Favorite metal subgenre?

[LegendofRock3021]

Can I just say it does my heart good that nobody has picked power metal?

Despite being a big fan of Power Metal, I had to go with Other since Heavy Metal is my favorite.

The best of power metal can be quite good, but the great acts are far and few in between.

But you all have to like at least Helloween, right?

As I've said before, it takes some time and effort to find the better Power Metal bands, but it's well worth it once you find a great band.

[Onslaught_fei]

A) That's disgusting, and

B) I don't think Helloween impresses me as much as it does you. Ergo, no ear skeet.

Oh well my man, your loss I suppose. Helloween doesnt impress me as much as they just write good flowing songs.

[killer_roach]

Any Power Metal I like usually tends to be more on the Prog or Thrash side.

Prog Power Metal... like Avantasia?

[afterstasis]

there are two bands that are regularly considered power metal that i absolutely love... helloween and manilla road.

[Evilbottom]

Prog > Death > Thrash > Black > Power

I could take that further, but I won't

[LegendofRock3021]

there are two bands that are regularly considered power metal that i absolutely love... helloween and manilla road.

[Parodygm]

there are very few power metal bands i enjoy, but it still beats out gothic metal (i don't think i like any goth metal bands) and is somewhere around prog metal and industrial metal (both of which only have a few bands i dig).

I barely listened to metal at all by the early 90's and I just started laughing at the emergence of every three band sub-genre that metalheads would try to regale me with.

So I don't know what industrial metal probably constitutes. And I'm the lone person to have voted for it.

That was solely based on a preference for industrial music with metal type textures. So would people class (either early or possibly later) Killing Joke as industrial metal?

[Oscar-Rio]

there are two bands that are regularly considered power metal that i absolutely love... helloween and manilla road.

Manilla Road is great, but i've had a lot of trouble locating their album Metal. Helloween reminds me a really annoying douchebag i had to work with when i was in high school so i can't really get into them now even if i tried.

[afterstasis]

That was solely based on a preference for industrial music with metal type textures. So would people class (either early or possibly later) Killing Joke as industrial metal?

nah, i wouldn't really slap killing joke in there, though i see the similarities in some of their material and would imagine they are a source of much inspiration for these bands.

i'm hardly a source of vast knowledge on the genre, but i'd reckon industrial metal runs anywhere from godflesh to rammstein to ministry to fear factory to samael to KMDFDM.

[Runesmith]

sometimes i think wonder...

what if there was another industrial metal band as good as godflesh?

There is. They're called Type O Negative.

*INB4 stasis says TON is terrible or some jokester lectures me on them actually being a gothic metal band blahblahblah*