Metal

Distortion, speed and myth turned up to the maximum, making power itself the story.

Big hair, spandex and shout-along choruses, the shiniest party metal of the '80s.

Punk speed poured into metal weight, anger played as the fastest downpicking.

Fast double kick, soaring vocals and heroic sagas make metal bright and uplifting.

Guitars tuned lowest, voices dropped deepest, sound pressing down like bedrock.

Death-metal growls with Nordic twin-guitar melodies: ferocious yet tragically beautiful.

Cold, raw and distant, shrill tremolo guitars painting an empty winter night.

As slow and heavy as it gets, every chord sinking.

Seconds-to-a-minute explosions compressing hardcore punk and extreme metal into noise bullets.

Orchestra, choir and metal band together, turning heaviness into opera.

Slow heavy metal draped in velvet, beautiful, romantic and touched by death.

Fiddles, bagpipes and folk melodies plus distorted guitars, an epic feast that turns into a tavern brawl.

Horsehead fiddle, throat singing and distorted guitars gallop across the steppe; metal can carry wind and hoofbeats.

Down-tuned grooves, rap and turntables brought metal to late-'90s streets and MTV.

Drum machines, noise samples and distorted guitars interlock, like a factory playing metal.

Odd meters, long forms and precise playing, metal designed like architecture.

Screams tear the wound open; the clean-sung chorus pulls you back.

Death-metal gutturals plus metalcore breakdowns: guitars tuned to the floor, landing like a wall.

Metalcore breakdowns collide with EDM synths and drops, made for jumping on a rainy rooftop.

Heavy metal guitars and drums with sweet J-pop idol melodies and choreography: cute and violent, both turned up to the max.

Post-rock's long builds meet metal's weight, like a storm rolling over the sea in layers.