Metal
Emerging from late 1960s hard rock and blues, metal is a genre defined by its amplified aggression, technical virtuosity, and thematic weight. Its sonic character is built upon heavily distorted electric guitars delivering powerful, riff-centric structures, often complemented by operatic or guttural vocals and a forceful rhythm section. Bands such as *Black Sabbath* established the foundational template with albums like "Paranoid". The genre's ethos frequently explores themes of fantasy, conflict, and social commentary, and it has since cultivated a durable global subculture, branching into a vast and diverse ecosystem of subgenres.
Subgenres
- Alternative Metal
- Atmospheric Black Metal
- Atmospheric Sludge Metal
- Avant-Garde Metal
- Black Metal
- Blackgaze
- Brutal Death Metal
- Celtic Metal
- Death-Doom Metal
- Death Metal
- Deathgrind
- Depressive Black Metal
- Dissonant Black Metal
- Dissonant Death Metal
- Djent
- Doom Metal
- Doomgaze
- Drone Metal
- DSBM
- Epic Doom Metal
- Folk Metal
- Funeral Doom Metal
- Funk Metal
- Glam Metal
- Gothenburg Sound
- Gothic Metal
- Grindcore
- Groove Metal
- Heavy Metal
- Hellenic Black Metal
- Industrial Metal
- Mathcore
- Melodic Black Metal
- Melodic Death Metal
- Metalcore
- Neoclassical Metal
- Neue Deutsche Härte
- Nu Metal
- NWOBHM
- Pagan Black Metal
- Post-Metal
- Power Metal
- Progressive Metal
- Rap Metal
- Slam Death Metal
- Sludge Metal
- Speed Metal
- Stoner Metal
- Symphonic Black Metal
- Symphonic Metal
- Technical Death Metal
- Technical Thrash Metal
- Thrash Metal
- Traditional Doom Metal
- US Power Metal
- Viking Metal
- War Metal