I'm really getting into Stone Sour lately. The band has Jim Root and Corey Taylor from Slipknot, and both the harder and softer songs are just incredible.

for the harder, "30/30 150"


for the softer, "Bother"

Dissection, Venom, Slayer, and Cradle of Filth

Four very different bands.
A few recommendations based on each:

Dissection are (blackened) melodic death metal - Atheist, Death, Detonation, Martyr
Venom are thrash with the additions that led to black and death metal - Destruction, Kreator, Sodom
Slayer are straight thrash - Dark Angel, Exodus, Overkill, Testament
Cradle of Filth are a goth rock take on black metal, but they don't really work well as either. A few recommendations of straight black metal - Burzum, Darkthrone, Emperor, Gorgoroth, Mayhem,

I like Nightwish (with the former vocalist more, I'm just listening to the new CD just released), Within Temptation (Mother Earth, they've gone mainstream since), Swallow The Sun, Poisonblack, Iron Maiden, AC/DC (maybe not heavy enough to be listed here but one of my fave bands), David Lee Roth, Type O Negative, Mötley Crüe - ok it's not that heavy - Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Drowning Pool, Ozzy, Mercenary, Helloween, Paradise Lost, Deep Purple, Soundgarden to name just a few...:):thumbsup:

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Those are definitely the main ones, but you could also try Agalloch, Pagan Hellfire, early Ulver, Arcturus and Borknagar.

Try Sonata Artica, great band!

You need to dig deeper into their stuff man! Try some of Bruce Dickinson's solo stuff, for example Accident of Birth. The song "Man of Sorrows" is simply haunting, and shows that Bruce has an opera quality voice. Along that line, try "Navigating the seas of the sun" off of A tyranny of souls. Also check out the Bruce Dickinson/Rob Halford single "The one you love to hate". The two metal gods going at it voice to voice is amazing!


Well, well. Mr. Ravel and myself appear to have a common interest. :thumbsup:

So as it sits....

Iron Maiden. Way, way up there!
Solo Bruce Dickinson. Also way up there.
Newer Black Sabbath, from Dio on.
And speaking of Dio, his first couple of solos were great.
Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers. "Wasted Sunsets" is sooooo underrated that it's criminal.
Killer Dwarves.
Old (as in the first album only) Great White.
Dokken, particularly Tooth and Nail and Under Lock and Key.
Yngwie. First three albums.

I'm sure there's others, but I'm too tired to look them up right now....

my definition of metal is quite broad, so my list will be, too.
Dragonforce
Iced Earth
Metallica
Lordi
Black Sabbath
Soil
Avenged Sevenfold
Anthrax
Trivium
Dream Evil
Iron Maiden
Motorhead
Disturbed
Pantera

Nobody has mentioned Sleep yet, as far as I can see. This is a crime.

Sleep, OM, High on Fire, Neurosis, Acid King, Clutch, UFOmammut, Pelican, Baroness, Earth, Bongripper, Electric Wizard, Isis, Boris, Eternal Elysium, Earthride, Grand Magus, Zoroaster ... the heavier it is, the more I like it.

I don't know how many true metalheads would classify Monster Magnet, Orange Goblin, Kyuss, Colour Haze, The Atomic Bitchwax, Bardo Pond, Dead Meadow, Earthless, The Flower Travellin' Band, Acid Mothers Temple, Mammatus, Thumlock, and other bands that I think are best described as "heavy psychedelic rock" as metal ... but they're all fucking awesome.

Amon Amarth
Amorphis
Arch Enemy
Arcturus
At The Gates
Atheist
Bathory
Bloodbath
Burzum
Carcass
Celtic Frost
Children Of Bodom
Dark Tranquillity
Death
Dimmu Borgir
Dismember
Dissection
Dream Theater
Edge of Sanity
Eluveitie
Emperor
Ensiferum
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Falkenbach
Finntroll
Gorgoroth
Gorguts
Hypocrisy
Immortal
In Flames
Insomnium
Kalmah
Kampfar
Korpiklaani
Martyr
Meshuggah
Mors Principium Est
Naglfar
Necrophagist
Necrophobic
Neuraxis
Norther
Old Man`s Child
Opeth
Quo Vadis
Satyricon
Slayer
Testament
Therion
Thyrfing
Ulver
UneXpect
Unleashed
Vintersorg
Windir
Wintersun


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I like a lot of Finnish metal.

Holy fuck I just listened to "Havoc" streaming on their myspace site and goddamn...I just got that exact feeling of dumbfounded.

These guys have talent no doubt.

--jaded

i dont recognize about 90% of those bands
i got away from metal after seeing Spinal Tap then seeing the Scorpions a few weeks later. couldnt take it seriously as a genre anymore.

Check out the album "Prominence and Demise" by a band called Winds.

VERY good Neo-classical metal. Vocals are clean (for the most part).

Did anyone hear the new Metallica song today? They are soooo back.

Sooo bad is more like it.

Agalloch, Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, Amon Amarth,Tool,Metallica(oldies, not the newer crap),Sonata Artica, Blind Guardian to name a few.

Not a "true metal head" (thanks god) but some bands to my liking are: Opeth (probably one of my fav bands of all time) Strapping Young Lad, Kill Switch Engage, Protest the hero, Dillinger Escape Plan, Cog..

Nice, I've been listening to a lot of Dillinger and Protest the Hero. Mostly Ire Works and Kezia.

Some suggestions...

Dysrhythmia - Barriers and Passages Energetic instrumental rock/metal. Quite technical, lots of time signature changes, but still very listenable.

Om - Pilgrimage Experimental metal band. Their music is based on Tibetan chanting. They use only drums, bass and vocals. Their lyrics are... out there.

Rosetta - Wake/Lift Incredibly atmospheric post-metal. Their first album is also great, but it's actually two discs (one heavy and one ambient) that are meant to be played together. Thanks to this silly trick, finding a decent combined version can be difficult.

Children of Bodom.

mostly i listen to black metal (norwegian/swedish) but lately ive been into finnish black metal like azaghal and behexin. and off subject children of bodom (saw them live, what a show! and they were with bls!)

mayhem
burzum
behemoth
dimmu borgir
bathory
carpathian forest
darkthrone
immortal
kalmah
gorgoroth
satyricon
amon amarth
opeth
satanic warmaster
you get the idea. and no, im not a satanist or subscribe to nsbm. im an atheist and as left-winged as you get.

megadeth!!!

I aint much of a metal fan, although I had a period of being so aged about 13 before I got into rap.

But I'd have to say, it dont get much more metal than Slayer does it?

I also like Atreyu, but I dont know if they qualify as metal

When I was a kid, was into Maiden, Metallica (the original line up), Pantera, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer...

I've really been into Lamb of God lately.

These are two great songs by them:

There's way more but I'm to lazy to list the rest

To Speak Of Wolves
I, The Breather
Underoath
Corpus Christ
Maylene & The Sons of Disaster (in fact I named my dog Maylene even though it's male LOL)
Haste The Day (old)
Inked in Blood
Inhale Exhale
In Flames
Emmure
Monuments
Besieged
DragonForce
August Burns Red
Impending Doom
Burden of a Day
A Plea For Purging
The Chariot
Extol
Amon Amarth
The Showdown (first two cds)
Mychildren Mybride
Wrench in the Works
Means
Trenches
With Blood Comes Cleansing
Between the Buried and Me
Beneath the Sky
Oceano
Sinai Beach
Sleeping Giant
Advent
Broadcast the Nightmare
At the Wake
Hands
Here Lies the Traitor
For Today
Norma Jean
Like Moths to Flames

Nobody know Rhapsody of Fire ?
It's an European metal band from Italia. It's my favorite band for a long time. I love there songs and Fabio Leone has a beautiful voice :)