"Yes, indeed! My son is listen to Heavy Metal."

Thereabout my milieu was erroneously informed, that I listen to Heavy Metal. However it is not so, because I listen to (mostly) Black Metal. And after a two year lasted "drill" my mother had comprehended this, so I made this genre list; For all mothers of the world! So if you think a friend of you should at last know that's more than Heavy Metal and Gothic, just send him to this classification and after a few hours of MP3 hearing he would see how the wind blows.
Surely not every band is a perfect stand-in for the named genres, but I guess it's OK so how it is. If you have some serious criticism, inform me.


Due to wide reminder charges regarding to MP3's and possible problems with the german GEMA I removed the examples from my site. If, when and in which form they will be republished is still unclear.



     Black Metal - Traditional
Darkthrone
A Blaze in the northern Sky
 
Immortal
Pure Holocaust
 
Marduk
Darkness it shall be
 
Mayhem
Freezing Moon
 


     Black Metal - Commercial
Agathodaimon
Banner of Blasphemy
 
Covenant
Bizarre cosmic Industries
 
Cradle of Filth
Queen of Winter, throned
 
Dimmu Borgir
Mouring Palace
 


     Black Metal - Symphonic
Arcturus
Du Nordavind
 
Borknagar
Svartskogs gilde
 
Limbonic Art
Through Gleams of Death
 
Old Man's Child
Funeral Swords and Souls
 


     Black Metal - Epical
Aragorn
Impressions
 
Empyrium
The blue Mists of Night
 
Rivendell
The King beneath the Mountains
 
Summoning
Khazad Dúm
 


     Black Metal - Folkinfluenced
Falkenbach
Heathenbride
 
Finntroll
Slaget vid Blodsälv
 
Otyg
Trollslottet
 
Vintersorg
Ödermarkens son
 


     Norsecore
Taake
Nattestid ser porten vid III
 
Troll
Trollstorm over Nidingjuv
 
Ulver
Of Wolf and Fear
 
Vargavinter
Den lyoska orn
 


     Viking Metal
Ensiferum
Battle Song
 
Enslaved
793 (Slaget om Lindisfarne)
 
Mithotyn
Chariot of Power
 
Thyrfing
The Deceitful
 


     Grindcore
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Landfills of extinct Possibility
 
Exhumed Slaughtercult
Dinnertime in the Morgue
 
Nasum
Riot
 
Pungent Stench
Sputter Supper
 


     Death Metal
Cannibal Corpse
A Skull full of Maggots
 
Kataklysm
What we endure
 
Morgoth
White Gallery
 
Sinister
Cross the Styx
 


     Death Metal - Melodical
Arch Enemy
Dark of the Sun
 
Crematory
Tears of Time
 
In Flames
Pinball Map
 
Withered Beauty
Failure
 


     Doom - Classical
Candlemass
Darkness in Paradise
 
Cathedral
Halo of Fire
 
Paradise Lost
The Word made Flesh
 
Saint Vitus
Born too late
 


     Funeral Doom
Pantheist
Time
 
Skepticism
Nowhere
 
Thergothon
Evoken
 
Winter
Eternal Frost
 


     Gothic Metal
Dismal Euphony
A thousands River
 
Theatre of Tragedy
And when He Falleth
 
Tristania
Pale Enchantress
 
Within Temptation
Grace
 


     Gothic (in comparison)
Blutengel
I am dying alone
 
Goethes Erben
Marionetten
 
Lacrimosa
Am Ende stehen wir zwei
 
Umbra et Imago
Gothic Ritual
 


     Heavy Metal
Accept
Metal Heart
 
Iron Maiden
The Trooper
 
Judas Priest
Breaking the Law
 
Metallica
Master of Puppets
 


     Speed Metal
Annihilator
King of the Kill
 
Blind Guardian
Valhalla
 
Megadeth
Wake up Dead
 
Pantera
Fucking Hostile
 


     Thrash Metal
Kreator
Extreme Aggression
 
Slayer
Angel of Death
 
Sodom
Bombenhagel
 
Tankard
Empty Tankard
 


     Power Metal
Children of Bodom
Warheart
 
Rhapsody
Emerald Sword
 
Sonata Arctica
The Cage
 
Virgin Steele
A Symphony of Steele
 


     Epic Metal
Hammerfall
Hearts on Fire
 
Manowar
Brothers of Metal
 
Pegazus
Wings of Steele
 
Wizard
Thor's Hammer
 


     Progressive Metal
Ayreon
The Castle Hall
 
Dream Theater
Caught in a Web
 
Rush
A Passage to Bangkok
 
Spock's Beard
Long Time Suffering
 


     Metal with classical elements
Angizia
Der Kirschgarten oder Memoiren an die Stirn der Kindeszeit
 
Haggard
In a pale Moon's Shadow
 
Nightwish
Sleeping Sun
 
Therion
To mega Therion
 


     Just sick
Anal Cunt
Hitler was a sensitive Man
 
Bethlehem
Schatten aus der Alexanderwelt
 
B.R.B.
Die legendären Virtuosen
 
Eisregen
Die schwarze Rose
 


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