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:



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.