for fans of REAL metal
 

hey, I have been looking lately for more good metal bands to listen to. By "metal" I mean Death Metal and Black Metal. I also enjoy Power Metal, Grind Core, and thrash. any suggestions.
Here's who I already listen to:
ShadowsFall
Dimmu Borgir
Opeth
Killswitch Engage
In Flames
Children of Bodom
Lamb of God
Motorhead (the original thrash band)
Edit: also...
Hatebreed
Fear Factory (al of their stuff, except i threw away digimortal)
Unearth

It's pretty limited, seeing as how I have little money for CD's.
Oh, and please don't say "Cradle of Filth". They are the Blink-182 of Black Metal. IMHO they suck, badly.

Amorphis - kinda death melodic, but started become more prog as they progressed
Dark Tranquility - Death metal, proficient
Emperor - Regarded as black metal gods
Celtic Frost - Helped start a few genres in their day

Novembre

italian death metal...really similar to opeth

Ok I have to reccommend Divercia.

Its power-metallish, very melodic, but its got this strange insane twist to it that I can't really explain. They are practically unknown though.. the only reason I know em is caused they used to be known as Lost In Twilight, and had a bunch of their older MP3s on MP3.com (they are still there now, as far as I know). They later changed their name to Divercia and released their only album, Modus Operandi, which is several notches better than everything they did as Lost In Twilight. Anyhow, check em out...

EDIT:

Here's Divercia's MP3.com page:
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/321/...-_modus_o.html
and here's the one for Lost In Twilight (though all but one song were removed :( )
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/9/lost_in_twilight.html

Mastodon

they are on relapse records. they are about all the metal i listen to.

hell of a coincidence... some of the most recent CD's i've bought were:

Killswitch Engage
Shadows Fall
Lamb of God
In Flames
Opeth

well, these following suggestions aren't exactly unknown bands, but maybe give them a listen if you've discounted them in the past:

pantera
megadeth
meshuggah

Go look up some Slayer CD's. Reigning in Blood and Seasons in the Abyss to name a couple. They fucking rule! If you love metal you'll probably like anything they ever made. They've been around for a long time.

I laugh whenever someone tries to alienate metal from its roots...

But anyways, In Flames is badass and they remind me of my favorite band Metallica....:o did i just ruin somones day?


:D

Go In flames!

chimaira
candiria
meshuggah
slayer
sepultura
shadows fall
pantera
those are a few i listen to chimaira being my fav

I mainly enjoy the British style of metal (more melody, less grindcore), but I enjoy all metal for the most part
Anthrax
Arch Enemy
Armored Saint
Biohazard
Black Label Society
Chimaira
Devin Townsend (kinda metal, kinda not)
Dry Kill Logic
Evergrey
Fear Factory
GWAR
Ill Nino
In Flames
Lacuna Coil (kinda metal, kinda not)
Machine Head
Motorhead
Mudvayne
Prong
Racer X
Sepultura
Sinergy
Slayer
Superjoint Ritual

Entombed. Greatest band.. ever
(according to UBL.com they are the second greatest Death metal band, after Death)

Ten years ago, on my 10th birtday I got their third album Wolverine Blues and they've been my favorite band ever since.
They cannot make a bad album, Same difference is their worst album, but it still rocks.

down

It's all a little too angry for me.


I prefer semi-angry and semi-depressing metal.

dont forget the originators:
black sabbath

http://www.americanrecordings.com/sl...d_mini_cvr.jpg

Yup.


That's right...I listen to the Dead too. I like most all muisic, whatever fits my mood. Kinda bi-polar ya know?

holy SHIT!
the slayer dvd is out????

Soilwork www.soilworkers.com
Unearth

A once local band, gone semi-mainstream, wont be very easy to find tho.

But thier name is "Shockwave"

they've got a very good metal sound to them, they have 3 cd's out, but i think only thier last one has been nationally produced.

Autohate, Domincon, and the one that'd be easier to find:
"Omega Supreme The Complete Collection 1996-2001"

Yeah buddy! IT KICKS ASS. Check out http://www.slayer.net

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. oh almost forgot....I also own:
Unearth "The Stings of Conscience"
The haunted "The Haunted made me do it" and "Live rounds in Tokyo"
and every Fear Factory albumn ever made. even the rerelease of "Soul of a new machine" called Concrete.

Oh, and atomic pinkie, please don't soil In Flames by comparing them to Metallica. In Flames are WAY more talented. Oh, and i know that you are going to try an flame me back fo this commentso let me add this: grow up.

oh and the next albumns I am getting, probably tommorow are Hatebreed "Perseverance" and Messhuga's second albumn I believe (I am ordering it from my local mom and pop music store).

oh and FUCK THE FACELESS CORPORATIONS, BUY LOCAL!!!

King Diamond

king diamond, hahaha, MELISSAAAAAA!

I don't think I can really add anything that hasn't been added... a lot of the bands mentioned are just great.

I'd like to give a nod to Arch Enemy also, though... especially their Burning Bridges album. Kickass black-ish metal.

Definitely Soilwork, and I'd like to add:

OVERKILL
Testament

Six Feet Under...some chunky grindcore from ex-Cannibal Corpse frontman, Chris Barnes.....the "Haunted" album is still one of my favorites of theirs.

Most of the bands that I would have mentioned have already been mentioned...

Darkane's really good, they're a technical melodic/death metal band that just keeps getting better... I would check out their Insanity album or Expanding Senses... their first album was cool too, I forgot the name of it though. The name was something about rust... like Rusted Angel or something.

Gardenian is a really good swedish melodic/death metal band too, they kind of changed their style after they got rid of their backup singer though... They used to have death metal vocals with power metal sounding backup vocals, but they kicked out the power metal guy so now the death metal singer does the death vocals and the clean vocals, but I like the new sound better than the old sound. I would recommend checking out their album called "Sindustries", it was produced by Peter Tagtgren in the Abyss... if you don't know who or what that is, he's the singer of Hypocrisy and he's an awesome producer... some awesome albums have come out of the abyss thanks to Peter Tagtgren

you guys probaly would like the Freddy vs Jason soundtrack. It has some of thoses bands mention above.

only person that i've ever heard of liking them besides me, AWESOME

Heh, the Freddy vs. Jason soundtrack looks pretty cool. It will be weird to hear In Flames in a major (well, semi-major) motion picture, assuming they even have the song in the movie. Sometimes they just stick a bunch of songs in the ending credits just so they can stick them on a soundtrack CD...

start with emperor... it doesn't get any better than that.. try Strapping Young Lad... alot of the stuff has allready been mentioned... try Death... try Dark Tranquility.. if you are gonna get a Mesh disc.. get Chaosphere first... then get Destroy Erase Improve... try Nevermore.. I highly recommend Nevermore.. start with Politics of Ecstacy .. or Dead Heart In A Dead World... try Fear Factory.. .. but dont get the Digimortal disc.. start with one of their early ones...


here is a no fail list.


Emperor.. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk... if you like it.. get IX Equilibrium.. next.

Nevermore.. in the order I stated above.. also Dreaming Neon Black would be a good choice from them.. .. I would skip their new one until you are more familiar with them.

u said you have OPETH.. but you should own all of them.

Zyklon .. world ov worms .. would be another great one to pick up .. if you liked the Emperor stuff.

once u get those.. come back and ask me.. I will give ya a list of others.

=]

rock out with your cock out!

There have been mixed reactions to Emperor's "Prometheus" album, but damn... that whole album is a work of art. If I recommended an emperor album, it would definitely be Prometheus.

Lately I've been kind of drifting away from the really heavy stuff. I think I'm getting old. :(

Immortal Dominion
7,000 Dying Rats
Candiria
God Forbid
Minus


Hardcore metal, all.

hmmm. i'm more of an industrial guy. but I've listened to Opeth, and they rock.

I like to say im really into metal, but i havnt even heard of most of those bands!

Big fan of Slayer ever since i heard them play in a stadium about a block away from where i was at.

My drumming style has been tremendously(spel gud?) influenced by White Zombie's... crap, forgot the drummer's name in La Sexorcista.

I've actually completely lost track of the "underground metal" scene since I quit my old band. I used to know about all of the good obscure bands, but my connection to the whole music scene as pretty much been cut off, so I'm only aware until up about a year ago.

Now a lot of the bands that I like have become pretty popular (with good reason), and I'm called a poser by the "true" metal fans because the music I like isn't obscure enough. feh.

Prometheus is a good disc.. it has some solid material.. but give me the earlier ones anyday... I have them all.. but i seem to listen to the early ones more than that one.

Wow....all these replies and i have yet to see a great black/goth metal band by the name of CRADLE OF FILTH!!!

Cradle of Filth
Rammstein
Burzum
The Berzerker

add Carnal Forge to this list as well.... and terror 2000

try some REAL metal as the title suggests... lol

Vader
Amon Amarth
Impaled
Exhumed
Vital Remains

Hence I come from the little scandinavian country named Denmark, I shall bring forth a few Danish bands, that follow the scandinavian tradition of brutal black- and death metal.

1: Illdisposed.
2: Mercenary
3: Granhammer
4: Illnath
5: Kloak

Illdisposed and Mercenary is some of the most known bands in the underground metal society, but Illnath is one of my personal favorites. Also can be mentioned Ofring, that has stopped producing, but made a few good tracks.

I just purchased Old Mans Child "The defiance of Existence"..... only thing I can think of to describe it is "excelent"!!!!

One word:

ANTHRAX

'nuf said

Some great bands I listen to:

Ablaze My Sorrow
Agalloch
Arcturus
At the Gates (Newer stuff)
Bathory
Bloodbath (Mikael on vocals + guitar from Opeth)
Borknagar
Carpathian Forest
Daylight Dies (get if you like early Katatonia / Opeth)
Emperor
Enslaved
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Finntroll
(Older) In Flames
Moonsorrow
Kalmah
Katatonia (Mikael on vocals + guitar from Opeth)
Opeth
Rapture (If you like Katatonia, or just want good metal, you MUST hear this band)
Sentenced
Thy Serpent
Vehemence
Vintersorg
Windir
:icare:

Vehemence is great... the whole god was created album is great.

Anyone looking for some great thrash should check out:

Believer
Coroner
Dark Angel
Death Angel
Defleshed
Demolition Hammer
Dew Scented
Exodus
Imagika
Kreator
Megadeth
Metallica (Old)
Overkill
Sepultura (Old)
Slayer
The Crown

I listen to tons of metal, but just did thrash cause thats what I'm listening to as of now.

Has anyone mentioned Hypocrisy yet?

You have to check out Finntroll! Both their metal stuff and ambient stuff rocks. I just love the whole troll image and their lyrics are just brilliant :D

Full av hat
Präst blir mat
han läggs på fat

heheheh.. yeah Fintroll is pretty kooo.. =]