Non-metalhead here. Do most metalheads listen to all those different genres of metal...

Non-metalhead here. Do most metalheads listen to all those different genres of metal, or do you pic one and listen to that?

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i punch you in your dumb ass face and stick my burning cigarette up your left nostril.

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I mostly listen to 80s and early 90s metal. I don't listen to riffless black metal shit.

why do you give a shit what such philistines listen to?

Usually stick to a few sub genres I think it would unusual to find someone who enjoyed all of it

Yeah it's a versatile genre with lots of different approaches and aesthetics, so not everyone's into all of it.

I listen to most subgenres of metal.

i think most people have dabbled in the different genres especially when theyre first getting into metal but like with most things eventually you'll get into a groove with certain genres that appeal to you most
i know in my case my taste stems from my pre-existing love for classic rock and 80s hard rock, so i gravitate more towards metal thats a bit on the rhythmic, "digestable" side (megadeth, iron maiden, metallica, scorpions, boomer shit like that)

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Pretty much everyone in metal listens to the really classic heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest. Most will listen to the big 80s thrash bands. After that diverging taste begins to set in, but it's usually more a question of just how much attention they pay to a specific subgenre than exclusively listening to only certain ones. For example, some will really dig death metal, or a particular variety of death metal like technical, but still giving black metal the occasional listen, with maybe certain subgenres like stoner or euro power metal that they might really not enjoy. Overall though, most metalheads listen to a pretty wide variety of subgenres. It's part of the appeal of metal, that you can find such enormous variety while still satisfying that itch that only metal can rally scratch for you.

Metal sucks ass

most metalheads have a preferred subgenre(s), those who like and actually listen to all the subgenres are a rare breed.

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First off cool to see a post on here actually about music listening, from someone interested in getting into different types of music. That's what this board is for and it's flagrantly misused.

Also: with metal or really any genre and any subgenre or album or song or whatever try to lock yourself into the process of the album. Metal especially can go in a lot of different directions, wether it's something cerebral or just riffy and fun. For example Deathspell Omega and Grausamkeit are both black metal acts but you wouldn't listen to them in the same way because one of them is a group of musicians practically on the level of Wagner in terms of compisition and experimentation while the other is some dude strung out on heroin making retarded but awesome lofi shit. Same with anything, film, art, whatever. Look at it by what the goal is and how well it accomplished that goal. Once I started looking at stuff that way I started enjoying a wider swath of stuff a lot more. Now, a lot of art doesn't accomplish that goal. A lot of it sucks. But at least you listened/watched/read/etc. enough to confirm that.

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I do just gravitate around a few genres. Doom, Death, Black, Power, Trad, Thrash.

They're all pretty similar when it comes down to it. I think most people have a genre they specialize in, but they know most, if not all of the classic albums in a certain genre.

for me it's shock, NWoBHM and thrash

hello?

only true metal

i only really listen to thrash metal,
mostly 70's to 90's. I'm not a big fan of metallica's more recent releases

I listen to mostly deathcore.
Since when I was lad that was actually somewhat popular. As a young kid in elementary, I was introduced to metal via Thrash. Don't listen to /METAL/ since its shit you've probably heard already.

I like thrash. I don't like all that dumb Cookie Monster death metal.

I don't listen to the gay ones

i just like black metal and deathcore personally

>Cookie Monster death metal
made me kek

I mostly listen to classic heavy metal (Sabbath, Rainbow, Maiden) death metal (Death, Obituary, Possessed) and thrash (Metallica, Exodus, Dark Angel)
I really only fuck with those three sub-genres and a few black metal bands. Specifically Darkthrone, Bathory, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and Venom.

I love that raw 80s sound. Most of my favorite metal albums came out in that decade.

Mostly listen to Death, Black and Thrash, but I have a soft spot for the classics.

There's death metal that isn't super guttural though. I have a feeling that people who have this opinion only know about Cannibal Corpse or something, and assume all death metal is like brutal death.

yep.

I exclusively listen to Gorky Park and their Metal masterpiece BANG! SAY DA DA DA DA

There's really only 3 metal genres: Heavy, Thrash, and Doom. Heavy metal is all your classic bands. Thrash goes fast, and death and black metal are just more extreme interpretations of it. Doom goes slow.

>There's death metal that isn't super guttural though
What can you suggest?

Most metalheads have one subgenre they like and listen to most but still like a select few albums from the other subgenres. I listen mostly to Thrash and Classic but I like a lot of Death, Black, Doom, and Sludge stuff too

Death - Symbolic
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

the guttural stuff is the bomb though

cool. thanks. I've been listening to Death's first album, which I kind of dig.