Worst metal subgenres in your opinion?

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Personally I'd say symphonic, goth, viking, folk, alternative, christian, glam, neo-classical, nu and power are the least favorite metal subgenres to me.

What are the worst metal subgenres to you?

Anything where the "singer" just goes "RAWRR!" on the microphone and you can't understand the lyrics because he's not actually singing.

I don't know I actually enjoy quite a few bands from just about every genre of metal....but I don't count christian metal since most bands of that title don't even sound like metal they sound like hard rock bands that are really over the top about being 'christains' so yeah I don't really like it. Then of coure I don't consider deathcore, metalcore or anything with core after it as metal either I could say those are metal influenced genres I don't particularly like.

Is there an "all of the above" option? I'd say death metal and screamo are the worst if I had to pick!

Deathcore is the absolue worst. Nu Metal is sometimes good, but often sucks. Glam Metal is usually inane. Metalcore is usually mediocre at best. Grindcore is something else, to say the least.

Black, drone and math.

Grindcore and "deathcore" suck too.

Indeed Ganondox...but there's still Demon Hunter and Becoming the Archetype.

The only Christian bands I know and really enjoy are Mortification, Incubus (the death metal band) and Paramecium. Whatever musical sub-genre, ‘black’ metal (Horde, Antestor), metalcore (Underoath) or cheesy heavy/glam metal (Stryper), the rest just haven’t cut it for me.

Anyways musically speaking my least favourite subgenres are glam, metalcore, deathcore, djent bands and most melodic death metal of the Gothenburg variety.
I do however like some melodic death metal bands, mainly early At the Gates, Eucharist, Arghoslent (sort of melodic death), Desultory and Unanimated.

I don’t listen to much overly happy folk metal either, though I like lots of folk/black type mixtures.
For power metal I only listen to a few bands.
And for doom I enjoy death/doom or black/doom quite often, however rarely will I like a super super slow funeral doom band or pretty much anything that falls under drone/doom metal.
Brutal death metal and death/grind I’m not a big fan of but it’s occasionally done right (stuff like Napalm Death, Repulsion, Carcass, Nile, Suffocation etc etc.), However brutality for the sheer sake of brutality and nothing more doesn’t seem to usually work.

What's wrong with "djent" bands? You have to look into the underground bands, but you can find some awesome ones, like Spiralmountain, Returning We Hear the Larks (later instrumentals) and Absent Distance. If you are referring to the ones that just palm mute and call it "djent", then those ones suck. However, there are many that do sweet polyrhythms.

Polyrhythms and progressive technical wankery simply can’t take the place of actual substance, atmosphere and emotion. I don’t like any of the stuff I’ve heard, not even the Meshuggah albums I have that are so highly appraised by some. It’s just sterile and lifeless to me. I’ll check out those bands sometime today.

I really can't say I've heard a metal genre that I've disliked. But that's just me.