A Rough Guide to Metal Genres

[@TheMetalTempestYT]

Hey there, Review Family! After the success that this channel has had in the past year or so, I felt like it would be a great idea to put this video back into the world that I created around this time last year! I am constantly asked how to get into certain metal genres/subgenres/what they sound like/what bands are good, etc, and because of my A Rough Guide to series, I felt like giving this video to the metal community would be a lovely idea, as it could be used by both newcomers and veterans to learn more about subgenres. Obviously I do not touch upon every single microgenre, but I tried to pack in as many as I could!!!!!!! Definitely drop a like and comment if you enjoyed because this video took SO long to produce when it was created, and it's truly, hands down my favorite video I have ever created!!!!!!! But what is your favorite metal subgenre/genre? Be sure to let me know down below!!!!!!! But for now, cheers, rock on, stay heavy and have yourselves a fantastic rest of your day or night, depending on when you watch this!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 Check out the Rough Guide playlist for more genre run-throughs!!!!!!! :D kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXvJdKePaJedhK8

[@Tiki_Robo]

5:35 Thrash metal 5:50 Speed metal 7:59 Groove metal 9:46 Power metal 11:26 Symphonic metal 12:27 Death metal 14:28 Technical death metal 16:17 Melodic death metal 17:43 Death n' roll 18:56 Black metal 21:57 Norwegian black metal 23:47 Blackened death metal 24:57 Blackgaze 26:49 BlackAmbient 27:51 Symphonic black metal 28:25 War metal 29:12 Raw black metal 30:02 Unblack metal 30:45 National socialism black metal 31:51 DSBM 32:43 Grindcore 34:13 Goregrind 35:27 Pornogrind 36:04 Deathgrind 37:03 Doom metal 38:16 Epic doom metal 38:43 Funeral doom metal 39:45 death-doom 40:11 Gothic metal 40:45 Drone metal 41:41 Sludge metal 42:17 Metalcore 43:43 Post-hardcore 44:53 Deathcore 46:26 Mathcore 47:14 Electronicore 47:54 Sasscore 48:37 Screamo 49:28 Nu metalcore 50:02 Nu metal 51:26 Funk metal 51:48 Glam metal 52:55 Djent 53:40 Progressive metal 54:33 Experimental metal 55:26 Industrial metal 56:29 Grunge 58:18 Kawaii metal 58:56 Folk metal 59:45 Pirate metal 1:00:00 Viking metal 1:00:19 Post metal

[@arayazn]

Trash metal...

[@NeoSpaceJet]

Genre that isn't included in this but I'd love to mention because its one of my favorites and thats blackened sludge/doom metal! Bands like portrayal of guilt, thou, mizmor, hell, glassing and holy fawn (with shoegaze). Some different from the next but thats what happens when you mix different influences and i definitely could of named more but these are the ones who stood out to me

[@firetamer]

I have to add Lord Mantis and Ghostsmoker to the bands you've already mentioned!

[@NeoSpaceJet]

@@firetamer I have not listened to those bands yet 🤔 but I'll definitely give them a try! Thanks for the recommendation! 😄

[@MichaelsCatEmporium]

Cool idea here! If you decide to revisit this again, I'd recommend breaking it up into several different videos and adding short audio examples. Not only would that be more helpful for people unfamiliar with it, but you'd also produce more videos that could garner more views.

[@zander3943]

holy shit i didn’t expect you post an hour long video, thanks

[@Owlr4ider]

A very nice overview. Surprised that some very iconic metal bands of the various subgenres didn't make an appearance at all in your examples. Iron Maiden is the most obvious one, though I suspect you didn't want to pidgeonhole them in a specific subgenre so they're your classic 'heavy metal' band. However other bands like Opeth, Symphony X, Arch Enemy, Powerwolf, Sepultura, The Agonist, Jinjer, etc, weren't included as core examples of the various subgenres. I mean yeah there are only so many bands you can include in a video like this but I feel you included some much more obscure and less well known bands compared to the above as your entry level examples to a genre.

[@caseycoker1051]

I lean towards Thrash, Groove, and melodic death metal. I also have a soft spot for Nu Metal because I grew up with it.

[@voxextremos22]

Dissonant death metal: Gorguts, Ulcerate, Artificial Brain, Ad Nauseum, Pyrohn and Nightmarer The Woods. I feels like you coulda added that to the death metal catagory. You could also ad Altrage, Sarmat or Blindfolded and Led Into the Woods for newer bands. That is going a little more into the weeds. Progressive Death metal: Opeth, Rivers Of Nihil, Fractal universe and Burial In The Sky

[@Thenewbronzeagecollapse]

Ehh, kinda? Dissonant death metal focuses less on atmosphere and more on pure dissonance (i.e. Gorguts - Obscura, Artificial Brain, Pyrrhon, later War From A Harlots Mouth, Nightmarer), while Ulcerate, Portal, Altarage, Portal, Abyssal tend to fit more the category of “post-death metal” since they add more layers and atmosphere to their music, often times structuring it as “buildup - release - call-out to the buildup” which is a song structure typical of post-metal in general. Blindfolded and Led To The Woods adopt the same stylistic choices as their fellow kiwis Ulcerate and mix it with deathcore.

[@mkly0126]

A video over an hour long! You're spoiling us, Tempest!

[@Goats_]

Yo Tempest! Killer video. Very comprehensive. I learned some new stuff. You covered all my favorite genres. Would've enjoyed a mention of Neo classical metal. My theory is that if you wanted to headbang 200 years ago, classical was your only choice. I defy anyone to listen to Beethoven and not start rockin'. The combination of Classical & Metal is logical. Yngwie Malmsteen has perfected it, despite being slightly up his own ass. Keep up the great work. Power Metal for Life! 🤘🖤🤘 🍻

[@Thenewbronzeagecollapse]

On a side note: DSBM wouldn't have existed without doom metal, beatdown hardcore and sludge metal, and many of the most important bands in the genre went to play blackened sludge later on, for instance Skitliv, Mizmor, Shining, Forgotten Tomb, Leviathan. All the members in those bands come from the hardcore punk, more specifically beatdown scene (Andreas Casado, the drummer for Silencer, also played with a few beatdown bands, as well as Raikku Tuomikanto, the drummer for Shining); with DSBM you have the same situation as Katatonia, as in artists from the hardcore scene decide to play extreme metal. Unreqvited also has a metalcore project named The Ember, The Ash, Diapsiquir started as a beatdown hardcore band and went back to playing beatdown before releasing their last album which was trip-hop and splitting up, and so on and so forth... The themes and lyrics of DSBM usually come directly from sludge metal, in that they have a similar take on depression as doom metal, but more in your face and direct (Eyehategod, Grief, Thou, Acid Bath) and often times are directly influenced by sludge bands (like the aforementioned Acid Bath above all, especially in the case of Bethlehem). The staple vocal technique of DSBM is the high-pitched fry scream, usually on a higher octave and with less distortion compared to what you hear in metalcore, it's rare to hear depressive black metal bands adopting the typical black metal snarl or simply shouting without any sort of technique. You can also hear low growls, gutturals, tunnel throats and grunts (Leviathan, particularly on Scar Sighted). Also: you forgot Godflesh when you talked about industrial metal. They're the forefathers of the genre

[@ThePeanutbudder]

Love this

[@dimoire]

timestamps please someone!

[@rezzytheblackrose9212]

Let's gooo 💙

[@mythik4840]

Out of curiosity, what made you put Agalloch in post-metal instead of one of the black metal categories? I've been a longtime fan of theirs since 2014 ish and I always considered them black metal. Got to see them live too!

[@jean-charleschabrol390]

this helped me bc i was lueless about what those genres were lol

[@sebastienringuette5515]

Great vid. Forgot two big ones. MeloBlack (Illnath, Catamenia) Atmos Black (Veldes, Ellende) Also I do make a distinction between Post Black and Blackgaze but at the same time I’m sure a lot of bands I put into Post Black you’d put into Avant-Guarde

[@Numinol]

I mostly listened to thrash metal but decided to try some black metal. I actually really like mayhem's sound a lot now 😯

[@yellowrich]

i love this channel so much,

[@ShadarVonHell]

Great video, however....putting Summoning as example of Symphonic Black Metal is a big "NO NO" to me. They are Atmospheric Black Metal band, sure it can feel a bit "Symphonic" but they are far from the Symphonic sound that is characteristic to bands like: Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Limbonic Art, Vargrav, Moonlight Sorcery or Anorexia Nervosa.

[@Faerie_Kim]

You missed stoner doom - Kyuss, Cathedral, Electric Wizard

[@arayazn]

Me on my way to get a shit ton of band recommendations

[@arrebarre900]

Will we ever get the Paul Ledney interview?

[@bagelivysaur]

i really liked your video overall, but as an emo i wanted to interfere for a moment. post hardcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk and so is screamo. screamo has nothing to do with metal, unlike metalcore. and my chemical romance isn't post hardcore, it's pop punk/mall emo. and i'd argue that grunge is metal... other than that, great video! i know a lot of the subgenres and have heard them, but it was important for me to find out what are the distinctive traits as i'm also making my own video. thanks a lot and good luck!

[@Jaafar_Mosa14]

What about Thall?😅

[@Numinol]

For progressive metal I highly recommend Rishloo. They're really good even better than tool

[@blackheart7261]

I dislike people just calling Nu Metal "rap metal" when it's more than just that. Korn is probably mostly groove metal (and funk metal). Yeah they are definitely hip hop inspired but it's not like they are limp bizkit putting rap into the forefront. It's more so kinda like how Pantera's grooves are inspired by old blues music and In the same way Korn's grooves are very much inspired by hip hop music. Basically trying to say you can have hip hop inspiration in your sound without being a straight up rap metal band.

[@Sergio-nb4hj]

Why did you skip over brutal death metal and slamming brutal death metal?

[@TheMetalTempestYT]

Haha, both are in the description! That was something with the original. Couldn't touch on everything and was bound to forget some!

[@Sergio-nb4hj]

@@TheMetalTempestYT Nice. I'm curious, do you not consider Devourment slam? Why's that

[@HonkeyKongLive]

Good Lord it's been done hahaha

[@PortugueseMACPOW]

Stopped the video when you said: "there are dozens upon dozens upon dozens of genres" people that say that are the same wokies that say there are dozens and dozens of genders. There are 6 maybe 7, and the rest is not different enough to fit in a diferent genre. All the cores and grinds aren't real metal, same with nu, and all the blackened and similar variations are all part of the main genre. Don't be a kvnt.

[@TheMetalTempestYT]

Fully get where you're coming from, but I see it personally as a bit of a different opinion so I'll just give my two cents. I'm not a big fan of overlabeling/categorizing things because I think it can be really mundane and unnecessary, hence why I didn't include a lot of the microgenres/blackened/brutal/symphonic and whatever genres of everything. I tried to stick to things that have a much different approach than other things for the sake of what people may enjoy listening to. I've tried to get a lot of friends into metal and it's good to know what they may like or want. For example, if I try to get them into death metal, it'd be useful to know if they like something more clean and melodic like a melodic death metal, or if they prefer more chunky, heavy stuff. Or if they like orchestral instrumentation as opposed to the typical instrumentals you get in black metal, that's when categorization comes into play. With a genre as large as metal, it's important to try to figure out what someone enjoys or not coming INTO metal, to properly recommend them in a direction that leads 'em to a gateway band/genre. In most conversations I don't really care or mind much about the microlabeling and do think it's silly. But in a video like this where people come in with no prior knowledge of stuff, it could be daunting to look at a band like Lorna Shore, which are super symphonic and blackened, and then look at a heavy, chunky, breakdown-centric band like Whitechapel and scratch their heads saying...these are both deathcore? Or some super cleanly produced, atmospheric blackgaze band like Deafheaven, compared to Lamp of Murmur, a super brittle, lo-fi black metal project that is ear-scraping and heavy. I think when you're leading people into genres, there needs to be a bit of hand-holding in terms of what to expect/not to expect, because while labeling things all the time is annoying, it can be super helpful to newcomers. That's just my opinion, though. :) Cheers!!!!!!!

[@dzonnyblue3065]

you are completely false because so many subgenres of metal are actually rip off from core genre ... like melodic death metal is still death metal and there is no such thing as melodic ,symphonic black metal it is still damn black metal and those different productions and techniques are same old overused riffs and speed metal and thrash are same damn genre !

[@mayolicious69]

You do know what 'subgenre' means right? 😂

[@dzonnyblue3065]

@@mayolicious69 100% i know but question is do you know ?

[@melodyrichardson5051]

You need a hobby.

[@dzonnyblue3065]

@@melodyrichardson5051 i have a hobby and even more than one !!!