You seen this?

http://mapofmetal.com/#/home

Yeah, it's been around for quite a while. It's interesting, but groups some stuff poorly.

wow, they totally skipped the entire genre of slam dance popsicle opera house gore slash

But Asking Alexandria is listed under "trance metal"

no opeth

clearly interested

They're under "Swedish death metal".

no children of bodom either wtf

found it, somehow missed that and the south american death metal on my tiny screen

"Brutal death metal is a subgenre of death metal which emphasizes complex and fast drumming."

Cannibal Corpse are listed there

Melodic Death Metal.

lol mr. expert

"Death metal" lists a handful of Florida death metal bands, but Cannibal Corpse are under "Brutal death metal" despite being similar. "Swedish death metal" mixes early Swedeath, the definitive bands of melodic death metal, and new Meshuggah (wtf?)

Sarcofago are listed under "South American death metal" but the sample there isn't from one of the albums when they were death metal.

Black metal stopped existing after the second wave except for a handful of bands that nobody cares about. "US black metal" lists bands that don't sound like each other.

Black/Death has half a dozen distinct genres lumped together but Oriental metal, Celtic metal, medieval metal, and folk metal all get their own markers on the map. Where's "pirate metal"?

even if this map isn't entirely accurate, it might introduce me to more metal bands that are similar to what i like. i haven't heard of most of the death metal section... and none of my friends like metal AT ALL so i'm on my own

Too many waves of US metal nu metal

I don't like the categorization because it creates a lot of vague/non-descriptive niches like the subgenres of folk metal while glossing over the larger differences - that "folk metal" is really a wide variety of folk musics mixed into completely different styles of metal (often heavy, power, black, or death). Other very similar bands are separated across several genres, such as Florida death metal - all of the examples of "death metal" are very similar to "deathrash" as well as Cannibal Corpse (under "brutal death metal").

Basically, lots of unnecessary labels on bands that can easily confuse people who want to hear bands that sound like other bands they like.

Hellhammer are listed under "first wave of black metal" and "death metal"

I'll be back later, gotta go to a funeral.

jesus fuck music genres

what is this gibberish

http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/ is still my favorite wow thats old

clearly gonna lie, this even knows the proper shapes for arranging black metal.