I appreciate so much that you included an obscure band like Nirvana! Nevermind is such a hidden gem of the deathcore scene. I bought it on a $1.99 cassette tape at a show in a dennys in 1991 and it changed my life. It's such a pity almost no one seems to have heard of them.
Ah yes, Nirvana, my favourite Deathcore band. With hits like Du Hast and Freak on a Leash, truly shows that Guitarist Chris Fehn's band Nirvana is the best deathcore band of all time.
Thank you for showing Type O Negative the love they deserve. Honestly one of my favorite bands in high school, and I would stop listening to anything else when a new album would come out and it would be the only thing I listened to for weeks. When Peter died, a piece of many of us all died along with him.
Metal is fascinating. Never have I ever seen a genre simultaneously contain some of my favorite AND least favorite music. Great video concept, Bradley My favorites are easily Alternative, Doom, Stoner, Gothic and Grunge but to each their own. Groove Metal gets an honorable mention
idk why alt doom stoner sludge grunge and groove just like has some of the best music ever fucking written genuinely give me chills, fuckin love that shit
these Opeth, the Ghost Reveries and Blackwater Park Opeth, were the GOOD Opeth...until the album Watershed of 2008...since then and since they changed their style, I never heard any of their albums till today...I prefer listening to their old albums...
As a massive Grunge fan, while I think Dirt is amazing, my vote goes to Soundgarden's Superunknown. It is an absolute masterpiece and one of the greatest albums of all time.
@@Vivi_9yeah not saying nirvana are bad by saying that, I really like some of their songs too. But in the grunge tier listing I’d put at top AIC, then soundgarden, then nirvana, then pearl jam
Personally I feel MoP is the more complete album. While there are great highs on RIP, there are also quite a few meh moments for me. The only meh moment on puppets for me is the thing that should not be
@@armashuvitz MoP is too samesy sounding. Thinking now I can hardly tell most of the songs apart. The thing that shoud not be at least as more character than Damage Inc or Disposable Heroes. Ride the Lightning has way more character is the best from Metallica imho
The Wintersun at the end was great really happy they made it in since that album is one of the best albums ever made I was really hoping for rhapsody as symphonic power metal but that might have been a long shot
I also would add Death's "The Sound Of Perseverance" as the best prog-death album (or maybe Symbolic, but I more prefer TSOP. However, both albums are masterpieces, Schuldiner was so great musician)
Oh, don't you know? TSOP has stolen Bradley Hall's beans and he has sworn long-lived hatred ever since that day Which means he doesn't really like it unfortunately lmfao but I'm with you on this one bud
@@BradleyHallGuitar Nah I get it, I too thought it was absolutely ridiculous, the first time I've listened to it But the second time really got me, only God knows why
Nice to see Septic Flesh getting appreciation. One of my favorite bands. The combination of death metal and orchestra on Communion and The Great Mass works incredibly well.
I was waiting for the big twist at the end and see Rust in Peace as the best metal album overall. Good list, extra points for including Sabbath, Alice in Chains, Mr. Bungle and Extreme :)
I'm not really a big fan of hair metal but seeing Extreme II was great. Such an underrated band and album of the genre and love how Bradley's opinions always seem to surprise me.
Songs used: Original Black Metal: Venom - Black Metal Folk: Finntroll - Rivfader Industrial: Rammstein - Feuer Frei Old School Death: Morbid Angel - Maze of Torment Post: Alcest - Ecailles de lune, Pt.2 Black: Ulver - Bergtatt-Ind I Fjeldkamrene Alternative: Tool - Schism Death: Behemoth - Slaves Shall Serve Gothic: Type O Negative - Christian Woman Symphonic Black: Emperor - The Loss & Curse of Reverence Traditional: Judas Priest - Hell Patrol Hair: Extreme - Decadence Dance Neoclassical: Symphony X - Evolution (The Grand Design) DSBM: Shining - Lat Oss Ta Allt Fran Varandra Tech-Death: Necrophagist - Epitaph Pop: Amaranthe - Trinity Prog: Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity (Scene Seven I) Symphonic Death: Septic Flesh - The Vampire from Nazareth Sludge: High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings Avant-Garde: Mr. Bungle - Egg 00’s Metalcore: Avenged Sevenfold - Remenissions Symphonic: Nightwish - Ghost Love Score NWOBHM: Iron Maiden - The Prisoner Djent: Meshuggah - Shed Thrash: Metallica - Damage, Inc. Original Deathcore: Suicide Silence - Unanswered Deathgrind: Cattle Decapitation - Forced Gender Reassignment Groove: Pantera - Walk Modern Prog: Periphery - Garden in the Bones Viking: Enslaved - Entroper Modern Metalcore: Spiritbox - Constance Power: DragonForce - My Spirit Will Go On Modern Deathcore: Lorna Shore - Pain Remains III: In a Sea of Fire Grindcore: Napalm Death - Scum Doom: Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave Melodeath: At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul Stoner: Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today Blackened Death: Akercocke - Praise the Name of Satan Grunge: Alice In Chains - Dam That River Nu: Slipknot - The Heretic Anthem Southern: Black Label Society - Fire It Up Crossover Thrash: Power Trip - Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe) Pirate: Alestorm - Over the Seas Goregrind: Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction Bands that are their own genre: Children of Bodom - Trashed, Lost, and Strungout Gojira - The Cell Wintersun - Beyond the Dark Sun Strapping Young Lad - Shitstorm
Thanks for sharing your picks Bradley, I haven't listened to a couple albums on here, so now I have new music to hunt down! I actually agreed with a lot more than I anticipated from your list, though for NWOBHM I would have personally picked Powerslave, and for Power metal, I would have to give it to Helloween's "Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. II". But I respect your opinion, as differing tastes and experiences with these albums are what keep the Metal Genre alive and thriving!
Nice that Ulver's Bergtatt is always a timeless classic of their black metal-era albums. -I'm just mad that my favorite photographcore band, Nickelback, is not on the list.-
Thank you so much for Strapping Young Lad.... Devin Townsend has gone on to do amazing projects after SYL but for me there's too much nostalgia attached to SYL. Alien was one of the heaviest albums I'd heard around the time it came out.
I think we can all agree that this is the greatest list of its kind so far...and while we're at it one of the best existing guides for metal newbies and wannabe oldbies. Thanks a lot Mr. Bradlenstein!
I agreed with everything, except that I personally think that rust in peace is the best thrash album, but i totally see where you’re coming from with master, and that is an easy second for me
Agreed. Funny they were put under "black" when they have only (maybe) 2 pure black metal albums lol Bergtatt is, as you said, a masterpiece. But it's black-folk! Probably the best of that too... next to Windir lol
You're always so focused on the more guitar-y side of metal , I tend to forget you have quite the knowledge on black metal, compared to the average metal UA-camr who fingerpoints and laughs at it. Great choices. Ulver is goated.
Glad to see the love for Alice In Chains, I would have thought that The Sound Of Perseverance would have been included tho. Great vid nonetheless beansly 👍
Good job and lot‘s of fun to watch!! A pitty though, that neither „Death-Doom“ nor „Funeral-Doom“ were mentioned, two glorious sub-genres of „Doom“, which wasn‘t really honourably represented by Black Sabbath ;)
Children of Bodom and Wintersun are part of the Finnish Melodic Death scene where the sound is somewhere between Melodic Death and Power Metal, sometimes hints of Black Metal, with Neo-Classical/Symphonic elements. For fans of those bands I'd recommend Aephanemer - a French band who somehow sound kind of Finnish.
Venom has got to be one of my favorite bands ever. An absolute product of Black Metal that set a standard for a rather unapologetically dark subgenre of an already dark genre. Cheers!
I've been using your videos like this to have a guide for listening to this genre. Started from the beginning with Black Sabbath and been working my way up the decades since. I'm still in the 80s determined to hear most of it before committing to the 90s. Little to none of my music tastes are up to date or current and it makes conversing with other music lovers very difficult. One day I'll be caught up and able to discover new releases! 😅
Yeah even tho they hang with nu bands,the dress like nu bands,guitar tone,swollen drum tones,fat bass tone,nu typa-riff,hip hop groove,and rapping vocals YES! TOTALLY NOT NÜ
As much as I love and respect Sabbath, I was shocked and dismayed to not see Paradise Lost's Draconian Times take the Beanley crown for Doom Metal. I shall be writing a strongly worded email to my MP! This is all the proof you need that the times are indeed draconian. Anyhoo, you could've picked from so many mega albums for each of these sub genre pigeon holes and it's a testament to just how diverse our lovely corner of music is.
@@akarshshekhar5233 Fair point. I did thing that myself at first too, but by the time Sabbath came along I was so outaged that I had forgotten it already and moved on to my comment. PL definitely have some good overlap with doom/goth with most of thier albums tbh.
@@boltgaming248 I said Tornado Of Souls full well knowing that Comfortably Numb exists because I wholeheartedly believe that Tornado Of Souls is a better solo than Comfortably Numb.
Not gonna lie, I thought a Black Sabbath album was going to be the pick for Traditional Metal but Painkiller is still a killer record and Master of Reality for Doom surprised me as well but I also agree that's a solid pick as well. Also massive props for including Alestorm, I had never heard of Pirate Metal before checking those guys out but I absolutely love it. Their music is both heavy and fun as hell to listen to and Chris Bowe's lyrics and vocals are great as well, great pick man
I tell you what. Got close to the end and was getting real, real mad there was no CoB, SYL and Gojira. Those 3 are my favourite metal albums of all time.
I guess with all the symphonic elements they’re a bit different from traditional melodeath. I would have picked “The Gallery” over “Slaughter the Soul,” though.
I agree with some of these but not all and you missed some subgenres and stuff but there are so many and you mentioned some subgenres I didn't even know existed. Overall entertaining video and a couple of things imma go listen to 👍
There's some I fairly disagree with Symphonic Death: This is a not very popular genre but there's one semi niche band that I feel has used the epicness and intensity of symphonic to proper effect, namely Imperial Circus Dead Decadence, they have this one album with japanese name and grey cover that is by far the best display I've heard (the song Uta is masterclass-literally every layer there is emotional). Most other symphonic death seems not to be doing great at either symphonic or death, or just overbearing, and this is the exception for me. Symphonic: I felt Once was a bit eeeeh and while there's not been many symphonic for symphonic sake bands I like, I'd probably pick someone like Epica who I just felt was by far more distinctive, maybe The Holographic Principle? Portal of I by Ne Obliviscaris also comes to mind but I'm not sure that counts or even where I'd put it. NWOBHM: Number of the Beast is bit over-rated, its too 'disjoint' and weird an album between poppier ones and bit more fillerish ones. I think Powerslave is the much better pick and most representative. Power: Sonic Firestorm is probably DragonForce's best, but I don't think its the most iconic nor best written. There's honestly a lot here I'd consider. Personal fav is Episode by Stratovarius (it has this nostalgiac quality but it feels it reaches out and Stratovarius to me is master of hooks and melodic writing even if I'm not sure it has that 'deeper' album quality), but actual qualitatively the best is probably Blind Guardian in making it mean something more (Nightfall in Middle Earth or Somewhere Beyond Time, choose your pick). Rhapsody also comes to mind (Dawn of Victory) because of their thematics. Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. II is just great and distinctive front to back and absolutely iconic. Or, if it even counts, something like ANGRA's Holy Land is quite well composed. Twilight Force deserves title for making the cheesiness work the best (Namely, Tales of Ancient Prophecies). And what, Symphony X is already taken too in the 'neoclassical' category? Well, I guess personally Episode by Stratovarius is my answer. Doom: Doom metal is my least listened metal genre but while Black Sabbath definitely paved the sound, it just feels off to put Masters of Reality as particularly emblematic of doom metal, they were before that genre really became a thing. Melodeath: As much as I like melodeath, it's hard to pick albums that seem to reach a different height, like Slaughter of the Soul certainly is the most well known but on its own it feels too samey and not distinguishing throughout. I'd say someone like Dark Tranquility deserves this spot, although no particular album seems set out (The Gallery, Damage Done, Fiction, Character? The Gallery probably is most iconic example but I'm not sure its their best) who hit this emotional introspective style that I don't think anyone's gotten close to really capturing except Insomnium and there's also a few scattershot albums from names like Mors Principium Est, Kalmah, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, or even Omnium Gatherum (they're such a slow burn) but honestly the most distinctive bands to use the sound and be near flawless I feel is The Black Dahlia Murder, Nocturnal or Verminous depending on the day: back to back iconic melodies, impactful atmosphere scenery and lyrics, and backed up by some of the best riffs too. Tech-death: Necrophagist is good but I think there needs to be more of a hook to it. I think Diluvium by Obscura is by far the best use of technicality and arrangement I've ever seen that it feels like it was particularly composed. Incurso by Spawn of Possession also is great or The Path of Apotheosis by Inferi (best momentum in a genre that can be tiring) also come to mind Djent: Not really my cup of tea, at all but I usually prefer the Periphery camp in which case I'd put Periphery II (then again, I haven't heard this specific Meshuggah album and am not a very chuggy person) Honorable mentions I can not for the life of me get into Are You Dead Yet? and I've tried over and over, something like Hatebreeder and Follow the Reaper would fit on what is whole scale good bill, but Halo of Blood is pretty good too.
3:40 What do you mean that they don’t have a genre? Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? - melodic death metal Gojira - Magma - progressive death metal Wintersun - Wintersun - melodic death metal Strapping Young Lad - Alien - industrial thrash metal
really bad definitions IMO. Gojira isn't death metal by any stretch, Wintersun's way off any other melodic death metal (maybe progressive melodic death metal or some shit). CoB also doesn't really fit there. Industrial thrash metal? wtf
@@ezet Are you serious? Gojira’s one of the biggest and best prog death bands out there. Sure, Gojira has softened up quite a bit, I’m pretty sure their last album will be their last death metal album but they definitely are prog and definitely are death. Where would you even put Children of Bodom? They’re power metal influenced death metal, meaning melodic death metal. You wouldn’t put them in power metal, they’re too heavy. Same goes for Wintersun. And also, while they may have progressive elements, they aren’t so progressive, to the point where they are a prog band now. Maybe symphonic? They could be symphonic. But I’d put them in melodic to be safe. Strapping Young Lad is probably the only big band in the industrial thrash genre other than Nailbomb, that side project of Max Cavalera and Alex Newport, so I don’t know where else you’d put them.
These lists are always too hard to compile and even harder to agree on. Think you did a good job here. I might have chosen different albums for a couple (Metalcore - KSE's Alive Or Just Breathing, Neoclassical - Symphony X's Twilight In Olympus, Alternative - Korn's Debut album). But that's all just preference!
What do you guys think of my picks?? Apologies if I missed any sub-genres, I tried to cover as much ground as possible!
You're the best, buddy!👍🏻
for industrial you really could have picked something more aggressive, like demanufacture or streetcleaner
definitely some good picks!!
I think rust in peace is the best thrash album rather than mop
@@iamalfred7435I was surprised he put that as well
my favorite deathcore band nirvana 🥰😍
My favorite album is probally ten, but the best song off that album is probably them bones
bro wdym weezer is a way better deathcore band
Mine is Nickleback
@@plagueravestv2008 can’t argue with that tho
@@mr.meeseeks6090 bro they're not deathcore they're actually slamming symphonic blackened brutal dissonant pornogrind 💀get it right
I appreciate so much that you included an obscure band like Nirvana! Nevermind is such a hidden gem of the deathcore scene. I bought it on a $1.99 cassette tape at a show in a dennys in 1991 and it changed my life. It's such a pity almost no one seems to have heard of them.
I appreciate that you included almost full Napalm Death song compared to just snippets in case of other bands.
this comment is brilliant
I didn't, my god they are awful
best comment of the year
@@Vivi_9finally someone who thinks they aren’t that great. I dont really get it.
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Yes, nirvana is my favorite deathcore band. Their sound is very heavy. and their album "master of srg. Pepper" is the heaviest.
True, Pete Bests vocal harmonies sound heavenly
Ah yes, Nirvana, my favourite Deathcore band. With hits like Du Hast and Freak on a Leash, truly shows that Guitarist Chris Fehn's band Nirvana is the best deathcore band of all time.
Vocals from Dave Mustaine really highlight this as well
Too true man too true 💯💯💯
Some people, unfamiliar with genres, really think Nirvana was a metal band.
Too shame that their drummer Chad Cruger killed himself
Ain't no one talking about their keyboardist Ronnie Radke
Thank you for showing Type O Negative the love they deserve. Honestly one of my favorite bands in high school, and I would stop listening to anything else when a new album would come out and it would be the only thing I listened to for weeks. When Peter died, a piece of many of us all died along with him.
Metal is fascinating. Never have I ever seen a genre simultaneously contain some of my favorite AND least favorite music. Great video concept, Bradley
My favorites are easily Alternative, Doom, Stoner, Gothic and Grunge but to each their own. Groove Metal gets an honorable mention
idk why alt doom stoner sludge grunge and groove just like has some of the best music ever fucking written
genuinely give me chills, fuckin love that shit
@@relic374 cause it ain’t theatrics just straight musically gifted people jamming out in metal form
Metal is absolutely fascinating, @nicorepetto5781!
Hahah yeah no one hates metal like metal fans 😂😂😂
Mr Bungle should have been in the category of Mr Bungle.
Expected to see some of Opeth's albums, like Ghost Reveries or Blackwater Park, I think they deserve to be in this list
Yeah, I was surprised to not see them
Should have included either of these albums for Prog death metal
I was going to say the same thing.
Blackwater Park is outstanding.
Blackwater park is a masterclass in riffage. Album has more stank face riffs than most bands have in their career.
these Opeth, the Ghost Reveries and Blackwater Park Opeth, were the GOOD Opeth...until the album Watershed of 2008...since then and since they changed their style, I never heard any of their albums till today...I prefer listening to their old albums...
I'm surprised someone actually acknowledging Amaranthe for once
2:45
I always find it hilarious how Jim Carrey's impression of this album is just absolutely perfect.
ahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahha
Don't we all love Tool's alternate and simple sound?
Was glad to see Power Trip make this list. Riley was a friend and greatly missed.
Such a sick band!
I was gonna say. Powertrip are killer!🤘
As a massive Grunge fan, while I think Dirt is amazing, my vote goes to Soundgarden's Superunknown. It is an absolute masterpiece and one of the greatest albums of all time.
As much as I like Superunknown, I feel like Badmotorfinger just about beats it
DIRT is a masterpiece
Oh my God mate I just said the exact same thing before reading the comments 👍
my exact thoughts
BMF every time
So glad you put Alice in Chains’ Dirt as the best grunge album. Alice in Chains forever 🤟
I don't listen to much grunge but Dirt is a masterpiece. Alice-in-Chains don't have the talent to write a bad song
@@lowlifeangler sure they do. Have you ever listened to "Love Song"? 😂
Yeah all the normies would just say nirvana but Alice in chains are leagues above nirvana
@@tompayton84 AiC are my favourite band but I love Nirvana. Are you okay with this?
@@Vivi_9yeah not saying nirvana are bad by saying that, I really like some of their songs too. But in the grunge tier listing I’d put at top AIC, then soundgarden, then nirvana, then pearl jam
Thank you for giving V from Symphony X the respect it deserves. In my opinion one of the greatest albums of all time
Despite the preview, still it was unexpected to see Master of Puppets on the top of thrash mountain due to your love to Rust in Peace
same here. Rust in Peace is the best metal album for me, I mean if I really had to pick one ofc.
Yeah, I loved it as a teenager, but nowadays I rarely listen to anything off of Master of Puppets. Rust in Peace still amazes me every listen.
Personally I feel MoP is the more complete album. While there are great highs on RIP, there are also quite a few meh moments for me. The only meh moment on puppets for me is the thing that should not be
@@Chadner You are not alone on that front
@@armashuvitz MoP is too samesy sounding. Thinking now I can hardly tell most of the songs apart. The thing that shoud not be at least as more character than Damage Inc or Disposable Heroes. Ride the Lightning has way more character is the best from Metallica imho
The Wintersun at the end was great really happy they made it in since that album is one of the best albums ever made
I was really hoping for rhapsody as symphonic power metal but that might have been a long shot
I also would add Death's "The Sound Of Perseverance" as the best prog-death album (or maybe Symbolic, but I more prefer TSOP. However, both albums are masterpieces, Schuldiner was so great musician)
Oh, don't you know? TSOP has stolen Bradley Hall's beans and he has sworn long-lived hatred ever since that day
Which means he doesn't really like it unfortunately lmfao but I'm with you on this one bud
@@RedNK lmaooo, but yes I'm not gonna invent a new sub-genre just so I can include that album
@BradleyHallGuitar you don't like SOTP?
@@BradleyHallGuitar Nah I get it, I too thought it was absolutely ridiculous, the first time I've listened to it
But the second time really got me, only God knows why
Symbolic > TSOP
I'm so happy Bradley actually included black label society
Nice to see Septic Flesh getting appreciation. One of my favorite bands. The combination of death metal and orchestra on Communion and The Great Mass works incredibly well.
Glad to see them on here too, but I think Communion and Codex Omega are better than The Great Mass by a pretty large margin.
Mystic Places of Dawn is one of the best Extreme Metal albums ever IMO.
@@DraugrGrogSame
ive almost never met another one whos even heard of them, also one of my favourite bands! Communion is a personal favourite
Oh I know
Nu: Korn - Korn
Or Slipknot - Slipknot. Or System of a Down - System of a Down.
Or Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Soad, Linkin Park, Deftones yk
Toxicity
Distubed - The Sickness
Oh my god, Midnattens Widunder finally gets some recognition!! It’s one of my favorite albums ever but I never see anyone else talking about it.
Ja visst! Dags att slå på bastun och lyssna på bastuvisan
2:10 that transition from cattle decap to pantera has no right to be that smooth
Great pics. especially AIC's dirt, absolutely love that album
Thanks for making me discover new music. I am more of a hip-hop rnb head but I am surprised I really liked some of the snippets
I'm glad that Behemoth - great band from my country is here! Greetings from Poland!🇵🇱
I'm Christian but Kurwa Metal is great in polska 👍
@@Fizzø_2012 ta ale nie przeklinaj bo Bog paczy
I would have liked to see an international metal category - stuff like Alien Weaponry, Bloodywood, etc.
Its not a genre though haha
0:10 Mutter will always be 🔛🔝
Das ist "Feuer frei" aus Аlbum "Mutter"
@@Fhdhdhdhdhdhhdhd ja, ich liebe es
Always good to see Symphony X and Mr. Bungle getting shout outs. Criminally underrated imo
Always enjoy seeing Akercocke getting some love. Their vocalist covers a really wide range of styles
I was waiting for the big twist at the end and see Rust in Peace as the best metal album overall. Good list, extra points for including Sabbath, Alice in Chains, Mr. Bungle and Extreme :)
Surely Voivod should get it's own category, since nobody calls them thrash anymore.
100 percent agree, and I was really hoping you’d have nightwish in there
Tech-deth: The Sound Of Perservance by Death
Old school DM: Scream Bloody Gore by Death
I wonder what your favorite band is 🤔
@@BradleyHallGuitar 😂😂😆😆
@@BradleyHallGuitarBut can ya blame me tho? 😂 Chuck was and will always be a tech-deth god..
Much love Mr Beanly! ❤
@@BradleyHallGuitar chuck is the best in death genre, he and his band were the fathers of death metal
Death Metal: Symbolic
My personal favourite modern Metalcore is definitely THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND by Bad Omens, the production is incredible
pos hc*
I'm not really a big fan of hair metal but seeing Extreme II was great. Such an underrated band and album of the genre and love how Bradley's opinions always seem to surprise me.
Songs used:
Original Black Metal: Venom - Black Metal
Folk: Finntroll - Rivfader
Industrial: Rammstein - Feuer Frei
Old School Death: Morbid Angel - Maze of Torment
Post: Alcest - Ecailles de lune, Pt.2
Black: Ulver - Bergtatt-Ind I Fjeldkamrene
Alternative: Tool - Schism
Death: Behemoth - Slaves Shall Serve
Gothic: Type O Negative - Christian Woman
Symphonic Black: Emperor - The Loss & Curse of Reverence
Traditional: Judas Priest - Hell Patrol
Hair: Extreme - Decadence Dance
Neoclassical: Symphony X - Evolution (The Grand Design)
DSBM: Shining - Lat Oss Ta Allt Fran Varandra
Tech-Death: Necrophagist - Epitaph
Pop: Amaranthe - Trinity
Prog: Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity (Scene Seven I)
Symphonic Death: Septic Flesh - The Vampire from Nazareth
Sludge: High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Avant-Garde: Mr. Bungle - Egg
00’s Metalcore: Avenged Sevenfold - Remenissions
Symphonic: Nightwish - Ghost Love Score
NWOBHM: Iron Maiden - The Prisoner
Djent: Meshuggah - Shed
Thrash: Metallica - Damage, Inc.
Original Deathcore: Suicide Silence - Unanswered
Deathgrind: Cattle Decapitation - Forced Gender Reassignment
Groove: Pantera - Walk
Modern Prog: Periphery - Garden in the Bones
Viking: Enslaved - Entroper
Modern Metalcore: Spiritbox - Constance
Power: DragonForce - My Spirit Will Go On
Modern Deathcore: Lorna Shore - Pain Remains III: In a Sea of Fire
Grindcore: Napalm Death - Scum
Doom: Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
Melodeath: At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Stoner: Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
Blackened Death: Akercocke - Praise the Name of Satan
Grunge: Alice In Chains - Dam That River
Nu: Slipknot - The Heretic Anthem
Southern: Black Label Society - Fire It Up
Crossover Thrash: Power Trip - Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)
Pirate: Alestorm - Over the Seas
Goregrind: Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Bands that are their own genre:
Children of Bodom - Trashed, Lost, and Strungout
Gojira - The Cell
Wintersun - Beyond the Dark Sun
Strapping Young Lad - Shitstorm
Feel free to make a playlist of these, that’s what I did
Thanks for sharing your picks Bradley, I haven't listened to a couple albums on here, so now I have new music to hunt down! I actually agreed with a lot more than I anticipated from your list, though for NWOBHM I would have personally picked Powerslave, and for Power metal, I would have to give it to Helloween's "Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. II". But I respect your opinion, as differing tastes and experiences with these albums are what keep the Metal Genre alive and thriving!
I'll call your changes and raise you a Sound of Perseverance for Technical Death Metal
Helloween were speed metal...
Great video! I would have put Opeth in honourable mentions for being their own genre
They’re definitely prog, but that label is so varied by definition that most of the great prog bands are basically their own genre
MR BUNGLE SIGHTING 1:35
massive props for giving V its flowers. neoclassical masterpiece
Hard to beat Epitaph, it's so good and all that energy and fury and polyrhythms are just necessary.
As much as I like Altars of Madness, my personal pick for OSDM will always be Left Hand Path
Yeah man it's a tough choice!
Great to see Bergtatt included. It is a real masterpiece
Fun fact: Pitchfork gave Bergtatt a score of 8,7 out of 10.
Nice that Ulver's Bergtatt is always a timeless classic of their black metal-era albums.
-I'm just mad that my favorite photographcore band, Nickelback, is not on the list.-
On the New Prog I think The Mountain by Haken fits better but Periphery is still classical as well.
Genre split time - Melody driven modern prog vs Rythym driven modern prog.
Both fantastic albums among my favorites of all time.
Thank you so much for Strapping Young Lad.... Devin Townsend has gone on to do amazing projects after SYL but for me there's too much nostalgia attached to SYL. Alien was one of the heaviest albums I'd heard around the time it came out.
Alien is a masterpiece
I think we can all agree that this is the greatest list of its kind so far...and while we're at it one of the best existing guides for metal newbies and wannabe oldbies. Thanks a lot Mr. Bradlenstein!
I agreed with everything, except that I personally think that rust in peace is the best thrash album, but i totally see where you’re coming from with master, and that is an easy second for me
Great to see Ulver here, they're too underrated and Bergtatt is a timeless masterpiece
Agreed. Funny they were put under "black" when they have only (maybe) 2 pure black metal albums lol
Bergtatt is, as you said, a masterpiece. But it's black-folk! Probably the best of that too... next to Windir lol
the cleansing being original deathcore and pain remains being modern deathcore is the most based and valid opinion ive seen in my entire life
You're always so focused on the more guitar-y side of metal , I tend to forget you have quite the knowledge on black metal, compared to the average metal UA-camr who fingerpoints and laughs at it. Great choices. Ulver is goated.
That last song has me in stitches "AND I CAN'T EVEN FUCKING PISS"
Glad to see the love for Alice In Chains, I would have thought that The Sound Of Perseverance would have been included tho. Great vid nonetheless beansly 👍
Pretty good list.
The obvious changes for me would be rust in peace and Helloween for power metal.
Good job and lot‘s of fun to watch!! A pitty though, that neither „Death-Doom“ nor „Funeral-Doom“ were mentioned, two glorious sub-genres of „Doom“, which wasn‘t really honourably represented by Black Sabbath ;)
I think that was the most disappointing one of the video.
A candlemass album like Epicus or Nightfall would have been a better pick.
Thanks for Wintersun
quite controversial picks here
That could be said to any list anyone made
Thanks for including Spiritbox, AIC and Slipknot
Great list, though i would argue Powerslave is a superior Maiden album, start to finish- they really hit their stride with that one….
Children of Bodom and Wintersun are part of the Finnish Melodic Death scene where the sound is somewhere between Melodic Death and Power Metal, sometimes hints of Black Metal, with Neo-Classical/Symphonic elements.
For fans of those bands I'd recommend Aephanemer - a French band who somehow sound kind of Finnish.
0:33 TOOL AIN'T NO ALTERNATIVE WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT TOOL IS PROGRESIVE!!!1!1!1!1!!1!1!!
It really surprises me how there is no Death album on this list, like, Individual Thought Patterns >>>
Venom has got to be one of my favorite bands ever. An absolute product of Black Metal that set a standard for a rather unapologetically dark subgenre of an already dark genre. Cheers!
Symphonic metal : dark passion play - nightwish
Gothic metal : Velvet darkness they fear by ToT
Doom metal : Turn loose the swans by my dying bride
I've been using your videos like this to have a guide for listening to this genre. Started from the beginning with Black Sabbath and been working my way up the decades since. I'm still in the 80s determined to hear most of it before committing to the 90s. Little to none of my music tastes are up to date or current and it makes conversing with other music lovers very difficult. One day I'll be caught up and able to discover new releases! 😅
BLEED FROM WITHIN- SHRINE needs to be on this list
I personally think System of a Down any album belongs in honorable mentions for their own genre cause you will never convince me that they are NU.
Yeah even tho they hang with nu bands,the dress like nu bands,guitar tone,swollen drum tones,fat bass tone,nu typa-riff,hip hop groove,and rapping vocals YES! TOTALLY NOT NÜ
I call them Opera Metal
Because they're some form of Alt not Nu. Iowa isn't Nu either so I'm not sure what that's doing there.
I agree, among other things they had much faster songs than the other major Nu metal bands
@@GREG_Khar-NÜ-Metalhead2000💯 this actually made me laugh.
I really enjoyed seeing Nightmare Logic here!!
Honorable mention that is its own genre: ACID BATH - WHEN THE KITE STRING POPS
How does this album never get the recognition it deserves??
Yes!!! Finally someone loves waking the Fallen as much as I do!!!
As much as I love and respect Sabbath, I was shocked and dismayed to not see Paradise Lost's Draconian Times take the Beanley crown for Doom Metal. I shall be writing a strongly worded email to my MP! This is all the proof you need that the times are indeed draconian.
Anyhoo, you could've picked from so many mega albums for each of these sub genre pigeon holes and it's a testament to just how diverse our lovely corner of music is.
I think Draconian Times is a better competitor to Bloody Kisses in the Gothic Metal category.
@@akarshshekhar5233 Fair point. I did thing that myself at first too, but by the time Sabbath came along I was so outaged that I had forgotten it already and moved on to my comment. PL definitely have some good overlap with doom/goth with most of thier albums tbh.
Draconian Times? Hey! We got Gothic, from the same band. An album to name an entire Metal genre!
Hand of doom is a scary song!
Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride are criminally underrated by Bradley 😂
1:35 you guys have no idea how happy i was to see this album here
How dare u mentioned an own genre without mentioning rust in peace 😭
The album is unmatched 😭
because Rust In Peace is thrash.
Master of puppets and ride the lightning are superior
@@victorarredondo304 Perhaps true, but Tornado Of Souls has the greatest guitar solo ever written.
@@J.PC.Designs comfortably numb
@@boltgaming248 I said Tornado Of Souls full well knowing that Comfortably Numb exists because I wholeheartedly believe that Tornado Of Souls is a better solo than Comfortably Numb.
Massive like (pun intended) for massive addictive, I was pleasantly surprised seeing it being given recognition!!
I think Rammstein's untitled album is the best that they made but they all are pretty good
Can’t believe how much of this I totally agree with!! Nice job.
Not gonna lie, I thought a Black Sabbath album was going to be the pick for Traditional Metal but Painkiller is still a killer record and Master of Reality for Doom surprised me as well but I also agree that's a solid pick as well. Also massive props for including Alestorm, I had never heard of Pirate Metal before checking those guys out but I absolutely love it. Their music is both heavy and fun as hell to listen to and Chris Bowe's lyrics and vocals are great as well, great pick man
I tell you what. Got close to the end and was getting real, real mad there was no CoB, SYL and Gojira.
Those 3 are my favourite metal albums of all time.
I was sad that you didn’t put in Wintersun‘s debut for Melodeath, but you mentioned them afterwards so you redeemed yourself breadly ❤
I guess with all the symphonic elements they’re a bit different from traditional melodeath. I would have picked “The Gallery” over “Slaughter the Soul,” though.
@@Metal_Auditoryeah, there could have been a distinction between (overgeneralized) Swedish and Finnish styles of melodeath I think
Mercyful Fate - Melissa !
In its own category !
How the fuck behemorth is counted as death?they are black death
its criminal to not have death on this list
Ministry not holding the Industrial Metal crown with *Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs* is absolutely criminal, Bradley.
Rammstein is way better.
I agree with some of these but not all and you missed some subgenres and stuff but there are so many and you mentioned some subgenres I didn't even know existed. Overall entertaining video and a couple of things imma go listen to 👍
Whats the name of the song in 2:31? Love it!
Constance by Spiritbox
Probably could have just said Devin Townsend, instead of just SYL, really, lol. Bloody legend! Great list! Love this channel! \m/
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Actually agreed with more of these than I thought I would. Some great picks!
There's some I fairly disagree with
Symphonic Death: This is a not very popular genre but there's one semi niche band that I feel has used the epicness and intensity of symphonic to proper effect, namely Imperial Circus Dead Decadence, they have this one album with japanese name and grey cover that is by far the best display I've heard (the song Uta is masterclass-literally every layer there is emotional). Most other symphonic death seems not to be doing great at either symphonic or death, or just overbearing, and this is the exception for me.
Symphonic: I felt Once was a bit eeeeh and while there's not been many symphonic for symphonic sake bands I like, I'd probably pick someone like Epica who I just felt was by far more distinctive, maybe The Holographic Principle? Portal of I by Ne Obliviscaris also comes to mind but I'm not sure that counts or even where I'd put it.
NWOBHM: Number of the Beast is bit over-rated, its too 'disjoint' and weird an album between poppier ones and bit more fillerish ones. I think Powerslave is the much better pick and most representative.
Power: Sonic Firestorm is probably DragonForce's best, but I don't think its the most iconic nor best written. There's honestly a lot here I'd consider. Personal fav is Episode by Stratovarius (it has this nostalgiac quality but it feels it reaches out and Stratovarius to me is master of hooks and melodic writing even if I'm not sure it has that 'deeper' album quality), but actual qualitatively the best is probably Blind Guardian in making it mean something more (Nightfall in Middle Earth or Somewhere Beyond Time, choose your pick). Rhapsody also comes to mind (Dawn of Victory) because of their thematics. Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. II is just great and distinctive front to back and absolutely iconic. Or, if it even counts, something like ANGRA's Holy Land is quite well composed. Twilight Force deserves title for making the cheesiness work the best (Namely, Tales of Ancient Prophecies). And what, Symphony X is already taken too in the 'neoclassical' category? Well, I guess personally Episode by Stratovarius is my answer.
Doom: Doom metal is my least listened metal genre but while Black Sabbath definitely paved the sound, it just feels off to put Masters of Reality as particularly emblematic of doom metal, they were before that genre really became a thing.
Melodeath: As much as I like melodeath, it's hard to pick albums that seem to reach a different height, like Slaughter of the Soul certainly is the most well known but on its own it feels too samey and not distinguishing throughout. I'd say someone like Dark Tranquility deserves this spot, although no particular album seems set out (The Gallery, Damage Done, Fiction, Character? The Gallery probably is most iconic example but I'm not sure its their best) who hit this emotional introspective style that I don't think anyone's gotten close to really capturing except Insomnium and there's also a few scattershot albums from names like Mors Principium Est, Kalmah, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, or even Omnium Gatherum (they're such a slow burn) but honestly the most distinctive bands to use the sound and be near flawless I feel is The Black Dahlia Murder, Nocturnal or Verminous depending on the day: back to back iconic melodies, impactful atmosphere scenery and lyrics, and backed up by some of the best riffs too.
Tech-death: Necrophagist is good but I think there needs to be more of a hook to it. I think Diluvium by Obscura is by far the best use of technicality and arrangement I've ever seen that it feels like it was particularly composed. Incurso by Spawn of Possession also is great or The Path of Apotheosis by Inferi (best momentum in a genre that can be tiring) also come to mind
Djent: Not really my cup of tea, at all but I usually prefer the Periphery camp in which case I'd put Periphery II (then again, I haven't heard this specific Meshuggah album and am not a very chuggy person)
Honorable mentions
I can not for the life of me get into Are You Dead Yet? and I've tried over and over, something like Hatebreeder and Follow the Reaper would fit on what is whole scale good bill, but Halo of Blood is pretty good too.
To put my 2 cents in, Turisas should have best Viking Metal album.
Loved seeing 'Dirt' on here. Great stuff! Had it on in my car today.
3:40 What do you mean that they don’t have a genre?
Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? - melodic death metal
Gojira - Magma - progressive death metal
Wintersun - Wintersun - melodic death metal
Strapping Young Lad - Alien - industrial thrash metal
really bad definitions IMO. Gojira isn't death metal by any stretch, Wintersun's way off any other melodic death metal (maybe progressive melodic death metal or some shit). CoB also doesn't really fit there. Industrial thrash metal? wtf
@@ezet Are you serious? Gojira’s one of the biggest and best prog death bands out there. Sure, Gojira has softened up quite a bit, I’m pretty sure their last album will be their last death metal album but they definitely are prog and definitely are death.
Where would you even put Children of Bodom? They’re power metal influenced death metal, meaning melodic death metal. You wouldn’t put them in power metal, they’re too heavy.
Same goes for Wintersun. And also, while they may have progressive elements, they aren’t so progressive, to the point where they are a prog band now. Maybe symphonic? They could be symphonic. But I’d put them in melodic to be safe.
Strapping Young Lad is probably the only big band in the industrial thrash genre other than Nailbomb, that side project of Max Cavalera and Alex Newport, so I don’t know where else you’d put them.
These lists are always too hard to compile and even harder to agree on. Think you did a good job here. I might have chosen different albums for a couple (Metalcore - KSE's Alive Or Just Breathing, Neoclassical - Symphony X's Twilight In Olympus, Alternative - Korn's Debut album). But that's all just preference!
day 1.000.000 commenting everywhere on ghe internet that Reign in Blood>Master of Puppets
Day 1 agreeing with you
Metallica is way better than Slayer.
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Tom's vocal>james's vocal
@@cahesolo9267 by far
I don't know what genre Paranoid classifies, but it's definitely the best in that genre. Maybe Anti-War Metal or something
Why didn't you choose RiP for
Thrash?
Or RTL
RIP is my fave but I think MOP is objectively a much better album in terms of maturity and songwriting
@@BradleyHallGuitar True. I like MoP more but I remembered that you loved RiP more, so I asked the question.
Btw love your content bro ❤️
@@rtvxdplayer8925 that would be my pick probably
thanks for all the memories. Damage inc. was my jam for years as a teen. I have to listen to Are you Dead Yet? as well. RIP Alexi
Blackened Death - Belphegor - Conjuring the Dead