Lista (nie cała) gatunków i podgatunków muzyki metalowej:

• Heavy metal
  • New wave of traditional heavy metal
  • New wave of British heavy metal
• Speed metal
• Trash metal
  • Crossover thrash
  • Groove metal
  • Teutonic thrash metal
• Power metal
• Alternative metal
• Nu metal
• Funk
• Rap metal
• Death metal
  • Melodic Death metal
  • Technical Death metal
  • Brutal Death metal
  • Death 'n' roll
  • Blackened death metal
  • Symphonic death metal
• Black metal
  • Blackened thrash metal (First Wave of Black Metal)
  • Norwegian black metal
  • Symphonic black metal
  • Post black metal
  • Atmospheric black metal
  • Blackened heavy metal
  • Blackened screamo
  • Viking metal
  • War metal
  • Blackgaze
  • Post black metal
• Christian metal
  • Unblack metal
• Crust punk
  • Blackened crust
• Symphonic metal
• Gothic metal
• Soul metal
• Glam metal
• Hair metal
• Doom metal
  • Funeral metal
  • Stoner metal
  • Death-doom
  • Drone
  • Sludge metal
• Extreme metal
• Groove metal
• Industrial metal
  • Industrial death metal
  • Industrial black metal
• Modern metal
• Neoclassical metal
• Post-metal
• Progressive Metal
  • Djent
  • Progressive metalcore
• Avantgarde Metal
• Kawaii Metal
• Latin metal
• Folk Metal
  • Pirate Metal
  • Celtic Metal
  • Pagan metal
• Neue Deutsche Härte
• Crossover Metal
• Grindcore
  • Goregrind
  • (cenzura)grind
  • Deathgrind
  • Powerviolence
  • Electrogrind
• Hardcore
  • Post Hardcore
• Metalcore
  • Melodic metalcore
  • Deathcore
  • Mathcore
  • Electronicore
  • Nu metalcore
  • Progressive metalcore
• itp. itd.