Gothic metal is, naturally, a subgenre of Heavy Metal, characterised by... well, Your Mileage May Vary. It sounds dark, like gothic rock; it's got the sonic amplitude of metal; and it's depressing, like Doom Metal. Many of the... [read full story]
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The obligatory 2008 metal albums according to Metal Rules. Rock ranking, as customary, by Rockreport. All in all an amazing year in retrospect. I was also pleased to see that two relatively new and unknown Swedish bands – Heat...
Thrash metal is possibly the most popular subgenre of metal. Basically, it's a fusion of Hardcore Punk and the music of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM; you know, Iron Maiden). In slightly more detail, thrash metal,...
Groove metal is, naturally, a subgenre of Heavy Metal. Considered either an evolution of Thrash Metal or a return to metal's blues-rock roots, groove metal is characterised by bluesy, slow-to-mid-tempo guitar riffs and harsh...
Doom metal is a subgenre of Heavy Metal that emerged in the early seventies/late eighties. It's slow, dark, depressing and pessimistic, and is characterised by a thicker guitar sound than other genres of metal. The music and...
Technical death metal or progressive death metal is a subgenre of Death Metal that combines the (in)famously brutal genre with the technicality and odd song structures of Progressive Metal . The songs tend to be very complex,...
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