There is no such thing as a perfect song... let alone one from Metallica, eww... anyway, while I can't really pin single song down to define a genre, I can name bands that pretty much do...
Thrash - Slayer
New Wave of British Heavy Metal - Iron Maiden
Hair Metal (huh huh huh) - Poison
Nu-metal - Korn
Death - Death (woulda thunk it?)
Grindcore - Brutal Truth
Black - Emperor
Doom - Candlemass
Progressive - Dream Theater
Power - Stratovarious
Folk Metal - Finntroll
Industrial - Godflesh
Sludgecore - Eyehategod
Those are my picks for the major genres, but each of them branch out into many sub-genres which would be too much of a pain in the ass to list here.
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