Metal Thread

[Horkeldorf]

I'm on a massive Anorexia Nervosa kick right now. Great band from France.

Also... Any In Flames here pumped for their new album?

 

[loc978]

I know something similar has been done, but...

Also,

and, y'know... a bunch of other stuff. Especially Iron Maiden.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Spoiler: my small list of metal

Blind Guardian
Megadeth
Metallica
Pantera
Kittie - Am I the only one here that likes them?
Iron Maiden (?)
Dream Theatre
Exhibition
Korn (?)
Ozzy Osbourne
Opeth
Static-x
Nightwish
Delain

I don't get to listen to metal all that often, but those are the ones that I like. I know some of them may not be considered metal, but I don't really care since I think they are awesome.

 

[Olorune]

Missing Mastodon on that list...and High on Fire...and Opeth.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I like killswitch engage. Is that a good thing?

Liking anything is a good thing, because it makes you happy. Metal exists to make people happy, so ignore anyone who tells you to have fun differently because they either don't understand how fun works or failed pre-school.


Everyone else seems to be just listing off bands, but I'm too impatient to go around pasting 15 different youtube videos, and no one ever listens to them anyway.

So! I will be posing a question. What are some really good, really heavy (I'm talking death metal here) bands, that don't scream. Bolded because everyone ignores that part and recommends Parkway Drive or Morbid Angel, or something screams. I can tolerate some screaming, but only on a case by case basis (Periphery, for example).

Really screaming (or growling) is kind of a key feature of death metal. But in terms of heavy bands that don't scream? You should definitely listen to Scurrilous. An album which I will never ever ever stop plugging for it's pure genius. It's by Protest the Hero, and it's absolutely amazing.

Yeah, pretty much all death metal has screaming. I was referring to it more as a heaviness benchmark than as a genre, if that makes any sense.

Thanks for the recommendation. The singing was a little high pitched for me, but the math metal chugging was awesome enough to overcome it.

 

[RanD00M]

countdown till someone quotes me for "the wrong genre" starts here:

Wrong genre. The Fall Of Troy are hard rock, perhaps a little Mathcore. But certainly not metal.

OT: I just fucking love Panzer Division Marduk. One of the heaviest albums ever.

Spoiler: One of my favorite songs ever. Not Marduk however.

 

[Naeo]

Oh boy. List time of bands I listen to/love:

Ahab--Funeral Doom (in the vein of Evoken)
Alcest--Shoegazer/progressive and black metal
Anaal Nathrakh--Extreme black/death metal
Ataraxie--doom metal with black metal influences.
[b.abuse]--instrumental doom/atmospheric
Baroness--prog metal
Black Shape of Nexus--ambient doom
BLCKWVS--instrumental atmospheric sludge.
Boris--sludge, doom, drone, hardcore, punk, ambient/atmospheric. Mostly doom, drone, and sludge.
Buried at Sea--funeral doom, but a bit harsher, slightly more droney, and more black metal inspired vocals.
Cynic--avant-garde/progressive metal
Doomshine--epic doom
Earth--atmospheric drone metal
Envy--Japanese hardcore band.
Evoken--funeral doom. One of the first big bans to do funeral doom.
Funeral--funeral doom (surprise!) with clean vocals.
Greg(o)rian--progressive-ish; really long songs.
Isis--post-metal, progressive, avant-garde.
Iwrestledabearonce--speed/thrash, I think. Not sure what they get labeled as.
Khanate--um...blackened atmospheric doom? Really long, painfully slow songs that are really depressing.
Jesu--progressive, usually melodic metal.
Leviathan--black metal
Mastodon--progressive.
Maudlin of the Well--avant-garde.
Motograter--thrash/nu-metal.
Mourning Beloveth--some awesome Irish doom metal.
Mouth of the Architect--atmospheric semi-melodic sludge is the best term I have.
Mushroomhead--alternative metal. Awesome if you're into more normal stuff.
Neurosis--progressive, avant-garde, some thrash/hardcore pieces.
Ocean--funeral doom.
The Ocean (different from Ocean)--progressive/avant-garde metal.
Ophis--funeral doom metal
PainForged--most of what I've heard is a cross between drone, atmospheric and funeral doom.
Pelican--instrumental metal
P.H.O.B.O.S.--uh...blackened atmospheric industrial doom?
Rammstein--NDH/tanz-metal. Very melodic heavy metal with clean vocals.
Rigor Sardonicous--very slow funeral doom with more distortion/filters than most bands ever think about using.
Rosetta--semi-atmospheric post-metal. Their lyrics are some of the best.
Sabazius--drone (all their stuff is free online!)
Sinistra--drone-doom
Sunn O)))--gods of drone/dark ambient.
Swallow the Sun--Finnish metal group. Not sure if they're prog metal or what though.
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine--drone
Tephra--post-metal/doom/ambient
Thergothon--fathers of funeral doom. Slow songs, deep growled vocals.
Tool--technical prog/avant-garde.
Xasthur--atmospheric black metal
Zaraza--industrial doom.
Ариа (Aria)--more traditional heavy metal, from Russia. Like Iron Maiden but I think better.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. That list is very representative, though, covering basically all the metal I listen to frequently. It ought to appeal to those of a more eclectic taste (i.e., metal hipsters, snark snark snark) or who prefer longer, slower, more atmospheric pieces.

 

[RanD00M]

theres a reason the best bands can't be classified.

AC/DC - Hard Rock
Led Zeppelin - Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Deep Purple - Hard Rock
Pink Floyd - Progressive Rock
Queen - Rock, Pop Rock.

Do I need to go on?

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

I like killswitch engage. Is that a good thing?

Liking anything is a good thing, because it makes you happy. Metal exists to make people happy, so ignore anyone who tells you to have fun differently because they either don't understand how fun works or failed pre-school.


Everyone else seems to be just listing off bands, but I'm too impatient to go around pasting 15 different youtube videos, and no one ever listens to them anyway.

So! I will be posing a question. What are some really good, really heavy (I'm talking death metal here) bands, that don't scream. Bolded because everyone ignores that part and recommends Parkway Drive or Morbid Angel, or something screams. I can tolerate some screaming, but only on a case by case basis (Periphery, for example).

Really screaming (or growling) is kind of a key feature of death metal. But in terms of heavy bands that don't scream? You should definitely listen to Scurrilous. An album which I will never ever ever stop plugging for it's pure genius. It's by Protest the Hero, and it's absolutely amazing.

Yeah, pretty much all death metal has screaming. I was referring to it more as a heaviness benchmark than as a genre, if that makes any sense.

Thanks for the recommendation. The singing was a little high pitched for me, but the math metal chugging was awesome enough to overcome it.

You're welcome. Rody is definitely an acquired taste, but the music itself is really fantastic in my opinion.

 

[Zantos]

Korpiklaani - Folk metal
Ensiferum - Zelda metal

Some awesome awesome of awesome there.

 

[RanD00M]

snip

Pop is a genre. Well Pop Rock is at least.

And only giving me Zeppelin? But Pink Floyd are mainly Progressive. Deep Purple are hard rock, even if the band members don't like to classify their music. AC/DC are hard rock, it even says so in your wikipeadia withdraw. So I got everything except for Queen based on your merits and yet your only giving me Zeppelin.

Good try though.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

snip

Pop is a genre. Well Pop Rock is at least.

And only giving me Zeppelin? But Pink Floyd are mainly Progressive. Deep Purple are hard rock, even if the band members don't like to classify their music. AC/DC are hard rock, it even says so in your wikipeadia withdraw. So I got everything except for Queen based on your merits and yet your only giving me Zeppelin.

Good try though.

i gave you nothing
you listed two genres for zepplin
my point for floyd stand if people are calling it two things
deep purple could be either again based on what it said
and Ac/dc it clearly stated as also being a pioneer of heavy metal

I assumed you could read, was i wrong with that assumption.
I wish for no hostilities my life has been a whole lot easier since i stopped caring what people wish to classify music, its why real pushthroughs in music happen in bands which wish to not be classified.

You can keep arguing if you like , but Im perfectly happy being thought of as a musical retard and just enjoy the music being created. The genre definitions benefit nobody.

Um, no? If I like say... Metallica, there's a pretty good chance I'll like a band like Megadeth, because the music they play (or, played back when either were good) is similar. Genre definitions serve the very useful purpose of allowing people to find new bands they like based on their current tastes. They're not meant to be something a band has to conform to, they're meant to define what a band has done up until this point.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

No Deftones? Alt-Metal at it's very best. Since being lumped in with all the Nu-Metal stuff they have really grown as a band to produce some pretty stunning songs. Thier sound also remains pretty much unique with a wall of noise you can get lost in and the ability to find mood in an almost unparalleled way.

Spoiler: Don't Speak....

Metal is quite hard to define these days. Personally im more of a fan of those things on the edge of metal like QOTSA, at the drive in, Kyuss etc.

Deftones are awesome, Shove It is one of my favorites, I kinda forgot about them for a bit, I feel ashamed now. I will agree with you know, trying to define metal is getting a little out of hand now, one band will be considered metal one day and won't be the next.

 

[JochemDude]

Hmmm one of these. I like slow heavy riffing with grunt'ish' but still well articulated vocals, a very present and mood setting bassline and not too much abuse on the high end of the drums. I'm a big fan of bands (not necessarily metal) as Tool, Metallica, AC/DC, Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pantera, Black Sabbath and Queen. I'm not really into them WALL OF SOUND bands, I want to be able to relax sit down and enjoy my music on a sunny day on a strawberry field.

 

[Narclaw]

You've got a good list there. I must have hundreds of CDs in my collection, mostly of metal, industrial, hard rock, etc. I started listening to metal in my mid-teen years. At first it was bands like Metallica, Slipknot, Static-X, System of a Down, Mudvayne, and other mainstream metal acts. Over the years my interets expanded to other metal subgenres like death/black/doom/progressive/grindcore and other thrash metal bands like Slayer, Megadeth, Exodus, Evile, Sodom, Sacrifice and a bunch of others. Many of my preferred bands appear on your list, but I'm also a fan of Asphyx, At the Gates, Candlemass, Cannibal Corpse, Children of Bodom, Daath, Dark Fortress, Dark Tranquillity, Danzig, Dead to this World, Decrepit Birth, and shit that's a lot already. Anyway, metal's awesome!

 

[Narclaw]

I like killswitch engage. Is that a good thing?

Liking anything is a good thing, because it makes you happy. Metal exists to make people happy, so ignore anyone who tells you to have fun differently because they either don't understand how fun works or failed pre-school.


Everyone else seems to be just listing off bands, but I'm too impatient to go around pasting 15 different youtube videos, and no one ever listens to them anyway.

So! I will be posing a question. What are some really good, really heavy (I'm talking death metal here) bands, that don't scream. Bolded because everyone ignores that part and recommends Parkway Drive or Morbid Angel, or something screams. I can tolerate some screaming, but only on a case by case basis (Periphery, for example).

Hmm, try listening to James LaBrie's solo sophomore album, Static Impulse. It has some screaming, but it has mostly clean vocals. The musical style is Gothenburg melodic death metal, similar to that of Dark Tranquillity. Some Testament albums would also work. I haven't listened to all of them, but their older material as well as their latest, the Formation of Damnation is mostly clean. It's difficult to recommend melodic death metal in general, because it tends to feature both clean and gutteral vocals. A couple bands I can think of with a good balance would be Mercenary and Scar Symmetry.

 

[Lemjir]

Opeth (later work is better imo), Symphony X, Animals as leaders, Freak kitchen(and everything by Mattias Eklundh).

To name a (extremely) few.

EDIT" Btw, don't be musical douchebags guys.

 

[Alkaline]

Anaal Nathrakh - Black/death/grind
Behemoth - Black/death metal
Bolt Thrower - Death metal
Bosque - Funeral doom metal
Circle of Dead Children - Death/grind
Claws - Death metal
Darkspace - Ambient black metal
Fear Factory - Industrial metal
Heaven and Hell - Heavy metal
Human Mincer - Brutal death metal
Impetuous Ritual - Dark death metal
Last Days of Humanity - Goregrind
Melancolia - Melodic black metal
Morbid Angel - Death metal
Nevermore - Progressive metal
Nivathe - Black/doom metal
Of Darkness - Dark funeral doom metal
Regurgitate - Goregrind
Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition - Goregrind
Sunn O))) - Drone doom metal
Torture Wheel - Funeral doom metal
Tyranny - Funeral doom metal
Urna - Funeral doom metal
Weeping Birth - Black/death

Just 'cause I felt like showing off.

 

[Dr. Feelgood]

Yay a thread about metal music! .............. wait what are we supposed to talk about?

Judging by what I've seen on youtube, discuss how you're 14 and your dislike for Justin Beiber.

OT: A few additions to that list: And So I Watch You From Afar, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Opeth, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, UnExpect.

I've heard of Opeth and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum from those.. Opeth never did anything for me and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is.. interesting to say the least. Will check out the other three bands as soon as I have the time.

Fun Fact: I'm 14 years old.

Fun Fact: Me too!
Join the club
We have jackets

OT: The first metal I heard, and by far my favorite, is Metallica. It's not so much that I worship thrash metal, but that everything Metallica does is awesome.

 

[Unesh52]

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