Ever wondered which heavy metal subgenre aligns with your personality and taste? Take this quiz to find out if you're thrash, doom, black, or another heavy metal subgenre!
1. How would you describe your ideal metal concert experience?
Intimate and mystical
Brutal and chaotic
Heavy and hypnotic
Epic and fantastical
2. What kind of stories do you enjoy in metal lyrics?
Tales of ancient deities and rituals
Horror and gore-filled narratives
Sagas of sorrow and despair
Legends of heroes and dragons
3. Which guitar tone speaks to you?
Raw and frosty
Technical and blistering
Thick and crushing
Melodic and soaring
4. Imagine the perfect cover art for a metal album. What does it look like?
A misty forest on a moonlit night
A gruesome battlefield
An eerie abandoned cathedral
A mythical warrior in combat
5. Choose a vocal style that would make you headbang:
Shrieking screams
Guttural growls
Haunting clean vocals
Powerful operatic singing
6. What kind of drum patterns ignite your metal insanity?
Relentless blast beats
Ferocious double kicks
Pounding slow doom beats
Dynamic and rhythmic beats
7. How does metal music make you feel?
Mysterious and reflective
Furious and untamed
Melancholic and deep
Exhilarated and mighty
8. From which era of metal do you draw inspiration?
Early 90s, for its raw black metal
Late 80s, for its foundational death metal
Late 70s, for its pioneering doom metal
Early 2000s, for its majestic power metal
9. What stage presence would captivate you at a metal show?