Metal thread

[Hippobatman]

I love progressive metal and power metal (and a bit of some of the older bands). My favorite bands are as follows:
Dream Theater
Symphony X
Blind Guardian
Epica
Suspyre
Kamelot
Sonata Arctica
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Rhapsody
Iced Earth
Falconer
Demons and Wizards (Blind Guardian/Iced Earth)

Yea, that is my favorite list. I suggest to everyone here who likes any progressive metal to check out Suspyre. They have 3 albums and all of them are extremely good (especially their latest one, When Time Fades...). Although I'm pretty sure that none of the songs from their latest album are up on Pandora, I'd recommend going to pandora.com and listening to a few of their songs.
Enjoy

You're my friend now... hee hee.... Tell me where you live.. I'm kidding, sorry.

Might I add Nocturnal Rites to your list? Great power metal band, check out albums "Afterlife", "Shadowland" and "The 8th Sin"

 

[Rosszul]

Between the Buried and Me
Born of Osiris
The Faceless
Winds of Plague
Children of Bodom
SikTh
All That Remains
Opeth
.....
And no, this is not emo. Christ, I'm playing Pokemon Yellow while I'm writing this out.

 

[Jharry5]

I'll listen to almost any metal...

A few of my favourite metal bands:
Protest The Hero,
Cannibal Corpse,
Bleeding Through,
Bring Me The Horizon,
Beneath The Massacre,
Abigail Williams.

Put them into whatever sub-genre you like, cos I don't keep up with that stuff...

 

[Galletea]

I don't know what hole any of the bands I like fall into, but I like Opeth and Metallica and old Pantera at the mo. And Iced Earth amuse me.
Oh and Apocalyptica are pretty cool.
But generally metal is one of my lesser loved genres.

 

[Snakktastic]

I'm starting to dislike metal in the last 10 years its just become so fucking main stream and I believe its lost its way. Mind you nothing will take away my love to Iron Maiden,Megadeth ( while David Ellefson was still around), Metallica's only good album Ride the lighting and theres more but i cant post them all without losing a finger. xD

GOGOGOGO burning down churches wooo fire.

And wtf is with this Christian Metal crap i've been reading about.

 

[KaZZaP]

I think they're classified as NuMetal (whatever the fuck that means) but System of a Down is one of my top fav bands. I got to see them live and now i'm just hoping they will release another album soon... damn Serj's solo project!

 

[Arntor]

I can't be arsed to write up a list. [http://metal-archives.com/usercol.php?id=138599&nickname=Draculus]

I'm a huge fan of black metal, thrash metal, and power metal.

 

[El_Zilcho]

Can't go wrong with some progressive metal, dream theater, between the buried and me...etc. also some melodic/death metal like Opeth. I'd have to say Opeth are probably my favorites though

 

[Fatalis67]

I adore metal. I prefer death metal, particularly brutal death like Skinless and Suffocation. I'm also into technical bands like Psycroptic and old-school Cryptopsy. I love power/progressive metal, and I'm also into Grindcore a bit too (Actual grindcore, not WCWBT and company)

I mostly hate deathcore, but I can listen to a select few bands (All Shall Perish, A Breath Before Surfacing, and Beneath the Massacre). I have a grudge against Black Metal because it gives metal the bad name it has with many people who don't listen to it, and created a stereotype that generally gives people the wrong idea when I tell them I listen to metal.

Favorite Bands:
Skinless
Suffocation
Immolation
Cannibal Corpse
A Breath Before Surfacing
Beneath the Massacre
Iron Maiden
Krisiun
Psycroptic
Necrophagist
Cryptopsy
Gojira

 

[InvisibleMilk]

Top ten of all time.

Iron Maiden
Iced Earth (pre-Horror Show days)
Blind Guardian
Demons and Wizards
Arcturus
Therion
Opeth
Dark Tranquility
Bruce Dickinsn solo
Bathory
Judas Priest
...
Okay, top eleven. May be out of order, but I can't pick between these bands.

Whaaaaaa?
NO DREAM THEATER?!?!?!?

 

[tikiwargod]

Rock and Roll is better.

Haven't you heard? Rock and Roll is dead.

 

[tikiwargod]

I love lamb of god, Iron maiden, amon amarth, statc-x and slayer. Also listen to alot of lesser-kwon canadian bands(3 inches of blood, neuraxis, kataklysm) as well as damn near anything of loud.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I'm really into Dream Theater, they're progressive metal for those who don't know about them. I also really like Disturbed, and if System of a Down (if you count them as metal).

I think they're classified as NuMetal (whatever the fuck that means) but System of a Down is one of my top fav bands. I got to see them live and now i'm just hoping they will release another album soon... damn Serj's solo project!

It's not just Serj. Daron decided that he would go off and make his own band, Scars on Broadway. Also since everybody else left Shavo went and joined a different band. Lucky you got to see them live, it might never happen again.

 

[Copter400]

Spoiler: The Rather Lengthy List Of Bands I Like

Amon Amarth
Angra
Blind Guardian
Dimmu Borgir (a teensy bit)
Dream Evil
Edenbridge
Epica
Hevein
Iron Maiden
Jag Panzer
Kiuas
Korpiklaani
Maximum The Hormone (I have not heard anything like them before)
Melechesh
Moonsorrow
Nightwish
Orphaned Land
Skyclad (I'm trying to find a way to prove that people who don't like Skyclad are clinically stupid)
Sonata Arctica
Symphony X
Teresbetoni
Theocracy (a teensy bit)
Therion
Turisas

Too-Long-Don't-Read Summary: I enjoy a wide variety of Metals, particularly from European bands, mainly from Finnland.

How dare you even say that Rock and Roll is dead. Well this just shows how little metal heads know about the rock industry.

Uh...how?

 

[Asymptote Angel]

My Hierarchy (with two examples of bands I like):
1. Melodic Power Metal (Helloween, Sonata Arctica)
2. Thrash Metal (I'm thinking more Megadeth and Metallica than Slayer)
3. Heavy Metal (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden)
4. Death Metal, and by death metal, I mean Children of Bodom and Into Eternity. I hate any other kind of screaming vocals.
5. Neo-Classical Metal (Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Angelo Batio)
6. Prog Metal (Symphony X, Kamelot, NOT Dream Theater by any means)
7. Old-School (Black Sabbath, Deep Purple)

That's the good stuff. I could care less about other subgeneres.

Haven't you heard? Rock and Roll is dead.

How dare you even say that Rock and Roll is dead. Well this just shows how little metal heads know about the rock industry.

If rock has become an "industry," it's deader than you think, and it doesn't take a metalhead to know that.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

I'm more into Classic Rock. I used to be REALLY into metal but I like Classic Rock better. Also I really don't like those band that just thrash the hell out of their guitars and just scream, I like my metal to actually have some rythm.

I can understand you not liking it, but to say it has no rhythm is just plain idiotic. Why do people hear growled vocals and instantly assume the band is talentless and has put no effort into there music?

since everyone else is doing this, here's my top list (in no order):
The Absence
Dark Tranquillity
Mors Principium Est
Abigail Williams
Archons
Prey for Nothing
Arsis
At the Gates
Behemoth