Metal
 

How many metal fans are on here? If you like metal, please state your favourite genre of metal and your favourite bands

I'll start.
Genres: Death metal and NWOBHM (new wave of british heavy metal)

Bands: Children of Bodom, Iron Maiden, Mayhem, Nargaroth, Sentenced, Rammstein (doesn't really fit, but what the hell) Dimmu Borgir, Burzum, My Dying Bride, Judas Priest, Emperor, Death, Hypocrisy, Arch Enemy, In Flames and My Dying Bride

opeth/meshuggah/isis

Not really into any specific genre, but I'm not particularly a fan of the darker stuff.

In Flames, Opeth, Fear Factory, Sepultura

Not really confined to a particular fave genre but I don't really care for death/ Euro-Goth stuff.

Fave bands include:
Rob Zombie
Static X
Rammstein
Damageplan
Pantera
Godsmack
Mushroomhead

I love metal, it's all I listen to. The bands that I listen to the most are:
Metallica
Megadeth
Carcass
Slayer
Pantera
Sepultura
Death
anything with Mike Patton
Flotsam and Jetsam
Sacred Reich
Clutch
Ministry

none of those are really metal and in my opinion they all kind of give metal a bad name

Metal is a diverse branch of music, those bands are certainly metal. They may not be your brand of metal but they are someone elses. There's no need to be a metal snob, this isn't blabbermouth.net. Hell, you even listed Rammstein. I could just as easly say that In Flames is recycled unoriginal garbage but I'm not going to.

How the hell could Pantera not be considered metal? Have you ever listened to Vulgar Display of Power? It was one of the most influential albums of the 90's.

Metal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! \m/,

I listen to all genres of metal (excluding nu-metal, which i dont consider to be metal) and some of my favorite bands are:

SLAYER!!!!
Pantera
Megadeth
Metallica
Cryptopsy
Death
Dying Fetus
Opeth
Testament
Black Sabbath

The list goes on, these are just the bands i could think of off the top of my head.

I wouldn't really call any of those bands the epitome of metal music, but Damage Plan is a damn fine group of musicians. Much more industrial than metal, but eh.

Metallica
Megadeth
Iron Maiden
Godsmack (suck it)
Black Sabbath
Ministry
Manowar (OH YEAH!!!)

oh no, a manowar fan :)

and proud of it :) FIGHT FOR THE KINGDOM BOUND FOR GLORY!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAARMED WITH A HEEEART OF STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like most metal that doesnt involve screaming incoherently and goes on about how god is super evil and shit, my list
Pantera
Megadeth
Metallica
Rammstein and Zombie - although these are more industrial but theyre deffinately hardcore
Maiden
Anthrax
Sabbath
Slayer
MOTORHEAD speed metal gods
Black label Society
all i can think of for now

I used to work with a guy who listened to Manowar. I was always asking him why we all had to be punished with his homoerotic viking music :) I think they can play their instruments better than most out there but they lack in the creation process.

oops, i left some of my favs off my list without noticing: stratovarius, yngwie malmsteen, Carpathian forest and blaze

but kutulu, 1. pantera's an exception to what i said. not my
favourite metal, but still metal
2. i listed rammstein, but i also said it didnt really fit
under metal, they still rock though

\m/ @..@ \m/

ahem.

Favorite genre has to be operatic power-metal. Its just so much fun to listen to!

Favorite bands: Nightwish, Blind Guardian, Therion

Thats not to say I don't love other types of metal as well. Opeth is one of my favorite metal bands out there. But operatic power-metal just rawks :D

I listen to all sorts of stuff. I'd put down most of what you said in the original post. Off the top of my head, I'll also add Mystic Circle, Dark Tranquillity, KMFDM(listen to them live and they sound more metal than industrial,) Chimaira, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, Opeth, probably a bunch of others that I can't think of.

Just because it isn't heavy metal doesn't mean it isn't metal. Also, I will hunt down and kill the first person who uses the term "nu-metal" in this thread. My brother is one of the idiotic elitists who, for example, started hating Linkin Park after being a big fan solely because he wanted to put himself above people who do like them.

I'm definitely sick of the nu metal term, but that's more because of all the time I used to spend on blabbermouth.net

Count me in on the metal bandwagon

In no particular order...

- In Flames
- Godsmack
- 'Tallica
- 'Deth
- Iron Maiden
- Suicidal Tendancies
- Armored Saint
- Anthrax
- Iced Earth
- Fear Factory
- Otep
- Type O Negative
- Lacuna Coil
- Pantera
- Brujeria
- Corrosion of Conformity
- Slayer
- Killswitch Engage

I could go on and on...

In order..

-Iron Maiden
-Tool (metal? who cares)
-AC/DC
-Van Halen (metal? who cares)
-Slayer
-Arch Enemy
-Black Sabbath
-Manowar (yerahh!)

Some other bands that I like but Ive forgotten the names

edit: While my memory is fresh,
-Guns n Roses (suprised it hasnt been listed before!!)
-Alice in Chains (listen to them all the time, hell I probably was when I wrote the first entry)
-Dream Theater
-Judas Priest

elitists kill music.

yep


I think Tool counts for the most part.

I guess I'm a thrash metal/hardcore fan. As well as Industrial metal. some of the bands I like:

Metallica (the band that got me hooked)
Slayer \m/
Megadeth
Pantera
Sepultura
Sworn Enemy
Hatebreed
Otep
Sevendust
Marilyn Manson
Rammstein
COC
DAnzig
BLS
American Head Charge
Type O Negative
Down
Crowbar \m/


That's all I can think of right now.

hardcore/death metal/black metal/metalcore/grindcore, it's all for me!

Pantera
In Flames
old Soilwork
Shadows Fall
Himsa
Thrice
Unearth
Dark Tranquility
At The Gates
Nightrage
The Black Dahlia Murder
God Forbid
Killswitch Engage
Chimaira
Mudvayne
Machine Head
All That Remains
Anthrax
Children of Bodom
Dimmu Borgir
Neuraxis
Glass Casket
Opeth
Fear Factory
Motorhead
Alice in Chains
Soundgarden
and the list goes on...

Nickelback and Limp Bizkit r00lz ROLF

and Puddle of MUDD!

that had me laughing hard

Gun Metal Grey
Slayer
Shadows Fall
Chimaira
Killswitch Engage
Lamb of God
Pantera
As i Lay Dying
Mortal Treason
In Flames
Hatebreed
Haste the Day
God Forbid
Bleeding Through
Atreyu
Amortis
Dimmu Borgir
Assuming the Negative
Satyricon
Sepultura
Superjoint Ritual
Dillinger Escape Plan
Cephalic Carnage
Zyklon
Norma Jean


Just a few.

Mudvayne
Slipknot
Mushroomhead
Metallica
Rammstein
Hatebreed
Tool
Breaking Benjamins
Flaw
and I can dig alittle Sabbath and Manson

Cephalic Carnage
Impaled
Vital Remains
Deicide
Cattle Decapitation
Circle Of Dead Children
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Anaal Nathrakh
Pungent Stench
Repulsion
Mastadon
As I Lay Dying
Burnt By The Sun
The Haunted
Norma Jean
Premonitions Of War
The Black Dahlia Murder
Arsis
Unearth
Amon Amarth
Morbid Angel
Psycroptic
The Red Chord
Chimaira
Snot
Exhumed
Walls Of Jericho
Haste The Day
Nora
Lamb Of God
In Flames
Pig Destroyer
Mudvayne
Death
Bleeding Through
Children Of Bodom
Iced Earth

.....

I see Opeth listed a lot, and I've sampled a bunch of their music. I would like it much better if the guy didn't do the same old bullshit "low end incoherent growling" vocal style. Some of the instrumental stuff rivals "Master of Puppets" era Metallica, but the "singing" (ahem) is awful and ruins it for me.

The vocals are the best part - listen to Circle Of Dead Children

Slayer
Decapitated
Opeth
Death
Burzum
Lamb of God/Burn the Priest
Carcass
God Forbid
Pig Destroyer
Six Feet Under
Vital Remains

...thats all I can think of right now

Lamb of God rocks, going to see them at the toronto opera house on the 29th with Atreyu, Unearthed and Every Time I Die. Hurray for me!

the way i see it, there are 3 categories in metal:

1) heavy/intense/crazy with no vocal melody, usually has STRONG focus on musicianship (gets respect)
2) slightly less heavy/intense/crazy with some vocal melody (sometimes gets respect)
3) rodney dangerfield metal

i listen to all 3 and it's nice to see that not everyone needs to hate on metal that isn't quite as metal as, say, Death. anyway i listen to:

1) Old In Flames - Lamb of God - The Haunted - Shadows Fall - Opeth - Old Metallica - Megadeth - The Black Dahlia Murder - Pantera
2) Killswitch Engage - All That Remains - Chiamara - Mastadon - Unearth - New In Flames - New Metallica - Tool
3) System of a Down - Disturbed - Mudvayne - Sevendust - Slipknot

\m/

I disagree. But that's what's great about music. We all have different tastes. I don't need my metal vocalist to chirp like a canary, but this particular style does nothing for me, and it cuts against what I think is wonderfully well crafted and brilliantly played music.

I cant really say I have a favorite metal genre. I like a bit of variety in metal. Here's just the metal on my playlist roughly listed acording to genre

Bathory (surprised no one's mentioned them so far)
Black Sabbath
Fear Factory
Rammstein
Rob/White Zombie
KMFDM
In Flames
Moonspell
Lacuna Coil
Therion
Nightwish
Meshuggah
Vampire Mooose
Bloodbath
Converge
Opeth (my personal favorite)
Tool
Novembre
Nightengale
Iced Earth
Thumpfluid
Type O Negative
Korn
Kittie
Static-X
Slipknot
System of a Down
Godsmack

The Opeth singer actually has a lot of variety in his vocals. Sure there is a bunch of grunting and growling but there is also very smooth and melodic parts to balance some songs out. In fact their newest album has no "low end incoherent growling" at all.

Oh hell yesss.

Faith No More
Fantomas
7,000 Dying Rats
Immortal Dominion
God Forbid
Godflesh
Opeth
Lamb of God

The list could go on forever...

the black dahlia murder
unearth
darkest hour
summer dying
between the buried and me
welcome to your life
shadows fall