I’ve been a bit curious as to this topic for a bit. I’ve been in the metal scene for only a year and I’ve seen the crazier and more dark subgenres like dsbm and other subgenres of the sorts.

I wonder if this idea of more underground and unknown genres there may be, I’d be willing to give all genres a listen! And yes I know music is subjective, but broadening my perspective of different kinds of music is the fun of it for me!

If you're enjoying power metal and enjoy medieval fanatasy stuff I would suggest looking at the german medieval/ folk rock- metal scene.

This really is giving me a refresher as to how specific some subgenres can really get, it’s neat learning about a new medieval style subgenre, thanks for the suggestion!

whatever this is: youtu.be/JIANpHcdKoA?si=_ZjXLKsj0gocVUmc

I got into Type O Negative's stuff and now i wanna go through more gothic/doom metal, which i don't think gets any mainstream attention (that in and of itself could be a good thing)
Ska isn't as appreciated as it was around 20 plus years ago and 80% of what i've listened to shits all over what's popular these days (even with the like's of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones not being as good as they once were).

This video had me so god damn confused, but surprisingly it’s not that bad.

I can see why you’d say them not getting any mainstream attention is a good thing, some bands suffer from popularity and eventually begin to deteriorate into this overhyped band. I used to like slaughter to prevail before they released their kostlom album, but now that they got filthy rich off of that they do make new singles but I feel like it lost its originality and is now divebombing into what new grindcore sound Alex can make.

Some of my favourite examples:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHFlrSQYP7s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S3VFprYlBM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ETVVDYLF8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wTp0XBWVbg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lGoAkvilfU