Which Form Of Music Has The Most Ridiculous Sub-genres?

There's a copious amount of subgroups for metal...
Power metal, Nu metal, thrash, etc... all of which I am not particularly fond of. Don't like metal in the least.
 
THIS.

I mean I am aware understanding the genre helps your perspective about music but in all honesty, when see people tearing each others heaRAB off because one thinks HIM is love metal and the other thinks it's just alternative is very, very sad.

Good music is simply good music. Why worry yourself over such technicalities?
 
@Crash_Overide
I counted 67, I wasn't trying so it's probably closer to 70.

I remeraber counting about 45-50 genres of metal on wikipedia, but I've heard about alot of metal genres that are not on wiki (Hyper Metal, Post-Sludge Doom Metal etc. etc.) I wouldn't be surprised if metal is higher...

edit: but Blues is probably still more ridiculas so you have me there...
 
metal has around 100 sub-genre's, so definatly metal, although wikipedia has only covered about 50.

@Paloma *goes to write wood metal*
 
Electronica has the most, but since I see more arguing about it when I watch metal videos on YouTube I voted for Metal. I recall something along the lines of "IT'S not deathcore, it's blackened death metal you idiot".
 
Yeah, I don't really know about electronica, but I do know that Metal sub-genres include (but are not limited to)...

Progressive Metal
Power Metal
Black Metal
Death Metal
Speed Metal
Thrash Metal
Hair Metal
Glam Metal
Industrial Metal
Doom Metal
Stoner Metal
Viking Metal
Grindcore
Hardcore
Deathcore
Edgecore
Vegan Edgecore
Rapcore
Christian Metal
Christian Death Metal
Beatdown
2-step
Power Violence
 
every genre of music has a crazy amount of subgenres...the reason i think metal is so interesting is because of how die hard its fans are about supporting such a specific subgenre. this thread proves this point.

if i saw an electronic fan and made fun of the fact that he only listens to a certain subgenre i don't think he would really make such a fuss out of it. if you ask a black metal fan wtf the difference between black and death metal is they are going to get really pissy and probably not be frienRAB with you. now...in metal's defence i CAN see a difference between black and death metal...i'm just making a point.

the other big thing that sets metal apart is how STRICT they are with the labeling. i'll give any music a chance and if a band is trying to grow by changing a little, i'm all for it. metal fans will totally leave a band in the dust for introducing a line of clean vocals or using a thrash riff when it should be black.

not that any of this is bad...just very interesting. watch metal: a headbanger's journey...its like a culture all its own...
 
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