Top 10 Easy Ways to Figure Out What Metal Subgenre You Are Listening To

I made this list for fun but if you think the list also represents correctly some trends, that would be great.
The Top Ten
1 There are dragons - power metal or folk metal

For the most part this is true, but Dio is just regular heavy metal, yet they sing about dragons

I made a list "Top 10 Metal Albums with Dragons on the Cover". Most of them are power metal albums.

There are dragons in the lyrics, band name, album cover.

2 The singer is really very angry - thrash metal or groove metal

Death metal also has angry vocals

3 Music is really very fast - speed metal or thrash metal

Any genres can be fast

4 Music is not good - nu metal or rap metal

This is a very close minded thing to say. To you nu metal is not good but there are some people that love it.
Regarding most of the other items of the list, I agree with them.

Slipknot and Disturbed has some good songs
Also I'd argue that some thrash metal sounds terrible

5 The song is longer than 8 minutes - prog metal, symphonic metal or power metal
6 There are violins or /and accordions - folk metal
7 There are keyboards or /and piano - prog metal, symphonic metal or power metal
8 The singer is very good and only moderately angry - traditional heavy metal

Dio, Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford...

9 You don't hear clearly the lyrics - death metal, black metal, or a subgenre with the words 'core', 'gore' or 'grind'
10 The singer is a female - symphonic metal or gothic metal

Okay, this is a little sexist. There's a one-woman black metal band, the vocalist of Cerebral Bore, which is death metal, is female, there's female members of deathcore bands like Make Them Suffer or Winds of Plague, etc.

Umm...Alissa White Gluz is a death metal vocalist; also what about the male vocalists of Kamelot and Rhapsody?

The Contenders
11 The best vocals you have ever heard - power metal
12 You don't know the meaning of many words - prog metal

Yes, my first prog metal song was Artcell's Oniket Prantor. I used to listen the song whole day. I even memorized the lyrics. But I couldn't understand the lyrics of the song. Though I was very young, but still it was more complicated than most other songs.

13 There is blood - thrash or death metal
14 The music it too complicated and mathematical to understand - prog metal
15 Solos are very long - Progressive Metal

At one point I though why these solos are never ending solos.

+ Neo-classical solos.

16 Fantasy Lyrics - Power Metal

Yes, I definitely agree with this. Thanks to whoever added it.

17 The riffs are really slow and ominous - Doom Metal
18 The song sounds like your record player is running in x0.5 - Doom Metal
19 Groovy with a bit of blues tinge - traditional heavy metal

I didn't add this. I'm not sure it's true. Traces of blues are found only in some proto-metal songs of the 70s. Or bands mistakenly called metal. Or non-metal songs by metal bands.
Bands that currently play traditional heavy metal (heavy metal) don't have any blues. If there's blues, it's hard rock.

20 Song lasts for a few seconds - Grindcore
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