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  Gothic metal

  Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal. The...
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  Thrash metal

  Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. Thrash metal lyrics often deal with social issues using direct and denunciatory...
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  Goregrind

  Goregrind is a musical genre influenced by grindcore and death metal. As the name suggests, goregrind can be seen as a sub-genre of grindcore or death metal. According to Matthew Harvey, Despite the early impact of albums such as Repulsion's Horrified and Impetigo's Ultimo Mondo Cannibale, the...

• Dark metal

  Dark metal is a subjective term used to describe metal bands from various genres that have combined traits from gothic metal, doom metal, black metal as well as some symphonic elements, synthesizer use, acoustic guitar experimentation and/or operatic female vocals. The music can be described as an...

• Blackened death metal

  Blackened death metal is a style of extreme metal that mixes elements of black metal and death metal. During the mid 1980s, bands such as Hellhammer and Celtic Frost straddled the still-vague genres of thrash metal, black metal and death metal. It wasn't until the mid 1990s –when death metal and...

• Technical death metal

  Technical death metal (sometimes called tech death) is a subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. As death metal bands evolved, some experimented with elements from a variety of genres. As a result of such experimentation, exemplified by Suffocation,...

• Melodic death metal

  Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal which combines the melody of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) with the intensity of death metal. The genre is also known as Gothenburg metal, a reference to the city in Sweden where it originated....

• Deathgrind

  Deathgrind (also known as death-grind or death/grind) is a musical genre that mixes death metal and grindcore. The genre, along with pornogrind, is related to the goregrind subgenre. Zero Tolerance described deathgrind as "grindcore and brutal death metal colliding head on." Danny Lilker described...

• Avant garde metal

  Avant-garde metal, experimental metal, or art metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterised by the use of innovative, avant-garde elements, large-scale experimentation, and the use of non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures. The earliest avant-garde metal bands include Celtic...

• Brutal death metal

  Brutal death metal is a subgenre of death metal which focuses more upon speed, and advanced playing technique in the genre of death metal. Brutal death metal developed in the early 1990s, as an outgrowth of death metal. The first hints of brutal death came from the band Cannibal Corpse, formed in...