Extreme metal

Extreme metal describes a mixture of heavy metal music subgenres formed since the 1980s. Extreme metal is much harsher than other heavy metal. It is also underground, or less commercial.

 Types of Extreme metal 
 Main types 
 Black metal
 Ambient black metal
 Symphonic black metal
 War metalWolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: War Black Metal: Die Extremsten der Extremen. Was bleibt, ist Schutt und Asche. In: Rock Hard, no. 279, p. 71-73.
 Death metal
 Melodic death metal
 Technical death metal
 Doom metal
 Epic doom
 Funeral doom
 Traditional doom
 Speed metal
 Thrash metal

 Fusions with other genres 
 Black-doom
 Blackened death metal
 Dark metal
 Death-doom
 Melodic death metal
 Pagan metal
 Viking metal

References

Category:Heavy metal subgenres