Symphonic black metal (incorporates symphonic and orchestral (strings, choirs, piano, organs, percussion, keyboards) elements) Red and anarchist black metal (promotes Marxist, socialist, communist or anarchist ideology) was created as a reaction to NSBM) National socialist black metal (NSBM melds Neo-Nazi beliefs with hostility to some religions (Islam, Judaism) promote ethnic European paganism, occultism, or Satanism) Evolutionary origins in progressive rock and extreme metalĬharacterized by fast tempos, shrieking and/or growling vocal style, highly or heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (low fidelity) recording, unconventional song structures artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonymsĪmbient black metal (fusion genre of either dark ambient or normal ambient music and black metal) Rap metal (institutes the vocal and lyrical form of hip hop melodic singing and growling commonly associated with nu metal absent)Īvant-garde metal (avant-metal, experimental metal)Ĭharacterized by the use of innovative, avant-garde elements, large-scale experimentation, and the use of non-standard and unconventional sounds, instruments, song structures, playing styles, and vocal techniques. Nu metal (alternative metal blended with groove metal elements and other styles (e.g., grunge, industrial, funk and hip hop) Has influences from alternative rock and genres not normally associated with metal characterized by heavy guitar riffs, mostly melodic vocals and clean singing, unconventional song structures uses sounds of other heavy metal genres takes experimental approaches to heavy musicįunk metal (a fusion of alternative metal and funk)