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ill give this a shot since im bored
Tech. Death - Nile/Meshuggah/Necrophagist in a Tie
Blackened death - Behemoth
Symphonic black - Emperor
Progressive black - Keep of Kalessin
Thrash - not really my style but Lamb of god
Doom - Type O Negative ftw!
Progressive Death metal - Tie between Opeth/Ihsahn
Standard Death metal - Bloodbath
Grindy Death metal -Suffocation

Overall Favorite metal band of all time - MOTHER FUCKING DEATH!!!!!!!!

eh, thats really just splitting hairs, to me when i hear Math metal i think more of the process used to write the music instead of what genre. i mean i like to think that a genre is depicted by the tonality, chord structure and chord progression and atmosphere of a song not the time signature. i mean there's so many metal bands that use "math" in writing but some are grindy some are death and even some are a little black metal. your right though they are straight up math, but their early stuff isn't really that mathy. To me they sound like a death metal band who uses math to write their songs. they center it around a 4/4 core so thats why i just shove it under the death metal blanket. I try not to break everything down into tiny genre's as to avoid being to biased. i've always wanted to be one of those "its really all just metal" guy's, but i have a problem with over analyzing so ive made little way's of trying to avoid that, like for example considering meshuggah just Death metal. or really their just a metal band. or to quote my grandma "that must be that hard rock stuff like metallica and nirvana". (to which i just nod and say sure, close enough)

Death Math Metal, and thats hard to say 30 times fast without fucking up.

yea i see what you mean. sub genre's are a good thing i think, its a great way to organize and find that specific sound your into.

well i disagree...a bit...i typed progressive and added opeth and brainfarted and immediatly grouped ihsahn in with opeth. i admit ihsahn isnt death metal, although after does lean more towards death than black this time around in my opinion, but i think opeth and meshuggah are very death metal. i mean just from interviews ive read over the years they both have a mission statement to be death metal bands. you can go on and on about what you consider death metal and why i disagree and what i consider death metal and why you disagree, but if you take the heavy side of opeth and were to put that into a catagory, i would put it under death metal. and meshuggah is clearly a death metal band math or no math