Ultimate Metal Family Tree band challenge

I found and edited another heavy metal family tree on the web, this time from Full Metal Attorney (oh sh*t, he's an attorney, I just edited this list for a challenge, please don't sue me!), to make a greater unofficial band challenge to more properly test my entire web of metal interests, and for anyone else to try as well. So here it is, the Ultimate Metal Family Tree band challenge:

The challenge is to review at least one album you consider the best or most metal from each of the bands in at least one genre that suits your clan and interests, but there are three waves. In order to review a genre from the second wave, you have to review a genre from the first wave that leads to that second-wave genre, and in order to review a genre from the third wave, you have to review a genre from the second wave that leads to that third-wave genre. The genre with the highest reviewed ratings would be your winner and the genre you officially have the most passion for. Even tied genres can be your winners! I plan to start doing this challenge myself in July after my break from challenge reviews throughout June. And I know that some genres might be inaccurate in the waves, and some bands might be inaccurate in the genres, so if you want me to change any of the bands and/or genres listed above, please let me know so I can change them. Anyway, enjoy this unofficial challenge and some great metal to explore!

My Ultimate Metal Family Tree band challenge is completely finished! For my stat check this time, I've included ratings of discographies of all the bands I've enjoyed before, past and present, and the one album I've reviewed from each band that I've only listened to just for this challenge and other clan challenges. BUT they all have to be within the genres they're assigned to. For example, for the Goth Metal bands, I made sure to only include albums that are actually in The Fallen, and for the Power Metal bands, I made sure to only include albums that are actually in the Guardians. No non-metal releases, no releases from an entirely different clan, just albums in the actual clans that have those respective genres. Then I've divided all the ratings into the average ratings for each genre. So here's my Ultimate Metal Family Tree challenge average stat rating:

First wave:

Power metal:

Helloween (one album) - 4.5, Blind Guardian (all albums except Legacy of the Dark Lands) - 4.6, Stratovarius - 4.5, Iced Earth (two albums) - 4, Gamma Ray - 4.5, Kamelot (all albums except Poetry for the Poisoned) - 4.5, HammerFall - 4.7, Rhapsody of Fire - 4.7, Edguy - 4.4, Nightwish (all albums except Imaginaerum the Score) - 4.5, Sonata Arctica - 4.5, Avantasia - 4.6, DragonForce - 4.7, Sabaton - 4.6, Powerwolf (one album) - 4

Total rating: 4.5

Progressive thrash metal:

Voivod (one album) - 4.5, Mekong Delta (one album) - 4.5, Coroner (two albums) - 4, Nevermore - 4.6, Vektor - 4.8

Total rating: 4.5

Doom metal:

My Dying Bride (all albums except Evinta) - 4.5, Katatonia (up to 1998) - 4.7, Electric Wizard (one album) - 4, Swallow the Sun (one album) - 4.5, Draconian (all albums) - 4.7

Total rating: 4.5 

First wave total rating: 4.5

Second wave:

Metalcore:

Converge (all albums except Halo in a Haystack) - 4.5, The Dillinger Escape Plan (all albums except Plagiarism) - 4.6, Killswitch Engage (one album) - 4, Unearth - 4.1, As I Lay Dying (two albums) - 4, All That Remains - 4.5, Trivium (all albums except Silence in the Snow) - 4.4, August Burns Red - 4.4, Protest the Hero (up to 2009) - 4.5, Bullet for My Valentine (all albums except Temper Temper and Gravity) - 4.4, Parkway Drive (all albums except Reverence) - 4.5, Bring Me the Horizon (one album) - 4.5, The Devil Wears Prada (one album) - 4.5, Architects (one album) - 4, Asking Alexandria (two albums) - 4

Total rating: 4.3

Progressive metal:

Fates Warning (one album) - 4, Queensrÿche (one album) - 4.5, Dream Theater - 4.6, Meshuggah (all albums except self-titled EP and Contradictions Collapse) - 4.6, Tool (one album) - 4, Symphony X - 4.7, Opeth (two albums) - 4.5, Gojira (all albums except Terra Incognita, The Link, and The Link Alive) - 4.6, Between the Buried and Me (all albums except self-titled debut, The Silent Circus, and The Anatomy Of) - 4.5, Mastodon (all albums except Lifesblood) - 4.5

Total rating: 4.5

Folk metal:

Windir (one album) - 4.5, Finntroll (one album) - 4.5, Ensiferum (one album) - 4.5, Tyr (one album) - 4.5, Korpiklaani (one album) - 4, Wintersun - 4.8, Turisas (one album) - 4, Equilibrium (one album) - 4.5, Eluveitie - 4.6, Alestorm - 4.4

Total rating: 4.4

Melodic death metal:

Edge of Sanity - 4.5, At the Gates - 4.5, Dark Tranquillity - 4.6, In Flames (up to 2006) - 4.2, Arch Enemy - 4.6, Children of Bodom - 4.4, Amon Amarth - 4.5, Kalmah (one album) - 4.5, Insomnium (one album) - 4.5, Be'lakor (one album) - 4

Total rating: 4.4

Melodic death-doom:

Paradise Lost (all albums except Host) - 4.2, Amorphis (two albums) - 4.3, Anathema (up to 1996 plus Resonance 2) - 4.5, Saturnus (one album) - 4.5, Officium Triste (one album) - 5

Total rating: 4.5

Second wave total rating: 4.4

Third wave:

Symphonic metal:

Therion (one album) - 4, Emperor (one album) - 4.5, Septicflesh (The Eldest Cosmonaut, A Fallen Temple and since 2008) - 4.4, Within Temptation (from 2000 to 2014, except An Acoustic Night at the Theatre and The Q-music Sessions) - 4.4, After Forever (all albums) - 4.5, Sirenia (two albums) - 4.5, Epica (all albums except The Score: An Epic Journey) - 4.6, Leaves' Eyes (one album) - 4.5, Delain (one album) - 4.5, Fleshgod Apocalypse (one album) - 4

Total rating: 4.4

Gothic metal:

Tiamat (all albums except Sumerian Cry, The Astral Sleep, and A Deeper Kind of Slumber) - 4, Type O Negative - 4.5, Sentenced (three albums) - 4, The Gathering (up to 1997 plus Downfall: The Early Years) - 4.4, Cradle of Filth (one album) - 4, Lake of Tears (two albums) - 4.5, Theatre of Tragedy (all albums except Musique and Assembly) - 4.3, Moonspell (all albums except Under the Moonspell EP) - 4.3, Lacuna Coil (up to 2002) - 4.4, Charon - 4.3

Total rating: 4.3

Modern groove metal:

Machine Head (two albums) - 4, Lamb of God (all albums) - 4.5, Chimaira (one album) - 4, DevilDriver (one album) - 4, Alien Weaponry (one album) - 4

Total rating: 4.1

Melodic/technical deathcore:

The Black Dahlia Murder (one album) - 4.5, The Crimson Armada - 4, Born of Osiris - 4.5, Wretched (one album) - 4.5, Make Them Suffer - 4.5

Total rating: 4.4

Third wave total rating: 4.3

Grand total rating (because why not): 4.4

So apparently in the genre wave "Olympic podium", the first wave is in the highest, the second wave in the middle, and the third wave in the lowest, with modern groove metal genres being lower rated than all the other genres. So I guess modern groove metal is not really the ideal genre for me. Anyway, if there isn't anything for you to object in this final stat check, then the Ultimate Metal Family Tree band challenge is completely over, and...yeah, I think I've had it with massive reviewing challenges for the rest of the year. 2020 so far was an epic 6 months (not including June) of reviewing challenges, official and unofficial, and it was a lot of hard work. I can still do single-album/band reviews, so standalone recommendations are welcome any time. But other than that, I'm done with review challenges. A reviewer needs rest after a long quest! What a grand journey that was....

So I guess modern groove metal is not really the ideal genre for me. 

I don't know about that Andi. I mean you didn't score any of those releases under a very solid & respectable 4/5 & a 4.1 average would be the sort of score we'd expect to see for most people's favourite subgenre. I think it just reflects your general fanaticism for metal overall.