Thereabout my milieu was erroneously informed, that I listen to Heavy Metal. However it is not so, because I listen to (mostly) Black Metal. And after a two year lasted "drill" my mother had comprehended this, so I made this genre list; For all mothers of the world! So if you think a friend of you should at last know that's more than Heavy Metal and Gothic, just send him to this classification and after a few hours of MP3 hearing he would see how the wind blows.
Surely not every band is a perfect stand-in for the named genres, but I guess it's OK so how it is. If you have some serious criticism, inform me.


Due to wide reminder charges regarding to MP3's and possible problems with the german GEMA I removed the examples from my site. If, when and in which form they will be republished is still unclear.



     Black Metal - Traditional

Darkthrone A Blaze in the northern Sky
Immortal Pure Holocaust
Marduk Darkness it shall be
Mayhem Freezing Moon

     Black Metal - Commercial

Agathodaimon Banner of Blasphemy
Covenant Bizarre cosmic Industries
Cradle of Filth Queen of Winter, throned
Dimmu Borgir Mouring Palace

     Black Metal - Symphonic

Arcturus Du Nordavind
Borknagar Svartskogs gilde
Limbonic Art Through Gleams of Death
Old Man's Child Funeral Swords and Souls

     Black Metal - Epical

Aragorn Impressions
Empyrium The blue Mists of Night
Rivendell The King beneath the Mountains
Summoning Khazad Dúm

     Black Metal - Folkinfluenced

Falkenbach Heathenbride
Finntroll Slaget vid Blodsälv
Otyg Trollslottet
Vintersorg Ödermarkens son

     Norsecore

Taake Nattestid ser porten vid III
Troll Trollstorm over Nidingjuv
Ulver Of Wolf and Fear
Vargavinter Den lyoska orn

     Viking Metal

Ensiferum Battle Song
Enslaved 793 (Slaget om Lindisfarne)
Mithotyn Chariot of Power
Thyrfing The Deceitful

     Grindcore

Agoraphobic Nosebleed Landfills of extinct Possibility
Exhumed Slaughtercult Dinnertime in the Morgue
Nasum Riot
Pungent Stench Sputter Supper

     Death Metal

Cannibal Corpse A Skull full of Maggots
Kataklysm What we endure
Morgoth White Gallery
Sinister Cross the Styx

     Death Metal - Melodical

Arch Enemy Dark of the Sun
Crematory Tears of Time
In Flames Pinball Map
Withered Beauty Failure

     Doom - Classical

Candlemass Darkness in Paradise
Cathedral Halo of Fire
Paradise Lost The Word made Flesh
Saint Vitus Born too late

     Funeral Doom

Pantheist Time
Skepticism Nowhere
Thergothon Evoken
Winter Eternal Frost

     Gothic Metal

Dismal Euphony A thousands River
Theatre of Tragedy And when He Falleth
Tristania Pale Enchantress
Within Temptation Grace

     Gothic (in comparison)

Blutengel I am dying alone
Goethes Erben Marionetten
Lacrimosa Am Ende stehen wir zwei
Umbra et Imago Gothic Ritual

     Heavy Metal

Accept Metal Heart
Iron Maiden The Trooper
Judas Priest Breaking the Law
Metallica Master of Puppets

     Speed Metal

Annihilator King of the Kill
Blind Guardian Valhalla
Megadeth Wake up Dead
Pantera Fucking Hostile

     Thrash Metal

Kreator Extreme Aggression
Slayer Angel of Death
Sodom Bombenhagel
Tankard Empty Tankard

     Power Metal

Children of Bodom Warheart
Rhapsody Emerald Sword
Sonata Arctica The Cage
Virgin Steele A Symphony of Steele

     Epic Metal

Hammerfall Hearts on Fire
Manowar Brothers of Metal
Pegazus Wings of Steele
Wizard Thor's Hammer

     Progressive Metal

Ayreon The Castle Hall
Dream Theater Caught in a Web
Rush A Passage to Bangkok
Spock's Beard Long Time Suffering

     Metal with classical elements

Angizia Der Kirschgarten oder Memoiren an die Stirn der Kindeszeit
Haggard In a pale Moon's Shadow
Nightwish Sleeping Sun
Therion To mega Therion

     Just sick

Anal Cunt Hitler was a sensitive Man
Bethlehem Schatten aus der Alexanderwelt
B.R.B. Die legendären Virtuosen
Eisregen Die schwarze Rose