Favorite kind of metal?

[Shimmy]

Traditional

Pioneers: Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Manilla Road

Notable Bands: Manowar, Omen, Ironsword, Wizard, Pegazus, Twisted Tower Dire, The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Cage, Primal Fear, Steel Attack, Paragon, Skullview, Battleroar, Running Wild, Cauldron Born, Tarot, Hanker.

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Thrash

Pioneers: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Sodom.

Notable Bands: Forbidden, Testament, Destruction, Heathen, Forbidden, Agent Steel, Devastation, Dark Angel, Death Angel, Onslaught.

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Power

Pioneers: Helloween, Gamma Ray, Blind Guardian

Notable Bands: White Skull, Dark Moor, Dragonforce, Angus, Kamelot, Lost Horizon, Angel Dust, Nocturnal Rites, Cryonic Temple, Nightwish, Human Fortress, Dragonland, Rhapsody, Athena, Domine, Rawhead Rexx.

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Progressive

Pioneers: Queensryche, Fates Warning, Dream Theater.

Notable Bands: Spiral Architect, Shadow Gallery, Power Of Omens, later Lost Horizon, Pagan's Mind, Dreamscape, Threshold, Ion Vein, Pain Of Salvation.

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Death

Pioneers: Possessed, Slayer, Death.

Notable Bands: Nile, Krisiun, Entombed, Dismember, In Flames, Runemagick, Paganizer, Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, God Dethroned, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Vital Remains, The Chasm, Angel Corpse.

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Black

Pioneers: Mayhem, Dark Throne, Satyricon, Burzum, Emperor, Enslaved.

Notable Bands: Dark Funeral, Dimmu Borgir, Graveland, Immortal, Berserk, Nehemah, Moonblood, Feral Horde, Finnugor, Melechesh, Marduk, Absu, Enthroned.

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Doom

Pioneers: Black Sabbath, Candlemass, St. Vitus.

Notable Bands: Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Doomsword, Morgion, Solitude Aeturnus, While Heaven Wept, Pantheist.

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Grindcore

Pioneers: Carcass, Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse.

Notable Bands: Exhumed, Genital Grinder, Aborted, Gorgasm.

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Gothic

Pioneers: Paradise Lost, Theater Of Tragedy, The 3rd And The Mortal.

Notable Bands: Trail Of Tears, After Forever, Tristania, Sirenia, The Gathering, Flowing Tears, Lacuna Coil, Rain Fell Within, Moonspell.

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Folk (subgenre)

Pioneers: Skyclad.

Notable Bands: Tuatha De Danaan, Elvenking, Tyr, Ensiferum, Skyforger, Falconer, Mithotyn, Finnugor, Slough Feg, Summoning.

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Viking (subgenre)
Pioneers: Bathory.

Notable Bands: Amon Amarth, Tyr, Ensiferum, Doomsword, Unleashed, Enslaved.

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Symphonic (subgenre)

Pioneers: Savatage, Rage.

Notable Bands: Nightwish, Edenbridge, Kamelot, Dark Moor, Rhapsody, Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Hollenthon, Finnugor, While Heaven Wept, Rain Fell Within, Therion.

(taken from South of Heaven message board)

[Shimmy]

Mine's traditional (heavy) metal. Nothing like the original stuff.

[schickens]

I went with traditional too. I didnt realise there were so many sub categories under metal...

[Neil]

I choose doom, is doom music good?

[•babygurl•]

I voted too soon... out of the list, I think I like thrash the most.. because I do like Metallica's stuff..

[pain]

Nothing like the traditional.

[~*D@NnY*~]

I'll leave this open a bit more for just over a week or so, as we are still picking up members. After that, if there are no more votes, I'll lock this poll.

[Numinous]

Thrash...

[DarknessFadesAway]

Oh my gosh!! It won't let me vote!!! Darn it. LOL! Well, I like Metalcore, Thrash, and Heavy Metal!! Oh, and don't forget Alternative Metal like Red and Flyleaf!!!