I wanted to try to turn a pretty subjective statement into as much objectivity as I can. At the end of the day, we can all enjoy what we want to enjoy! But I had some points I wanted to make about the metalhead community and metal as a whole. What're your reasons you think metal is the best genre--if you think it is! If not, what's your favorite and why?! But for now, cheers, rock on, stay heavy and have yourselves a fantastic rest of your day or night, depending on when you see this!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Metalheads are the most passionate people about their music preference, period. The only other person that i have seen be as passionate about music is my piano teacher.

For me its the best because unlike most genre's, metal has something for everyone and it has so many different sub genre's and so many different bands with so many different backgrounds and ethnicities.

One of the best things about metal is that there's so many good sub genres based on so many cultures. Like korpiklaani and Arkona. Always felt like rap and pop mostly got repetitive even while mixing with other main genres. But I guess you can say because metal for the most part creates a lot of their own as well as mix with others is why I find it more unique. So many different sounds even from bands that are in the same genre. Like Shrüm and Acid Bath, sure their both sludge metal but both sounds unique in their own way.

Metal is the most FLEXIBLE genre on the planet because it's not defined by rhythmic/melodic/harmonic patterns but rather by the timbre of distorted guitars, powerful drums, and emphatic emotional expression. Think about it this way - play a musical passage from any other genre and apply the above 3 factors to it - and it BECOMES Metal. Obviously there are distinct rhythmic/melodic/harmonic components that have manifested in Metal but they don't define it the way Jazz/Funk/Reggae etc. do. When you combine half Metal, half Jazz - it's a form of Metal. When you combine half Funk half Metal - it's a form of Metal, when you combine half Reggae, half Metal - it's a form of Metal. The reason for that is SIMPLE - despite Metal's reputation for "gatekeeping" - in reality, other genres gatekeep more! The majority of their audience DOES NOT WANT those types of music to be played too aggressively, with loud distorted guitars and pounding drums. Therefore - they become Metal because, despite the resistance of many fans - that's where they gain more of an audience.

I love that you emphasized the importance of punk and the integration of shoegaze. It was because I loved punk and shoegaze that I fell in love with black metal.

Yeah purely because the vast diversity of subgenres that metal has singlehandedly made this my most listened to genre hands down. So much shit I bop to from prog metal, to alt/nu metal, to metalcore, to death metal, to black metal, to grindcore, and other stuff. Shit seemingly just never gets old and there's always a bottomless pit of great material to come across.

Idk for sure if this is the case, but I think one of the big reasons that metal has so many crossovers with different genres is because it is an acquired taste usually adopted in the teenage to young adult years. Since that is the case, many metalheads are exposed to more mainstream genres before coming to metal and therefore can have massively different ideas of what music is and how it can be made. Then, when these new metalheads want to make their own music, these inspirations from other genres are mixed into the metal, creating more variety within the genre. This gives the genre a unique chameleon-like quality, where it is able to change and adapt to whatever the current musical landscape looks like.

Metal is the best music for one very simple reason: I have no goddam clue. Seriously. The first time I heard it (particularly Power Metal), it just made sense. It's like being in love. You can rattle off reasons why you love the person, but in the end, it just comes down to a feeling. An intangible yet incredibly solid realization that this is The One you wanna spend the rest of your life with.🤘🖤🤘 Excellent topic Tempest. Well done! 🍻

Timing is crazy… my dad just got absolutely mad at me for wearing corpse paint.

Don't know about anyone else when it comes to 'there's a metal genre for everyone'. But my mom used to burn my CDs/magazines and such and now I'm slowly but steadily getting her into Bruce Dickinson and power metal mwahahaha. When it comes to people who connect and are passionate about their music though, I think there's also a lot of pop fans and jazz fans who fit into this category. Not modern mainstream pop though. But yeah these are the music nerds and maybe it's more part of the culture in metal to have and discuss your connection to the music. Also love ur 'least metal outfit' it's cute af ❤

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Metals my favorite genre because I can rest knowing my favorite songs aren’t being made into sped up tik tok edits

It's not an "opinion" it's a matter of fact that metal IS/ALWAYS WIIL BE the best genre. It takes a brain to make it and enjoy it.

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As a percussionist, I grew up with jazz as the highest level of the art, but today, I am in awe for the talent in the metal scene, and it's just growing.

One thing about metal that I haven't heard many people mention is that is makes you more open. Once you start to like underground grindcore or something, you know like something super raw and intense, you start you see positives in any music period. (Maybe that's just me tbh)

Metal is the greatest genre ever because of everything you said in this video .

Most been nostalgic listening to C S’s Death , Immortal and some overkill classic thrash metal bangers Keep on rocking in the free world bro ❤❤🎉 There’s just a difference in terms of Avant-garde and progy shit

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As someone who went moshing for the first time last night: I couldn't agree more.

bro is the realest. metal has so much untapped potential its not funny and i think thats the appeal. metal is such an open minded genre (artist wise) in the sense that the variety is so crazy. edit: i never felt like i belonged and going to concerts helped me feel included somewhere in a way i enjoyed. i talk to none of the people from my old highschool (im 18) but for me its so easy to talk to people in the scene. they are so open to so many things and everyone is a different character so its impossible to find a boring person since they wanna talk to you.

I'd say it's the best in terms of variety and dynamic of genres, with so many different possibilities for combining different sound and techniques to produce a signature mark. Like every genre has its "signature" mark that readily distinguishes from another and which dedicated fans and musicians will automatically be able to tell from another genre, and that's something that I think is definitely unique in metal with every genre and sub genre having distinctions that cannot just be blended and morphed into another genre like in so many other genres. And also unlike other genres, thousands of new, innovative, fresh sounding acts come to the stage every year meaning you'll never get tired of a lack of innovation or style, there's always something new and fresh to listen to and get interested in. There's so much I could say but don't want to ramble on.

Just the atmospheric/ambient side alone has given me lots of joy

I'm more into punk and hardcore lately, but metal (specifically black metal and grindcore) will always be welcomed on the aux. i started listening to buttrock bands of the mid 00s in around 2013, mainly Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Seether, etc. but once I finally understood what Suicide Silence was about, I never looked back.

It's because it's for all categories of listeners. That's mostly because of their lyrics; whereas, others are about themselves only!!

Speaking of non-metal influence, Sonata Arctica actually have a song on their 2012 album Stones Grow Her Name called "Cinderblox" that has influences from bluegrass music. Then you also have DragonForce covering the Johnny Cash hit "Ring of Fire".

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In Death Metal We got the bands Like Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Immolation Morbid Angels it really goes deeper Then we take deathcore Suicide Silence , Lorna Shore If we take metalcore It’s AS , As I lay dying The list is really long But probably not limitless I love buckethead He is super friendly ❤❤❤

If I ever believed that you truly lived straight edge your vibe fucking killed it with this one. Is Phenibut legal in WV? You sound like a very happy cosmonaut on this one.

It rocks. 'nuff said.

There was a certain stamp When Nirvana came in the 90 s And Alice In Chains This music basically took over

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I’ll make the argument that 90’s Metalcore when it was still attached to Punk & Hardcore is the best genre of Metal period, and for good reason. One of the big things about Metalcore that makes it kind of the only genre of Metal i’ll go out of my way to listen too is Metalcore, at it’s roots, being a rejection of the culture and the elitism surrounding Metal. You had bands playing riffs that wouldn’t be out of place hearing in a Thrash song alongside Hardcore grooves and lyrics that actually have substance and meaning to them. You didn’t see bands dressing up and acting super serious at an Earth Crisis show or even a Converge show because it went against everything that Hardcore stood for, and that’s one of the big things that drew me into Metalcore; the rejection of tradition and the lack of putting yourself above everyone else because you listened to a certain type of music. It’s hard for me to take a band that dresses up in leather and spikes singing about dungeons & dragons or comic book characters seriously when they want to act like everyone else is beneath them for not enjoying that same type of music, let alone bands who write songs about some incredibly depraved, evil shit as if they even have the balls to be able to carry out said acts theirselves. Unfortunately, Metalcore in recent years has become so much closer to Metal to the point where the rejection of tradition and lyrics with substance have either been completely done away with, or are so deeply buried in symbolism that people have to wade through all the metaphorical bullshit in order to understand the message that they’re trying to get across. The worst part about Metalcore today though? The occurrence of Rockstars & larger than life figures constantly pushing theirselves into the spotlight as if they’re Nikki Sixx or Brett Michaels. It’s something about Metalcore that should be completely done away with, and it makes me glad that there are bands like Drain, Kublai Khan TX, Frontierer, etc that are trying to distance theirselves from that rockstar mentality in order to either get a profound message across, or push the boundaries of what can be done with music as a whole to the point where it becomes a complete rejection of the many Architects clones in the scene that have popped up in recent years.

Have you ever listened to metal with influences from drum and bass? Famous artists that play it include Zardonic, Celldweller, The Qemists, Pendulum, Toronto is Broken and Enter Shikari. Drum and bass is my favourite music genre of all time, with metal (especially metalcore) as a close second. In fact I feel like a bit of an outsider in my IRL metal community sometimes, since I did not grow up with it and did not become a metalhead until I was 20. I also do not dress like a metalhead and do not find the aesthetic my 'type' in a partner. Because I started out on metalcore, some of the classic stuff felt underwhelming and not heavy enough by comparison. Some metalheads are the best people I've met and are great friends of mine, while others are difficult to read and seem like they're judging me for being an outsider. In the one year I've been a metalhead, I've listened to a wide scope of music but I know hardly any names of members of my favourite bands and will occasionally have no clue who a famous band are. I hope to find a community of ravers at some point though, it is very frustrating that my university doesn't have a society for us and that most of my friends aren't into that. Anyway if you read all of this that means a lot, keep making awesome content out there! 🖤🖤

I completely agree with your points. As for my favourite music, I'd say it is some Dark Electro like Placebo Effect and yeleorC, or Aggrotech like Hocico and Suicide Commando. EBM is good too, but I don't listen to it that much.

I know is a pretty subjective take, but for me metal (or rock spectrum to be more accurate) is the best genre because it encapsulate the whole spectrum of human emotion, and by that I mean it can go from the most hopeful and pretty music to the most degenerate and deranged hateful stuff. Every emotion imaginable have a metal song for it. I can't say that about other genres that are only made for very specific mods and are unexistent outside that context, by that I mean something like chill relaxing music, party music or folk stuff. Metal on the other side can happen everywhere and is one of the the few genres where their listeners actually care about how is made and try to play it instead of listening it as background noise and turn off the brain. And the best part of this is that is not an isolated genre, it can work pretty good with any other music, jazz, pop, classical music, trap, folk, latin, etc... throw everything, there is at least one metal band mixing metal with it.

I wont say metal in it's entirety but there's so many communities with the nicest people I've met. I've only been to local underground gigs since there's one good metal venue in my city and every, single, person I've met has been great... sure less so online but in person none have been toxic. Sure If I ever go to a festival I may encounter nobs large enough to instill fear in women but eh.

You should check out Madmans Esprit with their song “Mismatch”!

I've found that many metal bands/artists openly use techniques/instruments associated with other genres and their fans don't get all pearl-clutchy about it , unlike a lot of other genres (jazz vs folk, pop vs hip hop, etc). One of my favorite examples was when Tyr covered an Irish drinking song; when they were asked about it, the response was something like "They're from an island, we’re from an island, what's the problem?"

well most of the best / most talented musicians are working under the umbrella of metal (not 80%+ but I would say 60%+ because the really skilled classical musicians are becoming less and less). think about any instrument and look for the people that can perform it on the highest level. a big number of them will most likely make metal music. they may be doing other music too, but at some point they have probably been active in the metal scene. and that can't be said about any other genre

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Ngl, Issues did the R&B metal thing miles better than sleep token. Like you can genuinely tell they grew up on 90’s R&B and 2000’s pop, and their mix of old sounding djent, nu metal, electronic stuff and other genres and mixes it perfectly. The latest record beautiful oblivion is literally just a contemporary and alt r&b album with djent and prog metal influences. Compare that to sleep token, which is computerized robotic djent riffs mixed with like hozier white guy pop vocals lol. Issues is genuinely one of the better pop / modern core bands out there, I’ve seen it on online reactions and discussion and IRL, I’ve seen non metal fans and even elitist give them respect. Truly ahead of their time lol

Metal music is the best genre because metal needs more 🎻🪕🎹🎷cowbell pedal steel mandolin accordion harps and makes people dance around the house and help people calm down from being stressed out and angry

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it pairs great with other genres. plus all the subgenres are great. there is happy metal sad metal and angry metal

Its the best cause i listen to it.

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Nah the t-shirt is very metal bro 🤘🏼 and tbh metal is one of the best

*Why art is interpretation.*

I wish that clean vocals would make a comeback in metal, the death growl is just getting tiresome. It's gotten to the point that lyrics have no place in metal music

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In my opinion metal is the most diverse genre in music in what other genre can you find a subgenre for everyone say you like rap well linkin park should suit you well say you like j pop well babymetal should you perfectly lets say you like anime intros then Japanese power metal should do the trick lets say you like opera than nightwish should be your cup of tea lets say you like punk than s*icidal tendencies should fit your taste in music say your taste in music is more low fi than give sleep a listen you will probably like it i could go on Also i think pretty objectively metal bands are some of the best show men of all time and the live shows are just next level when you compare it to any other genre

In my opinion there is no best genre but there are good ones

The real reasoning is because Opeth is a metal band

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Totally agree with all your points, maybe downplaying the amount of douchebags into metal but there are real badasses (like me jk jk) metal and all the core genres are my fav as well and even as a "late bloomer" (discovered metal at 17) I'm so glad I eventually did cause I finally found the music that really speaks to me on an almost spiritual level (almost cause I don't believe In spiritualism) and I pity anyone who hasn't found that in art yet

Uhm, I have not yet heard any other genre of music that has sicker riffs than Metal. 🤷‍♂

Personally, punk is the best

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Metal isn't the best, but it's alright 👌

All musical genres are descended from some hairy cave-dweller bashing a rock with a mammoth's thigh bone - and that's pretty metal if you ask me.

Still stuck in high school, huh. It's not a competition. Just listen to the music you like and then try some you don't. Grow up

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its the best becuz its not pop

........because it is the best ........