This is a fucking awesome thread!!!
Some bands with new albums out (easier to find that way):
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer (insane!)
Mastodon - Leviathan (is there ANYONE who can say ANYTHING bad about this fucking band?!)
Red Harvest - Internal Punishment Programs (industrial-ish stuff)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine (great, great album, a lot different from their previous ones)
Vader - The Beast (old school DM)
Hypnosis - CyberDeath (along the lines of Red Harvest and Sigh)
Amon Amarth - Fate of the Norns (excellent brutal viking DM)
Ayreon - The Human Equation (probably never heard of these guys but they are an incredible prog band, concept album and everything. On vocals: Devin Townsend, James LaBrie, Mikael Akerfeldt...tons of other guys. brilliant album)
Dark Tranquility - Character (if you have their last album it's pretty much more of that sound, which means it's awesome)
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh (best DM album of the year bar-none! Fucking Tagtgren, Blakkheim, Swano, Renske, and Axenrot!)
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (most underrated album of 2004 IMO)
Suffocation - Souls to Deny (it's Suffocation, with a new album...do I need to say anything else?)
Borknagar - Epic (great prog release)
My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light (doomy metal at it's fucking finest!)
Decapitated - The Negation (DM from probably the youngest guys in the genre...tons of energy!)
Meshuggah - I (only an EP but completely mind blowing from masters of syncopated heaviness)
Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn (can't deny these guys are still some of DM's best)
Those are all the new relases I could think of, other great bands to check out that other folks might not have mentioned:
Blood Red Throne
Torture Squad
Ulver
Diabolical Masquerade
Cephalic Carnage
Dimmu Borgir (GET Death Cult Armageddon)
Naglfar
Nile
Hate Eternal
Death
If I was back at college I could go through my playlist and pick out more, but these are all right out of my travel CD case.
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Slayer (Thrash metal) WAS a great band, his last album "God hate us all" = NO METAL
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Dude, God Hates Us All was their heaviest album since Seasons in the Abyss. Tom's vocals rule, he still writes the most sinister harmonies ever (Bloodline), the guitars are punishingly heavy and blitzkreig fast, and you can't say you've ever moshed until you've been in the pit when Slayer plays Payback...I think I'm still sore from that damn thing.