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[–] kylie_kraft 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] AFLYINTOASTER 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Have a list of great songs for each category? I know a little, but not a lot.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

I can't speak to a lot of these subgenres but power metal? Hehehe.

Dragonforce - Through Fire and Flames. Not just a meme, actually a great song and very technical.

Powerwolf - Blessed & Possessed. Werewolves that work for the Catholic Church? I have no idea how that's supposed to work but I'd read the book.

Sabaton - To Hell and Back. Sabaton writes a lot of songs about historical battles.

Powermetal has rather a lot of narrative ballads in it.

Oh, I've got a good folk metal band too:

Eluveitie - The Call of the Mountain. I love all the different instruments they use.

Alestorm - Drink. How the hell did I forget Alestorm? Who wants pirate metal?

Bloodywood - Dana Dan. Indian folk metal rap/rock ... with a lot of English? I don't know what's going on here but it's such a unique blend.

Someone mentioned Nightwish and here's my favorite song of theirs:

Nightwish - Nemo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Absolute killer list of bands. Call of the Mountain has to be in my top 5 best songs ever written.

And I've never heard a bad song from Sabaton.

I'll also add Nightwish to the list for symphonic metal. I tend to favor their older stuff, Dark Chest of Wonder would be a great entry point into them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

You left out Pasadena 1994 by Nanowar of Steel

Also my favorites, fiddler on the green and old Nightwish, Stratovarious or Blind Guardian.

I've been also known to enjoy a Sonata Arctica concert or two.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Haha funny you added The call of the mountain there. At some point I had an issue that shittube algorithm put that song constantly in 'play next'. The song is good except the chorus that for some reason annoys the hell out of me

Call of the mountain weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer call of the mountain weeeeeeeeeerreeeeeee call of the mountain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That Dragonforce song is amazing!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you like power metal try visigoth (I think their drummer does an amazing job at controlling the dynamics and pace of their songs) and Fellowship (I've never heard any other band come nearly as close at something uplifting and motivating); I really like Glint from fellowship as an example of that! It's the "response" to the "call" from Oak and Ash earlier in the album

[–] NielsBohron 2 points 9 months ago

Plus, if you're into power metal, you probably also enjoy TTRPG's, and Visigoth designed a whole campaign/setting based around one of their albums with one of my favorite 3rd party content creators (The Revenant King)

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[–] BlackNo1 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

On the Doom (or Stoner/Doom) metal genre, I would recommend Electric Wizard or Dopethrone.

Electric Wizard's Supercoven and Funeralopolis. Special mention to "I am nothing", but I don't want to spam their whole discography.
Dopethrone's Chameleon Witch and Vagabond

Those are pretty much the only two bands I know in that genre. Would like to hear more if anyone have suggestions.

[–] NielsBohron 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

As a pretty eclectic listener that ~~doesn't~~ didn't usually listen to much extreme metal, Windhand was my gateway drug to stoner/doom; try Forest Clouds and Grey Garden

I also really enjoy YOB (Adrift in the Ocean), Firebreather (Kiss of your Blade), and Khemmis (Hunted), and Monolord has some really fun, almost hypnotic groovy riffs (Empress Rising)

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[–] BigWumbo 1 points 9 months ago

Funeral doom all the way imo. Check out Ahab and Bereft.

For black metal - Der Weg Einer Freiheit can’t be beat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

King gizzard and the lizzard wizzards album infest the rats nest got me into thrash metal since I read someone call it thrash, but idk if that's the actual genre.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 3 points 10 months ago

It's thrash, yeah.

Thing to keep in mind with the though, the band has been dabbling in AI stuff for album art and songwriting, so make of that what you will. Been a fan of theirs since their first 5 album year, but lately my hype has been deadened from the AI stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nobody talked about death metal so...

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

Can anyone remember a text comparing metal genres to dragon fighting knights trying to rescue a damsel in distress?

Some were hilarious, like the new metal guy arriving at the lair in a beat up Civic.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

As a side note, the musical genre suffixes like -core, -wave, -step, -town, -hop, etc. are not consistent. Retrowave will not inform you about Folkwave.

[–] Nice_Melt_Pleb 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

power metal and folk metal are kinda similar demographics-wise in my experience as an alestorm fan

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are also other genre with a lot of overlap. I also do feel like the same people are also dressing differently when going to a mainly power or folk gig for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Aye, fuck you with an anchor.

Bark bark bark barky bark

Said the fiddler on the greeeeen

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Do people actually listens to grind ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I don't listen to much pure grindcore but deathgrind is my all time favorite! My heart beats in blast beats lmao. I highly recommend bands like Cattle Decapitation, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Aborted, etc. if you can handle it.

[–] abbotsbury 3 points 10 months ago

I met a friend in a chat room that was schizophrenic and loved Anal Cunt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Every once in a while I find myself listening to Agronomicon by Beaten To Death. It’s the only grind album I’ve found that I liked though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Absolutely. It's pretty easy to digest when the songs are only a minute long.

[–] Soulg 1 points 9 months ago

I listen to Emit, so people definitely listen to anything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mainly listen to symphonic, (slavic/russian) folk and a pit of power metal...

what would I look like based on this chart?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

lmao, don't have that gopnik drip (un-)fortunately

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This is so accurate 😂