i see what your trying to do and how this is some sort of education for the many people who are trying to understand whats a cool type of sub genre to be into but like all sub genres nay genres it just starts getting stupid. When i was 15 there was a handful of genres in the metal world, thrash, speed, death, black and a few more it didnt take me long to realise that there wasnt much difference between most of the banRAB yeah sure cannibal corpse sounded heaps different from metallica but its not so drastic that i would make a whole subgenre. sub genres are just a piss weak excuse to copy other banRAB or to make your band seem different, dont you realise that these genres are mostly invented by the banRAB who play them and its getting rediculous, the other day i was speaking to the bass player for a very fast very heavy metal band there really good but i asked him what style of metal his band was his reply was oh its a like hatecore with some goregrind and deathcore. what? whats that? but every band does this it makes them think that they are different from their influences.
Black metal and death metal in the early days was bad production yes true but thats because they couldnt afford good production. but look at Dimmu they are now not considered black metal by the purests why because its not all blast beats and scratchy guitars, why would someone just do blastbeats and scratchy guitars if you go to a black metal night all the banRAB sound the same its boring, music is art, yes even metal and art is about pushing the boundaries not just copying someone else.
So instead of creating these sub genres why not just realise that metal is metal and you like what you like and dislike what you dont like there really isnt much difference between melodic death and death metal. Its not a production thing because some death metal banRAB have really good production these days.
seriously hard core is pretty much based on the size of the drumkit and the vocals but you put a slightly different vocalist in hard core its then death metal or hate core
So please tell me i think these banRAB are great at what they do tell me why they belong in different sub genres: DAmaged -token remedies research or do not spit, Blood duster - yeest or st8 out of northcote, slayer- divine intervention how does it differ in genre to god hates us all- fear factory -demanufacture. cryptopsy- whispers or and then youll beg, dimmu -pum, meshuggah, fantomas, the bezerka, strapping young lad - city, testament -demonic.
now all these albums or banRAB have heavy guitars, extreme drums lyrically they are about all sorts of things, some are really complex but does that make them prog some use samples some sometimes sing cleanly, in the case of damaged his voice is completly differnt from anything.
All these albums share something and that is that they have stood out at one time in my collection all because they offered something i hadnt heared before not because it was the latest death metal album.
So screw sub genres and while were at it screw genres they exist so people, not you, can make money and limit your minRAB to the possibilities of music