Top 10 Most Important Metal Subgenres in Metal History
This is going by what significance the genre has had on Metal.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
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
Influenced death metal, black metal, groove metal etc genres.
2 Traditional Heavy Metal
Most important metal genre that I'd consider. Cause there wouldn't be any metal without this.
3 Death Metal
4 Progressive Metal
5 Power Metal
6 Black Metal
7 Groove Metal
8 Speed Metal
9 Symphonic Metal
10 Doom Metal
Doom metal is important for metal music. It was developed almost at the same time of heavy metal invention.
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