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3 Inches Of Blood - Deadly Sinners (Heavy Metal)

Agent Steel - SONGS (Speed/Power)

Agonize - Agonizing Soul (Death Metal)

Akercocke - Enraptured By Evil (Black/Death)

Alarum - song1 and song2 (Progressive Metal)

Amon Amarth - Bastards of A Lying Breed (Melodic Death)

Anacrusis - ALBUMS (Thrash)

Ancient - Ancient (Melodic Black)

...And Oceans - Odious and Devious (Industrial Death)

Andromeda - Reaching Deep Within (Progressive/Power)

Angel Dust - The Human Bondage (Power Metal)

Angra - Lisbon and Nothing To Say (Progressive/Power)

Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (Avant-Garde)

Attacker - Sleepy Hollow and Tortured Existence (Power Metal)

Avalanch - various mp3s (Power Metal)

Avantasia - The Chalice of Agony (Power Metal)

Azaghal - Kingdom of Satan (Black metal)

Ballistic - Gone Ballistic (Demo) (Speed/Power)

Balrog - Kingdom of my own (Black Metal)

BellaDoloro - SONGS (Doom/Goth)

Berzerker, The - No One Wins (Industrial/Death/Grind)

Biomechanical - The Awakening (Progressive Metal)

Blind Guardian - Battlefield (Power Metal)

Blistered Earth - Leading The Strike (Thrash Metal)

Bloodbath - Out Numbering The Day and Breeding Death (Death Metal)

Brainstorm - Download page (Power Metal)

Bullet - Heavy Metal Highway (Demo) (Heavy Metal)

Carcass - Genital Grinder (Gore/Grind)

Chasm, The - Fortress (Death Metal)

Children of Bodom - Downfall (Power/Speed)

Corporation 187 - Hypnotic Illusion and Religious Connection (Thrash Metal)

Corpus Mortale - Mass Funeral Pyre and Album On Site (Death Metal)

Crowbar - Planets Collide (Sludge Metal)

Cro-Mags - Age Of Quarrel [Full Album] (Hardcore Crossover Thrash)

Crotchduster - Mammal Sauce and Star Fish Land (Avant-Garde/Death/Power)

Cryptopsy - Slit Your Guts (Live) (Death Metal)

Decay - Atrocities (Full Demo) (Death/Thrash)

December Wolves - My Bible and Desperately Seeking Satan (Black/Death/Industrial)

Demilich - Nespithe [Full Album] (Death Metal)

Destroyer 666 - Rise Of The Predator (Black/Death/Thrash)

Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations and The Prince (NWOBHM)

Dio - http://www.dimwhit.com/dio/mp3.html]ALBUMS (Heavy Metal)

Domini Magica - One-Way Deviation (Demo) (Power Metal)

Dragonforce - My Spirit Will Go On & Black Winter's Night (Power Metal)

Dream Evil - The Book of Heavy Metal (Power/Heavy)

Elvenking - The Dweller Of Rhymes (Power Metal)


Empty Tremor - A New World (Progressive Metal)

Entombed - Stranger Aeons (Death/Thrash)

Eternity X - Imaginarium (Progressive Metal)

Equilibrium - Demo 2003 (Viking Metal)

Eulogy - Full Discography (Death Metal)

Evergrey - MP3s (Progressive Metal)

Exciter - Death Revenge (Speed Metal)

Exhumed - Matter Of Splatter (Death/Grind)

Fallen Yggdrasil - Build Up a Ruin to Come (Death Metal)

Fatal Demeanor - Rotting Saint (Black Metal)

Finntroll - Trollhammaren (Folk Metal)

Forest Stream - Black Swans (Black/Gothic/Doom)

Forsaken, The - Seers Hatred (Melodic Death/Thrash)

Frost - The Glass Mountain (Black Metal)

Gaia Epicus - Cyber Future (Power Metal)

Goatsnake - Easy Greasy (Drone Doom)

GWAR - War Party (Thrash Metal)

Hate Eternal - Powers That Be (Death Metal)

Heathen - ALBUMS (Thrash Metal)

Horfixion - 4 songs (Thrash/Death)

Iced Earth - Dracula (Power Metal)

Immortal - Suffocate (demo) (Black/Death)

Into Eternity - Spiralling Into Depression (Progressive/Death)

Iniquity - SONGS (Death Metal)

In Vain - Demo (Doom Metal)

Iron Savior - Battering Ram (Speed/Power)

Jailor - Two Tracks From Religious Unpurge Demo (Thrash Metal)

Judas Priest/Fight/Two - Live Stuff Heavy Metal

Kamelot - Various songs here (Power Metal)

Katatonia - I Am Nothing (Doom Metal)

King Diamond - Blood To Walk (Black/Traditional)

Kotipelto - A good number of MP3s (Power Metal)

Krisiun - Soul Devourer and Dawn of Flagellation (Death Metal)

Labyrinth - The Prophet (Power Metal)

Lipstick Liontigers - Who Needs DJ's Anyway?! (Full EP) (Heavy/Power)

Living Fields, The - SONGS (Doom/Thrash)

Lord Gore - Morgue Whore (Gore Death)

Madsword - Time in The Ice (Progressive/Power)

Manticora - The Twilight Shadow (Power/Speed)

Marduk - Throne Of Rats (Norsecore)

Marybell - MP3s (Doom Metal)

Memento Mori - To Travel Within (Power/Doom)

Mercyful Fate - Insane (Black/Heavy)

Misery Loves Co. - Need Another One (Doom/Thrash/Industrial)

Morbid Angel - Rapture (Death Metal)

Mordred - ALBUMS (Funk/Thrash)

Myself Am Hell - Myself Am Hell (Full Demo) (Death/Thrash)

Mysticum - Industries of Inferno (Black Metal)

Nailgunner - All Life Ends (Full Demo) (Thrash Metal)

Napalm Fedoration - You Suffer(Napalm Death cover) (Grindcore)

National Napalm Syndicate - Demo (Thrash Metal)

Necrophagist - Stab Wound and Seven (Death Metal)

Ninja Magic - SONGS (Thrash/Power)

Nocturnus - Empire of the Sands (Death Metal)

Old Man's Child - Black Seeds on Virgin Soil (Black Metal)

Prime Evil - Prime Evil (Full Demo) (Death/Thrash)

Rotting Corpse - Those Without a Conscience (Thrash Metal)

Savatage - Turns To Me (Progressive/Power/Heavy)

Sigh - Corpsecry - Angelfall (Black Metal)

Sinergy - Beware The Heavens (Power Metal)

Sonata Arctica - SONGS (Power Metal)

Spiral Tower - Mindkiller (Full Album) (Power/Speed)

Stormlord - Stormlord (Blackened Epic Metal)

Strangler - Infinite Blood Abundance (Demo) (Death Metal)

Swarrrm - Strength (Grindcore)

Syconaut - Demos (Melodic Death)

Tiburon - Tiburon (Death Metal)

Threat Signal - 3 song demo (Death Metal)

Unearthed - MP3s (Doom Metal)

Utopia Banished - SONGS (Melodic Death)

Vader - Out Of The Deep and Winds (Thrash/Death)

Wehrmacht - Beermacht (Full Demo) (Thrash Metal)

Whispering Gallery - Beyond The Light (Doom Metal)

Winters Bane - The Silhouette (Traditional Power)

Wolverine - New Best Friend (Progressive Metal)




There you go this is the latest version.... when stuff are added, you gonna add it all yourself or what? sweatdrop

In this topic you can talk about metal and it's subgenres. Have fun!

Here is a small explanation of the genres (Special thanks to Fallen_Flame):

Thrash: A combination of old school Hardcore Punk with Classic Heavy Metal, early thrash bands took the two emerging styles merged them added a healthy dose of speed and went from there. One word defines the instruments in thrash "fast", Riffs are sets of fast chords, drums are played in double bass rolls and fast snare reliant blasts, bass is often limited to fast plucking of the top two strings. Vocals are usually intense but clean and lack vibrato. An easy way to identify thrash is an extreme band that doesn’t have Death or Black vocals. Slayer, Testament and Exodus are all good examples.

Black Metal: An extreme evolution of thrash about pushing metal to its audible and lyrical extremes. Guitars are fast and abrasive, often quite minimilistic, and often tremolo picked. Drums are usually fast double bass sections or fast blast beats, usually accompanied by a ride or hi-hat. Vocals are shrieked in a shrill high-pitched tone, and production is often very rough to enhance the atmosphere and abrasiveness of the music. Mayhem, Darkthrone, Gorgorth, Burzum and Kreig are all excellent examples of Pure Black Metal. Some BM bands try to incorporate synths and more electronic atmospherics into their music, these bands are often called "Goth Metal" by BM fans although this is inaccurate, the term "Symphonic Black Metal" is a lot closer to the truth.

Death Metal: The other evolution of Thrash, this branch of bands went in a very different direction with the Thrash prototype, they thickened the guitar tone, inserted a lot of musicianship, morbidity, groove and speed (yes even more). Double bass sections are usually faster, more blasts are used and riffs are usually a lot more technical. However the main thing that sets DM apart is the vocals. Vibrato soaked growls that are projected from the abdomen and shaped with the throat, this is as important part of the music as any of the instruments. Morbid Angel, Cryptopsy, Origin, and Death are all good examples of Death Metal.

Power Metal: A straight evolution of Classic Heavy Metal, through Iron Maiden who despite not being Power themselves were a massive influence on the genre. Power Metal places a high focus on guitar harmonies and melodies, extravagant solos are used often and riffs tend to "gallop" due to the chord progressions used. Vocals are high and soaring, even more so than Progressive Vocals, subject matter is quite often fantasy based. Lost Horizon, Hammerfal and Stratovarius are good examples of this.

Melodic Death Metal: Or "Melo-Death" is a combination of Power Metal structures with those of Death Metal, Maidenesque twin guitar harmonies are used liberally, drums usually contain a certain amount of rhythm and groove, technicality is at a mid to high level and vocals are usually growled, although at a higher pitch than standard Death Metal. In Flames, Soilwork, At The Gates and Arch Enemy are all obvious examples of Melo-Death

Progressive Metal: A combination of the ideals of 70’s/80’s prog bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin with the distortion, groove, rythym and structure of classic heavy Metal. What came out was a legion of bands led by Dream Theater who featured immense technical ability, numerous time signature and tempo changes, long sweeping instrumental sections and high soaring vocals. Each song often sounds different from the last due to the fact that they draw influence from all over the place and extravagant solo sections are almost a necessity. Prog has spawned many many genres in which a band has taken a Metal sub-genre and added prog elements to it for example Opeth’s Prog Death, Meshuggah’s Prog Industrial, Symphony X’s Prog Power, Maudlin Of The Well’s Prog Doom or even Mudvayne’s Prog Nu Metal.

Industrial Metal: Basically Thrash metal mixed with Industrial. To be more precise metal with heavy use of electronics, samples, synths, and even sequenced noise. Often the guitars will have a very reverb soaked tone, giving them a machine like quality. Vocals vary, but are normally different types of screams or growls, along with singing. A lot of the time, there are effects used on the vocals, or the vocals will just be incredibly distorted. (Demanufacture-era) Fear Factory, Meshuggah, Godflesh, Strapping Young Lad, and Misery Loves Co. (pre-YVWNMTS) are all obvious/excellent examples.

Grindcore: An extreme form of Hardcore Punk. Characterized by heavy use of blast beats, heavily distorted bass, and extremely fast, grinding guitars. Vocals are typically guttural bellows, but higher pitched screams are also used. Lyrical content is political with Grindcore in its purest form. Emphasis on simplicity, just as in punk. Napalm Death, Nasum, Burned Up Bled Dry, Extreme Noise Terror and Siege are all excellent examples of Grind. Modern grind or "Tech Grind" as it is sometimes called is slightly different in that it is based more on modern Metalcore than in old school punk, the obvious examples of this are of course Pig Destroyer.

Doom Metal: This term has grown to mean "anything that draws influence from the first two Sabbath albums" but I resent that, real doom is painfully slow, depressing music, with long monotonous drones for riffs, simple drums and particularly pained vocals (usually lower than their DM counterparts). Most Doom Metal puts the emphasis more on atmosphere and "feel" of the music, rather than any individual notes or riffs. Examples include Saturnus, While Heaven Wept and Skepticism.

Sludge: Typically a sub-genre of hardcore, although borrowing from genres such as Industrial, Grindcore, and even Southern Rock. Characterized by incredibly slow, grinding, dirgy guitars, primarily rhythmic drumming, and screams which sound particularly painful. Subject matter can be about anything, but is most typically about drug use or various states of emotion. the most easily recognizable bands in this genre are Eyehategod, Crowbar, Soilent Green, Beaten Back To Pure, and Rabies Caste.

Goregrind: A combination of Grindcore's intensity, pace and song structure, and death metal's vocal style, musicality, groove, morbidity and technicality. Rather than the emphasis on simplicity grind has, it finds a middle ground and uses moderate technicality and repetition to create a very listenable groove. Dual vocalists are a trademark (but not essential), as is very tongue-in-cheek gore lyrical content. Pre-Necroticism Carcass, Lord Gore, Devourment, Haemorrhage, and Repulsion are good examples.

Gore Metal: Is the structure, style and musicianship of European and melodic Death Metal with the abrasiveness and grind of American Death Metal. The audible vocals used in most Melodic Death aren’t as important in gore metal. Dual vocals (as used in goregrind) are used often, but aren't distorted as they are in goregrind. Most bands in this genre are referred to as engaging in "Carcass worship", since so many of them sound very much like Necroticism-era Carcass, the pinnacle of and very first gore metal album. Necroticism was the transition album for Carcass, in which they started to abandon their Goregrind roots for more of a Melodic Death Metal sound. Impaled, (current) Cattle Decapitation, Exhumed, (Necroticism-era) Carcass, and Carrion are good examples.

Nu Metal: There is immense argument over what exactly this genre constitutes, and thusly it is one of the hardest to define but basically as I see it it’s a combination of rock’s structures with those of Metal but always containing another influence. I like to express this as Rock + Metal + X Factor = Nu Metal. For example Mudvayne have a Thrash and Funk influence, Slipknot have a Grind influence and Static-X have an Industrial influence. Other common traits of Nu Metal include: low technicality, mid tempos, lack of solos, drop d tunings, simple power chord riffs, all purpose drum beats and angsty lyrical content. Korn, Slipknot, American Head Charge and Static-X are all good examples of Nu Metal.

Metalcore: In short: Hardcore + A Metal Genre (Usually Thrash Or Death) Very similar to Hardcore in most respects, but instead of using either overly abstract riffs (The DEP) or simple mosh riffs (Hatebreed), they tend to use much more Thrash or Death influenced guitar work. Metalcore tends not to have the genericore Hardcore vocals and the drumming is more tribal instead of jumping between slow blast beats and rolls. Zao, Johnny Truant, Luddite Clone and Into Eternity are all good examples of the range of sound Metalcore can create.

Thanks for helping me out ^^

Thanks a lot, got to go now..see you soon! 3nodding

They're pretty popular goth metal. They have material before Comalies that I think is pretty good. That's just my opinion though.

Hey... that's cool... so much subgenres of metal... WOW eek

I'm sorry, but we had 2 metal topics then xp

Fallen_Flame gave me those subgenres.. so it might be good whee

Pretty nice list, plus I guess it's best having nu-metal up there just so people aren't like "wH3rE 1z nU-m3tUl?1!%".

Anyway, Lacuna Coil are pretty popular, mostly because of their vocalist and her fanboi's who are always like "OMFG SHE IZ HAWT!1!!". Not really a fan of them myself, I think Crematory and Shadows Of Memories are much better goth metal bands. =/

It is it's own genre, but there is a metal sub-genre, industrial metal. Industrial metal and industrial aren't the same.

For example, Fear Factory are Industrial metal and KMFDM and Rammstein are Industrial.

Industrial metal is industrial and experimental sounds with electronics with a metal song structure.