Just want to know different types of metal and explore. There were many genres I missed such as glam metal and epic black metal

https://www.metal-archives.com/browse/genre

You're welcome.

Epic black metal?

Isn't that just....black metal?

In most cases it's used as shorthand for bands that sound like Summoning. If you look at most of the bands on the archives that have that genre tag they're at the very least heavily inspired by Summoning if not outright clones

I mean all genres and their subgenres

Well the list at the top of that linked page covers most things on here. But there are some bands whose only listed metal genre isn't in that list. Mainly alternative metal, neoclassical metal, post-metal and southern metal. Once you browse some search results for bands under each one you'll soon discover all the possible sub-subgenres going on.

This is every known genre of acceptable metal. We have found six so far:

• Up metal
• Down metal
• Charm metal
• Strange metal
• Top metal
• Bottom metal

There are no other genres as far as we know today.

Hydrogen and helium are proto-metal. Lithium is the first real metal.

This is one of the MA forum threads of all time.

since it's highly melodic, bottom metal is also known as beauty metal, but rob halford prefers the term bottom metal to complement the more aggressive top metal, so that's used more frequently

Very good one actually.

For instance, if you don't know the existence of brutal death metal, you are not able to find this in that page unless you browse through death metal via advanced search, and that's not the way

I didn't know "glam metal" before I paid attention to Pantera, so there must be more subgenres that I haven't heard of. At least I would like to know acceptable genres/subgenres of this site, not those niche genres like brutal thrash or kawaii metal

It all distills down to just two genres:

alpha metal and omega metal

I've always thought there should be a canonical list of genres that provides a definition and examples of popular bands in the genre, like how Wikipedia does it. Or even an announcement or forum post when a new genre is added or gains popularity. I made a post about this way back when and was told that genres are too hard to define

Rate Your Music lists musical genres and defines them. It's not perfect, but usually much better then what Wikipedia does.

I guess that's not necessarly something that MA's admins and mods team want to do, but that's fine. There's other websites doing it.

Click 'Death' on the page, and then read the Genre column of the results. Within the first 15 bands are examples of progressive death metal, melodic death metal, crossover, technical death metal, slam and brutal death metal. So the page is a pretty good resource for gathering a list of what you want.

Sure, there are a few that will be hard to find that way because they're relatively rare on the Archives, eg. funk metal. But if you put together an almost complete list then we could see if we notice anything missing. In the time it took us to write posts in this thread we could just about have done it by now!

Ok this is the list of genres and subgenres I found on the Archive

1.
Heavy Metal
NWOBHM
Speed Metal
Glam Metal

2.
Doom Metal
Epic Doom Metal(and other Epic XXX Metal)
Sludge Metal
Atmosphere Sludge Metal
Post Metal
Stoner Metal
Drone Metal
Funeral Doom
Southern Metal
Psychedelic Doom Metal

3.
Gothic Metal
Power Metal
Progressive Metal
Avant-garde Metal
Experimental XXX Metal
Industrial Metal
Electronic XXX Metal
Folk Metal
Pagan Metal
Viking Metal
Celtic Metal, Medieval Metal
Symphonic
Neoclassical
Groove Metal
Grindcore and its subgenres
Metalcore/Deathcore and their subgenres
Alternative Metal/Nu-Metal
Funk Metal

4.
Thrash Metal
Technical Thrash, Progressive Thrash
Thrash Metal/Crossover

5.
Black Metal
Blackened Death Metal
Atmospheric Black Metal
Ambient Black Metal
Depressive Black Metal
Raw Black Metal
Black 'n' Roll(and other XXX 'n' Roll)
Post Black Metal

6.
Death Metal
Melodic Death Metal(and other Melodic Metal)
Technical Death Metal, Progressive Death Metal
Brutal Death Metal
Slam

I agree Rate Your Music covers a fair amount of general subgenres. Just curious if there is any obscure one I haven't heard of, so I initiated this topic...

Pagan Metal is the main one used on the Archives that's not in your list yet. Some bands have the word "extreme" in their genre, eg. Extreme Progressive Metal. A few have "Celtic", but rarely without Folk.

Some have "psychedelic", eg. Psychedelic Doom Metal. I figure it's basically a shorter way of saying Psychedelic Hard Rock/Doom Metal, or at least indicating Heavy Psych influences (psychedelic hard rock is known as Heavy Psych on RYM and elsewhere).

The rest will pretty much all just be more permutations of what you have.

Thanks,

I missed Pagan Metal, though it's similar to Folk/Celtic/Medieval I guess since they are often associated with Folk Metal.
Extreme Metal is a term to cover black, death or thrash metal, according to moderators.
I didn't know Psychedelic Metal but I have heard of psychedelic rock. Perhaps it's like what you said it's the shorter term.

That's a funny way of saying old vs new

All I know is, if one of those pretentious instrumental-album guitar noodling guys doesn't call their style of music "buttshred," then the entire act of compiling a list of genres is utterly pointless.

Why have a list that doesn't include "buttshred"?

It's also just difficult to define genres, subgenres, etc. because they're social constructions and not actually "real" since they can only mean what is commonly understood (but will also mean different things in different places at different times). That being said, I'm all for making a list and hashing it out here! Why not?

Didn't see War/Bestial Black Metal on the list, I think war metal has a pretty distinct sound and I guess bestial black is just another name for it? I could be wrong though.

I listen to this genre but the site doesn't use this tag so I didn't include it.

There's also buttcore and assgrind.

also pussy metal and cunt doom