Does anyone else have real trouble with sub-genres?
Like I can identify Metal. But it feels like there are 47 KINDS of Metal, and I can't tell them apart.
Tbh , alot of those "subgenres" are more advertisement of bands instead of an own genre itsself .
Pirate-metal , mongolian-metal , black-atmospheric-steampunk-country-grindcore metal and alot more of these word-salad genres , are either music-stylistic combinations of metal and folk-instrument styles (folkmetal) or just bands in a thematic costumes that plays power-metal .
Overall the main-genres of metal is Heavy , Death , Black and Thrash . There is also doom metal , Power metal , Pagan metal and such but either these can be subjectivly seen as own Metal genres or Sub-genres of the main ones . But this is now more music-theory .
Grindcore , metalcore , Deathcore and such are on the Punk / Hardcore-punk genre . That is another can of worms that im not so knowledgable about but those have elements of the metal-genres but in its hardcore-punk spin .
I hope i could help out a bit . Alot is music-theory but interesting to look up and chaotic to put Bands/Songs into a genre .
The best is to have few friends to talk about it and let the theories go loose .