It's a known fact with metal fan that most metalheads hate the Hair Metal sub-genre of Heavy Metal music from the 1980s. The thing is if Hair Metal was never born and had never exploded with success due to MTV thrash might have never became what it did and a lot of other sub-genres of metal may have been overlooked or never created at all. I personally love Hair Metal just as much as all the other sub-genres with Thrash Metal being my #1 favorite type of metal being tied with Hair Metal. I wanna know your thoughts on the Hair Metal bands and songs do you love, like, think its alright, or hate it with a passion and why?
I wouldn't call power metal extreme, mainly because one of the reasons it exists, was the opposition to extreme metal, specifically death and black metal. Many power metal singers decided to sing in an operatic way to continue the tradition of classic heavy metal singers and oppose the growling in death metal. Therefore it's not really extreme metal since it was the opposition. Progressive metal can or cannot be extreme depending on the fusion. Traditional progressive metal bands such as Dream Theater or Crimson Glory are not extreme metal because they are closer to traditional metal and progressive rock. However other bands such as Opeth, Cynic and Meshuggah (if you consider them to be progressive) are examples of extreme progressive metal.
Technically (or by the book) as a genre by themselves, no. When mixed with Extreme Metal type genres yes. There are a few bands that have these characteristics like the Power/Death of Into Eternity, Mercenary and Unleash The Archers and Progressive Black Metal of Ne Obliviscaris. Check 'em out. Personally I hate the term of 'Extreme Metal' because it really means nothing, kinda like Nu Metal which is a group of genres that music critics either don't want to take the time to put a name to their style with any sort of accuracy or too lazy to. It's the let's just throw a band in this genre and done with it mentality. Metal has been mish-mashing for more than 40 years in an extreme genre that bands strive to be different from one another. To call one Metal band extreme and not another is separated by mere degrees and really not worthy of my time to worry about.
No. As the name implies extreme metal refers to the styles in heavy metal music that stand out from the others and are defined by sheer heaviness and aggression. Thrash/speed metal for its speed and aggression; death metal for its heavy distortion, growled vocals and blast beat drumming; black metal for its high speed, distortion, and drumming as well, also for its shrieked vocals (and perhaps its shock value themes); and doom metal for it thickness and overall heaviness. Power metal can be fast and progressive metal can be complex but that's not what being an extreme form of heavy metal is all about. Sure the fastness in some power metal can surpass that of any extreme metal band but apart from that, what else is extreme about it? It sticks to the more traditional aspects of heavy metal, such as being more uplifting and having more melody (hence the name power metal) and therefore, not really all that extreme. Progressive metal is arguably the most complex form of metal but like a previous answerer stated, musical complexity has nothing to do with being an extreme metal band so prog metal really has no place in extreme metal. Of course one's defintion of extreme can always vary but in this case, there's a specific defintion on what constitutes for an extreme form of metal. And power metal and progressive metal just don't fit that bill.
I think not The extreme refers to the heaviness vocal brutality Has nothing to do with complexity
Black steel: Mayhem dying steel: Carcass Gothic metallic: form O negative Thrash metal: Annihilator velocity steel: Agent metal vigor metal: Helloween Doom metal: Candlemass alternative metallic: Alice in Chains traditional Heavy metallic: Mercyful destiny Avant-Garde metallic: Mr. Bungle Groove metallic: Pantera Nu-metallic: Korn Metalcore: Lamb of God Deathcore: Whitechapel Crossover Thrash steel: D.R.I. Glam/Hair metallic: Motley Crue Grindcore: Napalm dying extreme steel: Cradle of grime Sludge metal: Down Stoner metallic: Bongzilla progressive metallic: Dream Theater Goregrind: Exhumed Rap-metal: Biohazard Industrial metal: Ministry Neo-Classical metal/Shred: Yngwie Malmsteen Um..That is all I received.
