Least favourite metal sub-genre

Not sure yet.  I'm tempted to say black metal.  There are a few bands in the genre I like, but most other bands I've seen in the genre seem a bit over the top.  Glam metal is a bit cheesy, though I can think of a few good bands.  Alternative metal and metalcore jump out as having many bands I dislike as well, but some I do like.

Thinking about it now, the genre I'll have the least regret singling out is glam metal, so that will get my vote.  Sorry glam metal team.

I did hear "Girls Girls Girls" on the radio today and enjoyed hearing it though. 

So like I was saying, no genre is totally garbage.

cold103 wrote: My vote goes to alternative-metal (Staind, Limp Bizkit, Nickelback, Linkin Park, Kittie, Disturbed, etc.). No offense to fans of the genre.

I know exactly what you mean.

As for Glam, I can understand the general distaste of "image first" but the thing I love most about the sub-genre is that it is one of the only ones that my friends and I can listen to and all have a damn good time despite our different tastes in music.  Everyone knows the words because they are so cheezy and predictable, and that's the best part.


Edited by NJCat_11 - 29 Apr 2010 at 11:48pm

I'm not voting and definitely not saying worst because I've got absolutely nothing against them, but I don't think I have any Power or Industrial metal albums in my collection.  

The trinity of crap metal: Nu metal, glam metal, and metalcore. Didn't vote alt metal because despite it containing the nu metal bands there are plenty of alt bands with merit. Glam can be fun I guess, though still is one of the worst money-mongering trends ever. Voted metalcore: whiney generic pseudo-heavy crap.

Interesting how I'm on the metalcore team but I'm not even offended yet lol.
There is A LOT of metalcore I honestly don't like, but I can say the same for thrash metal, black metal, traditional metal, progressive metal and so on.
Looking through my iTunes list, I honestly have more metalcore than I do thrash metal, which is particularly interesting because thrash metal was my first true love as far as extreme metal genres go, but I've largely gotten bored of it now because of bands like Trivium doing their boring as shit "retro thrash" thing.
There's plenty of good metalcore bands, but like any genre you need to dig deep.
You can't just listen to the generic crap like Bullet For My Valentine  and say "OH MAN ALL METALCORE IS CRAP", because there is plenty of stuff that rises.
While not everyone is going to be a fan, I think it's hard to deny band from the metalcore genre like Periphery, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Between the Buried and Me (although to me, BTBAM is 25 per cent metalcore, 25 per cent death metal, 25 per cent prog rock and 25 per cent prog metal, but for the sake of it lets call them metalcore because the band members obviously fit into that aesthetic) are extremely creative bands that have pushed the boundaries and have even gone on to influence the non-core genres of metal

I won't vote anything because I believe there's no such thing called worst genre
any genre should have its best performers and also bad one, no matter what it is, from rock, blues, pop, dance, R&B, jazz, folk, etc

therefore no such thing called a perfect genre that's truly exist,
the one thing that exist is a genre that we like or worship and that's all :)


Edited by Stephen - 30 Apr 2010 at 4:48am

Yeah you�re ever the diplomate Stephen ( unless it�s about a certain Glam act that you recently gave a 1 star rating to that is), I guess most of us could learn a thing or two there.

It was tought choosing between Glam and Alternative/Nu Metal but I went with the former seeing as there's two Alt Metal bands I like (Faith No More and System of a Down) where as I haven't heard a single Glam Metal band I like.

I was tempted to vote for Glam Metal, which I loathe as a genre - even if that includes some controversial bands, such as Alice Cooper and even Kiss >>> for me Glam metal is an 80's thing, not 70's, but I understand they are included).... but I must that the music is not the un-listenable form of metal (except bon anJovi) Some of these extreme form of metal music are much harder on my eardrums.

Glam, but anything 'glam' annoys me to be honest.