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wow, quite a bit of metal listeners here, eh?

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Originally posted by: Martin
There sure are a lot of Nightwish fans, you guys really need to check out Therion. The music is a bit a like, but far, far better.

ill do that when i get home thanks for the suggestion
 
Originally posted by: Leros
Originally posted by: Dimmu
Originally posted by: Leros
Originally posted by: edro
Slipknot
Stone Sour
Tool
Trivium
DevilDriver
Korn
Mushroomhead

I like heavy beats and deeper voices, or at least voices and lyrics you can hear.
The shrilly high pitched screaming metal are not my cup o tea.

I don't think most of those are considred metal. They fall more into the category of hard rock.

Or even alternative.

They call them "nu metal", but I think thats a stupid term, because they don't fit into any of the metal categories. Hard rock really fits the bill.

Trivium and Tool would count as metal though.
You are right. They are considered nu metal or alternative metal.

The only songs you hear on the Top 40 from any of those bands, are the singles that are made to get the band exposure and generate money.
 
Originally posted by: Verbrennenkinder
i consider all American metal garbage, listen to several German bands

Germany is good for dark techno and stuff like Wumpscut and Covenant.

Buy come on noob, list some fucking bands!
 
Originally posted by: iskim86
Originally posted by: davestar
Originally posted by: iskim86
😎 i thought all computer geeks listened to linkin park and evanscensnance

nah, computer geeks listen to prog and symphonic/power metal. it's fairly predictable.

I kinda lump the computer geeks and anime dorks in the same category 😱 probably due to the fact that back when I was in high school those two cliques were actaully one

sorry 😀

HOLY 1337 posts, batman!!!!

so were you more computer geek or anime freak?
 
Current favorites (hard rock or metal):

Bullet For My Valentine (the new album SUCKS)
Dry Kill Logic
Spineshank
All That Remains
Diecast
 
Originally posted by: mageslayer
Originally posted by: OdiN
You've got DT on your list so you're alright.

Portnoy rocks 8)

QFT
Dream Theater is godly, I also like the prog metal bands: symphony x and planet x

I never listened to DT really. Is it worth starting now? What albums should I start with?
 
Originally posted by: Canai
Originally posted by: mageslayer
Originally posted by: OdiN
You've got DT on your list so you're alright.

Portnoy rocks 8)

QFT
Dream Theater is godly, I also like the prog metal bands: symphony x and planet x

I never listened to DT really. Is it worth starting now? What albums should I start with?

Images and Words
Train of Thought

 
Origin
Unmerciful
Beneath The Massacre
Carcass (anything up to and including Heartwork)
At The Gates - Red in the Sky and With Fear I kiss the burning darkness
Grotesque - anything
Liers In Wait - also anything

crap, brain overload, too much stuff to mention
 
dissection, burzum, dark tranquillity, amon amarth, ensiferum, candlemass, iron maiden, solitude aeturnus, decapitated, necrophagist, and wintersun are my favorites 🙂
 
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss by Burzum, especially the first and last tracks, is a mesmerizing album.

Also check out Sleep Terror and Blotted Science if you like jaw-dropping technical metal without vocals. Ron Jarzombek shreds on that album.
 
Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss by Burzum, especially the first and last tracks, is a mesmerizing album.

:thumbsup:

Although IMO Filosofem is a better album... it would be perfect if it didn't have that 25 minute keyboard track 😕
 
I like:

Shadows Fall
Lamb of God
Killswitch Engage
Children of Bodom
Unearth
Pantera
Arch Enemy
Strapping Young Lad
Trivium
Metallica
Megadeth
Manowar
Symphony X
Nevermore
Firewind
Gojira
The Black Dahlia Murder
Winds of Plague
Black Label Society
Meshuggah
God Forbid

Probably more
 
Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
Originally posted by: Loop2kil
no one mentioned Hatebreed...one of my favorites

I see them as hardcore more or less, but I'm going to the DVD shoot in a few weeks.

id put them in metal

saw them with Slayer and Arch Enemy on Halloween a few years ago
holy fvck was that crazy
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
Originally posted by: Loop2kil
no one mentioned Hatebreed...one of my favorites

I see them as hardcore more or less, but I'm going to the DVD shoot in a few weeks.

id put them in metal

saw them with Slayer and Arch Enemy on Halloween a few years ago
holy fvck was that crazy

Their roots are definitely in hardcore. They've become more "metal-core" in recent years, but I would never call them a metal band.

However, I'm sure that show with Slayer and Arch Enemy was amazing.
 
Slayer
Testament
Cromags
DRI
Pantera
Anthrax

I liked a lot of headbanging music too but that seems like just "hard rock" compared to speedmetal.

I stopped moshing 20 years ago so haven't kept up with the thrash scene and forgot most of the old bands. Do they still have mosh pits at the shows these days or have those been outlawed?
 
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