Least 'metal' of our metals

Now without bias, without voting based on what genres you prefer, which genre of metal do you think has the least metal elements in it here? You may argue that every band is equally metal here, but try to look at this seriously. The Maidens and the Priests in my opinion hold the prototype for pretty much every metal band after that to base it off of. So give it your best shots.

I eliminated proto because by its very nature contains fewer metal elements than other genres. And I will wait to vote till a little later to eliminate bias from my poll.

There are many close calls in a few genres.  I've been going through some of the gothic metal stuff, and the division between gothic rock and gothic metal can be so small. 

There are also some glam bands that seem more on the rock side than metal.  Many glam bands also tend to shy away from the metal aspect and prefer to be called a rock band.

I'm not familiar with that many folk metal bands, but there does seem to be some blur on the rock/metal boundary there as well.  Industrial too, though much of the industrial music I've heard has been heavy sounding.

Oh wait.  I misread the poll.  The least metal elements?  I didn't vote anyways.  Still varies band to band.

micky wrote: did go with Prog Metal...  metal isn't supported to be art..but dirty and low brow thus it misses out on the SINGLE MOST metal ...metal of all.  For the common Joe, not for frickin elitists and instrumental w**kers.

If that's what you think about Prog Metal, I'd hate to see what you think of Avant-Metal.

I ended up voting for industrial metal, as a lot of artists in that category are simply dark industrial, nothing metal about them.

It was a tough choice, as I generally see it as being better than two other genres I feel deserve some votes: glam and alternative. The former is happy, upbeat rock a lot of the times that just adds another notch of distortion to their guitar. And the latter is mainly for nu-metal simple, pop/rap music played on metal instruments, though there are an awful lot of alternative metal bands that aren't really metal.


Edited by topofsm - 09 Aug 2010 at 3:57am

Hey glam is not my favourite kind of hard rock/metal but have you ever wondered how many people brings this sub-genre to hard rock and metal music? OK i understand we have some "Heavy" guys here but as about me today i've just return from my holidays back at home. At the road i was listening songs like "Bad Medicene" from Bon Jovi, "Foolin" from Def Leppard, "Poison" from Alice Cooper, and God be my witness these songs sound great! After all my question is: How many people brings a band like Bon Jovi to metal music and how many a band like Slayer? Talking about myself when i start listening to hard music back at the 80's my first band was not Judas Priest but Joe Lynn Turner's era of Rainbow - Dio era was too heavy for me...

Edited by whitedragon1969 - 09 Aug 2010 at 8:25am

In my view Glam Metal but as Stooge wrote: "The least metal elements?  I didn't vote anyways.  Still varies band to band." But for me, in a general sub-genre view, Glam Metal win in the sense of this poll.

Edited by 1967/ 1976 - 12 Aug 2010 at 9:17am

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It's a case-by-case basis IMO. In every genre of metal there will be a few borderline acts, but most of them seem to fall in prog metal, traditional heavy metal, and glam metal. The difference between prog rock and prog metal, or hard rock and heavy metal can sometimes be very small. It seems that most glam metal acts don't fall on my metal radar, so I gave that my vote.

A lot of metal music could be considered to belong to some other genre with a change of instrumentation. Replace the guitars and bass with synthesizers and the drums with a pulsating 4/4 bass drum, and a lot of Maidens songs would be Eurodance; change the computers to guitar, drums and bass, and a lot of The Prodigy's music would be tech thrashy metal.