Can be from any genre. Mine is when an acoustic guitar comes in towards the end of a song and totally changes or reframes the mood/energy (see “Money” by Widowspeak)

  • @alokir
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    161 year ago

    Mixing metal with other genres or introducing instruments or elements that you otherwise wouldn’t expect in metal.

    By now most of these are considered to be subgenres of metal but for me it blew my mind when I first encountered them.

    Bands like Ayreon, Avantasia, Subscribe, Therion, Haggard, Nightwish, Ostura, just to name a few.