Because we needed one and I didn't see it anywhere.
The Metal genre is notorious for having elitist fans, so let's try to keep this a little bit civil. You're welcome to dislike a particular kind of Metal as long as you're respectful about someone else's preferences.
I personally like Power Metal, Folk/Viking Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal and Heavy Metal. I'm open to all kinds, though, but those are my favourites.
I dig the following bands:
Hammerfall
Sonata Arctica
Nightwish
Leaves Eyes
Týr
Ensiferum
Wintersun
Jesu
Judas Priest
Royal Hunt
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Dream Theater
Bathory
Falkenbach
Overlorde
I'm looking to expand my Metal library, so feel free to suggest some.
Bands that I highly recommend (long standing favorites):
Opeth
Emperor
Burzum
Cryptopsy
Other bands I enjoy:
Borknagar
Naglfar
Age of Silence
Death
Bloodbath
Averse Sefira
Bathory
Guns and Roses
Metalica
AC/DC
Whitesnake
Black Sabbath
Alice Cooper
Kiss
And the true king of Heavy metal.
Jimi Hendrix
Janet
Quote from: Eryk on November 08, 2009, 01:22:35 AM
Bands that I highly recommend (long standing favorites):
Opeth
Emperor
Burzum
Cryptopsy
Thanks for the heads up. I've heard some of Opeth before, enough to get interested but I forgot until now to check up on them.
Quote from: Janet Lynn on November 08, 2009, 10:45:12 AM
Guns and Roses
Metalica
AC/DC
Whitesnake
Black Sabbath
Alice Cooper
Kiss
And the true king of Heavy metal.
Jimi Hendrix
Janet
Classics for sure. :)
Quote from: Laura91 on November 08, 2009, 11:12:59 AM
Great idea for a thread, Tristan, I should have done this long ago but I thought there were no metal fans here.
My fave metal bands would be:
Napalm Death
Carcass
Obituary
Terrorizer
13
Disrupt
Exit 13
Deceased
(early) Entombed
(early) Morbid Angel
I didn't think there'd be that many either, but after a couple of posts mentioning Metal I decided it needed it's own thread here.
May I take a guess and assume that your favourite sub-genre is Death Metal? ;)
Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Racer-X, Bucket Head, Genatorturers, Jimy Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Cream, Led Zeplin, Impellitteri, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Tony Macalpine, Yngwie Malmsteen, Metallica, Pantera, Venom, Merciful Fate, King Diamond, DiamondHead, MotorHead, Iced Earth, Van Halen, Ac/Dc, Kiss, & last but not least; SLAYER!!!
I LOVE Gamma Ray and Helloween and anyone whose ANYONE that likes power metal owes it to themselves to download/buy these masters of the genre. I also love Nightwish and Lacuna Coil.
Other metal bands I like...
Manowar
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Megadeth
KMFDM
Static X
Children of Bodom
KISS
Motley Crue
Seikima (Japanese power metal band)
Marilyn Manson
Sonata Arctica
Avantasia
I think that power metal and hair metal really lend themselves to the transgender cause whether or not the bands themselves are aware of it. Agree or disagree?
Hell ya!
I think they do... well, it depends. ;D
Speaking of Japanese Metal, I just heard a band on youtube called Wolf who kind of sound reminiscent of Rob Halford. I tried finding a Myspace or a site or something, but I only get another band by the same name that's Swedish. I'll get crack-a-lackin' on those suggestions, I haven't gotten around to them yet, but I'll do it now.
Wolf's pretty sick. Another good Japanese band is Balzac. They're punk rock, but they're the heavier end of punk rock. They started as a Misfits cover band and then got.... good.
I like Marilyn Manson (although many of my friends were greatly disappointed by his last live performance in the Sacramento Valley) and Lamb of God, and I need to get some more Pantera on my computer, but hey...
Does anyone here listen to The Birthday Massacre? They're my favorite metal band.
Hmm. . . so I guess I'll finally reply to this.
Pantera
Disturbed
Testament
Judas Priest
Metallica
Guns 'N' Roses
Queensryche
Mercyful Fate
Iron Maiden
Does System of a Down count?
DragonForce is alright sometimes.
And. . . yeah.
Quote from: SilverFang on December 02, 2009, 09:14:12 PM
Hmm. . . so I guess I'll finally reply to this.
Pantera
Disturbed
Testament
Judas Priest
Metallica
Guns 'N' Roses
Queensryche
The Gathering
Iron Maiden
Does System of a Down count?
DragonForce is alright sometimes.
And. . . yeah.
Of course System of a Down counts as metal! What else would they be, bluegrass??
Quote from: Valkyrie on December 02, 2009, 09:22:10 PM
Of course System of a Down counts as metal! What else would they be, bluegrass??
Well I've seem them referred to as alternative, experimental, metal, "progressive rock". . . etc. So I guess it depends on your opinion to some extent.
Oh... well I suppose
Quote from: SilverFang on December 02, 2009, 09:14:12 PM
Hmm. . . so I guess I'll finally reply to this.
Pantera
Disturbed
Testament
Judas Priest
Metallica
Guns 'N' Roses
Queensryche
Mercyful Fate
Iron Maiden
Does System of a Down count?
DragonForce is alright sometimes.
And. . . yeah.
Yeah I'm not really all that fond of DragonForce either. Some good bands on that list, though.
And yeah, as for the genre debates, I find a lot of bands are a mixture of several genres. Stepping in and out, or different songs with different sounds, but overall the same kind of character of the band. In metal, though, I think a lot of bands end up making a new 'core' or sub-genre just to 'stick out' even though they don't sound that much different from another genre.
Looking for some new Heavy Metal and Power Metal recommendations.
Hmm... I like....
Bullet For My Valentine
Slipknot
Disturbed
Drowning Pool
Haste The Day
Austrian Death Machine
Murderdolls
Wednesday 13
Spineshank
Trivium
I think theres some more, but thats all I can think of right now that fall into the metal type music category
My choice would be Rammstein...
I know its unnecessary, but I now add Trivium to the list.
Adding Powerwolf and Kiuas to the Power Metal list.
I'm not centrally a metal listener - but that being said, here are some bands I enjoy:
Amebix
Sunn O))
Khanate
G.I.S.M.
Gallhammer
Mayhem (oh, so ironically, but they are fun)
Wormed
Nargaroth (again, so ironically I'm practically a hipster)
Doom
Brutal Truth
Sore Throat
Embers
I like a whole lot of stuff that borders on metal (crust, noise, power violence, grind, drone-doom, etc.) but considerably less that falls into the genre per se. I really admire Chuck Schuldiner of Death as a musician, and enjoy listening to his work despite not being madly in love with various large elements of his style.
Industrial anybody?
KMFDM, Static-X and Turmion Katilot.
The "industrial"-type music I like - whatever that term means - is generally old-school experimental industrial, noise, power noise, martial industrial, neo-folk - that sort of thing. I rarely enjoy electro-industrial, futurepop, EBM, "industrial rock" or "industrial metal."
So:
C.C.C.C.
The Masonna
Merzbow
Whitehouse
Einsturzende Neubauten
Coil
Nurse With Wound
Converter
Terrorfakt
C.A.T.
Psychic TV
//////
Death In June
etc.
I'm... not familiar with any of those bands. But I intend on becoming so. Though I don't like "noise", melody's more my thing. I do love me some electronic sounds though. Don't suppose you'd be willing to narrow that down to bands that love melody and comprehensible singers for me could you?
The term "industrial" was originally used by Industrial Records, a label established by experimental outfit Throbbing Gristle which included Nurse With Wound, Clock DVA and even William S. Burroughs. As such, the term "industrial" is originally (and best, in the opinion of utter snobs such as myself) applied to experimental, often abstract music (or more appropriately, sound) artists who push and break the definition of "music" and work with elements such as tape hiss, recordings of sounds like factory fans and freeway overpasses, disturbing or disorienting sounds, and actual noise - that is white noise, grey noise, pink noise etc. It can also include artists who take electronic dance music to its ear-splitting logical extreme - a jolting square-wave beat, often supplemented by little to nothing else (this is "power noise"), and artists who create sardonic takes on popular music using experimental electronic techniques, or work with militaristic or fascistic themes ironically (usually - NON may or may not be kidding, for example). It's as much a cultural label as anything.
Nowadays, the term "industrial" is frequently applied to dance music that may share heritage with the original industrial music, but is emphatically not of the same sound, and is not nearly as experimental or bracing as "real," original industrial bands like Nurse With Wound, Einsturzende Neubauten and Psychic TV, as harsh and cutting as power noise acts like Converter, or as abstracted and masochistic as noise outfits like Merzbow and Whitehouse. Thus, the term "industrial" is sometimes used to describe electro dance groups like Apoptygma Berzerk, VNV Nation and Assemblage 23, or even bands which blend rock or metal structures with harsh electronics, such as Nine Inch Nails, Ministry or KMFDM. To say that these groups are "industrial" is pretty laughable - it's like saying that an advertisement that uses an optical illusion borrowed from Magritte is "surrealist." Some such groups, such as KMFDM and Front 242, at least have cultural roots in actual industrial music; it may be a fair criticism that their exclusion from industrialhood by snobs like me may be a reaction to their popularity (although KMFDM is good for lighthearted enjoyment, and Front 242 is great).
You're unlikely to find conventional vocals, or much melody, in industrial music. However, the industrial music culture does incorporate some very different genres - such as neofolk - which fall under the industrial cultural banner, but adhere to much more conventional musical structures, including melody and conventional vocals, lyrics etc. Probably the best known such band is the neofolk outfit Death In June.
That was mighty long-winded and pretentious of me. Sorry about that. :D
Dethklok
If only real bands were that interesting.
Manowar's that interesting. Because they are EXACTLY the same in their ludicrously high opinions of themselves.
Also, thanks bunches Panorama. Those bands you grouped with KMFDM and NIN? I hadn't heard of them before, and I've been looking for new industrial rock. I won't just call it "industrial" anymore. You've been gracious, but I remember a girl jumping down my throat because I called KMFDM industrial once.
Oh, I didn't mean to recommend those bands. I wouldn't push Apoptygma Berzerk to anyone. :D
Let me name a few bands you might like, though. I don't like all of these outfits myself, but none of them are dirt-horrible.
Front 242 is an early electronic dance group which had ties to the industrial movement. They're great fun, and their song Headhunter is loved, played, remixed and covered so much that even those who love it get tired of it. They coined the term "Electronic Body Music," although EBM has since become a label for music that I consider to be by and large total garbage.
Hanzel und Gretyl take the "industrial metal" sound used by groups like Ministry and KMFDM to new heights of ridiculousness, paring it down to nothing but relentless sampled guitar riffs, electronic drums, staccato samples of things like sirens, and dorky pseudo-German lyrics - most notably, "FUKKEN! ÜBER! DEATH! PARTY!" They also sound just a tad like that crappy nu-metal I listened to in middle school, at least at times. I think they're kind of stupid, but hey, at least they're having fun.
Blam Honey is a Japanese visual kei duo, blending industrial and "industrial rock" influences with an intense, sculpted melodic electronic landscape - at times ambient, at times insistently rhythmic. Genuinely good stuff.
Skinny Puppy is a flagship of the post-industrial landscape, worshiped by "gothic industrial" kids who wear New Rock boots and like to stomp as a form of dancing. I don't care for them much, but they're inarguably very, very popular, and extremely influential. Lots of "goth" people who don't listen to goth music love Skinny Puppy. Hey, who am I to argue?
SPK started as an actual industrial band, making fabulous and jarring noisy atmospherics, and then suddenly decided to join the early, industrial-influenced electronic dance movement, joining ranks with Front 242. I prefer their initial stuff, of course, but their dance material is undeniably infectious and enjoyable, and includes early examples of drumming on pipes and other makeshift items.
Babyland, speaking of drumming on pipes, had a venerable 20-year run playing "electronic junk punk." Emotional, angry, fabulously unsubtle lyrics (one of the albums is called "You Suck ->-bleeped-<-"), with influences from industrial, punk, post-punk and electronic dance music. Apart from said drumming on found and assembled metal objects, shows included showering sparks on the crowd. I went to their last show; it was a great show.
Ministry is another one of those groups, like KMFDM, which one uses to point out to normals obsessed with Rammstein that "hey, you know, they didn't really invent that sound." They started as a post-punkish new wave band, hilariously - see early song Halloween. They've been milking the chugging-guitars-with-electronics thing for so long now, it's become almost impossible for them to come out with anything original. Nonetheless, a venerable old cow of the "industrial metal" (or American coldwave, or whatever you want to call it) meme.
Ehh, I have to finish my essay for school. I hope that tides you over.
n_n
I had completely forgotten about Ministry. People are always telling me to listen to them, and I've heard a couple of songs.
I think I know Apoptygma Berzerk... I recall them existing in high school. Not a good sign.
I can't recommended Ministry enough, though for me this medium of music is all about being done live, so I have no feel for the records - you need to do metal with other metal people (or whatever). But Al was out early and on top of the game for a long time.
On the other hand, a very close friend of mine is a key player in the whole SkinnyPuppy deal, and I have to say, he is one of the sickest humans I know - and I mean that in a very positive way.
God, I just did a massive pile of dishes (felt like it took all night) and then decided to crank up my headphones and put on some Amebix. And I'm starting to get a really new level of appreciation for them - the atmospherics... Hell, what can I say to do them justice? These guys were homeless wanderers for something like nine years if I recall correctly, making just unbearably brutal stuff - parts punk, parts metal, parts industrial and post-punk. So apocalyptic, so authentic and dark! They really can't be beat.
Turn your headphones up loud and listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUi72JO7bfQ# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUi72JO7bfQ#) - Slave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNTc47Qxa5s&feature=related# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNTc47Qxa5s&feature=related#) - Winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgeByRgTJAA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgeByRgTJAA#) - Axeman
Earth to ashes, buildings to dust
A radioactive burning crust
The meek shall inherit all that is left
Inherit the Earth, a living death
Slave!
Slave!
Slave!
From the cradle to the grave
Slave!
Slave!
You made yourself the system's slave
Slave
Slave
Slave
Acid rain, rocks on fire!
Poison clouds, God's a liar
There's nothing left for the meek
The past is gone, the future is bleak
Slave!
Slave!
Slave!
From the cradle to the grave
Slave!
Slave!
You made yourself the system's slave
Slave
Slave
Slave
Evil systems, government control
Are to blame for our downfall
There's no umbrella against the rain
Destroy the power, break your chain!
The definition of "impossible to fake." You can fake br00tal - with some musical skill, cloning Cannibal Corpse isn't all that hard - but sheer savage terror cannot be faked.
Now I sound like a fangirl. I need to cool off. :D
Quote from: Laura91 on January 15, 2010, 10:21:55 PM
1.Trouble
2.Candlemass
3.Cathedral
4.Saint Vitus
5.Morgion
6.My Dying Bride
7.Winter
8.Grief
9.13
10.Eyehategod
Here is a list of my top 10 favorite bands in the doom/death/sludge metal subgenres.
(In no certain order)
The best list I have seen in this thread so far! I am huge doom metal fan too!!!
Some of my favorites:
Reverend Bizarre
Spiritus Mortis
Trouble
Candlemass
Black Sabbath
Warning
Revelation
The Puritan
Solstice
Blind Guardian
Fields of the Nephilim
Electric Wizard
Death
Beherit
Burzum
Saint Vitus
Bolt Thrower
Rhapsody (of Fire)
Manowar
Lord Vicar
Testament
King Diamond
etc etc.... ;D
*wonders why it took him so long to find this topic*
I've listened to Metallica since I was about three years old and I still listen to them. Mostly their old music, though (before and after Cliff Burton died). Anything after Load and Reload is just kind of...meh
Quote from: PanoramaIsland on February 18, 2010, 05:44:39 PM
Oh, I didn't mean to recommend those bands. I wouldn't push Apoptygma Berzerk to anyone. :D
:( ...But, I love Apop, and all of the other bands that would go on tour with them (i.e VNV Nation, Imperative Reaction, Beborn Beton, wolfschiem, etc). I can't listen to "Kathy's Song" and not smile!
I wouldn't want anyone to call them industrial even though some people do, more synthpop or futurepop than anything. BTW VNV Nation is my favorite band, people used to call them industrial but, I don't think anyone does these days.
As far as metal goes, I pretty much stick to the commercial stuff:
In Flames
Dimmu borgir
Cradle of Filth
My Dying Bride (their heavy stuff is kinda metal)
Spineshank
Forest of Shadows
six feet under (well, I liked Graveyard Classics)
40 below summer (more rapcore than metal I guess)
I used to listen to stuff like Deicide and Slayer, but really I just don't think the lyrics are worth too much, so I got bored with that stuff, these days I'm more interested in songs that have some meaning to me.
To be honest, if Assemblage 23 wasn't so annoyingly poppy musically, I would listen to it all the time. The lyrics are very heartfelt.
I'm sorry I insulted VNV and Apop, etc. ;D I just don't like them personally, and I get very tired of seeing kids at "goth" clubs who run around in VNV Nation shirts and don't know who The Birthday Party or Sex Gang Children were. It's depressing, and counter to popular belief, I do not go to goth clubs in order to become more depressed.
I just don't like them personally, and I get very tired of seeing kids at "goth" clubs who run around in VNV Nation shirts and don't know who The Birthday Party or Sex Gang Children were.
Try going to Grateful Dead events when most of the people there never heard Jerry play live.
How did I not know there was a metal thread? :o
Anyway bands I love/like in no particular order
Anaal Nathrakh
Agalloch
Katatonia
Nile
My Dying Bride
Carcass
The Berzerker
Napalm Death
Bathory
Burzum
To be fair, I think you'd be disappointed in just about 90% of people for not knowing the bands that came before what they are listening to.
This is OT but,
Here is an example, a couple of years ago I was at a job working mostly with people around my own age, and I made a reference to Timothy Mcveigh and they just gave me a blank look, and I was like "you know, the OK city bombing" and they just gave me another blank stare, and I was like "it was kinda like a smaller 9-11" and they just said "oh, so that's why they fought the first war against Iraq".
I'm just saying don't expect too much :) it just leads to disappointment.
P.S. if you want to verify how little the average person knows, goto your local community college and ask who the vice president is, I'd be amazed if more than 50% know his name and more than 20% knew he was from Delaware.
Hell, I didn't know that Biden was from Delaware. Then again, we don't hear about Biden much. He's not Cheney - he's a true background VP, all old-fashioned an' ->-bleeped-<-. Fancy that! ;D
The thing that really rubs me the wrong way is that "goth" clubs often play so little actual goth music. Electro with teeth may be fun to stomp around to, but it is not goth in the same way that Johnny Cash is not acid rock. A lot of people who like Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother And The Holding company adore Cash, but that doesn't mean that a "psychedelic rock night" should be dominated by Johnny Cash songs. God damn it, when I go to a "goth club," I want to hear Siouxsie, Bahaus, Christian Death, Sex Gang Children, Corpus Delicti, Virgin Prunes - not Cruxshadows, Bella Morte, VNV Nation and Combichrist. It's just not what I'm there for.
I tend to listen to:
British heavy
German power
Norwegian black
Swedish death
Finnish folk
Wait, is that a list of genres or dog breeds?
I've been playing/writing Swedish death for 15ish years, with some dabbling in Finnish-ish power on the side.
Emmik, let's be friends. Gamma Ray is the bestest band ever, as is Iron Maiden and Motorhead.
Quote from: Jester on April 20, 2010, 10:49:18 AM
Emmik, let's be friends. Gamma Ray is the bestest band ever, as is Iron Maiden and Motorhead.
Three truths for the price of one :)
I saw Helloween and Gamma Ray in Montreal. I think that must be what heaven's like.
Quote from: Laura91 on April 20, 2010, 11:12:29 AM
I know this is taken from an old post but I had to respond to this statement. It reminds me of people that would hear stuff like My Dying Bride, Morgion, etc and say to me "how can you listen to that? I would be slitting my wrists after five minutes of this stuff."
For me it has always been about getting into the heaviness of it, not being all depressed by it. Minor key music has always had that effect on me (for the most part), the more depressing it sounded the better it made me feel. The only time this wasn't true was when I was suffering from INTENSE GID induced depression (and the finasteride sure didn't help any) and when I would hear a really depressing part I would fall to pieces. Thankfully, that is no longer the case and now I can go back to truly enjoying the music like I used to do.
Yeah, listening to dark music is generally a release of one kind or another, not a way to stew in one's darkness. A lot of people who don't listen to the stuff don't seem to get that.
I'm surprised that any mtf's actually posted here. I like all music primarily old soul, r&b, jazz, blues. I like listen to metal and thrash when I work out as it gets the energy going. Some of the bands I like are Motorhead, GBH, Agnostic Front, Atomic Bitchwax and the Plasmatics
I don't know if I can name all my favourite metal bands, ill name a few though
Metallica
Slipknot - RIP Paul Grey :'(
Disturbed
Mastodon
Alice In Chains
Lacuna Coil
Rammstein
Avenged Sevenfold
Mudvayne
and the list goes on...
Ok now I've been reading this I'm kind of missing not going to the Download festival again this will be the 3rd time I haven't gone, before that I went to everyone since it started I've seen many of my favourite bands play there. But aswel as listening to metal I also like to listen to EBM and Japanese rock music (mostly VK style).
Within Temptation
Tool
Disturbed
Rammstein
Slipknot
Three Days Grace
System of a Down
Shinedown
Saliva
P.O.D
Nonpoint
Papa Roach
Haggard
Metallica
Do I need to say more? :p
All of mine are going to be really old as that was when I was into metal, have recently started listening again in my more pissed off moments.
Megadeth
Dark Angel
Kreator
Death
Sodom
Slayer
Metallica
Possessed
Celtic Frost
Bathory
Suicidal Tendancies (Okay, only some of it verged on metal)
Voivod
Motorhead
And the mighty, mighty Black Sabbath.
Hmmm:
By Genre. I'll include hardcore because that's where I started, but only metally moshy mcmoshmetal:
Mathematics:
Botch
Coalesce
DEADGUY
Playing Enemy
Owen Hart
HC:
Buried Alive
Madball
Converge
Shai Hulud)
Born from Pain
Donnybrook
Trial
Figure Four
Etc...
Guilty metalcore pleasures:
Killswitch (honestly, who doesn't like this band)
Unearth
Shadows Fall
*cringe* As I lay Dying. Clean vocals suck, but the songs are fun on guitar!
Thrash:
Excel
S/T
Bonded by Blood
Municipal Waste
Kreator
Destruction
Exodus (but not really after I saw them live last
Megadeth (kinda)
Power:
3 Inches of Blood
Children of Bodom (I don't know if you can call this power really...)
Hilarious adventure metal:
Rhapsody
Tech Death:
Nile
Cephalic Carnage (I honestly have no idea how to classify this band)
The Faceless
Miscellaneous ->-bleeped-<- from Sweden:
Opeth
59 times the pain
Refused is ->-bleeped-<-ing DEAD
Doom/Sludgeish stuff:
Baroness
Heiress
Mastodon
Etc.
I love metal, and I love hardcore.
Seriously out of all those bands though, Buried Alive is the most brutal ->-bleeped-<- i've ever heard in my entire life:
Buried Alive - Kill Their Past (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtxH2TWV190#ws)
Sounds like a really really really ->-bleeped-<-ing nasty street fight. I miss hardcore shows.
Anything Ronnie James Dio has ever done (Dio, Sabbath, Rainbow)
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne
King Diamond
Bruce Dickinson
Alice Cooper
Metallica
Megadeth
Motorhead
Halford
Twisted Sister
W.A.S.P.
Kiss
Scorpions
And more...
I like metal, I've seen a few bands in concert, the last being Kiss and the next gig I'm going to is Judas Priest this summer :) I've also seen Iron Maiden, Killer Dwarfs, Wolfsbane, Anthrax, Megadeth, Pantera, The Almighty, Alice In Chains, AC/DC, The Wildhearts, Whatever and a fair few non-metal bands too such as Manic Street Preachers, The B-52's and Credit to the Nation
I love my fair share of metal but for some reason right now I'm more into techno metal...like blue stahli.
Ever heard Ultraviolence crazy metal techno.Lately I discovered the Golers on youtube love it cause the events they re named after literaly took place across the road from where i grew up sick ->-bleeped-<- .I listen to Danzig and Sabbath way too much Dio did a song on holy diver with a trans charecter called invisible listen to it
One thing that is apparent is there is a definite difference between the first wave of Heavy metal bands and what is regarded as typical of the genre today.
Slayer for example, are not playing similar to Zep or Deep Purple. I won't say one is "better" than the other, just different. I like to turn my bass amp up to 10 and have a good thrash sometimes too, rather than play Bach cello concertos. ???
At the risk of annoying a lot of people I would dispute that AC/DC are a metal band at all. More like the last living 70's Aussie Pub Rock band (from having seen them in their early days. Haven't changed much at all really)
Karen.
In the late 60's and 70's Aussie hotel owners worked out that if they put in a band on Friday and Saturday nights, they would more than recoup the cost as there were a lot of bands vieing for exposure.
The major record companies tried to demand heavy royalties from the radio stations for airplay. The radio stations turned to smaller local labels who were looking for exposure for their artists, and the music scene just took off.
AC/DC were typical of the bands playing a straightforward driving rock, loud, so they could punch through a "beer barn" full of teenagers who wanted a good time, not a sophisticated musical extravaganza. They managed to stay together and move overseas, unlike a lot of others, where they seemed to arrive at the right time as an antidote to the last days of Glam-Rock.
At least that's how I saw it at the time.
Karen, aging rock chick!
Holy ->-bleeped-<-, more metalheads! Awesome!
I've been a long time metalhead and have probably spent way too much time and money on metal, lol But hey, it makes me happy!
Anyways, my personal tastes lean toward black metal, death metal and thrash metal. Some of my favourites are
Burzum
Darkthrone
Bathory
Mayhem
(old) Celtic Frost
Nifelheim
Judas Iscariot
Emperor
Immortal
Sarke
Bolt Thrower
(old) Pestilence
Gorefest (pre-death n' roll)
Possessed
Dismember
Obituary
Morbid Angel
Kreator
Destruction
Sodom
Onkel Tom
Exodus (with Paul Baloff and Souza...hate Rob Dukes)
Sadus
etc.
I also like some folk metal, from black/folk stuff like Windir, Moonsorrow and Primordial to the "drunken party music" of bands like Korpiklaani, Ensiferum and Finntroll.
Also like some speed metal like Running Wild, Accept and a few others. Traditional doom bands like Candlemass and Mercyful Fate, and some traditional heavy metal as well.
Quote from: Laura91 on April 20, 2011, 09:46:44 PM
Time for a rant:
Jeeez!! What the hell happened to death metal in the last ten years or so? When I check out new death metal bands it's 1. ultra tuned down garbage or 2. so technical that there is no real vibe there, just a mass of vomited notes. Whatever happened to the days when a death metal band would rock your socks with heavy MUSIC and not a bunch of damn gibberish?
Then you have the bands that write lyrics that appear to be scrawled by a sexually frustrated 12 year old boy and topped off with stupid song titles and idiotic samples. Sure, some old school bands didn't have very high brow lyrics but at least they had the music to ram home the point and it wasn't a garbled mess of crap (Autopsy and Impetigo being two prime examples of this).
The fans are another matter altogether "Uh huh huh..the song titles are so funny. Uh huh huh....these samples are so sick". WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT FRIGGIN' SAMPLES??!! If I want to hear audio from a freakin' movie I will put in a damn DVD!! (Yes Impetigo was guilty of this very thing but...but...ah, whatever).
I checked out one of these pathetic excuses for death metal, some lame band called Spermswamp (yeah, that's really funny..if you are 12!!) and they are guilty of everything I have talked about. Sheesh!! what a joke these idiots are, and people actually LIKE this crap?? Wow, it's the sort of stuff that justifies people asking me back in the day "what the hell is this garbage that you are listening to?"
In the words of Pauline Campbell-Jones "PA- thet-ic!!"
Oh. and for those of you who say "who cares? It's all noise anyway" you can move along, there is nothing to see here.
There are still some decent newer death metal bands out there. Though I guess it depends on your definition of "new." For example Hail of Bullets is a fairly new band, but they include guys like Martin van Drunen and others who have been involved in the scene since the 80s and early 90s. There's a bit of a resurgence going on of old school death metal bands, similar to the thrash rebirth. Australia is probably one of the best places to look right as far as good new death metal bands.
Jeeez!! What the hell happened to death metal in the last ten years or so? ... Whatever happened to the days when a death metal band would rock your socks with heavy MUSIC and not a bunch of damn gibberish?
Pretty much because Rock and Roll (of which death metal is but a sub, sub-genre) hit it's sell-by date about ten years or so ago. Kids with talent have been going in a different direction. We've had several bands lately that bill themselves specifically as Post-Rock. Rock is not dead, any more than jazz or any other music ever dies. But it reaches a peak, past which it becomes all but impossible to do much of anything new with it anymore. Just like in the sixties talented kids moved from doing jazz to rock, they've now moved from doing rock to doing other things. Almost anything else.
The 'cool kids' (and ever generation has them) are not interested in that stuff anymore. It's pretty much just a middle-age deal now.
They just had the BIG 4 metal show in Coachella, and you get Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax on the same bill. Hell. Most of the guys in those bands are late 30s and 40+ years old now. Their fans are not much younger anymore either.
I think in part -and I've talked to a lot of different professional musicians about this and they tend to agree - that the internet has had a huge impact, and not just in distributing music (which is has, just try to find a record/CD store anymore) but in this way: Pretty much all the music that has EVER been recorded is now available for anyone with a net connection. All of it. And given ALL the music that has EVER been recorded, what exactly can you offer up that is new, or different, or even exciting? It's going to take a good ten or more years to really digest all of that, and what is going to come out is going to be a super hybrid that takes into account all of that other stuff and finds a new way to combine, synthesize and create it.
But, for the "Rock is Dead" fanclub, I'll offer up Rock of Ages as it's headstone. If Broadway is making musicals using power ballads as it's core score, you can bet the kids have long since moved on elsewhere, and all that's left for fans is middle age folks.
My cousin asked me if I fancied going to the 'Big 4' concert when It hits the U.K but to be honest, we saw all of those bands when they were in their absolute prime (1986/87) and they were great! If anyone had told us that Slayer would be doing Angel of Death as a nostalgic sing along number in their late forties (I'm 39 so there is no way that they are any younger, I met them and they were a lot older than me. Tom Araya was ridiculously hot though! :-*) I think that we would have cried. The whole thrash thing was young and energetic and I think that it's sad that it has become the preserve of the old folk, I can only imagine what the mosh pit looks like now haha!
Let's leave the past in the past.
I'm the same, by the time I was eighteen I had realised that music was a much broader canvass than just thrash metal, but I do still like it (or at least some of it) I just would rather listen to it as it was than seeing a load of old men going through the motions. I was the same when the Sex Pistols reformed for gigs, although I do regret not seeing the Stooges at Glastonbury as I saw it on T.V and they were amazing! So that kind of shoots holes in my theory. :P
I kind of missed the whole Death Metal thing as once I discovered other things (mostly U.S punk) I went completely the other way for a while and didn't listen to what was going on in the metal world, I had the debut albums by Possessed and Death and the like but they were still pretty much thrash. Napalm Death too but they were still hardcore punk at the time. I have over the past couple of years been buying up vinyl from that era because as I transition, I wanted a link to the past (I'm a bit weird like that!) My god some of it's expensive to get now!!
Agh, I'm not good at identifying different types of 'hard rock' so I'll just toss my 2 cents in here and hope they're rightly labeled:
Dir en Grey [japanese band who get pretty insane]
Otep
System of a Down
Gallhammer [japanese again]
The Crescents [korean band]
Think that's all I've got that I think 'qualify'. Oh man that's a lame list.
Quote from: Silver on December 02, 2009, 10:03:45 PM
Well I've seem them referred to as alternative, experimental, metal, "progressive rock". . . etc. So I guess it depends on your opinion to some extent.
System of a Down definately fall into the metal genre in my opinion, Chop Suey is amazing (I'm gonna have to go play it on Guitar Hero now i've thought of it)
Everybody should check out Iron Maidens latest album The Final Frontier, it's the best they've ever done
Anyone else heard new Autopsy songs yet? Definitely one of my pics for album of the year so far. ->-bleeped-<- yeah, them, Hail of Bullets and Asphyx are keeping the old school alive these days >:-)
I really do love my metal, so I'll just go ahead and namedrop a bunch of the bands/genres I listen to.
My most favourite genre of metal is straight up progressive metal, like Dream Theater, Ayreon, Devin Townsend and Cloudkicker. I also love some other harsher prog metal, like Meshuggah, Disillusion and Opeth. I'm also currently on a huge post-metal/sludge metal binge; I've been listening to a lot of Isis, Dirge, Long Distance Calling, and Ashes and Iron lately. There's also a lot of eclectic avant-garde metal in my library, like Dog Fashion Disco, SikTh, maudlin of the Well and Diablo Swing Orchestra.
I don't remember if I posted in this or not and I don't want to try and go through all the pages on my phone. lol
My metal line up:
DIMMU BORGIR!!!!
Behemoth
God Forbid
Suicide Silence
Stovokor (Klingon heavy metal band)
King Diamond
how about ufo,michael schenker group,uli jon roth,yngwie malmsteem,storm witch,randy rhoads,anvil,loudness a japanese band,annihilator,lizzy borden,and accept.
Quote from: Laura91 on May 18, 2011, 04:17:51 PM
No, I haven't checked those out yet. I've heard that it's more like their early stuff from the late 80s/early 90s. I also want to check out the new Deceased record. I heard a couple of super rough demos on Youtube and the songs were pretty good.
Ok, I know that this might constitute as grave digging, but seriously...new Autopsy is ->-bleeped-<-ing amazing. Everyone must listen to new Autopsy! Do it now!
Drone doom, atmospheric and depressive black metal are the only metals for me. :3
Was really big in metal and metalcore years back; Extol, Arch Enemy, Dillinger Escape Plan, etc. Anymore I'm calming down and like post-hardcore/ punkcore stuff, but now and then I listen to Eluveitie or Armana Reign.
Quote from: Adele on September 02, 2011, 06:06:53 PMUnless we're talking about Bal-Sagoth. For some reason, I love that band, even though it's the type of thing I should totally hate. ;D
Nobody should hate Bal-Sagoth, no matter what other genres of metal they like (coming from a long time diehard old school black metal/death metal/thrash metal fan, here)! They are epic as ->-bleeped-<-!
I defy you!
Hyperborea shall fall! Your court shall become the heart of my new imperium! Your people shall become my lackeys bearing the glorious burden of my sovereignty with sweet praise upon their lips!
I shall aaalways defy yoouuuu!!!
How is it possible not to see/hear the awesomeness that is Bal-Sagoth?! :D
wow i never expected there would be so many fans of great music here
here is a short list
dark throne
burzum
mayhem
deicide
morbid angel(old school)
carcass
my dying bride
paradise lost
carnivore/type o negative
misfits
cancer
cadaver
terrorizer
and some speed core techno
like delta 9, DOA, jack Lucifer,lenny dee
stuff on
industrial strength records
bloody fist records
P.C.P. kotzak klan
So:
Iron Maiden
Helloween
Stratovarius,
Edguy,
Masterplan
Nightwist
Dark Moor
Black Messiah
Hammerfall
Dream Evil
Judas Priest
Metallica
Running Wild
Lonewolf
Adagio
Mezarkabul (Turkey)
Almora (Turkey)
Catafalque (Turkey)
X-Japan
Blaflare (japan)
Galneryus (Japan)
Blackthorn (Russia)
Butterfly Temple (Russia)
Kipelov(Russia)
Aria(Russia)
Epidemia(Russia)
Arkona(Russia)
Catharsis(Russia)
Volnaya Staia(Russia)
Andem(Russia)
Orphaned land(Israel)
Edgend(Israel)
Vesania(Poland)
Quote from: Berserk on April 27, 2011, 12:42:35 PM
Darkthrone
Haha, I used to hang out with Fenris' brother all the time. We used to be good friends and I would hang out over at their house all the time back in the 90s. Gylve seemed more of the quiet type to me and we never really clicked. Still see him at the rock/metal clubs sometimes when I go out to those places.
Saw Judas Priest this last October, in San Antonio.
Loved it!
They were without Mr. Downing, and Rob Halford looked to be on his last legs... but... it was the fulfillment of something I've been wanting to do for 30+ yrs.
Better late than never! ;D
That's awesome! I've been listening to Judas Priest a lot lately.
Been quite obsessed with Tyr lately...which is odd, since I really didn't enjoy them at all in the past. But something suddenly clicked and I just can't stop lol
Quote from: Mistelle on July 05, 2012, 12:07:55 AM
Arkona(Russia)
Thank you! My friend introduced me to them, but I couldn't remember what they were called.
Honestly my musical taste in metal is so eclectic that I don't even know if it would fall under metal. So many people get irritable on that so I will just list my fave 10 or so :P
(not in any particular order)
10. Dimmu borgir/Old Man's child -I love both these bands and since they were kinda bundled on the devils path/shades of life album.
9. Cradle of Filth fo sure.
8. Manson
7. White zombie
6. Machinehead
5. Deathstars
4. Acidbath
3. Finntroll
2. Korn(yes I am a 90s kid and loves their stuff from then, so angsty and brooding)
1. Misfits. I don't care if it's not metal, they deserve a spot in this post.
Wow, I didn't expect to see so many other Tras girls here. Just shows how much of a noob I am XP
My top 10 metal bands are
10 My Dying Bride
9 Isis
8 The Sword
7 Neurosis
6 Candlemass
5 Ghost
4 Mastodon
3 Mastodon
2 Mastodon
1 (not metal but still the best) Joy Division <3
My favorite metal groups--
Disturbed
Evanescence
Metallica (especially their S&M album)
Staind
Korn