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 metal^[1]
Death metal
- Melodic death metal
- Technical death metal
Doom metal
- Epic doom
- Funeral doom
- Traditional doom^[2]
Speed metal
Thrash metal

Fusions with other genres

Black-doom^[3]^[4]
Blackened death metal
Dark metal
Death-doom
Melodic death metal^[5]
Pagan metal
Viking metal

Extreme Metal Media

Venom in 2008
Venom were significant to the development of speed metal into thrash metal into black metal.

References

↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: War Black Metal: Die Extremsten der Extremen. Was bleibt, ist Schutt und Asche. In: Rock Hard, no. 279, p. 71-73.
↑ Hayes, Craig. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction ReviewAbout.com. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
↑ Newshound, Terrorizer. 'ITALIAN BLACKENED DOOMSTERS FORGOTTEN TOMB PLAN RELEASE reviewTerrorizer Online. Retrieved 29 January 2009.
↑ Marsicano, Dan. 'Ordo Obsidium - Orbis Tertius Review reviewAbout.com. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
↑ Mason, Stewart. Glass Casket. AllmusicRovi Corporation. Retrieved 31 March 2011.

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[wbm-1] Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: War Black Metal: Die Extremsten der Extremen. Was bleibt, ist Schutt und Asche. In: Rock Hard, no. 279, p. 71-73.

[2] Hayes, Craig. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction ReviewAbout.com. Retrieved 15 March 2012.

[3] Newshound, Terrorizer. 'ITALIAN BLACKENED DOOMSTERS FORGOTTEN TOMB PLAN RELEASE reviewTerrorizer Online. Retrieved 29 January 2009.

[4] Marsicano, Dan. 'Ordo Obsidium - Orbis Tertius Review reviewAbout.com. Retrieved 29 January 2012.

[5] Mason, Stewart. Glass Casket. AllmusicRovi Corporation. Retrieved 31 March 2011.

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