/mu/ metal essentials chart
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:32:50 | 96 comments | 25 images
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We're doing a chart for /mu/-approved metal bands. Suggest a band and/or vote for other bands suggested. Bands with the most votes will be included. Picrel are the 5 starter essential bands.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:35:52 No.125232397
Voting for Electric Wizard.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:38:30 No.125232415
>>125232373
what is this, did /metal/ call your favorite band diapercore so you're trying to make your own /metal/?
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:40:59 No.125232439
>>125232373
Motörhead.
>Metallica
Lol, no
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:41:32 No.125232445
66c37c0ce6c317dd947570d6_adult-incontinence-diaper-pad-hospital
>>125232373
Poodust Yeast sucks crappy nappy.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:41:46 No.125232452
>>125232373
Can we downvote bands too?
>>125232439
>Motörhead
go to bed grandpa
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:44:27 No.125232496
>>125232452
>Can we downvote bands too?
People who suggest a band can downvote another.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:46:52 No.125232529
>>125232452
>go to bed grandpa
Anon, I'm 20 (yes zoom zoom)
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:48:58 No.125232558
>>125232496
fine, downvote Motoerhead, give us Blue Öyster Cult
>>125232529
how do you like them apples, kid?
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:49:01 No.125232560
>>125232439
Metallica has never released an album above a 7/10, yet still mogs Motörhead into the dirt.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:49:05 No.125232561
>>125232445
You have issues.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:50:16 No.125232577
>>125232558
>Blue Öyster Cult
Sorry, not metal. You may choose again.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:50:38 No.125232580
>>125232558
>Blue Öyster Cult
What was World War 1 like, you old sack of shit?
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:54:19 No.125232627
>>125232560
No Sleep 'til Hammersmith is an 8/10
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:56:06 No.125232645
Megadeth-RustInPeace
>>125232373
Megadeth, obviously.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:56:21 No.125232650
>>125232577
sorry they make ol' mutton chops sound like the drunk poser he was, I'd like to hear him try to bust diz for one bar without falling over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBwSuqsH_sI
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:56:41 No.125232652
>>125232645
Smegmabreath is a joke.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:57:09 No.125232661
Mastodon_-_Blood_Mountain
>>125232373
Mastodon.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:58:23 No.125232677
Reign_in_blood
>>125232373
Fucking Slayer.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:58:48 No.125232683
morbid-angel-altars-of-madness-Cover-Art
>>125232373
Morbid Angel.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)14:59:01 No.125232685
preocupación visible
>>125232558
>Call me grandpa for saying Motörhead
>Proceeds to say an older band
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:00:05 No.125232698
>>125232661
Not metal! Take your core shit and shove it up your ass
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:00:19 No.125232701
1720504539026069
>>125232652
Your mother was a dumb whore with a fat arse.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:00:28 No.125232704
>>125232661
Metal! Upvoted!
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:01:39 No.125232716
>>125232685
I'm sorry you're not hip to the latest trends, granddad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzHtePuz13U
Metal chart !!ppXEpp7PZdS 01/22/25(Wed)15:02:19 No.125232724
I'm counting all your votes. Putting on this random trip to avoid confusion. Remember: Downvotes only count if you suggest a band in that same post.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:03:27 No.125232737
Knocked_Loose_You_Won't_Go_Before_You're_Supposed_To
>>125232373
Alright guys, you've had your fun. But let's stop playing around... it's time to vote for the KINGS of metal.
KNOCKED LOOSE MOTHERFUCKER
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:04:07 No.125232753
voting for voivod
downvoting knocked loose
Metal chart !!ppXEpp7PZdS 01/22/25(Wed)15:04:32 No.125232758
>>125232698
Mastodon is in the Archives, so it'll be counted.
>>125232737
Not metal.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:05:00 No.125232761
>>125232753
Soivod blows monkey chunks
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:05:09 No.125232763
>>125232397
Also voting Electric Wizard. They are the quintessential psychedelic stoner doom band, they pretty much spawned a whole sub-genre.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:06:29 No.125232780
>>125232758
if you're going to let that shitty dork blog be the arbiter of what is and isn't metal, what is the point in asking us? either count our picks or fuck off to /meal/ and suck it up about the diaper posting
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:07:55 No.125232797
>>125232415
/metal/ is a cesspit-it's actually worse than /classical/
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:08:33 No.125232807
>>125232758
helmet and rush are in the basedchives too, and they also aren't metal bands. stop appealing to authority.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:08:52 No.125232813
essential metal
>>125232373
this has already been done many times
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:09:34 No.125232824
>>125232761
cry about it, pussy
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:10:25 No.125232832
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:11:05 No.125232845
>>125232813
>Diamond Head
>Top 10
LMAO. Chart discarded.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:17:12 No.125232905
>metal thread
>filled with schizophrenics
every time
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:18:53 No.125232917
ab67616d0000b273533fd0b248052d04e6b732c0
Mandatory first album to get into metal
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:20:12 No.125232929
>>125232917
A classic 7/10 album.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:20:30 No.125232932
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Der Stürmer
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:22:33 No.125232947
>>125232929
>average Knocked Loose fan
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:23:37 No.125232959
>>125232947
Hey, 7 is a pretty good rating. Unlike most thrash albums which are a 5 or below.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:24:15 No.125232964
Nominating BLOOD STAIN CHILD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVQfenDAOeE

>>125232932
downvoted, what the hell
>>125232698
whining about 'core is such a rock-was-still-vaguely-relevant-in-the-mainstream-era take
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:24:40 No.125232967
>>125232964
Upvoted!
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:27:18 No.125232979
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:38:58 No.125233079
1519100625769
has already been done
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:40:34 No.125233107
>>125232758
>the Archives
Meme websites need not apply
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:40:35 No.125233108
>>125232716
>Enter the video
>Is a video that I had previously given Thumb up
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:42:23 No.125233123
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:44:33 No.125233151
719XTAqBKiL._UF894,1000_QL80_
>>125233123
Best rainbow album
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)15:44:51 No.125233154
>>125232964
We winning, BLOOD STAIN CHILD sisters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT2oWnZAOBg
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:05:07 No.125233402
nominating celtic frost
downvoting blood stain child
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:07:32 No.125233418
Dystopia_cover
Dystopia
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:10:04 No.125233436
>>125232685
eri un mamaguebo
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:11:25 No.125233452
>>125232959
Good post
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:43:01 No.125233680
>>125232558
Calling BOC metal is a stretch. They might have some songs that can be considered metal here and there but that's it.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:45:03 No.125233704
>>125232932
ULTRA BASED
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:45:47 No.125233715
>>125233680
their first three albums are as metal as any other pre-Priest metal band, and the best of them outside of the name-brand bands like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:51:43 No.125233770
>>125232373
Death. Individual Thought Patterns is my favorite.
Sabbath, but I'm a Vol. 4 man myself.
Judas Priest. Stained Class
Sepultura
I won't lie: Tool is a band that I like. Don't know how /mu/ doens't like it.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:54:27 No.125233792
IMG_6947
GWAR
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:55:42 No.125233801
>>125232373
Yngwie Malmsteem
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)16:57:26 No.125233816
judas priest is a fag band take it out
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:01:15 No.125233845
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:01:33 No.125233847
>>125233816
Pleb take. Only tranny redditors would deny the impact and quality of Priest
https://youtu.be/mHHXLlChOgU?si=FrrwEXqGSwuNf0Du
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:02:34 No.125233856
>>125233845
They're crazy good. One of the most consistent discographies in metal.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:03:21 No.125233865
>>125233847
just because theyre good doesnt mean they arent fags
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:06:27 No.125233889
>>125233079
Get Rust in Piece off that chart and I'd agree 100%. Cuck Megadeth starts with Countdown.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:06:36 No.125233890
>>125233856
consistent quality but they evolved genres over their career, like maturing as he went. I like it.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:08:29 No.125233903
>>125233770
tool is so fucking annoying and tool fans are even worse
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:09:04 No.125233910
front
From Born Again to this album specifically. Everything else is tourist core.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:09:11 No.125233911
20250122_160654
lel
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:10:04 No.125233919
>>125233911
Based African.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:13:05 No.125233949
>>125233856
Consistently boring as fuck
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:25:55 No.125234093
>>125232397
Voting for The Wizard as well.>>125232763 is right.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)17:49:25 No.125234324
>>125232373
System of a Down
>>125232558
Ok band but definitely not metal
>>125232677
Fuck no
>>125232737
Not really metal
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:01:35 No.125234462
I'd kinda like to see just 1 record per metal subgenre in a list, like a definitive record, just 1

it'd get competitive, for like New Wave of British Heavy Metal would be a fight between Iron Maiden and Judas Priest (and which album), Thrash a fight between Metallica, Megadeath and Slayer, Death Metal between Death, Possessed, and Morbid Angel, shit like that.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:04:03 No.125234479
>>125234462
metal subgenres are gay
you're already pigeonholing yourself by being a genre artist, why limit yourself even more
Metal chart !!ppXEpp7PZdS 01/22/25(Wed)18:04:56 No.125234488
>>125234324
>System of a Down
Not metal.
>>125234462
A tripfag did that some time ago. Those threads were absolute shitshows. I'm happy I managed to bully him into including Mayhem and Bathory. You can check the chart out at https://www.musicgenretree.org/chart.html
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:06:07 No.125234499
>>125234462
>Metal (classic)
Black Sabbath. Vol. 4
>NWBH
Iron Maiden. Killers
>Thrash
Megadeth. Rust in Peace
>Death
Death. Leprosy
>Prog Metal
Tool. Aenima or 10,000 days
>Black Metal
Burzum. Filosofem or Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
>Nu metal
Kill yourself

Thanks for it, that was my ted talk.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:15:07 No.125234564
>>125234488
not a terrible list for the genres that I listen to
>>125234479
nah, I think it's great, there are some different styles and sounds that bands under the same "umbrella" differentiate themselves into, and just because you like "metal" doesn't mean you're going to like every subgenre of it. Some metalheads despise power metal, Death Metal and Black Metal camps are polarized against each other a lot of the time, and even within an umbrella like Death Metal there's some people who dismiss things like Prog Death, Melodeath, Slam Death, etc.
You use genres and subgenres to help you find bands that play a sound close to other bands that you like

If I say "suggest me some metal" someone might suggest me something black metal which isn't to my taste
I say "suggest me some brutal death metal" someone's going to suggest me something I'm probably going to like.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:19:39 No.125234590
>>125234564
>just because you like "metal" doesn't mean you're going to like every subgenre of it
yeah, that's the point. the usage is to clearly communicate with other people. and it helps to understand the development of music as a whole
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:52:47 No.125234852
>>125232373
I'll do Killers, Death's Symbolic, Sabbath's Heaven and Hell, Sepultura's Beneath the Remains. MAYBE Ride the Lightning because its greatest songs are classic, but some of it is straight snooze. P.S. I'm not qualified to answer this question, thanks for reading
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:54:03 No.125234863
Gojira. Nuff said.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:55:55 No.125234877
>>125233770
Tool is great. But the number of pointless skits and doodles in between massively great tracks on the albums makes me wish they only released EPs
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:56:20 No.125234880
>/mu/-approved anything
kill yourself
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:13:27 No.125235006
>>125234499
Based, only swap Maiden's for Somewhere in time
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:17:43 No.125235028
>>125233903
hey do you know what a tool fan is called
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:17:56 No.125235029
>>125234488
Soad is definitely metal, heavily punk influenced, but way more metal.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:19:27 No.125235042
>>125234499
>>Black Metal
>Burzum
obliterate yourself asap
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:26:43 No.125235099
sludge flow chart
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:27:11 No.125235104
>>125234499
>>125234462
Here's mine:
>Classic
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
>Heavy
Sortilege - Larmes de Heros
>Thrash
Metallica - Kill 'em all
>NWOBHM
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
>Death
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
>Technical Death
Cynic - Focus
>Black
Dissection - Storm of the light's bane
>Prog
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
>Stoner
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:31:02 No.125235150
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Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:32:05 No.125235161
1497870936542
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:33:47 No.125235182
1498256631287
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:35:38 No.125235201
1733240977352
>>125235150
>>125235182
I cant ever call metal cool again after seeing these.