Personally, I'm usually more in Black/Death, but there's some good Power Metal bands out there, as well as the obvious classic Heavy Metal bands.
Been on a serious Manowar kick lately, and if you guys haven't heard about Charred Walls of the Damned, check 'em out sometime.
Slipknot, Metallica???
THATS NOT METAL!
It is all about the:
Whitechapel \m/
Insomnium \m/
Gojira \m/
Bohemoth \m/
Amon Amarth \m/
Cannable Corpse \m/
Cattle Decapitation \m/
Lamb of God \m/
Nile \m/
Most full on metalheads will listen to this kind of stuff, or atleast this is the kind of thing I am in to. I am not saying that Metallica & Slipknot are bad, I think Metallica are very good, but that is the kind of metal that us metalheads are weaned on in school.
As for genres; I could go on for pages and pages and talk about all the different genres and cross over genres there are, Blackend Death Metal for example, and their characteristics but you would probably all get rather bored. It doesn't even matter in the end, thats just how it is sold.
Check out a few of those bands and tell me what you think, maybe I can turn a few of you over to the dark side...
Something to get you started: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9tj-xH1qU
Don't anyone know Sabaton? They are really good, make good songs, and is Swedes like me!
http://bbs.evony.com/newreply.php?do...te=1&p=1178603
That's the kind of Metal they are
Well, there's two good band there. Behemoth and Amon Amarth are fantastic. If you want Swedish Melodic Death, Amon Amarth is the way to go. Behemoth is good if you want some Blackened Death. Cannibal Corpse is the epitome of "br00tuhl metuhllz, bro" stuff that 13-year-old kids listen to to try to make themselves seem like tough guys, but as they grow up, they realize that there's so much better stuff out there (I'm sad to say I'm speaking from experience). Anata, for example, puts Cannibal Corpse to shame in every aspect of the music, be it instrumentally, vocally, or just general musicianship. Not trying to troll or whatever blah, blah, blah.. I just take my music seriously because music is an extremely large part of my life. If you want to expand your list of bands into some of the less well-known bands, feel free to PM me. I've got a whole library full of stuff that I'd gladly share with open-minded people who are willing to expand their horizons beyond the surface of modern-day Metal.
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I can't say that I agree in all your "this is metal"-choices. But I like that you got both Nile and Gojira in there, which is for me the pinnacle of metal at the moment.
But just in case you forgot I'd like to mention a few great bands like Death(R.I.P.), Suffocation, The Faceless, Origin, Atheist, Opeth, At The Gates, Carcass and of course the godfathers of grind: Napalm Death![]()
"You live your life in wretchedness and death is no escape."
Carcass - Carneous Cacoffiny
Lamb of God.... *facepalm*
Thread fails because it has no mention of Iron Maiden and Dio ;p.
Other epic bands.. Mind you, I am a huge power metal fan.
Hammerfall
Helloween
Sonata Arctica
Stratovarius
Cain's Offering
Symphony X
Versailles
Galneryus
Rhapsody of Fire
Early Megadeth (Don't really like their newer stuff)
Racer X
Paul Gilbert
Luca Turilli
Kamelot
And others who I forgot.
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