The Heavy Metal thread

[scytheavatar]

Since there's a significant interest in metal in this forum, let us share good metal music. What are your favourite bands? My favourite bands are Opeth, Symphony X and Death. After hearing their music I can't help but feel that all the other music out there are weak in comparison. Opeth is simply the most consistently good band ever; you can see how highly rated they are in Rateyourmusic and AMG. Symphony X has the best vocalist, best guitarist, best keyboard player, best bassist and best drummer ever, and The Odyssey is the best song ever. Death has the best guitar riffs ever, although they are a bit on the too progressive side so I guess many people will not like them. I recommend anyone with interest in Heavy Metal to check out these bands.

 

[MaCcA[7]]

Children Of Bodom, Trivium, MEGADETH!!!!!!!

 

[Strawberrific]

I'm quite new to the whole genre but I'm enjoying it ever since I was introduced to it. Been listening to metalcore a lot more than metal though...

 

[afbug1]

To me, Metal is not all about sounding heavy. If I want that, I can listen to early Napalm Death and grindcore metal. I prefer good song writing and good melodies and I think Iron Maiden is 1 of the best in the business.

Some bands that I listen:
Iron Maiden
Sepultura
Cathedral
Megadeth
Metallica
Trivium
Mastodon
Helloween
Kreator
Napalm Death
Queensryche
Manowar

And some
Slayer
Death
Morbid Angel
Sucidal Tendercies

Want to try Arch Enemy next and maybe COB

 

[FLSH_Metal]

Iron Maiden
Children Of Bodom
Cradle Of Filth
Morbid Angel
Slayer
Megadeth
Stratovarius
The Black Dahlia Murder
Judas Priest
1349
Black Sabbath

Not all under heavy metal, but they are all classified under metal

 

[scytheavatar]

Uh, you guys realize that "metal" is a short-form of "heavy metal", do you?

 

[doomgaze86]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Pantera or Lamb of God yet

Anthrax was awesome, and I really liked their collaboration with Public Enemy...

Also very impressed with Otep... Her growling vocals make Corey Taylor sound like a little girl... Check out their video for Warhead on youtube...

Don't know if Motorhead counts as metal, but I like them too...

Dethklok is my guilty pleasure... I really like Thunderhorse, Go into the Water and the Murmaider

I listen to these bands regularly:
Metallica
Megadeth
Iron Maiden
Cacophony (Marty Friedman's old band!)
Symphony X
Children of Bodom
Every Time I Die (not sure if they're really considered metal)
some Sonata Arctica
Dream Theater
Judas Priest
Suicidal Tendencies
Mastodon (actually, I only like Iron Tusk from Leviathan)
Trivium
Slayer


Also, if you guys are tired of all those annoying poseur-ish rock bands pretending to be hardcore/'metal', you might enjoy this video... Featuring Brian Posehn and Scott Ian of Anthrax... There's even a little tribute to Megadeth's Peace Sells music video

 

[afbug1]

Oh ya haha forgot about Pantera and Anthrax. Funny, I pefer Anthrax's B sides to their A sides!

 

[ninja_tuner]

my favs are:

Opeth
Carcass
Lamb of God
Danzig
Entombed
Therion
Quo Vadis

 

[Cloudsky]

How bout recommending classic 80s metal along the lines of Dio?

 

[loathed]

Since there's a significant interest in metal in this forum, let us share good metal music. What are your favourite bands? My favourite bands are Opeth, Symphony X and Death. After hearing their music I can't help but feel that all the other music out there are weak in comparison. Opeth is simply the most consistently good band ever; you can see how highly rated they are in Rateyourmusic and AMG. Symphony X has the best vocalist, best guitarist, best keyboard player, best bassist and best drummer ever, and The Odyssey is the best song ever. Death has the best guitar riffs ever, although they are a bit on the too progressive side so I guess many people will not like them. I recommend anyone with interest in Heavy Metal to check out these bands.

dude, you havent heard of necrophagist and muhammed suicmez have you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaXBFYMjXy8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H76LUCBIUg

 

[InnocentBlood]

i would gladly recommend Iced Earth. they remind me of what Metallica and Iron Maiden do best - check out their Alive in Athens (3 disc set) to hear how good they are.

 

[scytheavatar]

dude, you havent heard of necrophagist and muhammed suicmez have you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaXBFYMjXy8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H76LUCBIUg

And you haven't heard of Michael Romeo, have you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG2804ggsI0

 

[icyhell]

i would gladly recommend Iced Earth. they remind me of what Metallica and Iron Maiden do best - check out their Alive in Athens (3 disc set) to hear how good they are.

i din really like some of their vocalists. tim owens is doing pretty well tho.

 

[icyhell]

Uh, you guys realize that "metal" is a short-form of "heavy metal", do you?

wrong. metal is an all encompassing genre, heavy metal being a sub genre.

 

[loathed]

wrong. metal is an all encompassing genre, heavy metal being a sub genre.

wrong. metal is also short for heavy metal. however, heavy metal can also refer to classic metal from the 80s and so...but generally, metal is just short for heavy metal.

so its still right, to call say...death metal heavy metal.

 

[loathed]

And you haven't heard of Michael Romeo, have you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG2804ggsI0

alot of people can do what muhammed suicmez and romeo do imo...but can you growl and do it at the same time...thats...almost impossible, but not impossible.

 

[scytheavatar]

alot of people can do what muhammed suicmez and romeo do imo...but can you growl and do it at the same time...thats...almost impossible, but not impossible.

We are talking about great guitarists, not guitarists/vocalists. True, there are no shortages of people who can play as fast if not faster than suicmez or romeo, but speed =/= good. How many can play as fast as romeo and still be as clean?

 

[loathed]

We are talking about great guitarists, not guitarists/vocalists. True, there are no shortages of people who can play as fast if not faster than suicmez or romeo, but speed =/= good. How many can play as fast as romeo and still be as clean?

of course...but you should really listen to some necrophagist albums...epitaph probably. you'll like how clean the tone yes, and yet heavy as hell.

 

[Hydistzation]

wrong. metal is also short for heavy metal. however, heavy metal can also refer to classic metal from the 80s and so...but generally, metal is just short for heavy metal.

so its still right, to call say...death metal heavy metal.

wrong! metal is not short for heavy metal! metal have damm lots of sub genre include heavy metal, black metal, trash metal,nu metal,hair metal,power metal & so on.