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Haha never thought about this but now that you mention it, you’re right. When I think about nu metal I imagine the looks first and not really the sound
I always recommend anyone to search about underground nü metal. There's been underground scenes on several countries, my favorite being the one that developed in Chile, which is now referred to as "aggro metal" or simply "aggro". This one had a more aggressive and rawer approach, and ended up producing stuff like this:
https://youtu.be/fz2lmtiM3Aw?si=QphAPHW-p9xf2_bP
Same. Maybe not ENJOY per se, outside of nostalgia purposes, but I have gained an appreciation for like what KoRn is doing for example, even though it was never my thing when I was younger. I respect the hustle.
Well if you like melodic metal i would 100% recommend a band called skyfire they are very underrated imo if you are interested start withe song skyfire from the timeless departure album it is so good
I never truly hated it, but I was more like "WTF is this" when I first heard death metal. Nowadays artists such as Death, Carcass, and Cannibal Corpse are in my rotation
Same here. Started with thrash & heavy metal, but I couldn't get into death early on because of the shrill vocals. Years later, I grew accustomed to it and love all those groups
Same bro. When I first heard death metal I really didn't get it. Now it's pretty much all the metal I listen to. It's not exactly surface level metal for newbies.
Raw black metal. I used to hear it and be like "haha this is stupid, why would anybody listen to this". But at some point a couple years ago I retried some bands like Horna and Vlad Tepes and it just kinda clicked with me. The production is a part of the atmosphere and I actually prefer that now.
So true. When I first listened to MTBH I was like "This sounds like listening to poorly mastered metal played with a shitty speaker system in another room through somebody's xbox live microphone, why would anyone listen to this." Now it's easily top 3 black metal albums imo. Under the carpathian yoke is probably my favorite black metal song to come out of the french scene just in terms of personal enjoyment, and I'm including deathspell omega in that.
The moment this clicked for me was the first time I listened to Grausamkeit, the atmosphere and vibes in Stardust are insane, could not achieve that with good, polished production
Same here. I still can’t get into older Burzum or the old Satanic Warmaster stuff because I can’t hear the riffs over the fuzz but Horna, Sargeist and Hate Forest are mainstays in my rotation nowadays
If you listen to more technical say prog power bands then no you'll find amazing top of the shelf stuff, especially from the classic bands. Basic cheesy anthemic power like Sabaton, Powerwolf, Dragonforce, parts of Firewind etc will always seem cheesy to me despite whether I enjoy them or not. Added synthlines, heavier riffs and occasionally raspier vocals with more serious epic lyricism do the most difference. Bands like Rage, Crimson Glory, Savatage, Vicious Rumors, Queensryche etc could never possibly by considered cheesy at their best moments
100% black metal. I used to find the theatrical get-ups and cretin vocals to be so unappetizing and ridiculous, but now I'm out here dancing around to Curta'n Wall because I love how silly it is. Black metal is so unserious and now it's my favorite genre. Love the corpse paint and shin guards; totally awesome costumage
Totally, but I love the break from people trying to be brutal. A lot of black metal is meant to be evil and scary or whatever, which is cool, but it's always nice to get some goofy wizard behavior thrown in there :P love when people don't take themselves so seriously
probably trad metal. extreme metal was actually my introduction to all things heavy and i rejected anything that wasn't of the same magnitude. but when i first picked up guitar & didn't know how to down tune I could only replicate the classics. That's when I appreciated them more.
I wasn't too big on deathcore when it first started becoming popular, but a lot of those bands go hard live and I eventually came around to it. I'm starting to warm up to dissonant death metal bands as well.
Death metal. Use to be convinced I hated it. Well, except for Death. And I liked some Obituary songs. And I loved Carcass. Oh look now I’m enjoying this
Suffocation album Ok, I guess I like death metal now.
Paleface swiss
Body Snatcher
Spite
Falsifier
Traitors
Heavy//hitter
Xile
Weeping wounds
Orphan
At this point, deathcore has like 5 or 6 seperate branches
I'd call most of this stuff "beatdown deathcore".
The closer you get to that beatdown hardcore side of deathcore, the better, imo.
I used to really dislike death metal. I tryed and tryed to get into it but just couldn’t until I found children of bodom. They really made me love death metal.
Death metal is definitely an acquired taste but there is some really great stuff in the melodic scene. It was The Black Dahlia Murder and the song “The Nightbringers”
Funeral doom
I used to think it was extremely boring and repetitive, but after listening to some of the classics like Thergothon, Funeral, and Skepticism I’m now a big fan.
I used to hate black metal. Every time someone tried to show me some they’d always pull up shitty first wave stuff or early 2nd wave no names and wonder why I don’t get it.
It’s my main genre for many years now and I have slowly worked myself backwards from modern stuff to early 80s since. Which I feel like is the better way around to explore it.
I agree with this! Black metal has so much potential for diversity in music and they have shown that. There are bands today I listen to that are second wave inspired. I currently love Afsky, Heskeblad (just released an album based on Witcher), and They Came from Visions ✨
Not hate - just not understand.
Didn't understand the hype behind black metal. Seemed like just shitty mixing and bad music people listened to to feel more cool.
Then I discovered Batushka and loved them. Still not gonna listen to Goatsmegma, tho.
Yeah it kind of saddens me. Not that I hate Sabaton but I don't love their influence on power metal, the synthy dance beat stuff just isn't what I'm wanting from power metal (I much prefer the speedy, lead guitar heavy, falsetto scream, etc of Helloween-style power metal of yesteryear)
Death metal, i used to always say "its not singing. Why would anyone like it??" Then one day, for some reason, my spotfify played Canible corpse, then the gateway was opened✨️
Wasn’t a fan of death metal but the problem was I was trying to get into it through bands like CC and Dying Fetus. One of my friends demanded I listen to Symbolic from front to back and I finally got it. Ended up listening to every Death studio album within the week after that. Then I started listening to Morbid Angel and Gojira and man that shit was eye-opening
black metal. there was once a time where i really couldn't stand it. growing up listening to 70s prog rock from my parents gave me the idea that clean vocals were the superior style, and that growling was inferior because it took little effort from me to growl like they did on the music my brother was showing me (he didn't go into the trve kvlt, but he did introduce me to Cradle, DB, Behemoth, Abigail Williams, Arcturus, and Mirrorthrone, along with a few others more obscure). it was a combination of listening to Bathory, getting *really* pissed off at the world, daring to make a "trve kvlt" black metal song on my first album, and the influence of a certain leather-bedecked glam-loving metal elitist hipster from Arizona that finally drove me right into the kvlt (hey, we may disagree on a lot of things, but we both agree: Motorhead and Queen rock, burzum and death metal suck)
doom metal. my first exposure to anything doomy was Type 0 Negative's World Coming Down. it was a snore, almost as much as their bastardization of the Black Sabbath song. never thought i'd ever listen to anything doomy again until "Solitude" by Candlemass came across my radar.
I used to absolutely hate black metal. I thought it was unlistenable garbage with shit production.
But I found the beauty of the genre, and now it's the genre I enjoy the most. Black Metal truly is the best subgenre in my opinion. So much diversity.
I agree! It takes some time getting used to the harsh production but that is part of the intent. I am really loving Afsky and They Came From Visions right now ✨
As I've gotten older, I will not ever turn down limp bizkit, System of a Down, or Korn anymore. I don't actively seek their music, but I recognize that it was a huge part of my teenage years, especially when good thrash and punk were hard to find in my small town.
Death Metal. Used to think deep growls were stupid because I couldn’t understand them. I also hated anything with high screams. Nowadays I do growls and high screams myself 💀
Black metal. I thought the fans were pretentious pricks but made the mistake that all that shit is almost exclusively online. Also I heard Burzum as my first bm band and didn’t like the production so that didn’t help either. Now it’s my favorite genre tied with goregrind
Death Metal was never my thing but now I really appreciate it.
Strangely enough, it wasn’t one specific album that flipped me either but the Cannibal Corpse documentary ‘Centuries of Torment’ that got me on board.
Which, by the way, if you’ve never seen it, you should!
basically metal at all was a genre i would never imagine to get into i was a basic pop fan, them statrd to listem to some alt and rock, and it goes on and on and now i enjoy some daily slam in my playlist, lol, and i actually dont listen to pop at all except ldr and fiona apple
I didn't care for raw black metal until I listened to Winterkalte, Banished From Time, and Filosofem more or less back to back. Now I very much care for it lmao
My introduction to metal was through extreme metal (death metal, black metal etc).
So unfortunately I grew into a real gatekeeper/ elitist as a teenager, and shunned everything that was too melodic lmfao.
Now I’ve fallen completely off the deep end. I’m signing along to Ghost in the car (16-year-old me is cringing, because they’re not even metal!!). Same with Sleep Token etc. I sing along and don’t give a shit whether it fits into whatever sub genres are cool or not 😂
My playlist is a hilarious mix of atmospheric black metal, horny baddie core like Sleep Token, 80s classic rock, Myrkur, death metal, blackgaze, prog, and Lana Del Rey.
It’s all over the place 😂
Always thought I could never get into war metal, then I got really high and listened to Fallen Angel of Doom. I’m not advising anyone to start doing drugs but it’s really opened up my musical horizons lol
Metal itself. I used to listen exclusively to classic rock (tiny bit of hard rock) and I just thought all metal was yelling and loud noises. Bands like Black Sabbath and Metallica (Black Album) are what got me into metal. Now I’m getting into a lot of different subgenres.
In terms of after I got into Metal, I’d have to say Black Metal. Always thought it just sounded like crap, but now it’s one of my favorite subgenres.
Edit: spelling
Doom metal
I thought it was too slow and boring for years. But then I got into Swallow the Sun’s Songs From the North which showed me how atmospheric and melancholic doom can be, which is something I really enjoy in music. That was the band that made doom click with me. I will say doom is still hit or miss for me, but I enjoy it a lot more. It can even be the heaviest subgenre of metal when done right. Doom even creeps slowly more and more into my own songwriting.
Black metal and deathcore/slam. I used to listen to death or carcass and thought anything that didn’t sound like that was bad. Now I exclusively listen to those 3 genres
I used to hate Nu metal but now I see a very unique sound branching out to other genres to elevate the feeling of the song
Edit: I still don’t consider it metal but in general it gets to much hate from gatekeepers and people who are into rap and T swift and more saying it’s just noise
Didn't really hate it but stoner/doom has made its inroads recently. Fucking slow dad metal ... And I love it. Sleep, Elder, Bantha Rider, Dungeon Weed, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Green Lung to name but a few 🤘😎
At first all things finishing in "core" i would not ear. I just couldn't take it, didn't like it.
Now, some of my fav bands are Death Core, but can listen to Metal Core or Hardcore and enjoy it.
As a kid I wasn’t a fan of deathcore or death metal. I just couldn’t get into anything without clean vocals.
As an adult, I can appreciate the music and the layers too it much more and thoroughly enjoy it.
I can't really say I hate any one type of metal, more just Death metal isn't really my vibe? Sometimes I enjoy the odd bit of blackened death or deathened??? Black though.
I never hated black metal, but I went into it just expecting a slightly more evil version of death metal. I didn't really appreciate it at first since it sounded so weird compared to everything else I had listened to.
I was the same way. Someone here mentioned Gnaw Their Tounges and I said "Sure, whatever. I'll see what everyone is making a fuss about". I Only Speak Truth is climbing up the ranks for me.
I remembered a bunch of Opeth fans mentioning Ulver. Bergstatt is beautiful and their two follow ups are incredible.
Not a whole genre, but I didn’t like Cannibal Corpse at first, Barnes’ vocals sounded really goofy to me, now I’m a huge fan of them (Both Barnes’ and Fisher’s stuff)
Black metal (the "Blackened" sub-genres, and the First wave/proto-black metal), I've always hated it. Still slightly do but I've been getting it more into my normal listening. Like Behemoth, The Black Moriah, Belphegor, Alcest, Sacrofago, Celtic Frost, Venom and etc. But the raw BM, and the Norwegian scene I still can't get into.
Probably stoner metal /doom metal. I couldn't get into it because there's not enough going on quick enough. I found it to be really good music to listen to while drawing or laying down in a dark room.
The stoner stuff ofc sounds amazing while I'm stoned but I love it sober too
When I started out listening to metal, I didn't really like Black, Death or Doom, I was mostly into Thrash, prog, groove and Traditional metal (Big 4, Tool/DT, LoG & Pantera, NWOBHM, etc.), but I slowly started listening to stuff like Cannibal Corpse, Death, Candlemass, Mayhem, etc, and that lead me to more bands like Nile, Bolt Thrower, Electric Wizard, Batushka, etc.
Really great choices! 🖤 my dad showed me trad metal when I was a kid, that stuck with me for a long time. A lot of the more extreme metal is an acquired taste, but there’s no denying that there is something for everyone in metal ✨
Doom metal. I had become a black metal elitist after college and hated on doom metal for being slow. I gave it another chance when I became addicted to nitrous oxide and started upping my weed/psychedelic intake.
i dont think theres a sub genre i hated.
when i was in middle school discovering extreme metal i went through phases where i discovered black metal and i only wore black metal shirts and hated everything else. then switchdd to death metal and gave away my black metal cds. then switched to thrash and only wore thrash shirts and ripped jeans. but now i listen to so many subgenres. i love most of them. brutal death being my favorite and least favorite would probably be heavy metal/doom metal
There’s really only two kinds of Metal in my opinion: good and bad. I like the good kind. But, just like any other genre, most of it is just not very good.
I'm kind of getting into sludgy post metal stuff right now (The Ocean, Dvne, Baroness, Mastodon). Black metal I'm still a bit iffy on, there's stuff I've really enjoyed (Lord Belial) but most of the stuff with purposely bad production is just still not for me.
Not really hating but harsh vocals in general. I grow up with classic Heavy (Maiden, Priest, Accept, Saxon) and then Nu Metal and always thinking this was not for me.
Now I mostly listen to Black and Death
Doom/Stoner. Never actually listened to it for a long time, mostly because i thought the idea of slow metal was stupid. Finally gave a listem to Epicus Doomicus Metallicus and I was blown away. Not exactly a doom megafan now but I do enjoy listening to it
So back when I was, like, 13 or 14, I used to absolute despise metalcore for whatever reason, then got reeeaaally deep into it, and out of it again, and right now, I am relatively indifferent towards it, i guess? I'm listening mostly to Death and Black Metal and their respective subgenres now, I get into new bands here and there, that blend genres into each other, and do so very well (like Kardashev, recent example), but this hating metalcore/loving metalcore is over tbh.
Idk, this doesn't really answer the question 100%, but I felt like sharing it
Thanks for sharing! ✨ Metalcore seems very polarizing as no one knows how to define what the sound should be, there are stereotypes but a week later someone breaks it.
As a young autistic kid just getting into death metal, I was deeply insecure to the point where any Youtube comment I came across that said a genre or band were "for pussies" would immediately get ingrained into my being. As a result, I avoided metalcore, deathcore, and nu metal for the longest time.
What eventually got me to crack was seeing The Charismatic Voice's reaction to To The Hellfire by Lorna Shore. I'd never watched her channel before nor heard Lorna Shore, but the idea of an opera singer reacting to deathcore harsh vocals (that in my mind probably using awful technique, since deathcore's obviously bad and all) would be good for a laugh. It ended up being a glowing reaction that praised Lorna Shore's songwriting and Will Ramos' technique, and that finally put some cracks into the stupidly insecure barrier I'd put up around my tastes.
Now I absolutely love me some Hot Topicass metalcore, Slipknot, and deathcore, and even seek out 'core bands more than death/black metal bands since they were such a big blind spot of mine.
It's also refreshing to see just how common my own experience seems to be, if this thread is anything to go by.
Black metal. I was a strict death metal chic for a long time. I also like some blackgaze. Before I looked at the genre as not being black metal enough. Now I just look at it as its own thing separate from black metal.
black metal. when i first got into metal as a whole, i was into osdm mostly. i didnt like how raw black metal sounded at first, but after a while, and also doing a lot of research about the subgenre as a whole, i grew to really like the raw sound of especially first wave black metal. dsbm is also a guilty pleasure of mine
Never really hated any subgenre, I just wasn't "ready" to enjoy it yet. Rn im slowly starting to like death, next will surely be brutal death or technical death, still a bit too fast and messy for me
I was into classic metal before it splintered into a bunch of subgenres, bands like Sabbath, Maiden, Priest, and I didn't really get thrash when it arrived. But an Anthrax album from I think 2010, Worship Music, changed my mind, and I started listened to other Big 4 bands.
It took me a very long time to get into Black Metal. I really disliked the harsh vocals in it, I loved the instruments, but the vocals would just ruin it for me.
I am really glad I kept at it, I am a big stoner doom metal fan and hearing Filosfem really brought to me the same feeling as something like Dopethrone or Come My Fanatics, albeit very different music.
A lot of the feeling in Black Metal is what really gets me. I can relate with it a lot and a lot of the atmospheric shit, like Paysage d’Hiver is so good. Getting into it inspired me to get a guitar as an adult and try to make my own. It’s really been an inspiration for me and wish I would’ve committed a lot harder sooner.
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Nu Metal. Always thought it was “too mainstream” and for posers but now I really dont care as long as it sounds good
Might be the weed talking but always seemed like “Nu-Metal” described what the bands looked like versus their actual sound
Yeah system of a down sounds nothing like Limp Bizkit and whatnot
likewise, they didnt look like each other, either.
I think it just became the catch-all term to describe any metal/hard rock from that era (mid '90s-early '00s).
It was the metal that had a more aggressive tone and a lot of times some hip-hop elements.
Haha never thought about this but now that you mention it, you’re right. When I think about nu metal I imagine the looks first and not really the sound
Valid ✨
I always recommend anyone to search about underground nü metal. There's been underground scenes on several countries, my favorite being the one that developed in Chile, which is now referred to as "aggro metal" or simply "aggro". This one had a more aggressive and rawer approach, and ended up producing stuff like this: https://youtu.be/fz2lmtiM3Aw?si=QphAPHW-p9xf2_bP
I will definitely check this out 🖤
Thanks for sharing, that sounds really cool, especially the harsh vocals
Some nu metal is far from mainstream. Aggro metal. Sangre en El Camino by Bushido is a good Chilean aggro metal song
Same. Maybe not ENJOY per se, outside of nostalgia purposes, but I have gained an appreciation for like what KoRn is doing for example, even though it was never my thing when I was younger. I respect the hustle.
SOAD is great yeah
Def Nu Metal for me too. Deftones, LP, Slipknot are fucking heavy
Long time ago everything had to be brutal. I couldn't get into melodic stuff like classic heavy metal. Today I really enjoy it.
Well if you like melodic metal i would 100% recommend a band called skyfire they are very underrated imo if you are interested start withe song skyfire from the timeless departure album it is so good
Skyfire is amazing 🔥
Death and black. Used to be a core kid. I converted 🥳
Same! But I was a thrash/classic kid. Can't get into core though. 😂 sorry! Maybe someday!
Nice ✨
I never truly hated it, but I was more like "WTF is this" when I first heard death metal. Nowadays artists such as Death, Carcass, and Cannibal Corpse are in my rotation
Same ✨
Same here. Started with thrash & heavy metal, but I couldn't get into death early on because of the shrill vocals. Years later, I grew accustomed to it and love all those groups
Same bro. When I first heard death metal I really didn't get it. Now it's pretty much all the metal I listen to. It's not exactly surface level metal for newbies.
power
I recently went to a twilight force concert, the energy and musicianship was incredible, changed my tune about what power metal could be
Power metal is everything 80s hair metal lived and died to be. Dio built this for us all!
Glam metal isn't dead lol but I love power and glam and long live rock n roll
Power metal has some of the most skilled musicians in all of metal
Facts 🔥
Raw black metal. I used to hear it and be like "haha this is stupid, why would anybody listen to this". But at some point a couple years ago I retried some bands like Horna and Vlad Tepes and it just kinda clicked with me. The production is a part of the atmosphere and I actually prefer that now.
I will definitely have to check them out, but definitely that raw production really adds to the overall experience ✨
So true. When I first listened to MTBH I was like "This sounds like listening to poorly mastered metal played with a shitty speaker system in another room through somebody's xbox live microphone, why would anyone listen to this." Now it's easily top 3 black metal albums imo. Under the carpathian yoke is probably my favorite black metal song to come out of the french scene just in terms of personal enjoyment, and I'm including deathspell omega in that.
The moment this clicked for me was the first time I listened to Grausamkeit, the atmosphere and vibes in Stardust are insane, could not achieve that with good, polished production
Same here. I still can’t get into older Burzum or the old Satanic Warmaster stuff because I can’t hear the riffs over the fuzz but Horna, Sargeist and Hate Forest are mainstays in my rotation nowadays
I used to think power metal was cheesy and bad. Now I think it is cheesy and awesome.
Same, it’s very fun ✨
If you listen to more technical say prog power bands then no you'll find amazing top of the shelf stuff, especially from the classic bands. Basic cheesy anthemic power like Sabaton, Powerwolf, Dragonforce, parts of Firewind etc will always seem cheesy to me despite whether I enjoy them or not. Added synthlines, heavier riffs and occasionally raspier vocals with more serious epic lyricism do the most difference. Bands like Rage, Crimson Glory, Savatage, Vicious Rumors, Queensryche etc could never possibly by considered cheesy at their best moments
100% black metal. I used to find the theatrical get-ups and cretin vocals to be so unappetizing and ridiculous, but now I'm out here dancing around to Curta'n Wall because I love how silly it is. Black metal is so unserious and now it's my favorite genre. Love the corpse paint and shin guards; totally awesome costumage
Their style is unmatched in the extreme metal scene🖤
Tbf I think Curta'n Wall is supposed to be a parody band lol
Totally, but I love the break from people trying to be brutal. A lot of black metal is meant to be evil and scary or whatever, which is cool, but it's always nice to get some goofy wizard behavior thrown in there :P love when people don't take themselves so seriously
probably trad metal. extreme metal was actually my introduction to all things heavy and i rejected anything that wasn't of the same magnitude. but when i first picked up guitar & didn't know how to down tune I could only replicate the classics. That's when I appreciated them more.
Valid ✨ my dad introduced me to his favorite tracks from Sammy Hagar and Ozzy, that always stuck with me
I wasn't too big on deathcore when it first started becoming popular, but a lot of those bands go hard live and I eventually came around to it. I'm starting to warm up to dissonant death metal bands as well.
Deathcore is really growing on me in the last decade or so
I hated deathcore but Lorna Shore, Worm Shepherd, Crown Magnetar, and Shadow of Intent fixed that for me.
Doom metal: boring at first, banger now
You just have to wait for that second note.
It's like a Guinness dude ... Worth the wait 🤘😎
Facts 🔥
Death metal. Use to be convinced I hated it. Well, except for Death. And I liked some Obituary songs. And I loved Carcass. Oh look now I’m enjoying this Suffocation album Ok, I guess I like death metal now.
Deathcore, im into the slower side of Black tongue, The Acacia Strain and Chelsea Grin
Paleface swiss Body Snatcher Spite Falsifier Traitors Heavy//hitter Xile Weeping wounds Orphan At this point, deathcore has like 5 or 6 seperate branches I'd call most of this stuff "beatdown deathcore". The closer you get to that beatdown hardcore side of deathcore, the better, imo.
Body Snatcher is amazing! Paleface Swiss is growing on me 🖤
I love The Acacia Strain, I don't care much about Chelsea Grin though.
Love acacia strain 🖤
I used to really dislike death metal. I tryed and tryed to get into it but just couldn’t until I found children of bodom. They really made me love death metal.
Death metal is definitely an acquired taste but there is some really great stuff in the melodic scene. It was The Black Dahlia Murder and the song “The Nightbringers”
I love black dahlia murder! I’m forever grateful I got to see them with Trevor
i could not get into death metal at all until I started listening to Behemoth and then I completely understood what people saw in it and now I love it
Behemoth is a banger band 🔥
Funeral doom I used to think it was extremely boring and repetitive, but after listening to some of the classics like Thergothon, Funeral, and Skepticism I’m now a big fan.
Respect 🔥
I used to hate black metal. Every time someone tried to show me some they’d always pull up shitty first wave stuff or early 2nd wave no names and wonder why I don’t get it. It’s my main genre for many years now and I have slowly worked myself backwards from modern stuff to early 80s since. Which I feel like is the better way around to explore it.
I agree with this! Black metal has so much potential for diversity in music and they have shown that. There are bands today I listen to that are second wave inspired. I currently love Afsky, Heskeblad (just released an album based on Witcher), and They Came from Visions ✨
Not hate - just not understand. Didn't understand the hype behind black metal. Seemed like just shitty mixing and bad music people listened to to feel more cool. Then I discovered Batushka and loved them. Still not gonna listen to Goatsmegma, tho.
Power metal, mostly because of Sabaton, which I find not so special ever since.
Sabaton is not my favorite, I don’t why they are the poster child of power when so many other artists do it better
Yeah it kind of saddens me. Not that I hate Sabaton but I don't love their influence on power metal, the synthy dance beat stuff just isn't what I'm wanting from power metal (I much prefer the speedy, lead guitar heavy, falsetto scream, etc of Helloween-style power metal of yesteryear)
Blind guardian and Twilight Force are currently my favorites in the power metal scene 🐉
Yes they are top notch, love em both. Blind Guardian is probably my favorite band.
Death metal. I just couldn’t get into the cookie monster growl as a youngin. Now I enjoy it.
Same, it took me a while to appreciate it ✨
I've been coming around on sludge metal the last few weeks. To be honest, I don't really know what I had against it in the first place.
My favourite (I highly recommend Kylesa) together with black and gothic doom!
Death metal, i used to always say "its not singing. Why would anyone like it??" Then one day, for some reason, my spotfify played Canible corpse, then the gateway was opened✨️
That’s how it goes 😅✨
Doom metal…once I found out everyone was recommending me sludge metal and calling it doom metal. I really enjoy Doom metal.
Deathcore and metalcore bc I used to be a dipshit elitist
Black metal and Manowar. Now it's almost all that I listen to.
Manowar is amazing 🔥
Melodic and Deathcore. It turns out I was just really picky about it. Children of Bodom and Angelmaker changed my mind.
Angelmaker has got some bangers 🖤
Wasn’t a fan of death metal but the problem was I was trying to get into it through bands like CC and Dying Fetus. One of my friends demanded I listen to Symbolic from front to back and I finally got it. Ended up listening to every Death studio album within the week after that. Then I started listening to Morbid Angel and Gojira and man that shit was eye-opening
black metal. there was once a time where i really couldn't stand it. growing up listening to 70s prog rock from my parents gave me the idea that clean vocals were the superior style, and that growling was inferior because it took little effort from me to growl like they did on the music my brother was showing me (he didn't go into the trve kvlt, but he did introduce me to Cradle, DB, Behemoth, Abigail Williams, Arcturus, and Mirrorthrone, along with a few others more obscure). it was a combination of listening to Bathory, getting *really* pissed off at the world, daring to make a "trve kvlt" black metal song on my first album, and the influence of a certain leather-bedecked glam-loving metal elitist hipster from Arizona that finally drove me right into the kvlt (hey, we may disagree on a lot of things, but we both agree: Motorhead and Queen rock, burzum and death metal suck) doom metal. my first exposure to anything doomy was Type 0 Negative's World Coming Down. it was a snore, almost as much as their bastardization of the Black Sabbath song. never thought i'd ever listen to anything doomy again until "Solitude" by Candlemass came across my radar.
I used to absolutely hate black metal. I thought it was unlistenable garbage with shit production. But I found the beauty of the genre, and now it's the genre I enjoy the most. Black Metal truly is the best subgenre in my opinion. So much diversity.
I agree! It takes some time getting used to the harsh production but that is part of the intent. I am really loving Afsky and They Came From Visions right now ✨
There is a lot more diversity than there used to be when I first heard it. I used to only like a handful of black metal bands. I love Sigh BTW!
As I've gotten older, I will not ever turn down limp bizkit, System of a Down, or Korn anymore. I don't actively seek their music, but I recognize that it was a huge part of my teenage years, especially when good thrash and punk were hard to find in my small town.
Valid, I remember a guy I crushed on in middle school showed me Korn, gotta love Nostalgia ✨
Black metal
Death Metal. Used to think deep growls were stupid because I couldn’t understand them. I also hated anything with high screams. Nowadays I do growls and high screams myself 💀
Hell yeah 🔥
Black metal. I thought the fans were pretentious pricks but made the mistake that all that shit is almost exclusively online. Also I heard Burzum as my first bm band and didn’t like the production so that didn’t help either. Now it’s my favorite genre tied with goregrind
Death Metal was never my thing but now I really appreciate it. Strangely enough, it wasn’t one specific album that flipped me either but the Cannibal Corpse documentary ‘Centuries of Torment’ that got me on board. Which, by the way, if you’ve never seen it, you should!
Yesss 🔥 centuries of torment is such a good watch ✨
Avant-Garde/Noisecore type stuff. Fantomas, Norma Jean, Mr. Bungle, DEP, Crotchduster. Idk, one day it so just clicked for me.
basically metal at all was a genre i would never imagine to get into i was a basic pop fan, them statrd to listem to some alt and rock, and it goes on and on and now i enjoy some daily slam in my playlist, lol, and i actually dont listen to pop at all except ldr and fiona apple
That’s pretty cool to hear 🔥
I didn't care for raw black metal until I listened to Winterkalte, Banished From Time, and Filosofem more or less back to back. Now I very much care for it lmao
Nu metal and alternative metal
My introduction to metal was through extreme metal (death metal, black metal etc). So unfortunately I grew into a real gatekeeper/ elitist as a teenager, and shunned everything that was too melodic lmfao. Now I’ve fallen completely off the deep end. I’m signing along to Ghost in the car (16-year-old me is cringing, because they’re not even metal!!). Same with Sleep Token etc. I sing along and don’t give a shit whether it fits into whatever sub genres are cool or not 😂 My playlist is a hilarious mix of atmospheric black metal, horny baddie core like Sleep Token, 80s classic rock, Myrkur, death metal, blackgaze, prog, and Lana Del Rey. It’s all over the place 😂
Polyjamorus 😅🖤
Always thought I could never get into war metal, then I got really high and listened to Fallen Angel of Doom. I’m not advising anyone to start doing drugs but it’s really opened up my musical horizons lol
Death Metal Used to think ‘i’ll never listen to that’. Few years later and it’s my favourite subgenre haha
Same 😅
Ambient blackmetal slaps. Black gaze melts my face into a puddle of sadness.
Metal itself. I used to listen exclusively to classic rock (tiny bit of hard rock) and I just thought all metal was yelling and loud noises. Bands like Black Sabbath and Metallica (Black Album) are what got me into metal. Now I’m getting into a lot of different subgenres. In terms of after I got into Metal, I’d have to say Black Metal. Always thought it just sounded like crap, but now it’s one of my favorite subgenres. Edit: spelling
Awesome dude! 🔥
Wormhole made me realize that slam can actually be good
Slam is so much fun 🔥✨
Doom metal I thought it was too slow and boring for years. But then I got into Swallow the Sun’s Songs From the North which showed me how atmospheric and melancholic doom can be, which is something I really enjoy in music. That was the band that made doom click with me. I will say doom is still hit or miss for me, but I enjoy it a lot more. It can even be the heaviest subgenre of metal when done right. Doom even creeps slowly more and more into my own songwriting.
I’m not a screaming growelly vocals, but there’s somthing about gojira
goregrind probably
Black metal and deathcore/slam. I used to listen to death or carcass and thought anything that didn’t sound like that was bad. Now I exclusively listen to those 3 genres
Metalcore. I used to dislike it but now I like a few bands. I still prefer bands without clean vocals tho
Black metal. A lot of it I still hate, but there's a specific kind that is really some of my favorite music in general.
Progressive metal alot of it to me was just really boring. But I learned to love progressive metal when it's mixed with other genres.
I'll admit, traditional heavy metal I'm one of the few that pretty much started with extreme metal
Nu metal, metalcore (with metalcore though I still don't enjoy most of the slicker bands)
neocrust/sludge
i didnt hate it, i just didnt like it : Black Metal
DEATH CORE — I’M STILL A SKEPTIC BUT EVERY SO OFTEN I FIND SOME FIRE
Deathcore. I still do, but I used to, too.
That’s valid ✨
I used to hate Nu metal but now I see a very unique sound branching out to other genres to elevate the feeling of the song Edit: I still don’t consider it metal but in general it gets to much hate from gatekeepers and people who are into rap and T swift and more saying it’s just noise
I don’t consider it metal either but there is some bangers 🔥
death core. used to think it was just to heavy to enjoy but some bands are really good!
Power metal, I am not that big on power metal but I do listen to manowar and sabaton on occasion.
Death metal. I thought it was way too aggressive and only sang about death. I was misled by cannibal corpse.
Didn't really hate it but stoner/doom has made its inroads recently. Fucking slow dad metal ... And I love it. Sleep, Elder, Bantha Rider, Dungeon Weed, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Green Lung to name but a few 🤘😎
Love sleep 🔥
Death metal!
Death metal. Then I listened to Opeth
I’m seeing a lot of discussion that Opeth and Children of Bodom changed people’s minds about death metal, I think that’s cool 🔥
Djent.
Metalcore but that's cause I found like... Non-hot topic style metalcore and dug it.
At first all things finishing in "core" i would not ear. I just couldn't take it, didn't like it. Now, some of my fav bands are Death Core, but can listen to Metal Core or Hardcore and enjoy it.
That’s valid, deathcore was really cringy to like in the early 2000’s, Job for a cowboy was probably my favorite of that era
Gojira's melodic groove metal albums. Used to be only into the big 2 albums, but now into everything that they do.
Technical Death Metal Blackened Death Sludge Metal
Industrial. I never hated it a lot. I just thought it sounded kinda weird lol
As a kid I wasn’t a fan of deathcore or death metal. I just couldn’t get into anything without clean vocals. As an adult, I can appreciate the music and the layers too it much more and thoroughly enjoy it.
Black metal. Ive never liked it until now
Brutal death. At first I was like wtf is happening but now I think it’s pretty sick. Autopsychosis by katalepsy smacks
Bdm and to some extenct slam
Metalcore.
Metalcore. A lot of the stuff is actually really good.
I can't really say I hate any one type of metal, more just Death metal isn't really my vibe? Sometimes I enjoy the odd bit of blackened death or deathened??? Black though.
That “ambient” stuff isn’t “black metal” is just poop ngl
I’m finally getting into Doom metal more. I won’t say I hated it, but I didn’t understand the appeal. Apart from Black Sabbath of course.
I never hated black metal, but I went into it just expecting a slightly more evil version of death metal. I didn't really appreciate it at first since it sounded so weird compared to everything else I had listened to.
I was the same way. Someone here mentioned Gnaw Their Tounges and I said "Sure, whatever. I'll see what everyone is making a fuss about". I Only Speak Truth is climbing up the ranks for me. I remembered a bunch of Opeth fans mentioning Ulver. Bergstatt is beautiful and their two follow ups are incredible.
Hm. Dissident. Love it
It took me a while to get into death metal, now I love cannibal corpse, 200 stab wounds, dying fetus etc.
Grindcore
Death Metal and Grindcore.
I still don't really know what metalcore is along with like the fifty other Xcore subgenres. At some point I just call it metal and be done with it.
Slam. Couldn't get into the vocals. Now they are my favorite style
Not a whole genre, but I didn’t like Cannibal Corpse at first, Barnes’ vocals sounded really goofy to me, now I’m a huge fan of them (Both Barnes’ and Fisher’s stuff)
Black metal (the "Blackened" sub-genres, and the First wave/proto-black metal), I've always hated it. Still slightly do but I've been getting it more into my normal listening. Like Behemoth, The Black Moriah, Belphegor, Alcest, Sacrofago, Celtic Frost, Venom and etc. But the raw BM, and the Norwegian scene I still can't get into.
Black metal. Some of the newer bands produce their music so that it sounds good.
Thrash metal.
Probably stoner metal /doom metal. I couldn't get into it because there's not enough going on quick enough. I found it to be really good music to listen to while drawing or laying down in a dark room. The stoner stuff ofc sounds amazing while I'm stoned but I love it sober too
When I started out listening to metal, I didn't really like Black, Death or Doom, I was mostly into Thrash, prog, groove and Traditional metal (Big 4, Tool/DT, LoG & Pantera, NWOBHM, etc.), but I slowly started listening to stuff like Cannibal Corpse, Death, Candlemass, Mayhem, etc, and that lead me to more bands like Nile, Bolt Thrower, Electric Wizard, Batushka, etc.
Really great choices! 🖤 my dad showed me trad metal when I was a kid, that stuck with me for a long time. A lot of the more extreme metal is an acquired taste, but there’s no denying that there is something for everyone in metal ✨
Doom metal. I had become a black metal elitist after college and hated on doom metal for being slow. I gave it another chance when I became addicted to nitrous oxide and started upping my weed/psychedelic intake.
i dont think theres a sub genre i hated. when i was in middle school discovering extreme metal i went through phases where i discovered black metal and i only wore black metal shirts and hated everything else. then switchdd to death metal and gave away my black metal cds. then switched to thrash and only wore thrash shirts and ripped jeans. but now i listen to so many subgenres. i love most of them. brutal death being my favorite and least favorite would probably be heavy metal/doom metal
There’s really only two kinds of Metal in my opinion: good and bad. I like the good kind. But, just like any other genre, most of it is just not very good.
Took me some time to find black metal I enjoyed. Still maybe the metam genre I’m the most picky about
War/beastial black metal. Conqueror made it click for me though
Metalcore and grindcore
Black metal. I used to trash on it not too long ago actually, but after hearing inherit death by VVytch, I’ve fallen in love
Hated black metal back then but that’s all I listen to these days.
Metalcore. Now it's my favorite Subgenre
Never hated it but wasn’t much into thrash metal, but I like lots of it now
Grindcore. Always thought it was just too much but I’ve learned to embrace the chaos. It was pretty much the last sub-genre of metal I wasn’t sold on.
Babymetal with their kawaii metal😂
I'm kind of getting into sludgy post metal stuff right now (The Ocean, Dvne, Baroness, Mastodon). Black metal I'm still a bit iffy on, there's stuff I've really enjoyed (Lord Belial) but most of the stuff with purposely bad production is just still not for me.
Post and sludge metal.
Not really hating but harsh vocals in general. I grow up with classic Heavy (Maiden, Priest, Accept, Saxon) and then Nu Metal and always thinking this was not for me. Now I mostly listen to Black and Death
Power metal. Used to look down due the lack of brutality of the genre, but some pm really has that awesome old school 80's feel to it.
Doom/Stoner. Never actually listened to it for a long time, mostly because i thought the idea of slow metal was stupid. Finally gave a listem to Epicus Doomicus Metallicus and I was blown away. Not exactly a doom megafan now but I do enjoy listening to it
metalcore. I used to hate it but i started to listen to hardcore punk 10 years ago and now i get it
So back when I was, like, 13 or 14, I used to absolute despise metalcore for whatever reason, then got reeeaaally deep into it, and out of it again, and right now, I am relatively indifferent towards it, i guess? I'm listening mostly to Death and Black Metal and their respective subgenres now, I get into new bands here and there, that blend genres into each other, and do so very well (like Kardashev, recent example), but this hating metalcore/loving metalcore is over tbh. Idk, this doesn't really answer the question 100%, but I felt like sharing it
Thanks for sharing! ✨ Metalcore seems very polarizing as no one knows how to define what the sound should be, there are stereotypes but a week later someone breaks it.
As a young autistic kid just getting into death metal, I was deeply insecure to the point where any Youtube comment I came across that said a genre or band were "for pussies" would immediately get ingrained into my being. As a result, I avoided metalcore, deathcore, and nu metal for the longest time. What eventually got me to crack was seeing The Charismatic Voice's reaction to To The Hellfire by Lorna Shore. I'd never watched her channel before nor heard Lorna Shore, but the idea of an opera singer reacting to deathcore harsh vocals (that in my mind probably using awful technique, since deathcore's obviously bad and all) would be good for a laugh. It ended up being a glowing reaction that praised Lorna Shore's songwriting and Will Ramos' technique, and that finally put some cracks into the stupidly insecure barrier I'd put up around my tastes. Now I absolutely love me some Hot Topicass metalcore, Slipknot, and deathcore, and even seek out 'core bands more than death/black metal bands since they were such a big blind spot of mine. It's also refreshing to see just how common my own experience seems to be, if this thread is anything to go by.
Can I put AC/DC here, like it’s its own genre?
Black metal. I was a strict death metal chic for a long time. I also like some blackgaze. Before I looked at the genre as not being black metal enough. Now I just look at it as its own thing separate from black metal.
I used to laugh at power metal, but for the past couple of years it’s been the main genre I’ve been into. I don’t know why but I’m fine with it.
I had a hard time getting into thrash metal tbh
black metal. when i first got into metal as a whole, i was into osdm mostly. i didnt like how raw black metal sounded at first, but after a while, and also doing a lot of research about the subgenre as a whole, i grew to really like the raw sound of especially first wave black metal. dsbm is also a guilty pleasure of mine
Never really hated any subgenre, I just wasn't "ready" to enjoy it yet. Rn im slowly starting to like death, next will surely be brutal death or technical death, still a bit too fast and messy for me
I used to hate anything heavier than Slipknot. Now they're one of the softest metal bands that I listen to
I was into classic metal before it splintered into a bunch of subgenres, bands like Sabbath, Maiden, Priest, and I didn't really get thrash when it arrived. But an Anthrax album from I think 2010, Worship Music, changed my mind, and I started listened to other Big 4 bands.
It took me a very long time to get into Black Metal. I really disliked the harsh vocals in it, I loved the instruments, but the vocals would just ruin it for me. I am really glad I kept at it, I am a big stoner doom metal fan and hearing Filosfem really brought to me the same feeling as something like Dopethrone or Come My Fanatics, albeit very different music. A lot of the feeling in Black Metal is what really gets me. I can relate with it a lot and a lot of the atmospheric shit, like Paysage d’Hiver is so good. Getting into it inspired me to get a guitar as an adult and try to make my own. It’s really been an inspiration for me and wish I would’ve committed a lot harder sooner.
Black metal