Does anyone listen to heavy metal/death metal anymore?

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Yes, I do listen to heavy metal, blues, classical and bluegrass.

 

[Away]

I love all sorts of metal although thrash is my favorite. Check out the big four if you are interested in hearing some awesome metal from some great bands.

Metallica
Megadeth
Anthrax
Slayer

 

[Fingolfin269]

I like this song as well by a band named Parkway Drive that I heard on XM.

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

I just like the speed changes and the part at around 1:50 is pretty sweet as well.

 

[AFurryReptile]

Going to put this in here because I think it's awesome that Trivium did a song in Simlish (Yes, the Sims' language!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gD0yEusiPs

It really doesn't sound much different from the original, tbh

 

[railer]

I think bands like Down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGm3ByUUA0U , and maybe a few others, are all that is left of traditional heavy metal in 2011. There are still some of the old bands from the late 80's putting out good music......Testament, Overkill, maybe Metallica depending upon how you classify them. But I can't think of a "new" heavy metal band that I care for whatsoever. Lamb of God is probably somewhere between tradtional heavy metal and death metal. The death metal WWE vocals don't really do a thing for me, though I do appreciate the guitar work.

 

[Dedpuhl]

A majority of the albums I own are heavy metal. The albums I listened to today are Accept (Blood of the Nations), Anvil (Juggernaut of Justice), Arch Enemy (Khaos Legions), Iron Maiden (Final Frontier), Scorpions (Sting in the Tail), and Ripper Owens (Play My Game). Right Now I'm listening to Systematic Chaos (Dream Theater).

My favorite metal band is Megadeth. Opeth is my favorite death metal band; however, Arch Enemy is a close second. Dream Theater is my favorite Prog metal band. In the hard rock category, my favorite is a toss up between King's X and Rainbow.

I'm mostly a fan of the older bands like Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio, Metallica, Testament, and Motorhead. Soilwork is awesome. I can tolerate small doses of Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold.

 

[Squisher]

There are people that don't like Malmsteen?

 

[thtadthtshldntbe]

While I listen to almost every different type of music out there (my music folder has everything from Metallica and Opeth to Sarah McLachlan and Johny Cash in it), the main type of music which calls to my soul comes in three general category for the past couple of years

- bands centered around strong female vocals (think Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Lacuna Coil, Sarah McLachlan, etc)

- bands and songs that have a sort of legacy value to me, my favorite band Metallica for example currently sits in this category, as does Ozzy

-melodic death metal, particularly stuff like Opeth, Amon Amarth, In Flames, Tristania (black metal I suppose here)... I must have spammed Doom Over Dead Men (Amon Amarth) at least 2 or 3 times per day for the last month, along with their Without Fear.

I don't know about categorization anymore. I mean all these categories are largely marketing driven anyway. From a strictly musical pov metal is the same as rocki. When I was a kid through my teen years, there were basically five types of broad general metal categories

-Rock Metal...bands like Kiss, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Blue Oyster Cult, Motorhead, etc
-Pure or Heavy Metal, bands like Ozzy or Sabbath,
-Speed Metal .. bands like Iron Maiden or Metallica's first 3 albums (their latter stuff i more in the line of the above categories)
-Thrash Metal ... bands like Slayer, Pantera or Testament
-Death Metal... bands like Morbid Angel, Nihil, Vader or Napalm Death..

then bands started jumping out of their categories for one reason or another, like Metallica no longer playing speed metal after their 3rd album and basically becoming more like Black Sabbath... or Fear Factory (truely an awesome band) who regularly went back and forth between Speed, Thrash and Death in one song...

And you had the rise of alternative music, where the marketeers started to try to pigeon hole bands like Alice in Chain and Korn as some sort of numetal or alternative metal and those bands said fuck that.... I remember the obsessive alternative media and fan base being shocking when Korn blew off alternative media outlets and only did shit like Ozzfest and toured with other metal bands, lol.

From there, metal subcategorization exploded. Goth-death-emo-metal, industrial-metal, viking-metal, power-metal and whatever other category they made up.

Now I just have a broad categories in my itunes called "metal". I don't care about pure categorization anymore, and I just not the general trend of what I listen to as I opened the post with above.

(Lol, I thought that I was having a brain aneurism the other day, Katy Perry's fireworks came on the radio at work and I was like "that's kind of catchy", of course that's probably influenced by my desire to bend her over the end of my couch and thrust till my penis falls off, lol, but female sex appeal is always part of their musical appeal).

I suppose if you need to know my favorite metal acts right now..

Metallica, Amon Amarth, Opeth, Alice in Chains, Slayer, Fear Factory, Ozzy, Lacuna Coil, Tristania.. with lesser known bands like Spineshank, Inflames and a couple of others in play.

My advice, if you are looking for a new band like one you know, hit up some internet radio stations, I listen to hardradio at times or seton hall pirate radio.

come to think of that, I am reminded of a couple of bands I associate with the latter station.. nothingface, puya, nj bloodline, Life of Agony...

 

[darkswordsman17]

Since I didn't see it posted:
http://www.mapofmetal.com/#/home

 

[coreyb]

Meshuggah

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

What are you waiting for...
What do you think you were created for...

BORN TO RAISE HELL... BORN TO RAISE HELL
We know how to do it and we do it real well...

 

[Anubis]

There are people that don't like Malmsteen?

i dont believe that for a second

 

[SWScorch]

Hell yeah dude. The metal scene is awesome right now. People have suggested a lot of great bands, so I will just say that my favorites are:

Opeth
Lamb of God
Dream Theather
Arch Enemy
Gojira
Between the Buried and Me
Tesseract
Meshuggah
Nile
Iced Earth
Nevermore
Alestorm (Pirate Metal yaaaarrr!!!)
Amon Amarth (Viking Metal arrggh!!)
Animals as Leaders
Arsis
Eluveitie (folk metal - fiddles, flutes, hurdy gurdy and METALS!!)
Ihsahn
Porcupine Tree (more progressive than metal though)

 

[Spineshank]

Most people named everything I listen to but I didnt look at every post so I will throw out I Killed The Prom Queen and Asking Alexandria.

 

[AFurryReptile]

I've been digging Amorphis. Finnish folk metal, ftw!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXvf2UMk4AA

 

[Krynj]

Most people named everything I listen to but I didnt look at every post so I will throw out I Killed The Prom Queen and Asking Alexandria.

I Killed The Prom Queen is pretty good. Got into them a few summers ago.

 

[MrsBugi]

Hell yeah dude. The metal scene is awesome right now. People have suggested a lot of great bands, so I will just say that my favorites are:

Opeth
Lamb of God
Dream Theather
Arch Enemy
Gojira
Between the Buried and Me
Tesseract
Meshuggah
Nile
Iced Earth
Nevermore
Alestorm (Pirate Metal yaaaarrr!!!)
Amon Amarth (Viking Metal arrggh!!)
Animals as Leaders
Arsis
Eluveitie (folk metal - fiddles, flutes, hurdy gurdy and METALS!!)
Ihsahn
Porcupine Tree (more progressive than metal though)

Pirate Metal and Viking Metal??!!! AMAZING.

 

[Luzah]

IMHO, Norwegian metal is some of the best stuff on Earth. A lot of metal bands from Norway are pretty damn brutal, and a good part of them are very anti-Christian. Of course, that opinion isn't stated in fact but rather of what I have observed while watching a few documentaries on the birth of Metal.

 

[TheNinja]

I approve this thread!! I've always liked heavy music as long as I can remember. My parents hated it but when I was a kid they finally gave in let me listen to and tape a Christian Rock show that came on FM radio from 10pm-Midnight...lol

I don't look like a metal head though really and don't wear all black or anything. I enjoy the heaving riffs and double-kick bass drums. However the screaming and yelling and growling can get annoying b/c you can't understand the words and all songs start to sound eerily similar. So for that reason I tend towards Metallica, Trivium, Killswitch Engage. Both Trivium and Killswitch Engage have fairly heavy riffs and some growlings but they also have singing and harmonies in their choruses. They aren't DEATH metal per se, but still very good.

I'm open to anything new though and will be investigating some of the bands suggested here.

 

[AFurryReptile]

So for that reason I tend towards Metallica, Trivium, Killswitch Engage.

I'm open to anything new though and will be investigating some of the bands suggested here.

You're into the metalcore. There's some good stuff out there, check out 36 Crazyfists, In Flames, All That Remains, Five Finger Death Punch, and my favorite, Protest the Hero, for some similar (but different!) sounds.

Some Protest the Hero:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypCdGNe3Bvs

 

[Eli]

Amon Amarth
Dark Tranquillity
Arch Enemy
Nightwish
Dream Theater
Iced Earth
Blind Guardian
Metallica

Pretty much what I listen to. Always open to new metal though, will have to check some of these bands out.

 

[Eli]

You're into the metalcore. There's some good stuff out there, check out 36 Crazyfists, In Flames, All That Remains, Five Finger Death Punch, and my favorite, Protest the Hero, for some similar (but different!) sounds.

Some Protest the Hero:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypCdGNe3Bvs

That was... Interesting.

I think I liked it.

 

[Krynj]

Old guilty pleasure of mine. As I Lay dying. I really like the sound of the drums on this album, especially the kick drum, but their songs are rather lacking. Not sure what else to expect from Christian metalcore, heh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6aPKt2R2Bc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AnEVnqEss4&feature=related

 

[HeXen]

in the 90's i listened to Carcass, Cannibal corpse...etc. I still don't mind death in general, but i don't follow new bands and don't really listen to it much anymore...i like some melodic rthym and flow more now. i would have to be in the right mood

too many sub genre's nowadays, i don't know the difference from industrial to doom, gothic, grindcore, noise rock, nu metal....wtf??

 

[Krynj]

in the 90's i listened to Carcass, Cannibal corpse...etc. I still don't mind death in general, but i don't follow new bands and don't really listen to it much anymore...i like some melodic rthym and flow more now. i would have to be in the right mood

too many sub genre's nowadays, i don't know the difference from industrial to doom, gothic, grindcore, noise rock, nu metal....wtf??

:thumbsup: I love Carcass and Corpse. In terms of pure death metal, you can't get any better than that.