The Metallica of this Generation.

[gorcorps]

My opinion, the two best metal bands out there today are Alter Bridge and Volbeat. If you don't know them you definitely should check them out.

While I like both, I struggle with calling either of them metal in any way

 

[Strk]

While I like both, I struggle with calling either of them metal in any way

I do like Alter Bridge and they do have a few heavier songs, but I'm with you, they're hardly metal. I can't say I know the other group though.

 

[_Rick_]

Hurtlocker is the Metallica of this generation.

 

[Rakehellion]

All bands named suck pretty hard.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Metallica is dead and the crown is lost.

Avenged sevenfold
Hail to the new king

 

[Puppies04]

Metallica hasn't dominated anything in more that 20 years.

/Thread

 

[Wingznut]

Metallica hasn't dominated anything in more that 20 years.

Apparently you aren't paying attention to how many people attend their concerts.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIXUgtNC4Kc&feature=kp

 

[Strk]

Avenged sevenfold
Hail to the new king

If Hail to the King is how they will sound without The Rev, they're screwed.

 

[spacejamz]

RIP Cliff

Damn...I got those autographs 29 years ago....

 

[crownjules]

Avenged Sevenfold isn't bad but I can only listen to them in doses.

Protest the Hero is my favorite. Great technical ability in their music and their songwriting is good and not the same old tripe you hear in every other band (woe is me emo type shit). But unfortunately they're not as popular as Metallica.

 

[HeXen]

Metallica turned gay after the black album.

 

[gorcorps]

Avenged sevenfold
Hail to the new king

They have the worst vocalist of any popular band I can think of. A truly talented group ruined by a pretty terrible voice.

Yes that's an overreaction, but I just don't care for his voice

 

[Thump553]

Metallica never "dominated" anything. Admittedly they were a significant bad to their fans and had good commercial success-but those are traits they share with dozens of other bands and artists. They had minimal influence on other artists or the music listening public in general.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Metallica turned gay after the black album.

Agreed with a small edit that happened when the black album was released. This is one of two tapes/CD (one tape one CD) that was unceremoniously thrown out my car window in disgust.

 

[SP33Demon]

Disturbed or A7X, although Disturbed lacks diversity in their songs. A7X is closer since they do ballads as well.

Heavier and even better than Metallica but don't have the following = MACHINE (FUCKING) HEAD! Which is the best of all 3 bands IMO, and I think Machine Head is even better than any Metallica album... nothing is touching Machine Head's "The Blackening".

From wiki

Blabbermouth.net reviewer Don Kaye awarded the album a 9.5 out of 10, saying The Blackening is "one of the purest, finest, most powerful expressions of modern heavy metal released" and compared it to the 1986 Metallica album Master of Puppets,[26]

Except it's better than MoP.

3 years after the release of The Blackening, Machine Head wrapped their touring cycle for the album, finishing in Sydney, Australia on 28 March. In February 2010, The Blackening was awarded the Album of the Decade award from Metal Hammer.[24] On October 8, 2011, the album was voted Roadrunner Records "Album of the Century" in a poll.[25]

 

[Triumph]

Metallica never "dominated" anything. Admittedly they were a significant bad to their fans and had good commercial success-but those are traits they share with dozens of other bands and artists. They had minimal influence on other artists or the music listening public in general.

I'm not sure you know what you're talking about.

 

[QueBert]

Linkin Park

 

[surfsatwerk]

Avenged sevenfold
Hail to the new king

They are ok, all things considered.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Disturbed or A7X, although Disturbed lacks diversity in their songs. A7X is closer since they do ballads as well.

Heavier and even better than Metallica but don't have the following = MACHINE (FUCKING) HEAD! Which is the best of all 3 bands IMO, and I think Machine Head is even better than any Metallica album... nothing is touching Machine Head's "The Blackening".

From wiki

Except it's better than MoP.

I would agree with Machinehead being up there if you ignore everything before Through the Ashes of Empires, but yea, they aren't THAT popular...

but then...Metallica wasn't exactly popular either until the Black album. At that point they retroactively got popular.

Not a big fan of Avenged but I actually really like the Hail to the King (song) due to it's 80's vibe. The rest of the album is very meh.

I'm a big Killswitch Engage fan, but I think they fall in the same category as many others listed where many can take or leave them.

 

[mizzou]

Tool?

Tool isn't very distant from Metallica, in all honesty.

 

[manimal]

metal like what we grew up with is dead. Artists like tool have taken things into new directions because really metal was more an ideal than a sound.

The next big thing will be bands like the Orwells though I am biased since its two of my nephews band. they were on letterman a few weeks back.

 

[n7]

Metallica hasn't dominated anything in more that 20 years.

qft

Metal isn't really a thing anymore. It's a niche sound these days, or for old people.

/slightly-trolling-but-you-know-it's-kinda-true

 

[crownjules]

Metallica never "dominated" anything. Admittedly they were a significant bad to their fans and had good commercial success-but those are traits they share with dozens of other bands and artists. They had minimal influence on other artists or the music listening public in general.

Yeah, that's pretty much all wrong. Metallica is one of four bands recognized as spearheading the thrash metal movement in the early 80s. Plenty of bands have credited them as being a big influence in their own music.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

qft

Metal isn't really a thing anymore. It's a niche sound these days, or for old people.

/slightly-trolling-but-you-know-it's-kinda-true

Only if you expect the radio to give you metal without taking an active interest in finding new stuff yourself.