Favourite Metal band(s)?

[Samoftherocks]

A lot of the bands I've seen above are on my list, but one I'd like to call out is "Conducting from the Grave".

Check them out, they are fucking awesome!

 

[estoria-etnia]

I wasn't aware that Evanescence was classified as metal, I always thought they fit more into the symphonic rock genre... and I wouldn't exactly classify them as nu-metal either. D'espairsRay are more nu-metal than them. the GazettE could fit, but that's only because they have released a couple of metal songs ? they're really all over the place.

As for my favourites, I'd have to say:
Nightwish
Kamelot
Versailles
Epica
Sonata Arctica
Matenrou Opera

 

[Cem Seckin]

And yes, most genres don't have any musical value.

No one can decide the "musical value" of a genre. Tastes differ for every one. Stop being a iggonorant and listen your genre, express your opinion but dont mock people about their tastes.

 

[sdfgsdfgdfsg]

That is one of the best technical death metal bands out there.

 

[Tragedy's Rebellion]

I'm going to continue with my list format because there are so many things wrong with your post.

1: I never said Nightwish and CoB's music were at all similar(Though they are, they both have clear, strong power metal influence), I simply said there's no way to objectively say one is "better"

2: Why are we arguing about CoB and Nightwish anyway? Your original point was that I am impossible because I listen to stuff other than metal and listen to metal as well.

3: "Smeared with mediocrity"? What does that even mean?

4: I'm willing to bet you know jack shit about music theory, and are just saying you do because you think metal is music for intelligent people therefore you must be intelligent and know everything about music because you listen to the best music in the world! I used to be like you, but then I grew up. By what metric are you measuring musical value?

I'm actually a professional pianist, so i know a thing or two about theory ;P I'm not trying to insult you or anyone else. If you want to listen to every genre ever, then all the power to you, just don't be all smug and act like that's a good thing, because it's not.
About your other points, if you can't understand what i mean then you just can't understand, nothing wrong with that.

Edit: I don't get why people are so insulted and, i don't even know how to describe it, overzealous? i guess, when someone says something "bad" about the things they listen to. I wouldn't care at all. I doubt people who listen to rap's hands fall off when someone says rap is a pile of shite, so i don't know why they WOULD care.

 

[Samoftherocks]

If you want to listen to every genre ever, then all the power to you, just don't be all smug and act like that's a good thing, because it's not.

Tagged in! How on Earth can loving an array of musical genres ever be defined as a "bad thing"?

If you can answer that, I will drop everything and dedicate myself to the New Polka Revolution right now...

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Alestorm. From the painfully under-populated "pirate metal" subgenre.

 

[Samoftherocks]

Alestorm. From the painfully under-populated "pirate metal" subgenre.

I have to admit, it's kind of hard to imagine another doing justice to the "pirate metal" subgenre without sounding exactly like Alestorm. They seem like they filled that niche perfectly.

 

[funguy2121]

Hello!
What is your favourite Metal band(s)? (Just wondering.)
This also includes sub-genres like Power-Metal, Nu-Metal etc.

Mine are:
In Flames
Evanescence
Soilwork
DragonForce
Nightwish
Breaking Benjamin
edit: And Children of Bodom

Seriously, you can't tell me that you consider Evanescence metal. This is not a statement about the quality of their music but rather their style. It's pop, it's sort of goth lite, but it has nothing stylistically in common with Mastadon and Pantera, at all.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Alestorm. From the painfully under-populated "pirate metal" subgenre.

I have to admit, it's kind of hard to imagine another doing justice to the "pirate metal" subgenre without sounding exactly like Alestorm. They seem like they filled that niche perfectly.

True, true. But I'd like to see a strictly instrumental pirate metal band. I think that'd be all different kinds of awesome.

But right now I am pretty much contented with Alestorm completely filling that subgenre and am eagerly awaiting their 3rd album.

 

[Tragedy's Rebellion]

If you want to listen to every genre ever, then all the power to you, just don't be all smug and act like that's a good thing, because it's not.

Tagged in! How on Earth can loving an array of musical genres ever be defined as a "bad thing"?

If you can answer that, I will drop everything and dedicate myself to the New Polka Revolution right now...

It's not "bad" per se, but it's not good at all. It's a scientific fact that music influences you in more ways than one, so your head just becomes an undisciplined mess. And no, you aren't a magnificent rebel and a free soul when you listen to MANY types of music, that's just ridiculous (if that's what you were going to say).

Have fun at that polka revolution ;P

 

[Bags159]

I'm horrible at picking favorites... so here's a list of every band I have at least one song of that is some form of metal.

Spoiler

All that Remains
Arch Enemy
Advesary
Animals as Leaders
As Blood Runs Black
As I Lay Dying
At the Gates
Atreyu
August Burns Red
Austrian Death Machine
Becoming the Archetype
Children of Bodom
Close Your Eyes
A Day to Remember
Darkest Hour
Demon Hunter
Destroy the Runner
The Devil Wears Prada
Five Finger Death Punch
For Today
In Flames
Killswitch Engage
Lamb of God
Linkin Park (sorry!)
Means
Metallica
Mercenary
Nightwish (Kinslayer, Planet Hell)
Parkway Drive
A Plea for Purging
Raintime
Rammstein
Secret and Whisper
The Showdown
A Skylit Drive
Soilwork
Still Remains
SuidAkrA
Stick to Your Guns
Trivium
Turisas
Unearth
Wolves at the Gate

If you want to listen to every genre ever, then all the power to you, just don't be all smug and act like that's a good thing, because it's not.

Tagged in! How on Earth can loving an array of musical genres ever be defined as a "bad thing"?

If you can answer that, I will drop everything and dedicate myself to the New Polka Revolution right now...

It's not "bad" per se, but it's not good at all. It's a scientific fact that music influences you in more ways than one, so your head just becomes an undisciplined mess. And no, you aren't a magnificent rebel and a free soul when you listen to MANY types of music, that's just ridiculous (if that's what you were going to say)

I'd love to do some reading about this scientific fact. Please do tell (or link).

 

[flying_gazzelle]

I'm going to continue with my list format because there are so many things wrong with your post.

1: I never said Nightwish and CoB's music were at all similar(Though they are, they both have clear, strong power metal influence), I simply said there's no way to objectively say one is "better"

2: Why are we arguing about CoB and Nightwish anyway? Your original point was that I am impossible because I listen to stuff other than metal and listen to metal as well.

3: "Smeared with mediocrity"? What does that even mean?

4: I'm willing to bet you know jack shit about music theory, and are just saying you do because you think metal is music for intelligent people therefore you must be intelligent and know everything about music because you listen to the best music in the world! I used to be like you, but then I grew up. By what metric are you measuring musical value?

I'm actually a professional pianist, so i know a thing or two about theory ;P I'm not trying to insult you or anyone else. If you want to listen to every genre ever, then all the power to you, just don't be all smug and act like that's a good thing, because it's not.
About your other points, if you can't understand what i mean then you just can't understand, nothing wrong with that.

Being competent with an instrument - nay, being a master of an instrument does not qualify you in any way whatsoever to actually comment on musical theory. Yes, you can comment on specific pieces of individual music but I would only trust someone who is, for example, a master composer to comment on the merits of musical value. Even then, their ideals are skewed towards what they believe is pleasing. Hell, a lot of the best musical theorists were mathematicians who simply used maths to create high quality music. I won't deny you might know a little thing here and there but unless you were a child prodigy or some other such nonsense then generally a person can't comment on the merit of music. It's such a subjective art as to make commenting on whole genres impossible. Yes, you might dislike a band over another. But someone else might find them the perfect match.

That being said, I know Toaster. You claimed that people who claim to like different genres are trying to be "cool".
I can say with all certainty that he is not, will not and never has tried to be cool. Many people like him simply like, as he said, a variety of music. He never took the high ground in your argument, you did. You claimed he could not listen to both without trying to achieve something.

As for not understanding what you mean? Well, you are pretty damned vague. You have no actual metrics for measuring "merit". Also, how can someone be smeared in mediocrity? I am curious. As far as I knew that word was not capable of being used in the place of an object as it is a quality. That's like saying you are smeared in averageness.

 

[Samoftherocks]

Alestorm. From the painfully under-populated "pirate metal" subgenre.

I have to admit, it's kind of hard to imagine another doing justice to the "pirate metal" subgenre without sounding exactly like Alestorm. They seem like they filled that niche perfectly.

True, true. But I'd like to see a strictly instrumental pirate metal band. I think that'd be all different kinds of awesome.

But right now I am pretty much contented with Alestorm completely filling that subgenre and am eagerly awaiting their 3rd album.

If Animals as Leaders took a shot at it, I think THAT would be the apex of piratey awesomeness. I love your idea of a purely instrumental group for this.

One other thing I noticed while watching the Keelhauled video, was the lead singer playing a keytARRRRRR?

Oh yes...that just happened. GOOD NIGHT!

 

[flying_gazzelle]

If you want to listen to every genre ever, then all the power to you, just don't be all smug and act like that's a good thing, because it's not.

Tagged in! How on Earth can loving an array of musical genres ever be defined as a "bad thing"?

If you can answer that, I will drop everything and dedicate myself to the New Polka Revolution right now...

It's not "bad" per se, but it's not good at all. It's a scientific fact that music influences you in more ways than one, so your head just becomes an undisciplined mess. And no, you aren't a magnificent rebel and a free soul when you listen to MANY types of music, that's just ridiculous (if that's what you were going to say).

Have fun at that polka revolution ;P

Perhaps their mind is simply superior in that it can make links between what may at first appear to be disorganised and sparsely related. Hell, genre is hardly a link at all in many cases so your argument that those who like different parts of different genres falls flat on its feet.
Also, cite sources on scientific fact ploxkthanks.

 

[GuitarSlingingManiac]

Not really all that big into metal but the bands I do like are:
.InFlames
.Cancer Bats
.Protest the Hero

I dunno if those last two count but I couldn't make a list with just one band, now could I?

 

[Tragedy's Rebellion]

*snip*

This is getting totally out of hand, so i'm outta here. Believe what you like, i'm not stopping you, and no you haven't "defeated" me i just don't care about this discussion anymore, because it's not going anywhere. I'm not going to explain anything, and thanks to the anonymity of the internet, i don't need to. (also there's Google for that) Have fun.

 

[Samoftherocks]

If you want to listen to every genre ever, then all the power to you, just don't be all smug and act like that's a good thing, because it's not.

Tagged in! How on Earth can loving an array of musical genres ever be defined as a "bad thing"?

If you can answer that, I will drop everything and dedicate myself to the New Polka Revolution right now...

It's not "bad" per se, but it's not good at all. It's a scientific fact that music influences you in more ways than one, so your head just becomes an undisciplined mess. And no, you aren't a magnificent rebel and a free soul when you listen to MANY types of music, that's just ridiculous (if that's what you were going to say).

Have fun at that polka revolution ;P

You're implying juvenile angst where none exists (magnificent rebel and a free soul). The hell you take me for? A HIPPIE?!?!? Ironically, I like Jefferson Airplane.

You still haven't adequately answered my question. Saying that "it's not "bad" per se" leaves only that it simply "is", which assumes that enjoying different genres is effectively a state that one would find themselves enjoying no genres at all.

It's the same as saying that you must choose ONE AND ONLY ONE genre to ever "get it" about music. Does that mean that you have to either be, say, a JAZZ person OR a HIP HOP person?

Two distinct genres that cross ALL THE TIME. Riddle me that while I go tune my Sousaphone...

 

[Togs]

Im not the biggest metal fan but metallica, black sabbath and brocas helm are pretty damn good.

 

[flying_gazzelle]

*snip*

This is getting totally out of hand, so i'm outta here. Believe what you like, i'm not stopping you, and no you haven't "defeated" me i just don't care about this discussion anymore, because it's not going anywhere. I'm not going to explain anything, and thanks to the anonymity of the internet, i don't need to. (also there's Google for that) Have fun.

I AM VICTOR