Top 10 Impossible Metal Subgenres

I don't think there is such a thing as an impossible metal subgenre. Metal music goes through an evolution and becomes wider in time.
Imagine living in the early 80s, would you have ever thought progressive metal could be possible? Progressive rock and heavy metal aren't exactly the same thing. But then there was queensryche. Now progressive metal is viewed as a metal subgenre with nothing impossible.
This is the way metal subgenres are created: by making something others would find impossible to do, by mixing very different influences with metal.
I don't want to be disrespectful towards metal_treasure, but this is my opinion.

Let me explain the idea of this list. It's possible to mix honey and feces, I mean you can do it. Some people may even like it. But it won't become a successful food product manufactured by many companies because it contains incompatible elements. In this sense a product "Honey Feces" is impossible.

Nu Metal isn't known for technicality - even a small dose of anything "technical" would make Nu Metal fans run away.

I think it would sound good

Doom metal's main feature is the slow tempos along with dark sounding instrumentals. If I play a slow riff, but go from the third fret, to say... the 12 fret of the low e string, and then jump across at least 3 strings for the next note of the riff, you can't say it's easy unless it's 1 beat per minute.

If a band could pull it off somehow, I'd enjoy the crap out of that band

This is one of the few that I think is genuinely impossible

Yeah, Doom Metal only needs a drummer like George Kollias to put the songs at 270 BPM

This is kind of possible, progressive basically means complex and technical. You can change up the rapping tempo and stuff like that to get progressive rap.

I start laughing just trying to imagine how this would sound. Limp Bizkit in a progressive metal context, LOL

Mushroomhead anyone?

It's impossible because Neoclassical metal and Nu metal have nothing in common

I honestly didn't expect big interest in this list so thank you all!

Just the thought of Blind Guardian singing about being suicidal is honestly one of the most hilarious things

It's possible, not sure how a power metal with depressing lyrics would sound, but we have the ability to do it.

It's impossible because Power Metal isn't suicidal, and in general, music isn't depressive.

It's impossible because Doom Metal is more fitting for funerals (and there is Funeral Doom Metal)

Just imagine it.

It's impossible because Power Metal is never extreme. It has clean melodic vocals. Children Of Bodom aren't Extreme Power Metal, as somebody on this site wrote. They are melodic death metal with instrumental part influenced by power metal.

If you switch between clean and unclean vocals, and the song changes between extreme metal moods, and power metal moods, I can see this working.

I'd listen to a band that can pull something like this off

This wouldn't be so impossible I think. Avant-Garde Folk is already a thing. Perhaps have something in the vein of Agalloch but just more experimental

Still trying to picture the avant-garde version of Alestorm's Keelhauled

Sounds like something Mr Bungle would of done if they were still around.

The closest thing to this being real is Children of Bodom's cover of Talk Dirty to Me by Poison

1. Pornogrind is not a music genre, it's just Goregrind/Grindcore with pornographic lyrical themes not that you could understand it cause you can't make out what the vocalist are saying,
2. Pornogrind is not a metal genre, it's a punk genre

This would be the result of a metal musician breaking an abstinence pledge.

It just sounds so wrong...

This does exist, Rebel Meets Rebel is what I would call Country Metal, for those who don't know Rebel Meets Rebel is a side project of 3 of the members of Pantera (Dime, Vinnie and Rex) and David Allan Coe

i might also even consider Load and Reload by Metallica to be Country/Southern Metal,

They have nothing in common, so trying to put them together would be a mess.

LOL, thanks to whoever added it. Yes, that's impossible although I expect Skullkid755 to disagree. He obviously thinks everything is possible. Which is very debatable though.

Yeah that's, about as impossible, as walking on clouds.

I think this list is starting to becoming a joke list (kept the grammar error in on purpose).

It actually exists (I didn't add this item) - Unblack Metal (it's Black Metal music with Christian lyrics). It's weird though.

This sounds perfectly possible to be honest

Voice Of Trespass by Between The Buried And Me

The Diablo Swing Orchestra

Basically metal mixed with cloud rap.