5 styles
Music family
Extreme Metal
The darkest, fastest, heaviest metal: abysses, ice fields and slow sinking.
Death metal is deep and ferocious, black metal icy and desolate, doom slow and mournful, grindcore short and chaotic. All use extreme vocals and suit horror, boss fights and dark fantasy.
What they share
- Growls, shrieks and extreme vocals
- Very fast or very slow tempos
- Down-tuned or treble walls
How to choose
- Abyssal depthDeath Metal
- Icy desolationBlack Metal
- Slow and crushingDoom Metal
- Seconds-long noise blastsGrindcore
- Ferocious yet melodicMelodic Death Metal
Starter prompt
Extreme metal, 200 BPM blast beats, down-tuned tremolo-picked guitars, deep growls, dark cavernous production, crushing and ominousA general starting point for this family; swap in a specific style’s keywords for sharper results.
Side by side
| Style | Era | BPM | Mood | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death Metal | Late 1980s–1990s | 100–240 | Dark & heavyTense & suspenseRebellious & bold | Battle & action · Horror & thriller |
| Melodic Death Metal | Early 1990s–present | 140–200 | Epic & vastDark & heavyMelancholy & lonely | Battle & action · Fantasy adventure |
| Black Metal | 1990s–present | 140–220 | Dark & heavyMystic & ritualMelancholy & lonely | Fantasy adventure · Horror & thriller |
| Doom Metal | 1970s–present | 50–80 | Dark & heavyMelancholy & lonelyEpic & vast | Horror & thriller · Fantasy adventure |
| Grindcore | Mid-1980s–present | 200–300 | Rebellious & boldTense & suspenseDark & heavy | Battle & action |
All styles
- Death Metal
Guitars tuned lowest, voices dropped deepest, sound pressing down like bedrock.
- Melodic Death Metal
Death-metal growls with Nordic twin-guitar melodies: ferocious yet tragically beautiful.
- Black Metal
Cold, raw and distant, shrill tremolo guitars painting an empty winter night.
- Doom Metal
As slow and heavy as it gets, every chord sinking.
GrindcoreSeconds-to-a-minute explosions compressing hardcore punk and extreme metal into noise bullets.