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What Metal Genre Fits For You?

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Hey! Are you interested in metal but are not sure where to start? Are you confused with all the genres and wondering which ones fit your music taste the best? Or do you just want to see if the test can guess your favourite genre?

You might find this test helpful. You will answer 24 questions about your personality and music taste. In the end you will see what metal genre is the most fitting to you.

Created by: Arthur Jermyn

What is your age?
- Under 18 Years Old
- 18 to 24 Years Old
- 25 to 30 Years Old
- 31 to 40 Years Old
- 41 to 50 Years Old
- 51 to 60 Years Old
- Over 60 Years Old
What is your gender?
- Male
- Female

What are you mainly looking for in music?
- Melody
- Rhythm
- Atmosphere
- Technicality
- Extreme things
- Energy
What music genres do you like? (outside of metal)
- Classical
- Folk music
- Jazz or prog
- Pop and rock
- Punk
- Electric music
Which word best describes your personality?
- Calm
- Active
- Introvert
- Social
- Depressed
- Thinker
Where do you land politically?
- Leftist
- Progressive
- Classical liberal/anarchist
- Conservative
- Nationalist
- f--- politics, I don't care
What's your opinion on harsh vocals? (growling, screaming)
- I don't like them
- I only like semi-harsh vocals (like in most of 80s music)
- I like them, but a band must also use clean vocals
- I like them
- I think they are better than clean vocals
- As long as the vocalist is skillful, the technique doesn't matter
what is the optional pace in music?
- Slow
- Midpace
- Fast
- I like the extremes (very fast or very slow)
- Doesn't matter
- The speed must vary within the song
What instruments fit well in metal music?
- Just the basic rock instruments: guitar, bass, drums
- The basic ones and keyboard/synth
- The basic ones and acoustic guitar/piano
- The basic ones and any traditional instuments (flutes, violins etc.)
- Anything really
- Don't know
Is heaviness and extreme good in music?
- No, I think its edgy/silly
- Not really
- I like them but they are not always important
- Yes
- Yes and I mainly listen to extreme music
- No, they make the music worse and give me headache
What kind of entertainment do you like?
- Drama/comedy
- Romantic
- Fantasy/sci-fi
- Thriller/horror
- Educational entertainment (history etc.)
- I'm more into sports
What are your favourite lyric topics?
- Politics
- History
- Personal issues
- Mythology and epic stories
- Religion, occult and satanism
- Horror, gore and death
What is your opinion on occultism and satanism?
- I think they are stupid
- I'm not interested in them
- I find them interesting but as a lyric topic they are overused
- I like them as a lyric topic
- I find them interesting and like them in music
- I take part in occultism and/or satanism
What are your religious views?
- Atheist/agnostic
- Judeo-Christian
- Muslim
- (European) pagan
- Satanist/occultist
- Other
What is your favourite singing technique?
- High and clean singing
- Low and clean singing
- Raspy and angsty shouting
- Harsh screaming
- High-pitched screaming
- Low and guttural growing
What is your opinion on solos?
- Solo is the climax of the song
- Song needs many solos
- Solos are especially important in metal
- Solos are good, but in metal they must be chaotic and dissonant instead of melodic and beautiful
- Solos are good but often unnecessary in songs
- Solos are wankery that ruins the atmosphere
What is the best song length?
- Under 2 minutes
- 2-5 minutes
- 5-9 minutes
- 9-20 minutes
- More than 20 minutes
- Smaller songs can be combined into one concept album, that feels like a long song (even 1h long)
What is your favourite instrument?
- Guitar
- Bass
- Drums
- Keyboard/piano
- Violin and other string instruments
- Traditional European instruments
What in your opinion is the most defining feature of metal as a genre of music?
- Harsh vocals
- Dark, obscure themes and lyrics
- Fast guitar solos
- Epic songwriting
- Technicality and complexity
- Guitar work
What has been the best era in metal history?
- First wave (1969-1977)
- Second wave (1978-1983)
- Era of commercial success (1984-1989)
- Black/death peak (1990-1993)
- Burnout era (1994-1998)
- Modern era (1999->)
Which one of the following do you consider the most significant figure in metal music?
- Tommy Iommi
- Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister
- Steve Harris
- Chuck Schuldiner
- Varg Vikernes
- I don't know any of them
What's your view on music and metal elitism?
- It's stupid because it only turns people away from metal
- I don't like it
- I'm not an elitist but I understand those who are
- I don't care
- I'm an elitist myself
- Elitism is the only way to keep the art form true to it's roots and in the form it was meant to be in
How many of these bands have you listened to: Angel Witch, Anthrax, Be'lakor, Budgie, Darkthrone, Demilich, Ne Obliviscaris, Nokturnal Mortum, Sabaton, Solitude Aeternus?
- Non of them
- 1-2
- 3-4
- 5-6
- 7-8
- 9-10
Is metal dead!?
- Yes, and it was killed by elitists and people turning the genre too extreme to like
- Yes, and it was killed by big labels and commercial bands
- No, there are still good bands, they are only less known
- Metal is now underground as it is meant to be
- Metal is alive and well!
- Metal will never die!!!

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