Most evil sounding sub genere

three of the most  "evil" generes of metal who is most evil sounding sub at MMA, who gives you most evil feal, who you like to destroy the rosebed the most, while listening to, (i am not encoureging rosebed rampage)

IMO Doom metal is the most evil subgenere

Addition of the word dark in poll title gives it to doom

Undoubtedly, it's doom. To be more precise, sludge-drone-doom, to my mind it's the most evil subgenre of all (i have recently made a poll on it). Bands like Moss, Unearthly Trance, Monarch cannot be beaten in this sense. And not black metal at all, the most evil black metal bands sound empty and ridicilous compared to the bands I have mentioned.


Edited by Lynx33 - 03 Jun 2012 at 1:06pm

I'm going to have to give it to doom actually.  Funeral doom acts like Esoteric, Catacombs, Evoken really do that dark atmosphere really well.

doom,

It's true that the panda masks come across as being very silly. I listened to a lot of black metal earlier this year - just to gain more insights nito the genre - and, I must say, that there is some really interesting stuff in that part of the metal universe. I don't know if I think it sounds evil, but it can definitely be very expressive.

But it all really depends what is meant by "evil". Death metal tends to have a sense of brutality to it that is unmatched even in grindcore I think, while doom metal tends to express depression and melancholia and similar emotions. I don't think that doom sounds evil, but it can definitely be very oppressive and dense, which I love, by the way. I don't know if black metal sounds evil, but many of the aesthetics that are embraced in black metal can definitely be, well, the only word I can think of is "unpleasant" (not in the sense that it is bad, but in the sense that it is dark, tense, and intense).

Oh yeah, there are lots of silly lyrics and artworks abound in extreme metal, and I must admit that I am generally not interested in that sort of stuff.

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