Poll: Do Metal fans like any other genres?

[Sepphyre]

For sure! I love Symphonic Metal, Doom Metal, Black Metal, good ol' fashioned Thrash Metal, and a few others which I can't accurately define. Blind Guardian are my favourite band.

Non-metal, I love The Beatles and anything 80's, probably because it was what I listened to in my younger years. I have a pretty wide acceptance of music, hell I even tune in to watch Eurovision!! lol

I can appreciate SOME rap (needs to be humorous) but cannot stand country.

 

[Astoria]

I'm a metal fan but I also like pretty much every kinda of rock music and I kinda like techno type stuff like Pendulum.

 

[DJDarque]

My favorite genre is death metal, but I listen to just about every genre of music.

 

[asam92]

I am a metal fan but also enjoy hard rock, lol. Not that it is alot different

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

i like just about everything... except chipmonk voices *shudder*

 

[Hairetos]

I'm a pretty die-hard metal fan, but I've also always had a penchant for the classics. I've recently come to terms with some nice romantic era stuff after being an almost exclusively baroque man.

On another note, I don't hate very much music at all, more like isolated bands. Except rap. I don't hate country, or Justin Bieber, or Britney Spears, or any of them, but rap is my limit. Also can't really stand the really extreme metals, including Deathcore, black metal, techdeath, etc. Metalcore and melodeath is about as heavy as it gets for me. As far as isolated bands are concerned, see Brokencyde or Attack! Attack!.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

I love power metal so inheritable I am drawn towards classical music, however I also like a bit of rock'n roll, blues and from time to time rap.

The only genres I actually dislike are dance/electro/trance (don't see the point of em tbh) and pop (because even if I don not like a song it will be stuck in my head for ages). There are even some forms of metal I don't like.

 

[Evil Moo]

Yes. My tastes can range from avant-garde extreme metal to Japanese pop and a strange subset of the genres in between them.

I do tend to avoid things that fall under mainstream pop, R&B, rap and hip-hop as well as some of the extreme metal genres that to me seem to just degenerate into random discordant noise, though there are the occasional song or two in some of these genres that I can listen to relatively happily. Never something I'd go out of my way to listen to though.

 

[Drazeric]

I like pretty much everything out there....except for country but i would rather be in a pit then sitting in a seat at a concert lol

 

[Valkraye]

I listen to a wide, wide variety of metal, from Death metal to black metal, Viking and Medieval metal to (my personal favourite) Melodic Death Metal, plus many more. And I am sure that compared to some what I consider to be a wide variety will be narrow. And yes, I love many musicians and genres from Classical to some metalcore and post hard core.

What I hate is 'elitist' metal fans. I know some that even get uppity at other metal fans for not liking the same sub-genre of metal that they do. Something about believing one form of metal is purer (for lack of a better word) then others.

List of bands/musicians I have listened to today:

Spoiler

Within Temptation
Bloodbath
Epica
Sonata Artica
The Amity Affliction
Disturbed
Bach
Mozart
Dethklok
Bruce Springsteen
The Beatles
Kamelot
Bane of Isildur

 

[WaReloaded]

I'm obsessed with Jazz (Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, John Coltrane etc) and Blues (B.B. King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker etc).

 

[cookieXkiller]

I will listen to anything but on my ipod i will strictly have death metal and prog
when im at parties its nice to have something to set the mood, even if it is music i generally would dislike. (Which i would like since im at a party and im there to have fun and not be all death metal and setting stuff on fire)

 

[Noatun]

I'm a pretty die-hard metal fan, but I've also always had a penchant for the classics. I've recently come to terms with some nice romantic era stuff after being an almost exclusively baroque man.

On another note, I don't hate very much music at all, more like isolated bands. Except rap. I don't hate country, or Justin Bieber, or Britney Spears, or any of them, but rap is my limit. Also can't really stand the really extreme metals, including Deathcore, black metal, techdeath, etc. Metalcore and melodeath is about as heavy as it gets for me. As far as isolated bands are concerned, see Brokencyde or Attack! Attack!.

Deathcore is actually pretty tame as far as extreme metal goes. Ever heard of brutal death metal, or grindcore? It makes deathcore sound like muzak.

 

[Hairetos]

I'm a pretty die-hard metal fan, but I've also always had a penchant for the classics. I've recently come to terms with some nice romantic era stuff after being an almost exclusively baroque man.

On another note, I don't hate very much music at all, more like isolated bands. Except rap. I don't hate country, or Justin Bieber, or Britney Spears, or any of them, but rap is my limit. Also can't really stand the really extreme metals, including Deathcore, black metal, techdeath, etc. Metalcore and melodeath is about as heavy as it gets for me. As far as isolated bands are concerned, see Brokencyde or Attack! Attack!.

Deathcore is actually pretty tame as far as extreme metal goes. Ever heard of brutal death metal, or grindcore? It makes deathcore sound like muzak.

I throw grindcore where I throw shocker sites. I mean just look at band names. Vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity isn't funny, edgy, or avant-garde (which is a whole 'nother genre in and of itself).

I mean, come on now:
Cephalic Carnage
Cattle Decapitation
Dyeing Fetus
Pig Destroyer
Anal C*nt

Band names don't always reflect their music (wtf is a Sylosis, great band though) but in these cases it does.

 

[Valkraye]

inb4 "Thats not metal, this is rah rah rahittyrah" argument ensues.

 

[Noatun]

By the way, heavy metal itself owes its very existence from genres such as blues and rock & roll. For instance, the black community definitely had its hand in creating heavy metal. Jimmy Hendrix, for example, is considered to be one of the most quintessential influences on heavy metal. Furthermore, as Scrumpmonkey already brilliantly illustrated, the metal community is an incredibly diverse place where metal bands continually push the borders of their musical genre by mixing it with a myriad of other genres.

Even Black Sabbath, considered by many as the first heavy metal band, began as a blues band named Earth. To think that heavy metal was immaculately born out of nowhere and that it does not own its existence to other genres (which some people, sadly, do believe) is tantamount to insanity.