Do you like metal music, and if so, what genres and bands?

Not always breakdowns or music with vocals, but things that tend more towards the extreme of their overarching genres, like death metal is of metal. I will follow each genre ... If you are hell bent on finding something that technically is not fully fledged out as metal, I would try Buckethead's Enter the Chicken. read more

Extreme metal consists of a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s, usually characterized by a more abrasive, harsher, underground, non-commercialized style or sound nearly always associated with genres like black metal, death metal, doom metal, thrash metal, and sometimes speed metal. read more

So one should not view Nordic Metal in isolation, people are m ore tolerant of it and might even listen to it once in a while, and the bands have more incentive producing this kind of music because they can get their fees taken care of by the state, but overall, the average Scandinavian listen to the same Pop stuff than his Swiss, Slovakian or US comrade. read more