Official METAL Thread

[Sylar]

I might as well post this here also:

Favorite band at the moment is The Contortionist.

Some of my favorite bands that have fallen lately:
- Trivium (first 2 albums are the best in my opinion)
- Parkway Drive (best hardcore band in my opinion, quite melodic for a hardcore band, last album sucked, but the first 2 have a warm place in my heart)
- All Shall Perish (their first 2 albums were EPIC, changing guitarist ruined them imo)
- Deadlock (last 2 albums were quite bad in my opinion though)
- Insomnium (Great band, first 3 albums are works of art)

Generally bands that i enjoy:
- Still Remains (Of Love And Lunacy is one of the best metalcore albums ever made)
- Killswitch Engage (they are the reason i started listening to metalcore, which led to death metal eventually)
- Misery Signal (A metalcore band with a very unique and distinguish sound)
- The Absence
- Anterior (Great up and coming death metal band, their first album is one of the best death metal albums i have heard the last 2 years, they have some sick solos)
- All That Remains ( Great first 3 albums, now they are but a shell of former glory in my opinion)
- Born of Osiris
- Between the buried and me
- Bring Me The Horizon (EP+ first album)
- Draconian (Arcane Rain Fell is one of my favorite albums)
- Hopesfall (very unique sound, End of An Era is a song worth checking out to get an idea how they sound)
- Iron Maiden (grew up on iron maiden in the 80s/90s)
- Megadeth (same as above)
- Pantera (same as above)
- Shoot at dawn (one of the few norwegian deathcore bands)
- Volumes (they got a bright future ahead, Intake is one of my favorite songs)

I totally agree with the stuff I put in Bold I honestly think that the album The Fall of Ideals by All That Remains is an amazing metal album and is definitely worth a listen if someone likes melodic riffs and a good mix of shouting/singing.

Btw you might like this song if your into early BMTH

[Ixion]

I do take caution to nu metal. For me, metal is a lifestyle as well as a genre. Korn and bands like that don't fit into my worldview of what is "metal".

What's wrong with Korn's lifestyle? Is it because a lot of non-Metal fans like them? If that's the case, you'd have to cross off Metallica as well, since they have 24,000,000 Likes on Facebook! lol

[btbam]

I might as well add to the list of bands I listen too. Vary from Power to Progressive metal..mostly various forms of Power Metal though...in no particular order:

Blind Guardian
Iced Earth
Demons and Wizards (joint group)
Edguy
HammerFall
Nightwish
Symphony X
Bloodbound
Freedom Call
Firewind
Primal Fear
Avantasia (semi super group)
Ayreon
Beautiful Sin (only one album though )
Northern Kings (super group - mainly covers)
Dream Evil
Rhapsody Of Fire (can't help it, some cheesiness is good!)
White Wizzard
Sabaton

Just a nice start!

Two awesome tracks from Sabaton - Tribute to past metal groups/ influences:

Metal Crue (Lyrics are Band Names)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7UZ5RrV_Tw

Metal machine (Lyrics are song titles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opB5anB5RkI

I freakin love Ayreon. The Human Equation album is amazing. Blind Guardian is one of my favorites too!

[Funeralfog]

fuck it, ill add my favs too

Ozzy Osbourne
Iron Maiden
Scorpions
Judas Priest
Motorhead
Metallica (not since 1991 though)
anthrax
Megadeth
angel Witch
White Zombie
Slayer
W.A.S.P.
Black Label Society
Saxon
Dokken

and that's just a few
and i will not be a fan of a band if they suck live, and you get the best performances at a metal show, there's nothing like it

[Inzane2050]

What particularly defines Metal music versus other rock music?

Would the video intro song of DMC3 count as metal?
Godsmack?

[btbam]

I'm a little surprised nobody has mentined Ronnie James Dio yet. The man was a legend and did more for the genre than perhaps any other on this planet.

What particularly defines Metal music versus other rock music?
Would the video intro song of DMC3 count as metal?
Godsmack?

Godsmack is metal technically, but i catagorize them as hard rock. Heavy Metal is the foundation f the genre. For me, metal is both a culture and a genre of music. For music, it has grandiso sound and sometimes a wall of sound: Highly distorted and amplified guitars. Metal appricates substantive guitar work as well as sick beats on drums. the bass acts as low rumbling foundation that gives it the more robust and full sound. All the subgenres like hardcore, death metal etc. all have the same basic elements that emphasise different things. Hardcore for example uses more distortion and is more "chuggy". Thrash uses more distrtion and more synchopated beats and faster pase. Power metal generally has grandios lyrics involving mythology and use power chords. Death metal uses the death metal growl typically as vocals and more dissonence in the sound. The culture of metal aslo plays into this. Its very male driven, brutish, "fuck ya!" mentality. There is a whole field of dress and actions all associated with metal. The headbang, the horns \m/(-_-)\m/. Its really hard to understand unless your a metalhead. you just know it when you know it.

[R_Mac_1]

Speaking of Metallica, I hadn't paid them any attention in quite some time, until a month or so ago my buddy informed me of their album with Lou Reed. So we gave it a listen...and hilarity ensued. Holy shit what a steaming pile of crap. I think Metallica may have lost any small shred of respect I still had for them. They keep finding ways to put out worse and worse music.

And speaking of Korn and music that you used to think was good, I'm kind of split on stuff like that. There are some bands that I liked back in the day (junior high, high school) that I can still pop in and at least get some sort of enjoyment out of. Stuff like Slipknot, System of a Down, Deftones, Korn (but only a few songs and just barely)... Then there's stuff I hear that I'm like "why did I listen to this?" A lot of Korn stuff fits here, as well as Godsmack, Disturbed, 36 Crazyfists, and many others.

[Funeralfog]

when camping i used to whip out Limp bizkit, then we'd laugh our asses off and drink wine. seemed almost everyone was into that crap back in the day

[Beast of Bourbon]

Yeah man i don't know why but i've got to admit i listened to them too

[Ixion]

Thing is....Nu Metal like Korn, Limp Bizkit, early Linkin Park, early Papa Roach, etc, were some of the most popular acts in the late 90s and early 2000s. Those bands were in the TRL Top 10 all the time. Now that type of music is never popular, at least here in New York. Not one person in my group of friends likes anything harder than the Foo Fighters.

So say what you will, but I'd much rather turn on the radio and hear that music than hear whatever the hell is popular these days.

[Sylar]

I actually still listen to old Papa Roach and Linkin Park, not too much Korn/Slipknot anymore though. Do any of you guys play guitar? I find that helps me appreciate certain songs more even if they don't seem to be that popular anymore. One song that I have found this with is actually Broken Home by Papa Roach

[Ixion]

I actually still listen to old Papa Roach and Linkin Park, not too much Korn/Slipknot anymore though. Do any of you guys play guitar? I find that helps me appreciate certain songs more even if they don't seem to be that popular anymore. One song that I have found this with is actually Broken Home by Papa Roach

I love that song. Infest is a really good album. They start to become less edgy after that though obviously.

EDIT: By the way btbam, I listened to Damnation by Opeth recently and I deleted that shit after one listen lol. Very boring. On to Ghost Reveries!

[btbam]

I love that song. Infest is a really good album. They start to become less edgy after that though obviously.

EDIT: By the way btbam, I listened to Damnation by Opeth recently and I deleted that shit after one listen lol. Very boring. On to Ghost Reveries!

Damnation is pure clean vocals and very boring I agree. One song I like is windowpane. It's counterpart, deliverence is balls to the walls heavy but I'm not a huge fan of that one either. Still life is their best work followed closely by blackwater park. Ghost reveries is pretty good. Ghost of perdition and baying of the hounds are great on that one. Idk if you've listened to watershed yet. I don't like the overall album. In fact I really only like lotus eater and hessian peel, but lotus eater is some of their best work.

[Sylar]

Any of you guys watched this? fuckin epic

[Nuvian]

Cool video.

[ps3freak18]

I heard this on Liquid Metal the other day for the first time in a long time. I forgot just how bad ass this song was. Rizzo is a beast.

[Nuvian]

I heard this on Liquid Metal the other day for the first time in a long time. I forgot just how bad ass this song was. Rizzo is a beast.

Awesome song, thanks for the tip, been listening to his album all morning

[SynYster505]

i've been getting into these guys lately. they're actually pretty good. i love how the keyboards in their album 'creatures' add a creepy vibe to it.
Plus, look out for Dee snider in the video.

[ps3freak18]

Awesome song, thanks for the tip, been listening to his album all morning

He is a phenomenal guitarist. Very well respected from what I can gather. I know a bunch of the metal method guitar dvds are taught mostly by him with some help from other prominent metal guitarist. Glad you like it. I really need to get my hands on that album myself. I just remember this song from my friend learning it.

[btbam]

i've been getting into these guys lately. they're actually pretty good. i love how the keyboards in their album 'creatures' add a creepy vibe to it.
Plus, look out for Dee snider in the video.

Ehhh...never like black metal. Just don't like the whole gothic side to it. I want brutal not whiney and black metal always comes off as whiney.

[btbam]

This is going to be somewhat of an odd entry into the thread because quite honestly, Cynic is and odd band. The best way to describe them is kind of an infusion of death metal and jazz, although the death metal elements are quite as strong as one might expect. I first heard them back in '08 with the Traced in Air and they quickly rose among my favorites despite a very short catalogue. The followed up that one with an EP called Re-Traced which was essentially a remixed version of some of the first album with a new song. At the end of last year, they released a new EP called Carbon-Based Anatomy I highly recomend this band. Its not going to offer the most traditional musical expeirence, but if you invest into their style, i think you will be highly satisfied.

Traced in Air has more prominent death metal influence but primarily is more jazzy with talkbox vocals that give it that robotic sound.


Carbon-Based Anatomy still has the the strong jazzy influence and removes the talkbox for a more natural vocal sound. It also looses most of the death metal influence but you can still hear some in the chords/ lyrical content

[Nick_Scryer]

Two best bands/albums I've found in 2012 so far.

Artist: Eumeria
Album: Rebel Mind


Incredibly, this is their debut album. Amazing vocals, riffage, solos and unique composition. This band has big things in their future.

Artist: Borealis
Album: Fall from Grace


Great album, love the vocals. Songs flow amazingly, some of the best sections though are too short.

Anyone recommend me more like these two?

[R_Mac_1]

I just recently discovered a new band that I've been listening to a bit. Blotted Science.

Mind = Blown

A bit...fatiguing to listen to, but holy shit are these guys talented.





I've been listening to a bunch of instrumental stuff recently like this, Irepress, Jeff Loomis, etc.

[Ixion]

Listened to Blood Mountain by Mastodon. All three albums have been quite different so far (their latest three). I don't think this one is as good as the other two, but it's still solid and it might grow on me.

I'm now listening to Ghost Reveries by Opeth. I'm on the second song and I really like it so far.

[Dave-The-Rave]

I love metal..steel is cool, but aluminium is also pretty rad.