Nothing is more metal than respecting the right to self-determination and the fun of others. Don't be close-minded. Enjoy what you enjoy, don't be a snob, let other people have fun and stop thinking about categories.

Metal peaked with the first three black sabbath albums.

Black Sabbath on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath is everything you need to know about metal.

The classic is just a subgenre of dad.

What about the nu-metal peeps, where do we fit in?

Dad is the only one I'd hang out with

I feel like I have achieved true metal nirvana since I stopped caring about silly labels. They're only half useful for finding new stuff anyway. If the music activates my dopamine generators, I like it. The only thing I avoid is gutturals, I don't want a fucking horror movie creature on the microphone, thank you.

I think I'm "it's all metal" because I don't care to give thought to every subgenre of metal. If it sounds good, I like it. I have to laugh at the description though because I do really enjoy melodic death metal and I blame Avatar for that.

As a dedicated metal-type autist for over 15 years I am proud to say I'm not on this list. I am the Ambassador, the Professor, the Diplomat. I welcome any and all into the fold and love to help people find their niche. My personal taste leans towards prog, black, and death but my knowledge runs deep and I love to share it.

Commenting to come back later and check out some of the filth you heathens are into

I'm absolutely "the gatekeeper", but these days I like to keep the gate open and welcome newcomers who are interested in hearing an old man's ramblings.

The "It's all metal" guy is an astro physicist.

I guess I'm a gatekeeper, but only because some guy used "hey babe, I can play Smoke on the Water by Metallica, want to come over and listen?" as a pickup line, and I laughed at him.

Where do Powerwolf fans land on this list? Because I am one but I have genuinely no idea if that gives me cred or if that makes me the FNG.

Hot take: Most metal is just Classical Music II Electric Bugaloo.

I have this problem where I love some good metal guitar, but most of the stuff with the sound that I like also includes vocals reminiscent of Christian Bale's Batman with a sore throat, which I do not enjoy. Either that or overly edgy lyrics.

Now these are real lemmy hours

Btw, it's all metal

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Babymetal & Poppy ftw

I've been called out as the gatekeeper :( . Though I do occasionally delve into darker electronic genres like dark ambient or some DnB.

Join the rest of us gatekeepers, you know, unless you are a poser, or something: !thrashmetal@lemmy.world !heavymetal@lemmy.world

As a Prog Purist myself, this is 100% accurate

Y'all sound like everyone did about rock 20 years ago. In Flames is my favorite btw.

Uhh no idea where I fit here; Amon Amarth, Devildriver, Machine Head, Fear Factory..Metallica (Black and prior), Megadeth, NIN, and Tool / APC - and so much more.

I think I'm mostly "It's all good if it's angry and loud" but I do run across bands and genres on occasion that I just can't get into.

I like noise punk and shoegaze. I don't get metal. Like we get it you make big noisey but you got nothing to say beside harry potter stories

I'm the "it's all metal" guy.

Listening to Tool right now, love 'Maiden but enjoy pre Bruce as much as the rest... NIN, Anthrax, Sick of it All, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Sepultura...must be some kinda metal chameleon circa 90s-00s!

Goddamnit I have a song by Galneryus in the playlist™ I feel called out

edit: Did not know they had anything to do with HunterxHunter or w/e so I feel like that redeems me. never mind that I got their music from a different anime.

Classic / Dad

Especially 'metal died after 1991'.

Im either "The Dad" or "Its all metal". I really dont give a shit. If I'm headbanging, its a bop

This meme makes me want to try more metal, and I think that makes me as bad as "the weeb"

I also drew direct comparisons to the electronic music subgenres.

Random question - anyone know a good site to buy digital music that pays the artists somewhat decently? I've got a few artists I need to get albums from after bailing on Spotify and they aren't on Bandcamp and don't has album sales linked to their official sites. Hell, even physical copies of some albums are hard to come by in the US.

I saw "7Digital" mentioned somewhere but I see there multiple listings for the same album at different prices (literally the exact same album, exact same quality) which makes me suspect it's not as legit as I had hoped.

Okay but as a guitarist, the guitarist from Galneryus is absolutely fucking insane.

I've known about them for a long time and they've evolved spectacularly.

Also, you're either a music enjoyer or annoying snob. Do not be a snob.

Trivium, killswitch (with Howard Jones), and dio are all great. Metallica sucks.

Little bit of all of these tbh

I guess I would be closest to "the prog purist", though I love power metal, and other subgenres too, so I could also be in the "it's all metal" category.

This list seems to be incomplete, there are other metal fan archetypes

I look like Dad, but I'm a fuckin new guy to metal. To his credit, my best friend got me to appreciate Ozzy, Metallica, and Dio in high school. But it took Dimmu Borgir live in Oslo with the choir and orchestra to finally make harsh vocals click for me. I like thrash, speed, power, melodic, folk, prog, and some select black metal. I try not to support Nazi bands.

cant find myself, garbage list obv.

I used to be one or some or all of these.

But some time in the 2010s, or rather over the course of the last 10-15 years, i stopped listening to music by genre and started listening to music by what made me feel good. Like, my phone is filled with music from so many different genres now i can't really call myself anything in terms of music subculture. I'm a music "generalist"? I listen to anything that sounds good to me and don't cut myself off from any genre just because it is said genre.

Except pop.

fuck pop.

Please rate my ListenBrainz/10

Why kind of metal is Hoobastank?

I feel like I'm "Its all metal" cause I don't judge and will listen to a lot of it as long as I can understand the vocals. But I'll lean more towards the classic stuff like early Sabbath and Dio (both rainbow, sabbath and solo) and if its more modern it just ends up being Iron Maiden (I still love The Final Frontier or Book Of Souls... which are 15 and 10 years old now.. fuck me) or Megadeth. No idea of any new artists after like 2000 lol. I don't see myself here. Maybe "The Casual" is missing.

I have no strong opinions I just love Opeth so much

My taste in metal is pretty much based on how cool it sound while playing dark souls

i dont recognize half the words