Pantera
Metallica
Megadeth
Mastodon
Helmet
Deftones
Prong
Tool
Korn
Every Time I Die
Meshuggah
Gojira
Isis
White Zombie
Black Sabbath
Alice in Chains
Slipknot
System of a Down
Static-X
Ministry
Melvins
Voivod
Norma Jean
Judas Priest
Lamb of God
Red Harvest
Twilight
Kylesa
Neurosis
And though at one point it may have embarassed me to say this, I have to admit Bullet For My Valentine have really grown on me in the past few years...

Metallica
Voivod
Cryptic slaughter
Teeth Of Lions Rule the divine
Stone
Opeth
Acid Reign
White Zombie
Motörhead
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Uriah Heep

and a few stoner bands:
Kyuss
Monster Magnet

Bathtub Shitter's One Fun EP is fucking legit. Unholy Grave is pretty good, but I think they're a bit overrated.

I can get down with most of what is mentioned in this thread, but I haven't seen Terrorizer mentioned yet, and that is shameful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KgenV8drw

Xasthur sucks balls so badly

I enjoy the music of Xasthur but for American black metal I think Wolves in the Throne Room, Krallice, Velvet Cacoon and Weakling are worth people's time more.

metal-ish stuff I like

Black breath
Melvins
Earth
Venom
Sabbath
Goatsnake
Boris (sometimes)
Electric Wizard
etcetcetcetcetc

Really? I don't think you've ever mentioned those bands ever in the history of everything.

this album makes nearly all other metal obsolete.

YES!

Dropdead, Amebix, and Dystopia deserve name drops as well.

I haven't mentioned tons of things in the history of everything....

But just for the record, if ya look really hard you'll see that I've mentioned Melvins + Earth a pretty good bit.

I'm yanking your chain.
I'm terrible at this, we need n'ik to take over.

Weakling is my favorite metal band ever.


But uh.. Krallice, Gorguts, Necrophagist, Severed Saviour, Obscura, Visceral Bleeding, Vomitory, Enemymine (kinda noise-metal), Graves at Sea, Dodheimsgard, Cryptopsy (early), yada yada, all good. I used to be huge into death metal. I burn myself out on it pretty quickly but it's good if you're into ridiculous riff fests.

Necrophagist are pretty much untouchable DM, imo, maybe "too" good, but certainly the ONLY death metal band a LOT of people can get into, I've noticed.

The first style of music I was ever really into when I started downloading music was grindcore... god... 324, Cripple Bastards, Bathtthub Shitter, XXX Maniak, ROT, GUT, Gore Beyond Necropsy, etc. I HIGHLY reccomend Japanese grindcore bands. Also, "porn gore" is a great genre!

I've always had a tenuous relationship with Amebix, but Dropdead and Dystopia are both totally solid. Really, it's all about Dropdead's first LP, and I think everything Dystopia ever did was amazing... so depressed. Fucking love it.

Seriously y'all, Bathtub Shitter's One Fun is fucking amazing. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE that record. Cripple Bastards are always hit or miss for me. Have any of you guys ever heard Suppression? Their side of the CB split is fucking incredible... way better than Cripple Bastard's output in that instance in my opinion.

Also, Dahmer... totally brutal.

Love Amebix.

all of this and Mastadon and ozzy

The definition of "metal" in this thread is puzzling.

Uriah Heep are great and everything, but that is either prog rock or just "hard rock" depending on which period you are talking about. I don't see that as remotely "metal."

I only enjoy black metal or funeral doom so nothing I've said has been too off.

Oh, those genres.. and maudlin of the Well. Lots and lots of maudlin of the Well.

A few more...

I always thought Converge had really interesting vocals. Their production is absolutely filthy, for the techier sound that they go for.

Cattle Decapitation puts on a really good live show. Humanure will always be a classic in my eyes.



Oh, and nobody mentioned The Berzerker yet...



Their drummer is absolutely fucking sick!!! He gravity blasts like no other; I swear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gqVVQ-q8Zs (No One Wins video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JDj074-WP0 (Reality rehearsal in the studio)

And what about fucking Marduk!?!?!

Hot damn!

Marduk are fucking horrible. And boring.

most of the time, that is the best kind of metal

before the rules of metal were written, such as

PENTAGRAM (the recent First Daze Here I & II compilations of cleaned up 70's recording that were in very rough shape, not the newer stuff)

BEDEMON


or for metal that breaks all the rules,
see the Earth thread I started and compulsively added to to see how obsessed I have become (with many links to recent shows, etc...): http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...ighlight=earth

Dethklok!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWTpm1srIi0
^fansong by Dethklok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cnDvS6FAYw
^duncan hills coffee jungle.

In seventies Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep and Black Sabbath were called metal. I like quite a lot also Ac/Dc and Nazareth seventies production, but I think they were called already then Hard rock. I think some critic called the sixties band Vanilla Fudge first heavy metal band and I think it´s not totally wrong, there is quite heavy stuff in their Near the beginning album (at least Shotgun and Break song is). I think in music to put the band in categories is always difficult. And I think the bands fit very well on some category are mostly boring.

Anyone else think Ill Innocence is one of the best black metal albums of all time?
You just don't hear tracks like Blind My Eyes, or Delirium Daydream on any other BM album.

Off the top of my head:

Sabbath - Master of Reality
Led Zeppelin I
1st two Maiden albums with Paul Dianno on vocals
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Metallica through Garage Days Re-revisited
All Sunn O)))
All Melvins
Motorhead up to Orgasmatron
"Fast as a Shark" by Accept
a little Slayer every now and again
Pat Fucking Boone
Go Girl Crazy by the Dictators

must admit, I don't keep up much these days with the genre, though I often like Black Metal stuff when I hear it. I end up just watching a few Gorgoroth videos on you tube and calling it a night though.

I need a new Gallhammer album. Rightnow. I love that album to death.

http://www.metalassaultradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1733: gallhammer-completes-new-album-the-end&catid=1:newsflash&Itemid=15

April 25th!?!?!!! YES!!!!

^ Read the article more closely. Wondered what the fuck happened to Mika Penetrator.

Found this: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla...sitemID=145644


Pretty upsetting that they're just a drum n' bass group now. Mika provided excellent vocals live. Fuck. Hopefully their new material holds up.

also the album's been delayed to may =(

Damn! Well hopefully it's for the better.

These days I prefer a much cleaner, elaborate production. Prog or post metal sync heavenly with a thick mug of dark roast coffee, a scented candle from TJ Maxx, and some hot wings. I'm currently exploring sub-sub-genres like Atmosludge and Doomgaze, but overall my preference in metal is...

Deftones, Gojira, Isis, Mastodon, Animals as Leaders, Tool, Rolo Tomassi, Opeth, Jesu, Baroness, Deafheaven, Palms, Agalloch, Pelican, Skeletonwitch, Kayo Dot, Alcest, Pallbearer, Kylesa, Revocation, Lamb of God, Bosse-de-Nage, Sumac, Myrkur, Neurosis, Converge, Dark Funeral...

Y'know, mostly "hipster shit".

This!! I love the whole Electric Wizard discography.

Power Trip

Impaled Northern Moonforest