do you like heavy metal music?

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Metal is just music -- It doesn't really have a face, though it does have ideas expressed through lyric.

To hard for me I like some songs but not a genre

Yeah Metal is awesome!

Metal chicks FTW!

I see a swing nowadays back to the cheese rock of the 80's, which just makes me sigh. Give me Slipknot, SOAD, Iron Maiden, Korn, or Rollins Band any day over that. More heart, less lycra please.
Now to put in some They Might Be Giants....

I mostly only like the more extreme, atmospheric, and progressive forms of metal; with a few exceptions only relatively obscure stuff, and nothing really happy-sounding or upbeat (most happy music irritates and bores me), also nothing that is ever played on the radio/tv (at least not any time in the recent past, and not counting internet radio), I cannot stand mainstream stuff (not for the fact that the bands are popular, but simply because I find it all to be far too bland, formulaic, and lacking in creativity). I like thousands of metal bands of a very wide range of sound, plenty of stuff that's outright brutal or evokes a dark and unsettling feel, depressive and/or romantic tones, as well as ones that incorporate classical music, European folk, jazz, and the more extreme forms of industrial (dark ambient, noise, martial, etc.). I only know one person in person that likes any of the same music I do (he is the guitarist of a Christian death/black/thrash band and a few other projects), and outside of any forums specifically for the more obscure metal out there, I find very few people online who like any of it as well. Also, I don't like deathcore, power metal, most prog metal, most metalcore (Converge, Coalesce, Gaza and the like being exceptions as they incorporate a lot of grindcore elements and are a good deal more complex), or the happier sounding melodeath-oriented folk metal bands like Finntroll (the only cheese I like is the kind you can eat ).

some more well-known bands I like (at least more well-known than most of what I like):

Immolation
Suffocation
Nile
Bathory
Incantation
Grave
Katatonia
Burzum
Nevermore
Cryptopsy (before they sold out and became some of the most horrible deathcore I've ever heard )
Dark Lunacy
Meshuggah
Alcest
Agalloch
Insomnium
Isis
Pestilence
Novembers Doom
Swallow the Sun


some lesser-known ones:

Urna (italy)
The Amenta
Esoteric
Evoken
Nortt
Black Breath
Circle of Dead Children
Putrevore
Defeated Sanity
Craft
Deathspell Omega
Funebrarum
Ulcerate
Oranssi Pazuzu
KYPCK
Sun O)))
Blut aus Nord
Kauan
Virgin Black
Negură Bunget
The Ruins of Beverast
Dolorian
Dead Congregation
Von

Is dark ambient music considered metal? I mean pure/minimalist dark ambient music that doesn't break out into black metal style snarling and shrieking mid-way through?

Submitting myself to heavy metal music would be the same as submitting myself to physical torture and is a definite no.

I'm a very big metal fan and I think 80% of it sucks. However, the good bands are awesome, especially since metal often has the most mature lyrics on serious topics. Bands like Kingdom of Sorrow make excellent lyrics about grief, Machine Head covers a broad range, Metallica has had many styles for different moods, etc.

That being said death metal (although I enjoy dark tranquillity and In Flames) is crap. So is deathcore, screamo, black metal, etc. I really think they need at least occasional clean vocals and distinguishable lyrics at least 90% of the time.

So yes, it is a genre where the band either rocks or sucks generally. Oh well.

I'm a very big metal fan and I think 80% of it sucks. However, the good bands are awesome, especially since metal often has the most mature lyrics on serious topics. Bands like Kingdom of Sorrow make excellent lyrics about grief, Machine Head covers a broad range, Metallica has had many styles for different moods, etc.

That being said death metal (although I enjoy dark tranquillity and In Flames) is crap. So is deathcore, screamo, black metal, etc. I really think they need at least occasional clean vocals and distinguishable lyrics at least 90% of the time.

So yes, it is a genre where the band either rocks or sucks generally. Oh well.