When you're talking about music with your friends, you want to know the meanings for the words they're using. Without going overboard, we can recognize a handful of genres within heavy metal. Here are audio samples and descriptions for each of these metal genres.

An easy guide to heavy metal genres

Bands included: King Crimson, Iggy and the Stooges, Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Venom, DRI, Cryptic Slaughter, Fearless Iranians From Hell, Metallica, Exodus, Slayer, Prong, Hellhammer, Sodom, Bathory, Deicide, Morbid Angel, Possessed, Incantation, Emperor, Immortal, Burzum, Skepticism, Winter, Saint Vitus, Cathedral, Necrophagist, Behemoth, Neuraxis, ICP, Slipknot, Korn, Dragonforce, Hammerfall, Blind Guardian, Jesu, Sunn O))), Wolves in the Throne Room

Now why is WiiTR on this here?

GENRES IS RAVIOLIS

Why is ICP included? Since when are they even remotely metal?

Necrophagist is Fugazi inspired.

key word: remotely

Wow! Now I can talk to my friends again about music without getting all confused. Thanks!!

neuraxis, beheamoth and necrophagist are metalcore/deathcore?


wat

Prong are speed metal?

and the thrash section has all crossover bands.

lol, article fail.

Yeah, I like how he makes the point of complaining about unnecessary subgenres, then seems to invent a few of his own.

Yeah, that's bullshit for more than one reason. First the obvious reason.... NONE of those bands fall into metalcore/deathcore.... second.... These three bands are not even similar enough to EACHOTHER to be used in defining a genre. Fucking newbs.

well, Behemoth and Necrophagist are in a way, they both suck elephant balls.

Well that's your opinion..... but stylistically they are TOTALLY different. Go ahead, deny it.... you can't.

i don't know why you guys hate on necrophagist so much. if its anything you should hate everyone who considers them the best thing since sliced bread or the invention of the electric guitar. i enjoy their music and yea i will admit i have heard more technical bands but what they play is still good and enjoyable and thats enough for me to like it. i don't consider them the best thing out there like a lot of people do though.

I think sliced bread is overrated

sliced bread is, toasted sliced bread however, is not.

Necrophagist are one of my favorite bands.

Rightfully so. They are a good band.

wolves in the throne room is fucking black metal, this article is horrible.

something about this article screams ANUS.

+ Texas? Methinks conservationist is at fault.

I already understand everything there is to understand about metal. Kick rocks, nigger.

Proto-Underground ? This article is just dumb and boring. For shits and giggles I did a search on "proto-underground". The only appearance of that term is in that article.


would-be know it alls

yawn

Some people flipped out over our article on the genres of metal, which among its greatest sins identified Behemoth, Necrophagist and Neuraxis as metalcore. Since people aren't familiar with much of the history of this genre, here's a little rundown: "What is metalcore?"

well he did post the thread so...

Aw hell ya ICP yall. Even betta then Pantera yall. Les go all da way Jus follow me

I wonder when JIHADCORE will become an official genre.

Onset of Putrefaction (before that re-issue) > [fill in the blank]