>>127031794 (OP)
Are you asking for recommendations for metal that will appeal to your zoomer pallette and tastes or metal in general?
There are entire genres and subgenres of metal.
Sabbath is original metal
the first 3 albums are legendary
Metallica, megadeth, slayer are classic thrash. Anthrax are mid to me.
Morbid angel, death, cannibal corpse, deicide, possessed are old school death metal
Entombed, dismember, and grave are swedish death metal
In flames, at the gates, dark tranquility are melodic death metal (gothenburg sound)
Pantera pretty much invented groove metal but Machine Head, Prong, and even Sepultura are groove metal as well
Judas priest, iron maiden, saxon, diamond head are all new wave of british heavy metal
Although it isn't pure metal, metalcore can be an interesting listen. By metalcore I don't mean boy bands with a few guitar chugs in skinny jeans and eye liner, i'm talking All Out War, Converge, Earth Crisis, Hatebreed, Poison the Well, Deadguy. The cro mags were influential to the development of metalcore. The cro mags were a more metallic hardcore band, but if you decide to check them out then know that the vocals are awful. I mean just terrible. It sounds like a bad ghost impression. Melodic metalcore like as I lay dying, trivium, killswitch engage, all that remains take influence from metalcore but add a lot of melodic death metal influence. The emphasis on breakdowns, chugs, and clean vocals are most likely what you think of when you think of "metalcore"
Actual metalcore is creative, heavy, crushing, innovative, boundary pushing, while melodic metalcore is formulaic and by the numbers
