Top 10 Angriest Metal and Punk Subgenres

As someone who loves music that is fierce and can get you all riled up, I've grown an appreciation to some of the intense and aggressive subgenres in punk and metal. In general, these are music genres that just make you want to mosh and headbang. As a result, the angry music can be super cathartic as well as very entertaining and awesome.

So here are some of the most angriest subgenres in punk and metal that I and others enjoy for their ruthless agression. Feel free to add your own genres to this list as well.
The Top Ten
1 Grindcore

The whole point of this genre thrives off aggression. It's abrasive, filthy and downright disgusting, just how anger should sound like.

A very detailed, precise list..
Great list!

2 Hardcore Punk

Punk's most rawest subgenre that displays passionate anger in the most energetic and fun ways. Can't help but enjoy the quick bursts of anger that are laid in this genre

I especially like Dead Kennedys and Anti Flag.

3 Thrash Metal Thrash Metal is a Heavy Metal subgenre developed during the early 1980s and an early precursor of Extreme Metal. Thrash Metal features a faster and more aggressive guitar work than Traditional Metal with shredding and double-bass drums and can range from melodic singing to loud shouts.

The English band, Venom is credited for laying the groundwork for Thrash Metal with their debut album "Welcome... read more

A genre rooted from the epic heavy metal and the ferocious hardcore punk of the 80s, given at it's core it really started to give metal it's aggressive edge

The most awesome kind of metal!

4 Groove Metal

Something in the likes of Pantera or Machine Head, where no f is given and we all just want to mosh to angry but groovy riffs

Pantera - Hostile!
Pretty aggressive feels it gives off.

5 Death Metal

Heavy and raw, some of the angriest sounding music thrives in this genre. Something like Mutilation by Death really brings that aggression we love to hear in the genre.

6 Crossover Thrash

Mixing Thrash and Hardcore Punk, we get a subgenre that give us aggressive riffs, fast paced songwriting, and ferocious mosh material.

7 Metalcore

Whenever I hear something like Converge I get all riled up with the aggression and passionate anger displayed. When Metalcore isn't cheesed with the pop punk like choruses, you get some really angry and fun mosh tracks.

8 Crust Punk

Something like His Hero Is Gone is sure to make me feel that anger that is layered with the sludgy punk riffs and aggressive vocals.

9 Sludge Metal

The deep and dirty guitar tones and the great heavy hitting riffs all unleashes anger in filthy badass fashion

10 Mathcore

Chaotic is a more fitting word to describe this Metalcore subgenre but as a whole it sure does give some anger inducing stuff.

The Contenders
11 Deathcore
12 Anal C*** Anal C*** was an American grindcore band founded by vocalist Seth Putnam in 1988 in Newton, Massachusetts. The band is known for their highly offensive lyrics which included themes of misogyny, homophobia, racism, Nazism, antisemitism, and schadenfreude (ridicule of the unfortunate). Their music has been received negatively by critics, which the band stated that their music was intentionally bad,... read more
13 Black Metal
14 Gorenoise
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