Favourite type of Metal Music?

[IrishAdam]

Heavy metal till i die :P

[Ganoes]

black metal is the best.

[Quibble]

lol sorry but you ask "best type of metal music" and then only name metal + 2 sub genres?

Here is a small list with some subgenres and cross-genres with metal
There is a hell lot of more, but I cba to find the doc which I wrote them all down in

# Black metal
# Death metal
# Doom metal
# Drone metal
# Folk metal
# Glam metal
# Gothic metal
# Groove metal
# Industrial metal
# Metalcore
# Neo-classical metal
# Nu metal
# Post-metal
# Power metal
# Progressive metal
# Sludge metal
# Speed metal
# Stoner metal
# Thrash metal

# Alternative metal
# Avant-garde metal
# Christian metal
# Crust punk
# Extreme metal
# Funk metal
# Grindcore
# Rap metal
# Symphonic metal
# Traditional heavy metal
# Viking metal
# Pirate Metal

[Asrial]

My favourite genres:
Regular, slightly bluesy metal: It's the original, best genre. Nothing over or below, it's just metal!
Nu metal: It's fusing rap/hiphop-elements with downtuned f***ing heavy riffs and some scream/growl. New, yet fucking badass.
Metalcore: Screamt/growled verse and clean chorus with melodic/ton-heavy riffings and insane drumming, sometimes incorporating blast-beats... Win.
Trash-metal: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Kreator... The classic "hardcore"-genre. It's just raw, man.
Groove metal: It cannot be described without mentioning at least 1 distortion pedal and Dimebag Darrell! Think trash-metal, just alittle bit heavier, and much more grooved in a "jazzy" way, if you can say it like that.

Best bands (in my opinion) within the genres:
Reg. Metal: Black Label Society (Not the best overall, but compared to everything post 80's, they are the KINGS!)
Nu metal: KoRn (Inventors of the genre also!)
Metalcore: Killswitch engage (Very melodic, original at most)
Trash metal: Slayer (Playing with dolls have never been this cool! lol)
Groove metal: Pantera (Respect, walk. This is groove metal art!)

[provocator]

metal sucks with few exeptions as Yoshimoto said. I like some songs by Taproot and few other bands :

[Quibble]

metal sucks

Topic: No music is bad, and neither is anyone's taste in music!

[Kataxu]

lol sorry but you ask "best type of metal music" and then only name metal + 2 sub genres?

Here is a small list with some subgenres and cross-genres with metal
There is a hell lot of more, but I cba to find the doc which I wrote them all down in

# Groove metal - ok, iffy but ok.
# Neo-classical metal - A sub-genre of progressive metal.
# Stoner metal - ok, though personally I don't know the difference between stoner and sludge.
# Alternative metal - Ok, so what is this? Give some examples.
# Christian metal - This is not a genre of music.
# Extreme metal - Too vague a term, and applies for most sub-genres of metal.
# Rap metal - Could have sworn this was nu metal, unless it's a sub-genre of nu metal?
# Viking metal - This is a sub-genre of folk metal.
# Pirate Metal - This is not a real genre.

[Quibble]

# Groove metal - ok, iffy but ok.
# Neo-classical metal - A sub-genre of progressive metal.
# Stoner metal - ok, though personally I don't know the difference between stoner and sludge.
# Alternative metal - Ok, so what is this? Give some examples.
# Christian metal - This is not a genre of music.
# Extreme metal - Too vague a term, and applies for most sub-genres of metal.
# Rap metal - Could have sworn this was nu metal, unless it's a sub-genre of nu metal?
# Viking metal - This is a sub-genre of folk metal.
# Pirate Metal - This is not a real genre.

Christian metal is basicly just metal and with Christian lyrics, and is used by christian bands

Pirate metal is like christian metal, a "genre" which is metal and with piraty lyrics. Those two you might not want to call real genres as the part making them "pirate or chrstian" is the lyrics

Viking metal might be a sub-genre of folk metal, but yet still a genre of metal, some bands who use it is, fintrold, amon amarth and Svartsot

Extream metal, okay ye thats my mistake. I might not be able to use it as a genre as I did, as it's basicly just the "over catogory" for several other genres.

Rap metal is a close relatede to rap rock, but being heavy metal blended with hip hop. nu metal can be other things than just hip hop.

alternative metal is metal but with alternative style, also influrenced by alternative rock, one band who uses this is disturbed.

Stoner metal, where slugde is more agressive, stoner is slowed down. And Stoner is close friend to stoner rock

Neo-classical metal, and progressive metal, yeah they are pretty close. But both are still a sub genre of metal

[MushroomBomb]

Edited the title. No Metal is the best type of Metal, it's all opinion.

As for me, I only really listen to 'old-school' metal. I suppose it's the stuff that's just called 'metal' or 'heavy metal'. Stuff like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, the first big metal bands. I just don't find any enjoynment in any other sorts of metal.

[Traezz]

Black metal
Death metal
Folk metal
Gothic metal
Industrial metal
Nu metal
Progressive metal

Alternative metal
Avant-garde metal
Grindcore
Viking metal

[muffinboy]

Any type of metal ... it's all so ... so ... wonderfull <3

[phistoh]

Black Metal. Mostly stuff from Germany and Norway.

[Morgeni]

Folk Metal

Power Metal

and last but nor least

True Scottish Pirate Metal ;D

[Hellnas]

I prefer listening to band that I like and not care about what category they fall under. Namedropping is better at times like this to show the variety in the category metal.

Arch Enemy - Alestorm - As I Lay Dying - At The Gates - Cathedral - Dark Tranquillity - Dimmu Borgir - Disturbed - Korpiklaani - Lamb of God - Machine Head - Meshuggah - Pantera
Sabaton - Slayer - The Berzerker - The Haunted.

To mention a few. So the poll is meaningless as almost all bands I have listed here fall under a category of its own, with some exceptions where they fall under the same.

[Masnailia]

Gothic/Symphonic

[SoarLock]

Metalcore anyone?

I have a feeling im about to get flamed off ;D

[Hellnas]

Metalcore anyone?

I have a feeling im about to get flamed off ;D

Shouldnt The Berzerker and Napalm Death, to mention a few, be classified as that?

[phistoh]

Shouldnt The Berzerker and Napalm Death, to mention a few, be classified as that?

They're grindcore afaik.

[muffinboy]

Metal sucks!!... in my very humble opinion.
Been playing in metal bands for 12 years... fun and all but i really don't like the music, with few exceptions.

Edited.
- MushroomBomb

You sir, are dead

[Axestorm]

I LOVE!

Nu-Metal (Slipknot, KoRn)
Melodic death metal (Children of Bodom)
Industrial metal (Rammstein)

Oh and soilwork! (death metal)