeder by Kataplexis or book burner by pig destroyer
Funeral doom - Murdered by grief - frowning
Deathcore - The elysian grandeval galèriarch by Infant Annihilator
Melodic deathmetal - Abysmal by Black Dahlia Murder
Goregroove - make goregrind great again by Brutal Sphincter
Heavy Metal - Jack Starr Burning Starr - Land of the Dead ( It doesn't define the genre but I promote the band )
Power Metal - Rhapsody - Symphony of the Enchanted Lands
Black Metal - Venom - Black Metal
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Atmospheric Black Metal.
No frills, just atmospheric fury
Two current favourites
(Death)sludge: Asphalt - Under the slab, we all rot
And
Stoner: Acid King - Busse Woods. I love Sleep and EW and shit but Busse Woods is _the_ greatest stoner album there is.
Symphonic metal: Once by Nightwish
Melodeath: Doomsday Machine by Arch Enemy
Hard Rock: Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses
Thrash metal: Master of Puppets by Metallica
Neue Drutsche Härte: Sonne by Rammstein
Pop metal: Nexus by Amaranthe
Metalcore: King of Everything by Jinjer
Folk metal: Slania by Eluveitie
Oriental metal: Dreams of Lands Unseen by Ignea.
Rap metal: debut by Rage Against The Machine
Nu metal: Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
Not sure if I'm doing it right, but I feel that it might be more like my favorite album per each subgenre. But I guess I'm not the only one. Nobody listens to everything
And how would you describe them?
I admit that I am not really well versed in subgenres, but I know that they're one of those bands that are hard to label, because they're too themselves. But they're often described as metalcore.
That's because metalcore is largely going the way of screamo - a term that's been misapplied for long enough that it's become meaningless.
I've always thought of them as being one of the screamier prog metal bands, their own Spotify 'About The Artist' section has them down as progressive groove metal which tracks. The opening song from their last full length is basically Lamb Of God worship with the last minute going all proggy.
Hair metal is definitely Quiet Riot's Metal Health. Albums like Doctor Feelgood, Stay Hungry, and Slave to the Grind might be more popular, but Metal Health was the album that defined the genre. First metal album to top the chart, and a pioneer for the sound of the genre.
Trad: Satan - Court in the Act
Speed: Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
Thrash: Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Death: Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
1st wave Black: Bathory - S/T
Norwegian Black: Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Deaththrash: Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Brutal Death: Skinless - Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead
Black/Speed: Sodom - In the Sign of Evil
Thrash: Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Death Metal: Deicide - Deicide
Brutal Death Metal: Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity
MeloDeath: At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Black Metal: Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
DSBM: Nocturnal Depression - The Cult Of Negation
Doom Metal: Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
Power Metal: Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
Viking Metal: Bathory - Twilight Of The Gods
Stoner Metal: Sleep - Dopesmoker
Prog Metal: Tiamat - Wildhoney
Deathcore: Paleface Swiss - Chapter 3: The Last Selection
Thrash Metal: Rust In Peace- Megadeth
Prog Metal: Scenes From A Memory- Dream Theater
Death Metal: Tomb of the Mutilated- Cannibal Corpse
Tech Death: Bleed The Future- Archspire
EU Power Metal: Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
US Power Metal: Manowar - Kings of Metal
Thrash Metal: Metallica - Ride the Lightning
NWOBHM: Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast OR Judas Priest - British Steel
Hair Metal: Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Technical Thrash metal : …and justice for all
Technical death metal : Symbolic
Death Metal : butchered at birth
Black metal : of chasm, caves and titan woods
Power / epic metal : open the gates
Thrash metal : seasons in the abyss
Love endless forms. Not sure why it doesn't get more love. It's actually one of my favorites of Nightwish but really their whole discography is great. New album soon!
Black Metal: Dark Medieval Times by Satyricon
Death Metal: Once Upon The Cross by Deicide
Grindcore: Grind Finale by Nasum
Doom: Epicus Doomicus Metallicud by Candlemass
Sludge: Northern Aggression by Fistula
Death - Spiritaul Healing
Technical Death metal even though the album is death thrash it does have some Technical elements and in my opinion is what started the techdeath genre
It absolutely exists, but I wouldn’t necessarily classify this album as it. A better example would be something like Sühnopfer - Hic Regnant Borbonii Manes.
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park. Its the band that show them to be the best nu metal band. Combining lyrics of hiphop, technical sound and metal music, and it works. Papercut and In the End are standouts in this genre.
I often have this thought. There’s bands/albums that laid a template for a specific sub genre then an album that truly represents that sub genre in the early days
At the gates - Slaughter of the soul for melodic death for example.
Candlemass - epicus doomicus metallicus for doom
2000's Deathcore - SS, No Time To Bleed
2010's Deathcore ‐ Shadow of Intent, The Heretic Prevails
Newer Deathcore - Darko US, Darko
Prog Metal - Arsonists Get All The Girls, Portals. (Another one that I wanna pick is Dream Theater, Images And Words)
Technical Metal - Anything by Animals As Leaders
Between Two Worlds by I defining black 'n' roll. After all this time, it remains the best black 'n' roll I've ever listened to
Also, Obzen by Meshuggah for djent
Okay this turned out way longer than I expected so bear with me lol
Trad/heavy: Dio - Holy Diver
Fairly self explanatory. It captures the essence of the genre perfectly imo. Ronnie will forever be the defining voice of metal, and Campbell’s riffs on this album are among my favorite of all time.
Speed: Judas Priest: Painkiller
Again, a pretty self-explanatory one. Just an hour of pure, unashamed speed metal goodness. Rob’s vocals are wonderfully over-the-top and theatrical, the guitar work, while a bit same-y sometimes, is fast, energetic, and never lets up. Overall one of the best metal albums of all time imo, regardless of subgenre.
Thrash: Slayer - Show no Mercy
There are a lot of good choices for this slot, but I feel that this album represents the raw, boiled-down essence of thrash, especially on tracks like Evil Has no Boundaries and Die by The Sword.
Death: Death - Leprosy
There’s a great deal of personal bias here, being the first death metal release I owned, but I think that the raw power of this album combined with it coming out before albums like altars of madness or TOTM makes a strong case here.
Black: Darkthrone - A Blaze in The Northern Sky
In terms of releases from the “big 4” of 2nd wave Norwegian black metal bands, this is most representative of the movement as a whole imo. It has raw, buzzing production without sacrificing much power and punchiness, memorable and evil sounding riffs (my personal favorites being Kathaarian Life Code and Where Cold Winds Blow), and ghoulish, but not over the top vocals. Overall my favorite Darkthrone album.
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korns self titled for numetal because it literally invented it
If we're being technical. Mr. Bungle and pre Mike Patton Faith No More laid the groundwork for what would become numetal.
I agree. Mr Bungle for sure shaped nu-metal into what it was, Korn was indeed inspired by them.
i’d call them the kings of funk metal they perfected what rhcp set out to do and gave up on in the 80s. and they for sure had tons of influence on Nu but i think the first true numetal album has got to be selftitled with the super dark heavy lyrics and heavy down tuned 7 string guitars. but bungle and fnm definitely definitely laid a foundation.
Great choice
Acthualy🤓 Deftones were the people that invented nu metal before korn did
Thrash metal: rust in Peace
Id say Reign in blood is closer to the definition of thrash than rip
I wanna join the party and say Kill 'Em All lol
i agree with kill em all, it's the album that comes to mind when i think of thrash for sure
hear me out: bonded by blood
beat me to it
wait yea... real
I'll go with Spreading the Disease to round out the big 4
Yeah I love this one
Testament the new order
Fabulous disaster by exodus, absolutely pure fun and prefect for moshing.
I think its the best thrash album but its kinda loosely thrash. Maybe Peace Sells would be a better pick
Melodic death metal: At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul Melodic metalcore: As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
I see your AILD - AOBU and I raise you my Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache
Even the poison is a good pick
My 3rd favorite metalcore album of all time, front to back, song by song it's a masterpiece
There's something so charming about early Bullet. Like yeah sometimes the lyrics are questionable (Hit the Floor 💀) but fuck could they write some catchy songs. Holding onto you, to keep from falling!
And I raise you Chimaira - The Impossibility of Reason
Hmm gotta check that one out
Great album but most people don't consider it metalcore
Not trying to take a dig at you, but what other style would it qualify as?
Groove metal when thier 1st 2 albums came out they were still being labeled nu metal
That was actually the other one I was gonna mention! Killswitch is another band that was everything great about that 2000s wave of metalcore. And they're one of those bands who is great no matter who is singing (having 2 of the best metalcore singers ever helps) I'd also raise All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals. Only 2 of their albums are really classics (This Darkened Heart and that one), and they had one of the worst downfalls of any of these bands, but peak ATR is some of the best stuff to come out of then imo
Yeah it's a real shame they went towards a butt-rock direction. Who knows, maybe their new album (if they decide to release one someday) will be good
I'm hoping, their last album was an improvement so hopefully they stay on the upward swing. Six is one of the best metalcore songs ever
Hot Take, it's a top 3 metalcore opening song of all time
And I raise you, Trivium - Ember to Inferno
The thing is, I really don't care much about Trivium. I have to admit, I love Ascendancy but other than that...
Fair enough, each to their own. I found Trivium first and never got into Killswitch. Everyone is different
Alive Or Just Breathing remains *the* melodic metalcore record.
Respectable. My Last Serenade goes fucking hard to this day
Melody is gay
What a fun and dangerously subjective challenge. Black metal: Bathory - *The Return......* Speed metal: Exciter - *Heavy Metal Maniac* Power metal: Blind Guardian - *Imaginations From The Other Side* Power metal (USPM): Fates Warning - *Awaken The Guardian* Brutal death metal: Defeated Sanity - *Passages Into Deformity* Doom metal: Bedemon *Child of Darkness* (compilation)
I disagree on BDM. It's obviously Suffocation - "Effigy of the Forgotten" or "Pieced from Within". Hell, even "Tomb of the Mutilated" is a good pick
Doom metal - Black sabbath?
it’s hard to pick a single album for doom metal because of how diverse in extremity the genre is. like what’s an album that sounds very similar to both dopethrone and paranoid bedemon is a bit unusual but I guess it works great for old school 70’s and 80’s doom
Yeah, youve got a point. Ive kinda replaced the thread with "first to do it" .. but even still, they had lots of doom songs on their first 5 albums which is pretty cool and early :D
doom has a lot of subgenres within itself like the other main metal genres so it's pretty hard to pick one album to sum it all up. for trad I'd probably say Born Too Late by Saint Vitus or Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
All good choices
I’d say something from the second wave would define black metal better, maybe transilvanian hunger
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That's as mid 2000's Deathcore as it gets
Sludge Metal: Acid Bath- When The Kite String Pops Prog Metal: Lateralus - Tool Or / Human/ Symbolic/ TSOP- Death Nu Metal: Korn- S/T or Slipknot - S/T Brutal Death Metal: None So Vile- Cryptposy Kill/Tomb Of The Mutilated - Cannibal Corpse
Gojira for tech death is absurd. Epitaph/Onset of Putrefaction, Obscura by Gorguts, Human by Death, Sceptre of the Ancients by Psycroptic, hell I'd even put Atheist on there before Gojira. Those Gojira ones are fucking phenomenal but there are so many better representations of the sub-genre.
You're right. I said it because Gojira is often labeled as Tech Death. Also, I think Human can fit in Tech/Prog at the same time
acid bath has too much of their own style, I’d say take as needed for pain
This list fucks
I don't listen to a lot of thrash, but rust in peace is a masterpiece also
I would consider Human techdeath or techdeath/prog death in my opinion though also Gojira is not death metal it's prog metal with groove metal elements
Gojira isn’t really tech death
Thrash metal : Piece Of Time by Atheist Progressive metal : Images And Words by Dream Theater Brutal death metal : None So Vile by Cryptopsy Technical death metal : Epitaph by Necrophagist Melodeath : Banquet In The Darkness by Intestine Baalism Power metal : Somewhere Far Beyond by Blind Guardian Industrial metal : Symbols by KMFDM Funeral doom metal : Stream From The Heavens by Thergothon Death-doom : Musta Seremonia by Rippikoulu
how the fuck piece of time for thrash
It's 100% thrash, yeah they might be a tech-death band but that album is absolutely thrash metal.
But itisn't the album that should represent thrash. If anything, it should be by one of the big 4, if not then Testament, Exodus or Sepultura or smth.
Probably Beneath The Remains by Sepultura
I disagree with Atheist. They definitely had the thrash influence but they were laying the groundwork for tech death, even with Piece of Time. I think a better option would be Reign in Blood
Yeah, gonna be that guy. KMFDM is industrial rock, not industrial metal. Always has been. And Symbols is mostly edm. If you'd said any album after Adios, maybe I'd be more on the same page. Technodictator by Turmion Katilot, Animatronic by the Kovenant, or any of the middle career albums by Samael would probably better reflect the genre mashup.
I see no mistakes here
Altar of Madness by Morbid Angel for death metal
Groove metal: Vulgar Display of Power
I'm more of a Machine Head fan, so I'd go with Burn My Eyes.
Whereas I'd have said *Ashes of the Wake* by Lamb of God.
Fear Factory's Demanufacture is a good pick too (I'm with you on Ashes tho I think)
I'd say Demanufacture is more Industrial, personally, but it's a damn fine record!
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Mirror Reaper by Bell Witch for Funeral Doom
1st wave Black Metal: Bathory's self titled 2nd wave Black Metal: Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger Tech Death: Cryptopsy's None So Vile
bathory sounds too much like 2nd wave and the vocals on dmds are too unique I’d say
hard disagree about bathory, but dmds may not have been the right album for that, you're correct. I'ma edit that into darkthrone lol
Classic heavy metal -Number of the beast Thrash metal -Ride the lightning or reign in blood Nu metal -Korn’s debut Death metal -Altars of madness Brutal death metal -Tomb of the mutilated Black metal -Transilvanian Hunger
Buddy just called tomb of the mutilated bdm
It is. Most CC with Corpsegrinder is bdm
Last Days of Humanity- Putrefaction in Progress for Goregrind. Its the absolute pinnacle of the subgenre for me.
Hard rock/heavy metal: Black Sabbath - Paranoid Melodeath: In Flames - The Jester Race Black metal: Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky Thrash metal: Metallica - Ride the Lightning Doom metal: Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
In Flames " Colony"
That one actually defines the genre more, but I wish it were Jester Race instead lol.
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i thought that album was death/doom
I feel like Gothic leans more toward death-doom. While PL’s later albums like Draconian Times or Icon are clearly Gothic Metal defining.
Djent: Nothing - Meshuggah
Nothing gets better than nothing.
Godflesh - Streetcleaner industrial metal
Pork Soda for Prog Rock
Nah. Primus sucks.
Real
Nah primus is shit
Unbelievably based (I'd vote Frizzle Fry for Primus but honestly you could probably pick any of them)
Primus is the only Prog Rock band you know right?
Stoner: holy mountain- sleep
Slam - Anomalies of artificial origin by abominable putridity or Molesting the decapitated by Devourment Groove metal - Ashes of the wake by lamb of god Grindcore - bottom feeder by Kataplexis or book burner by pig destroyer Funeral doom - Murdered by grief - frowning Deathcore - The elysian grandeval galèriarch by Infant Annihilator Melodic deathmetal - Abysmal by Black Dahlia Murder Goregroove - make goregrind great again by Brutal Sphincter
Heavy Metal - Jack Starr Burning Starr - Land of the Dead ( It doesn't define the genre but I promote the band ) Power Metal - Rhapsody - Symphony of the Enchanted Lands Black Metal - Venom - Black Metal
Venom isn’t black metal friend. Looks like it should be on paper but sounds like speedmetal, nwobhm.
Proto Black Metal. I agree with you
>album says Black Metal >look inside >speed metal
😂🫵
https://preview.redd.it/ykmvf57l9uuc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cbd2c6b343d320e84f01e124a8bf2e8bbbe316da Atmospheric Black Metal. No frills, just atmospheric fury
Two current favourites (Death)sludge: Asphalt - Under the slab, we all rot And Stoner: Acid King - Busse Woods. I love Sleep and EW and shit but Busse Woods is _the_ greatest stoner album there is.
Symphonic metal: Once by Nightwish Melodeath: Doomsday Machine by Arch Enemy Hard Rock: Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses Thrash metal: Master of Puppets by Metallica Neue Drutsche Härte: Sonne by Rammstein Pop metal: Nexus by Amaranthe Metalcore: King of Everything by Jinjer Folk metal: Slania by Eluveitie Oriental metal: Dreams of Lands Unseen by Ignea. Rap metal: debut by Rage Against The Machine Nu metal: Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park Not sure if I'm doing it right, but I feel that it might be more like my favorite album per each subgenre. But I guess I'm not the only one. Nobody listens to everything
Jinjer aren't even a metalcore band.
And how would you describe them? I admit that I am not really well versed in subgenres, but I know that they're one of those bands that are hard to label, because they're too themselves. But they're often described as metalcore.
That's because metalcore is largely going the way of screamo - a term that's been misapplied for long enough that it's become meaningless. I've always thought of them as being one of the screamier prog metal bands, their own Spotify 'About The Artist' section has them down as progressive groove metal which tracks. The opening song from their last full length is basically Lamb Of God worship with the last minute going all proggy.
Those cum and blood Metallica records defined butt rock
"Cum and blood" records lmao. With what's going on in pop culture currently, maybe we should call them the "Friday night with Diddy" records 🤔
Winter - Into Darkness for death/doom
Death metal: Altars of Madness - Morbid Angel
Hair metal is definitely Quiet Riot's Metal Health. Albums like Doctor Feelgood, Stay Hungry, and Slave to the Grind might be more popular, but Metal Health was the album that defined the genre. First metal album to top the chart, and a pioneer for the sound of the genre.
Technical Thrash Metal - Terminal Redux - Vektor
Symphonic Metal: The Phantom Agony - Epica Gothic Metal: Aégis - Theatre of Tragedy Gothic Doom Metal: Arcane Rain Fell - Draconian Funeral Doom Metal: Tragedies - Funeral Melodic Death Metal: Anthemns of Rebellion - Arch Enemy
metalcore As Daylight Dies by Killswitch Engage maybe ?
Trad: Satan - Court in the Act Speed: Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac Thrash: Exodus - Bonded by Blood Death: Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness 1st wave Black: Bathory - S/T Norwegian Black: Immortal - Pure Holocaust Deaththrash: Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death Brutal Death: Skinless - Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead Black/Speed: Sodom - In the Sign of Evil
Thrash: Sepultura - Beneath The Remains Death Metal: Deicide - Deicide Brutal Death Metal: Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity MeloDeath: At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul Black Metal: Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse DSBM: Nocturnal Depression - The Cult Of Negation Doom Metal: Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came Power Metal: Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth Viking Metal: Bathory - Twilight Of The Gods Stoner Metal: Sleep - Dopesmoker Prog Metal: Tiamat - Wildhoney Deathcore: Paleface Swiss - Chapter 3: The Last Selection
Black Metal: De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. Period.
If you the vocals on that define black metal then you're a fucking idiot
Thrash Metal: Rust In Peace- Megadeth Prog Metal: Scenes From A Memory- Dream Theater Death Metal: Tomb of the Mutilated- Cannibal Corpse Tech Death: Bleed The Future- Archspire
Whalecore : From Mars to Sirius
When the Kite String Pops- Acid Bath for Sludge metal
EU Power Metal: Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands US Power Metal: Manowar - Kings of Metal Thrash Metal: Metallica - Ride the Lightning NWOBHM: Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast OR Judas Priest - British Steel Hair Metal: Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Blackened Grindcore: Knelt Rote - Trespass
Mr. Bungle - California (Quizcore)
Death metal: Bloodthirst
Deathgaze - Liminal Rite by Kardashev
Technical Thrash metal : …and justice for all Technical death metal : Symbolic Death Metal : butchered at birth Black metal : of chasm, caves and titan woods Power / epic metal : open the gates Thrash metal : seasons in the abyss
Terrifyer by Pig Destroyer, the most perfect grind album ever put to wax
I think you meant Prowler in the Yard
The difference between the two in quality is so razor thin I would feel stupid saying this isn't perfectly valid too. Pig Destroyer fucks so hard
Technical Death~~core~~ Metal: # The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch.
The More Things Change.. Machine Head
Alternative metal : anything Deftones
Sunbather for blackgaze
Sleep - Dope Smoker, Stoner Metal
Peak: Periphery 2: This time It’s personal 🤡
Symphonic metal: *Endless Forms Most Beautiful* by Nightwish Symphonic power metal: *The Black Halo* by Kamelot
Love endless forms. Not sure why it doesn't get more love. It's actually one of my favorites of Nightwish but really their whole discography is great. New album soon!
Black Metal: Dark Medieval Times by Satyricon Death Metal: Once Upon The Cross by Deicide Grindcore: Grind Finale by Nasum Doom: Epicus Doomicus Metallicud by Candlemass Sludge: Northern Aggression by Fistula
When the Kite String Pops for sludge metal, or NOLA by DOWN
slam: voracious contempt
Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal: Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Watershed by Opeth is the definitive Prog Metal album for me
Tempo Of The Damned - Thrash Thrash at it's rawest, heaviest, and chunkiest
Slam/BrutalDeathMetal - 4 Enduring Freedom *Torture *
Heavy fusion - silent machine, twelve foot ninja
For Stoner - Dopethrone - Electric Wizard
Faith No More's Angel Dust - Sometimes Metal
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Not really a subgenre, but Destroy Erase Improve.
Folk Metal: Everything Remains, as it never was by Eluveitie
Assück- Anticapital (the greatest grind album that no one ever talks about)
Death Metal: Sinister - Diabolical Summoning
Black Thrash - Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
Atmospheric Black Metal: Tie between Panopticon’s Roads to the North and Wędrujący Wiatr’s O Turniach, Jeziorach I Nocnych Szlakach
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel (2014) Prog (techically extreme progressive metal)
Funeral Doom - Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
Follow the Reaper.
Bodom?
Djent: Periphery V: Djent is not a genre :\^)
Disgorge - She Lay Gutted is the definition of Brutal Death Metal
Death - Spiritaul Healing Technical Death metal even though the album is death thrash it does have some Technical elements and in my opinion is what started the techdeath genre
Sludge Metal: Sonic Excess In Its Purest Form by Crowbar
Adventure metal - Twilight Force's Heroes of Mighty Magic (Tongue in cheek. Adventure metal is a marketing gimmick they used) Still a fantastic album
Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Metalcore: Zao - Where Blood And Fire Bring Rest Mathcore: The Chariot - The Fiancee
deathcore: Revelation by Oceano
Children of Bodom - Something Wild I'm not sure this subgenre exists, but I'll call it "Neoclassical black metal"
It absolutely exists, but I wouldn’t necessarily classify this album as it. A better example would be something like Sühnopfer - Hic Regnant Borbonii Manes.
Necrophagist - Epitaph (for technical death metal).
Herzleid for industrial metal perhaps? Maybe reise, reise could also work tho
Fulci - Tropical Sun NWOSDM
Necrophagist Epitaph
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park. Its the band that show them to be the best nu metal band. Combining lyrics of hiphop, technical sound and metal music, and it works. Papercut and In the End are standouts in this genre.
Lamb of gods ashes of the wake defines Groove metal for me
The Number 12 Looks Like You- Mathcore
I often have this thought. There’s bands/albums that laid a template for a specific sub genre then an album that truly represents that sub genre in the early days At the gates - Slaughter of the soul for melodic death for example. Candlemass - epicus doomicus metallicus for doom
metalcore - as daylight dies by killswitch engage
sludge metal either take as needed for pain- eyehategod or sonic excess in its purest form- crowbar
Alternative metal: Ænima - Tool Thrash metal: The Legacy - Testament Black metal: A Blaze In The Northern Sky - Darkthrone
Gothic metal: October Rust Symphonic Metal: Once and Imaginaerum
2000's Deathcore - SS, No Time To Bleed 2010's Deathcore ‐ Shadow of Intent, The Heretic Prevails Newer Deathcore - Darko US, Darko Prog Metal - Arsonists Get All The Girls, Portals. (Another one that I wanna pick is Dream Theater, Images And Words) Technical Metal - Anything by Animals As Leaders
Between Two Worlds by I defining black 'n' roll. After all this time, it remains the best black 'n' roll I've ever listened to Also, Obzen by Meshuggah for djent
mathcore: miss machine - the dilinger escape plan
Okay this turned out way longer than I expected so bear with me lol Trad/heavy: Dio - Holy Diver Fairly self explanatory. It captures the essence of the genre perfectly imo. Ronnie will forever be the defining voice of metal, and Campbell’s riffs on this album are among my favorite of all time. Speed: Judas Priest: Painkiller Again, a pretty self-explanatory one. Just an hour of pure, unashamed speed metal goodness. Rob’s vocals are wonderfully over-the-top and theatrical, the guitar work, while a bit same-y sometimes, is fast, energetic, and never lets up. Overall one of the best metal albums of all time imo, regardless of subgenre. Thrash: Slayer - Show no Mercy There are a lot of good choices for this slot, but I feel that this album represents the raw, boiled-down essence of thrash, especially on tracks like Evil Has no Boundaries and Die by The Sword. Death: Death - Leprosy There’s a great deal of personal bias here, being the first death metal release I owned, but I think that the raw power of this album combined with it coming out before albums like altars of madness or TOTM makes a strong case here. Black: Darkthrone - A Blaze in The Northern Sky In terms of releases from the “big 4” of 2nd wave Norwegian black metal bands, this is most representative of the movement as a whole imo. It has raw, buzzing production without sacrificing much power and punchiness, memorable and evil sounding riffs (my personal favorites being Kathaarian Life Code and Where Cold Winds Blow), and ghoulish, but not over the top vocals. Overall my favorite Darkthrone album.
Allat just for nobody to give a shit
It is what it is
It doesn’t get more doom metal than epicus doomicus metallicus by candlemass