Does anyone listen to heavy metal/death metal anymore?

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phucheneh

phucheneh

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AFurryReptile said:
Since you mentioned Porcupine Tree, I feel like I should plug Riverside's new album, which has a few song that are heavier than their previous work. The whole album has a 70's prog/blues feel. It's an excellent listen (and free on Spotify.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAqU-RDnYyY
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Riverside is some seriously good stuff. They really stepped it up with Anno Domini. Left Out is an all-time favorite. Did not know they had a new album out.

It's really a whole cluster of genres where I'm sure many of us have overlapping tastes. If you like melodic death metal, progressive metal, and such, it's only natural that, if given a chance, your tastes would expand to a wide variety of music. When people ask what I like, I basically say 'rock,' because to get any more specific with genre labels would be to alienate something I really like.

Melodic death metal, metalcore, post-hardcore...prog metal, prog rock...it becomes useless to label everything. I like good music. Music with emotion. That leads to a lot of music with 'screaming' (by most people's terms), but that's merely because death growls/screams/ect are an expression of emotion.

edit: you know a great example of genre-bending? Thrice. It's easy to just call them rock, or alternative, or, especially with their earlier stuff, post-hardcore. But they grew so much over the years, yet never lost their 'edge.' I really liked their last album. Kensrue's vocals are so epicly distraught, despite lacking the outright screams he used to use; the music is still plenty 'hard.'

Ah...now I'm just thinking of bands I kinda 'grew up' with. Stuff from high school and soon-after. I miss Glassjaw...honestly, they're probably responsible for my initial interest in melodic death metal. Before that, I think deftones (Adrenaline/Around the Fur) got me into harder music in general. Mmm nostalgia.
 
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Fingolfin269

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About the only metal I listen to now is Opeth. The Ghost Reveries album is amazing. Anyone have suggestions for other bands who are similar to Opeth? I tried Isis, they're ok. A little too repetitive for me.
 
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SWScorch

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Fingolfin269 said:
About the only metal I listen to now is Opeth. The Ghost Reveries album is amazing. Anyone have suggestions for other bands who are similar to Opeth? I tried Isis, they're ok. A little too repetitive for me.
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Check out:

Orphaned Land
Eluveitie
Amon Amarth
Nevermore
Porcupine Tree
Arch Enemy
Devin Townsend Project
Tesseract
 
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Dedpuhl

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SWScorch said:
Check out:

Orphaned Land
Eluveitie
Amon Amarth
Nevermore
Porcupine Tree
Arch Enemy
Devin Townsend Project
Tesseract
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Some other good stuff:

Bloodbath
Soilwork
In Flames
Dark Tranquility
Children of Bodom (took me a while to like them)
 
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VulgarDisplay

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Sometimes XM Liquid Metal does nice things for me. I had never known that Nevermore was so damn awesome until I heard "The Obsidian Conspiracy" driving home from work the other day.

I can't believe I'd never listened to them until last week. This album is amazing. Really great stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeLAt4Mop5o
 
Triumph

Triumph

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VulgarDisplay said:
Sometimes XM Liquid Metal does nice things for me. I had never known that Nevermore was so damn awesome until I heard "The Obsidian Conspiracy" driving home from work the other day.

I can't believe I'd never listened to them until last week. This album is amazing. Really great stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeLAt4Mop5o
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I don't like it. Bad singing.

Howl. Their first album seemed to be more doomy/sludgey, this is more thrash-ey.
 
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bradley

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Svnla said:
Here is a very much "uncompleted" list = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heavy_metal_bands
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Weird list. Bands like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Judas Priest, Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Motorhead are metal. Some of those bands listed are actually hard rock, including Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin.

Oh, one of my favorite hard rock albums of the nineties was Extreme's masterpiece, III Sides to Every Story.
 
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Dedpuhl

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bradley said:
Weird list. Bands like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Judas Priest, Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Motorhead are metal. Some of those bands listed are actually hard rock, including Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin.

Oh, one of my favorite hard rock albums of the nineties was Extreme's masterpiece, III Sides to Every Story.
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Lemmy would stomp your face with his white, cowboy-ish boots for calling Motörhead metal.
 
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bradley

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Dedpuhl said:
Lemmy would stomp your face with his white, cowboy-ish boots for calling Motörhead metal.
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I still think motorhead is metal meets punk, but yeah, Lemy would probably kill me for saying anything other than rock and roll. :)
 
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Here is some of my favourite music.

R.I.P. Dimebag Darrell Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
"If there was a single day I could live...I'd trade all the others away" Lamb of God - Laid to Rest
A bit like Testament and Pantera Machine Head - Death Church
The Gothenburg sound In Flames - Cloud Connected
Black Sabbath inspired with impressive lyrics and guitars Cathedral - Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)
Avoids the nu metal style Chimaira - The Disappearing Sun
More Gothenburg sound Dark Tranquillity - Lost To Apathy
A bit like Entombed and Carcass but with a female singer, Angela Gossow Arch Enemy - We Will Rise
Easier to listen to than their earlier grindcore Carcass - Black Star
Viking themed metal Amon Amarth - Death In Fire
Americans with Gothenburg sound Shadows Fall - The Light That Blinds
With Dave Lombardo on drums Testament - Legions Of The Dead
Brutal Swedish metal Entombed - Damn Deal Done
Portuguese metal Moonspell - Night Eternal
Music to make your nose bleed Pro-Pain - Don't Kill Yourself To Live

Goth metal My Dying Bride - Bring Me Victory
Gregor Mackintosh on lead guitar, doom/goth Paradise Lost - Embers Fire
A bit like if Black Label Society went doom metal Place of Skulls - With Vision
Simone Simons <3 Epica - Cry For The Moon
Doom metal like Obsessed Saint Vitus - I Bleed Black
Doom metal like Saint Vitus The Obsessed - To Protect And To Serve
I dig the voice of Paul Kuhr Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
Alternative/Experimental/Progressive Tool - Stinkfist
Doom/Sludge/Stoner, "heaviest band in the universe" Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis

Polish death/black Behemoth - Ov Fire And The Void
Filth's singing is very special Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine
Swedish symphonic metal Opeth - The Night And The Silent Water
The amazing Dan Swanö Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
Swedish therapy metal, Shining http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5WpA6pQneM
Fast Finnish metal Wintersun - Winter Madness
Norwegian black metal Mayhem - Chimera
The founders of death metal Death - Baptized In Blood
Swedish black metal with blood, corpse paint and spikes Dark Funeral - My Funeral
The founders of black metal Venom - In League With Satan

Edit: I added Venom.
Edit2: Corrected link for Shining.
 
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