Metal

[woodsman]

Opeth is a great band, Otherwise.

Meshuggah - great complexity
Mastadon - Just awesome
Devil Driver - of Scrubs fame and still immense

Otherwise not massively into metal although Alice In Chains and Soundgarden both have metally elements and listen to both a fair bit as with Dream theatre

[Lith]

AiC and Soundgarden are both bona fide metal bands. AiC was originally Alice in Chainz to give you an idea of how metally (and OLD!) they are.

But I'll stop there before I launch into my rant about the overclassification of metal bands, and the need to split an already small genre into even smaller categories.

[woodsman]

Yeah I Mcguess so although I generally consider them to be.....Dunno! Dayum Stayleys voice and Cantrell's guitar loved it.
Metal is way too over classfied, but I generally think of it all as metal pretty much.

And almost forgot my most favourite 'metal' band - TOOL

[Nightmare]

Originally Posted by Lith

But I'll stop there before I launch into my rant about the overclassification of metal bands, and the need to split an already small genre into even smaller categories.

As a fan of brutal-tech death metal, I'd like to hear that rant. I used to think the same way, but once you get into the extreme side (enough to realize that AiC & Soundgarden, however brilliant and essential, are decidedly not metal) the sub-sub-subgenre classifications become pretty useful. The metal genre is the opposite of small, and if you're going to try to sift through all the muck to find the gems, you need to have an idea of what a band is all about before you lend it your ears. I agree with the "it's all metal" sentiment, but it's important to delineate its varied and subtle flavors.

[Eleniel]

Originally Posted by vampress13

and i need help... i forgot the name of a band i used to love... a metal band, girl singer, but she sounds like a man since all she does is grunt a yell. can anyone think of the band?

Could it be ArchEnemy? Sounds like it from a friend's description, I haven't heard them myself yet (stupid internet connection!)

I only started listening to metal recently, thanks to some friends who love it - one has a metal band. My favourites so far are Rhapsody, Manowar and Judas Priest, but I've got a lot of listening to do yet.

[Loucifer]

Ah, Metal! I love it!

I'm into most forms of it - Death Metal, Thrash, Traditional, Doom and I'm in Black Metal phase at the moment. I also like a lot of Hard Rock, Hair/Glam Rock and Classic Rock.

At the moment I'm completely obsessed by bands like Devilish Impressions, Vesperian Sorrow, Nicodemus, Sammath, Secrets Of The Moon, Days Of Nothing, Orion, Omnium Gatherum, etc. I'm also hooked on the more rockier stuff like Guns N' Roses and Alice Cooper.

[Ryden]

I'm all about metal myself, mostly black metal... It started with the old masters like Emperor, Immortal, Darkthrone etc... Now I'm into some more underground stuff like Vargsang, Angantyr, Tsjuder... I also like atmospheric/folk black like Agalloch, Wolves in the Throne Room, Negura Bunget, Drudkh... And some depressing black like Hypothermia, Make a change... kill yourself and Woods of Infinity. And of course I have to mention Ulver, one of the most original and genius bands ever. Nattens Madrigal = best black metal album ever.

Hehe, anyone heard of these bands? :P

[Majimaune]

I used to listen to quite a bit of metal but now I am drifting off to the indierock and punk.

[sdoidge]

Originally Posted by Ivo

I'm more old school but still listen to the occasional newer Metal artist. I don't throw around all the labels so I will just list some favorites old and new that I consider Metal or Heavy Rock:

Older Acts:

Metallica (before the Black album)
Queensryche
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Slayer
Overkill
AC/DC
...

ahh I love old school...next month I get to see queensryche do mindcrime 1&2 back to back in concert....(may consider leaving half way through ...lol)

[Stronty]

Does nobody here like Rose Tattoo?

[Ice fyre]

I've been a metal head from the tender age of ooo 13ish Iron Maiden started me although Metalica have to be my close second. Since then I have broadend my musical tastes from musicals to folk music.

But I still keep coming back to metal, I like quite few of the newer acts quite like Marylin Manson and Linkin Park to Ramstein but the old favourites always stay with me, my favorites have to be Black Sabbath and Deep Purple and Rainbow (Dio era) .

Really never got the more exreme end of Metal but dont mind a bit of Slayer and slipknot tho.

[hammerhead]

i fell in love with metal back in the 70's, my aunt dropped my cousin and me off
at the civic arena in pittsburgh, pa. saw black sabbath and blue oyster cult
the black and blue tour
i was really into kiss and ac/dc at the time to
then in the early 80's metallica hit the scene
and it just cemented that hard edgy balls to the wall style of music
that is simple and at the same time complex
my kids get a kick at seeing their dad head bang to a maiden tune
or a avantasia tune
now i'm really into iced earth, blind guardian, rhaspody of fire and edguy

[Perpetual Man]

Back in the halcyon days of my youth I was a real meatl fan, although I guess it was more hard rock than metal. The most important moment of my musical life was being introduced to Alice Cooper (musically not in person unfortunately) and he has remained a favourite ever since. This opened me to other material, and one of the most dominant at the time was Iron Maiden and from there I just branched out into other groups that were popular amongst my peers at the time, including Helloween, WASP and Zodiac Mindwarp...

The metal and rock was very much a starting point to all music, but I still enjoy the heavier side of things, listing Guns N Roses, Hanoi Rocks, Metallica.

Also have a heavy interest in gothic and alternative stuff like Sisters Of Mercy, The Merry Thoughts and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Currently the more metal side of things that I listen to (apart from all the older things listed above) include Nightwish, Avantasia and 30 Seconds to Mars, not to mention rediscovering some older groups like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Kansas and Lynard Skynard!

Probably loads of stuff I wanted to mention and forgotten but that's it!

[yngvi]

Reading through this thread has made me realise how silly 'genre' names can get. I realise that labels are meant to give you positive information about where a band is musically, but this shouldn't be taken too far to the point where it gets in the way.

In the 1970's I Liked Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath but they were miles apart musically. Led Zep were too blues influenced for me to think of them in the same genre as Metallica and their 'heaviest' stuff really didn't have the tempo to be compared with anything considered as metal today (similarly Sabbath, who got very heavy early doors but never got thrashy and high temp like, for example, Uriah Heep).

The last 'heavy' band I got into was 'The Hot Water Music Band' but I'm told their punk (go figure).

[egglap]

Recently been listening to :

Agalloch
Gojira
Ministry

There are very few bands coming out that really grab my attention these days.