METAL!

[cheez]

:yell DISCUSS METAL!!!!

Talk about one of the most divers an dynamic music genres.
Discuss all forms of metal like Black, Death, Thrash, Power, Progressive, Classic, Metalcore, Hair, other various subgenres. Discuss your favorite metal bands, albums, subgenres, and/or why you like metal.

[cheez]

Well since nobody is discussing I will go first. I'm mainly a fan of death and black metal and some of my favorite bands are 1349, Behemoth, Vital Remains, In Flames, Soilwork, Decapitated, Wintersun, and Vehemence. I love the great drum work you get with black and death, I also love the vocals of a lot of black metal singers and the emotions they bring out. Overall black and death metal tends to have a more aggressive sound that I like. I do like some metalcore but its more of a hit or miss with bands for me you can't count on the same aggressive sound as you can with death and black.

[ForteAnly]

I enjoy listening to a number of different metal bands. Here's a couple

Metallica (old metallica)
Slayer
Rammstein
Slipknot
DragonForce
Shadows Fall
Black Sabbath
Pantera

Just a couple that come to mind.

[cheez]

DragonForce is great fun to listen to. Slayer is great also, my favorite album from them is Seasons in the Abyss.

[stark espada]

any of you ever hear of a death metal band called nile.

[cheez]

Nile is great, I just got Annihilation of the Wicked for christmas, what a great cd.

[stark espada]

wow people have heard of them and yes it is a good cd

[Hiraga]

Finn Metal rulz!!! ^^

My favourites:
Sonata Arctica
Nightwish
Apocalyptica
(Children of Bodom) <-- I like the guitar solos

And something that's not finn:

Within Temptation

[GIN_ofTheFunk]

Yeah, that'z da spirit! Hard'n'Heavy forever.
Well, my fav music is Hard Rock, but I love Metal too. Especially Heavy Metal and Black Metal.
My favs are Metallica, Iron Maiden, Cradle of Filth, Motley Crue, Helloween .... and... umm ForteAnly- Black Sabbath are Hard Rock. Whatever, I just wanted to clearify that, not to argue or smth. (=

[cheez]

Children of Bodom are nice, I loved their older work like Hatebreeder and Follow the Reaper. Wintersun and Into Eternity have great guitar work also. I'v recently gotten into Sonata Arctica, I recently got their cd Silence.

[ForteAnly]

Hatebreed is good saw them live a while ago they did a pretty crzay show but just haven't got into them that much. Was mainly there to see Slayer live along with some other good metal bands.

[cheez]

I saw Slayer live once, they were amazing.
I haven't gotten into Hatebreed, I haven't cared for their lyrics too much. But I know plenty of people who like them.

[IngenuityGap]

Annihilator
Arch Enemy
BLS
Children of Bodom
Dragonforce
Ensiferum
Exodus
Iced Earth
Iron Maiden
Mastodon
Nile
Overkill
Slayer
Symphony X
Three Inches of Blood


Some favorites.

[IngenuityGap]

Toss in Braindrill and Goatwhore.

[stark espada]

gap those are all great. I have for some reason been listing to allot of nile latly

[IngenuityGap]

Oh man, Nile are just the best. Anytime I want to be blown away by drums they go in.

[rvngu]

i'm mostly into swedish, finnish, norwegian metal and wow i`d never thought anyone in this forum likes wintersun! there isn`t a day that i don`t listen to at least one their tracks. Ensiferum`s first 2 album featured their lead singer and these CDs are unbelievable!

some comments on good bands already listed. these are my preferences, feel free to flame me lol:
arch enemy: i stopped listening to them adter wages of sin. seemed they are gettting too repetitive.
inflames: i stopped after clayman. reroute, soundtrack and clarity didn`t do much for me
on the other hand, dark tranquility is still pretty good despite using a lot of electronics
cradle of filth: also stopped after cruelty and the beast. they seemed to be less heavy
opeth: they also seem to get repetitive
the last maiden album was awesome, i hope the new metalllica will also be awesome.

other bands i like or used to like:
moonsorrow, therion, finntroll (hehe they are really fun to listen to), insomnium, windir, emperor, epica, the old theatre of tragedy, the old amorphis, carcass-heartwork, falkenbach, opera IX (black metal with a female vocalist!)

underrated new band to check out:
asmegin, folk-viking-black-death-epic metal, one of a kind band. amazing debut album.
and i have to check out apolaptica

[BioBomber]

I primarily like Prog and Symphonic. I'm more into the instrumental side of music in general, so you can probably understand why XD

[the_cobbinator]

Huge fan of the genre as long as I remember. :) Metal is the way of life. Not too big fan of the old metal ( except Metallica, they r0x) though.

it always fulls me with energy when I listen to it, and music is SO multi layered in instrumental as well as vocals and lyrics that you discover something new even when you listen to one song over and over again.

I'm in the same boat as you BioBomber, symphonic is definitely my favorite, hence why Within Temptation and Nightwish are my favorite bands! Overall, I really like North Europe bands like HIM or Sonata Arctica.

I also like Lacuna Coil, Blind Guardian, Slayer, Rammstein (instant classic), Iced Earth, Dark Moor ...

In Slovenia we traditionally host metal Camp every year, 1 week of camping, sex and pure metal.

Metal is along with neoclassical my favorite music genre.

[Kojy]

I'm leaning towards Industrial and Progressive Metal bands.

My favourite bands so far:

Rammstein
Dream Theater
Muse
Oomph
Megaherz
Skillet
36 Crazyfists
Placebo
30 Seconds to Mars
My Chemical Romance

[MOF^^]

Lacuna Coil are a-w-e-s-o-m-e..I'm glad there are people who like them..not my favourite band but definitely a good one..
I'm still a crazy Therion fan though...They are symphonic metal aren't they?Gosh,I'm stupid..My favourite of them is Peter Hansson-pretty guitarist.Somebody likes them?
I adore Metallica and since there is a concert in Bulgaria soon I'm goin' to see theeeem *yay*..I love "Ain't my bitch","So what" and the classical "Nothing else matters" =)

[IngenuityGap]

Megadeth>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Metallica

[tari101190]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ixxtnrWb17Y

this lacuna coil song (heavens a lie) converted me :cry...

plz recommend similar bands/songs plz!

at the moment my faves are p.o.d, crazy town, limp bizkit and linkin park, but they're sligtly different...

[rvngu]

some folk-viking metal i discovered recently at paganfest: turisas, elevuite.

[Zangetsu 101]

Megadeth
Bodom
Avenged Sevenfold
Pantera
UnderOath (Old)

[Kyosuke]

Hatebreed is good saw them live a while ago they did a pretty crzay show but just haven't got into them that much. Was mainly there to see Slayer live along with some other good metal bands.
I love Hatebreed I guess you're gonna be indifferent about it if metal is more you r preference, but Hardcore Punk is top for me. :D

[Black Dahlia]

Hmm, at the top of my head...bands that I listen to when it comes to Metal:

Megadeth - up to Cryptic Writings
Slayer - up to Divine Intervention
Emperor
Zyklon
Myrkskog
At The Gates
Meshuggah
Darkane
Soilwork up to A Predators Portrait
In Flames up to Clayman
Dark Tranquillity
Behemoth
Death
Carcass
The Crown
Opeth
Bloodbath
Lamb of God
The Chasm
Origin
Anata
Iron Maiden
As I Lay Dying
Nevermore
Suffocation
Corrosion of Conformity
Kreator
Immortal
The Red Chord
Fear Factory
Strapping Young Lad

...just to name a few.

[Dopesmoker]

^ fuck yeah! nice list man.

bands i'm into:

mithras
gojira
indricothere
abyssed
neo inferno 262
devin townsend (devin townsend band & strapping young lad)
death
opeth
meshuggah
gorguts
dark tranquility
kreator
pelican
russian circles
red sparrowes

[directX07]

I get spasms of joy whenever I hear Death Metal - any METALLIC song!!! OMG! I love the hatred, the pain and the joy! So much emotion obscured and revealed in a series of mind-twisting and ear-bleeding melodies meant only for those who are intelligent enough to decipher their message! Heck! I'm listening to System of a Down right now! And Death Note's opening theme really attracted me - go Nightmare and Maximum the Hormone. I love Metallica and so many more! Red and a Thousand Foot Krutch! Gah! I can go on all night!

[directX07]

^ fuck yeah! nice list man.

bands i'm into:

mithras
gojira
indricothere
abyssed
neo inferno 262
devin townsend (devin townsend band & strapping young lad)
death
opeth
meshuggah
gorguts
dark tranquility
kreator
pelican
russian circles
red sparrowes

Same taste here! My mom loathes me when I have my earphones on. Always near max volume and she could hear it from across the table whenever we eat together. And our dining table's really long and my mom and I sit on opposite ends! (I think she's sensitive with her ears) And my pals say I'm not a girl at all when it comes to my taste in music. My dad also complains. Says I'm too weird! I am weird! (at least I do good in school. not the punky, rebellious type. I'm just ME!):D

[Dopesmoker]

nice, what's your favorite kind of metal?

[directX07]

DEATH metal!!! Screamo's fine. I classify it as metal...

[Black Dahlia]

I'm more of a heavy/thrash/speed metal guy since that's what I grew up with. Developed my taste for Swedish and Florida Death Metal (Grave/Morbid Angel/Entombed/Carcass/Death) - in HS - ventured into Melodic Death, Avant Garde and Tech Death around College. Even if I'm not in a mood to listen to metal sometimes, I tend to listen to it because of the bands that I was in.

I tend to listen to metal/jazz/blues/classic hard rock those early years. Nowadays, I tend to really mix it up by including pop, classical and jpop/jrock so my percentage of listening to metal has probably been cut down to half.

[Dopesmoker]

DEATH metal!!! Screamo's fine. I classify it as metal...
screamo is not metal lol

I'm more of a heavy/thrash/speed metal guy since that's what I grew up with. Developed my taste for Swedish and Florida Death Metal (Grave/Morbid Angel/Entombed/Carcass/Death) - in HS - ventured into Melodic Death, Avant Garde and Tech Death around College. Even if I'm not in a mood to listen to metal sometimes, I tend to listen to it because of the bands that I was in.

I tend to listen to metal/jazz/blues/classic hard rock those early years. Nowadays, I tend to really mix it up by including pop, classical and jpop/jrock so my percentage of listening to metal has probably been cut down to half.
nice man, what melodeath, avant garde and tech death bands were you into? or are into

[Black Dahlia]

I already gave most of the melodeath bands I'm into in the list. I'll probably add Disharmonia Mundi, Scar Symmetry, Arch Enemy, Omnium Gatherum, The Duskfall to name a few. Arcturus, later stages Burzum, Ulver, Ram-zet on the so called 'avant garde' set.

Metalcore or New Wave of American Heavy Metal had some decent stuff - the first Killswitch Engage album on Roadrunner, Unearth's The Oncoming Storm comes into mind.