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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.

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.

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.

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

Babymetal & Poppy ftw

Now these are real lemmy hours

Btw, it's all metal

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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.

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

Dad is the only one I'd hang out with

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Little bit of all of these tbh

cant find myself, garbage list obv.

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.

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.

The classic is just a subgenre of dad.

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

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

I'm "it's all metal" but in all genres. I just enjoy listening to whatever track that sparks joy (you definitely wouldn't like me DJing on your party, lol)