Top 10 Most Favorite Extreme Metal Subgenres

The Top Ten
1 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

It's not the most extreme subgenre but officially it is from the group of the extreme metal subgenres.

2 Technical Death Metal

This isn't the most popular/favorite subgenre but it's one of my favorites and this is my remix. You should put your favorire subgenres on your remix.
Bands - Obscura, Beyond Creation, Necrophagist, Gorguts, Spawn of Possession, Fleshgod Apocalypse. These bands are technical death metal but not brutal technical death metal.

Nile, Cryptopsy, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Brain Drill, and many more, are also Technical Death Metal bands but I listed them in the item Brutal Technical Death Metal.

3 Death Metal
4 Brutal Technical Death Metal

It's not the most popular subgenre among the metalheads but I put it high because it's one of my favorite subgenres and this is actually my remix.
Bands - Nile, Cryptopsy, Brain Drill, Suffocation, Dying Fetus

5 Melodic Death Metal

Bands like Amon Amarth, Children of Bodom, Arch Enemy.

6 Technical Thrash Metal

Similarly to thrash metal, it isn't very extreme but it's officially in the group of the extreme metal subgenres.
Bands - Annihilator, Coroner, Vektor.

7 Progressive Death Metal
8 Black Metal
9 Brutal Black Metal

You mean bestial black metal?
Brutal black metal doesn't exist

*bestial black metal/war metal

10 Extreme Progressive Metal
The Contenders
11 Blackened Death Metal

Behemoth are probably the best example.

12 Brutal Death Metal
13 Extreme Metal

There is also a subgenre called Extreme Metal.

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