Enough "Favorite Punk and Pop and other Shite Bands"...here's a top 10 with some balls, in no particular order:

Tool
Opeth
Lamb of God
Meshuggah
Bloodbath
Dimmu Borgir
Arch Enemy
Children of Bodom
Kalmah
Slayer

Okay, so Tool isn't really metal...but they can't not make my list. Feel free to flame and make your own list, but I wanna hear REAL flames here...not any of this "DIMU BURGER SUX CUZ THEY SOLD OUT ADN PLAYD IN OZZFETS KTHX LOOSER" bullshit. I know most of those are well known metal bands, so I also don't wanna hear anyone tell me I don't know anything about metal...this isn't a "let's see who can name the most bands nobody's heard of" thread. Alright, have at it.

1/6/2005 8:59:39 PM

Looks good to me, though I think most metal sucks now, so I'll keep it to 5

Lamb of God (Really the only good metal release of the year)
Cradle of Filth
3 Inches of Blood
Avenged Sevenfold
And Tool, for good measure

1/6/2005 9:08:16 PM

Between the Buried and Me
Unearth
Glass Casket
It Dies Today
Bury Your Dead
Deadwater Drowning
Cries of the Dying
As I Lay Dying

not all of them are straight metal but close enough

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1/6/2005 9:10:31 PM

^fuck man, none of that is actually "straight up" metal...I'll give you deadwater drowning though, because they kicked ass

I am assuming this means "of all time", so...

Iron Maiden
Slayer
Megadeth
Opeth
Dragonforce
Rhapsody
Napalm Death
Morbid Angel
Darkmoon
Meshuggah

I dunno, that was off the top

1/6/2005 10:35:32 PM

Fear Factory
Children of Bodom
Opeth
Cradle of Filth
Gardenian
Dark Tranquility
In Flames

1/6/2005 11:14:50 PM

^niiiiice \m/

^^also good list...yeah you're welcome to put favorite metal of all time; I was initially thinking newer bands, not necessarily the godfathers [metallica (yes, metallica), megadeth, maiden, sabbath, pantera (R.I.P. Dimebag ), but then again I listed Slayer...so whatever]

So if all you listen to is the godfather metal, that's fine go ahead and list them...just know they're pretty much a given and if you have more recent bands that you listen to that would be great. Please, no hair or 80's metal. If I see any Poison or Motley Crue on here, I'll die.

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1/6/2005 11:17:09 PM

Sepultura
Death
Kamelot
Soilwork
Cryptopsy

1/6/2005 11:26:10 PM

inst opeth the band with the chick singer?

1/6/2005 11:35:02 PM

Thats either Arch Enemy or Otep.

I'm assuming the band you are referring to is Arch Enemy.

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1/6/2005 11:36:01 PM

Cadaveria and Opera IX are also female vocals of similar style, among others, but Arch Enemy is a lot more well known, I suppose.

i'll think up my top 10 tomorrow, but it's almost 5am here and i can't narrow things down.

1/6/2005 11:42:13 PM

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"inst opeth the band with the chick singer?"

argh...you are thinking of OTEP, who is fucking horrible nu-metal shit

Opeth is progressive, melodic death metal stuff...one of the most diverse metal bands ever

1/6/2005 11:58:06 PM

Opeth....greatest of them all
Isis....Panopticon is the album of the year
Tool....need more
Agalloch....excellent
Cradle of Filth....only getting better
Arcturus....great circus metal
Mastodon....insane drummer
In Flames....disappointed with the new stuff but cant forget the old
Avengend Sevenfold....interested in seeing what direction they go
Mudvayne....my one guilty so-called nu-metal pleasure (l.d. 50 is incredible)

1/7/2005 12:44:59 AM

i dont know what you all are considering metal. seems to me most ppl are listing more along hte lines of black or euro based metal but heres my list. i guess a few might not be the type you all are looking for:

between the buried and me
glass casket
mastadon
pysopus
dillinger escape plan
Meshuggah
In Flames
Old Old Underoath(cries of the past)
Tool
Isis
Emperor
Unearth
Deadwater Drowning

thats about all i feel like listing for now

1/7/2005 1:20:57 AM

yea im confused what type of metal they are looking for....cause unearth and btbam are pretty metal

1/7/2005 1:30:17 AM

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"inst opeth the band with the chick singer?"

::dies a little inside::

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"Opeth is progressive, melodic death metal stuff...one of the most diverse metal bands ever"

Thank you. Tool used to be my favorite band...until I listened to Opeth...within the same week as hearing my first Opeth song, I owned all 7 of their CD's and not long after the DVD. Yeah, they're fucking amazing. No other word for it; if you have not heard them, check out the album Blackwater Park...not necessarily my favorite album, but it's probably the best as far as an "intro" to the band. All seven of their albums are true masterpieces.

And yes, Arch Enemy and Otep both have female singers. The difference: Angela Gossow (of Arch Enemy) could kick your ass and give you a boner doing it. Otep is shit. NEVER confuse them with Opeth.

Sonofa: I agree, Opeth are the kings of music...Never will you hear a more dynamic, emotional, fucking-hardcore-and-yet-artistic metal band. Mikael Akerfeltd is a god. Tool, now there's a cerebral trip, that is music for the mind. Pure genius. I laugh at these kids that go around sporting Tool shirts because they heard Schism on the radio and thought it was cool to like them...you know who I'm talking about, tools. Cradle: I seem to be the only person not absolutely thrilled with Nymphetamine...whatever, to each his own. Arcturus: got me into alternate kinds of metal, eventually to black metal and beyond...great band, interesting stuff. Mastodon: though the singer sounds like he's trying to take a shit the size of the space needle, the band (and drummer!) are insane. In Flames: great melodic death metal, though they just aren't what they used to be...all downhill after the Jester Race. And Mudvayne, I don't care what anyone says, L.D. 50 was a genius piece of work, right on.

Metal, in this thread, can mean a lot of things. Nu-Metal is not metal. Godsmack is not metal. Metal is not radio. Other than that, anything is fair game as long as it balls-to-the-wall kicks ass.

1/7/2005 2:07:18 AM

1. Disturbed

1/7/2005 2:08:15 AM

and i will Optimistically assume you are kidding

1/7/2005 2:10:41 AM

^^oh god PLEASE be kidding...

1/7/2005 2:12:58 AM

^ i second that

1/7/2005 2:17:07 AM

if i was being serious, i would have included the rest of the top ten, obviously my post was sarcastic, thanks for noticing

1/7/2005 2:17:51 AM

well i wasnt too sure after seeing your list in punk/rock

nah i kid

1/7/2005 2:23:23 AM

sorry, the crossfade cd just happens to be the one in my cd player right now

1/7/2005 2:25:29 AM

nah man its all good i was just playin

1/7/2005 2:27:52 AM

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"...obviously my post was sarcastic, thanks for noticing"

Sorry man, you never can be too sure these days...I just left a rant in the top 5 albums of the year because I got pissed off...that's what happens when I get on music

1/7/2005 2:29:36 AM

haha, no problem, i just know that i would get a reaction if i put disturbed...

my favorite band right now is Parmalee, they are from greenville



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1/7/2005 2:29:37 AM

^never heard of them...what kind of music?

1/7/2005 2:30:47 AM

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"^never heard of them...what kind of music?"

that is EXACTLY the kind of attitude this kids need to take when they come in here and say bands suck because THEY have never heard of them.(not saying you are like that obviously since you started this thread but just saying this for others). instead of saying they suck without listening to them. look them up or ask more about them

1/7/2005 2:33:57 AM

^Amen. I just read another thread where some fuck actually said "well i've never heard of them so they must not be very good." I don't have to explain that one to you, if you're like me you'll agree that people like that should have rail spikes driven into their ear drums.

[Edited on January 7, 2005 at 2:38 AM. Reason : ]

1/7/2005 2:37:43 AM

haha for real man for real

1/7/2005 2:38:56 AM

check out... http://www.parmalee.com and listen to "under my skin," "sundie," "seven years," the player is in the bottom left hand part of the screen...

1/7/2005 2:44:28 AM

sounds like we need a thread just about this

1/7/2005 2:44:58 AM

holy fuck. somone who has heard of kalmah. paerabol you got points on that one.

Motorhead
Opeth
Metallica (the old school)
Children of Bodom
Arch Enemy
W.A.S.P.
Black Sabbath
Motley Crue
Nightwish
Skyfire

1/7/2005 2:49:33 AM

You know what would be the greatest show to ever grace this planet? Just think:

Tool and Opeth.

Yeah, now I gotta go put on some new underwear. Can you just fucking imagine what that would be like? That show would change your life. Okay now imagine a combination of them playing one blowout masterpiece of a musical creation: Maynard and Mikael singing, Mikael on acoustic, Peter Lindgren and Adam Jones on guitar, Justin Chancellor on bass (gotta say he might be a little more interesting than Martin Mendez), and (tough call here) Danny Carey on drums...Martin Lopez could be doing some crazy cultural percussion instead of his set...now just fucking imagine that show. I would never be the same.

1/7/2005 2:50:10 AM

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"check out... http://www.parmalee.com and listen to "under my skin," "sundie," "seven years," the player is in the bottom left hand part of the screen..."

Thanks man, unfortunately this PC's speakers are busted but I'll check that out Sat. when I go back to school.

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"holy fuck. somone who has heard of kalmah. paerabol you got points on that one."

holy fuck. someone else who has heard of kalmah...they are an incredible band that for some reason has not hit it big...if you like Children of Bodom, you MUST check out Kalmah. Imagine the same dual guitar skill and crushing speed riffage but withough the hoky keyboard "hits." Dont get me wrong, I like CoB's keyboards, but we all know it can get cheesy at times. thank you. I like your list; I think metallica just got a bad rap for their later albums. The only reason I didnt list them in my top ten is because I consider them godfathers of modern metal. Their first four albums were pure, raw thrash and were excellent. The only group I dont like on your list is Motley Crue...I just got Nightwish's 'Once' and I'll have to say, I like it more than I was expecting I would. I still get hung up on her vibrato (NOT a fan of power metal vocals) but there are enough other elements to their music to keep it interesting and worthwhile.

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1/7/2005 2:56:02 AM

kalmah is just one of those bands that can cram 8 different riffs into one song and make it work. they really kick the level of playing up a notch. my only gripe about kalmah is the vocals are a little on the weak side.



I had almost given up on metallica until i saw them play in Prague. 3 hours straight with no openers and they came back with an encore of seek and destroy and whiplash.

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1/7/2005 3:02:51 AM

^ahh...were they still able to keep up with seek and destroy and whiplash in their older and sober days?

yeah kalmah's vox are a little weak, but then again Alexi's aren't anything to write home about...Kalmah not only have insane solos, riffs, and breakdowns, they just tend to have an epic construction to the songs, never boring...always leave you satisfied. they're melodic too, and dont overuse false harmonics (fast becoming a metal cliche i'm afraid)

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1/7/2005 3:05:18 AM

surprisingly yes. and hetfield's voice was still intact.

1/7/2005 3:06:49 AM

amazing...hetfield sober and can still sing? good for him. I have every bit of faith in hammet but who i was really worried about was lars...he had enough trouble staying on beat in his younger days, i was wondering how it came out now

1/7/2005 3:08:31 AM

alright, i'll throw my hat in the ring here:

Cradle of Filth
Opeth
Anathema
Nightwish
Type O Negative (if all the screamo junk some ppl list counts, gothic metal counts)
Metallica (St. Anger excluded; that album is dead to me)
Bal-Sagoth
Emperor
In Flames (pre-Reroute to Remain)
Sonata Arctica

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"Cradle: I seem to be the only person not absolutely thrilled with Nymphetamine...whatever, to each his own."

I agree... Nymphetamine is a bit of a different direction for Cradle, and I don't care for it as much... there are a number of riffs in it that seem fairly un-CoF to me, and the whole album doesn't have the same overall atmosphere to it as their previous albums. On the whole though, they're still one of my all-time favorites.

Everything about Opeth has already been said.

Mastodon's latest album is crazy good--hella awesome drumming. They might make it to my list someday, but with only having 3 albums so far and starting in 2001, I can't call it yet.

If hetfield's voice is still intact, then how the hell did St. Anger happen? For the most over-produced album ever, Bob Rock couldn't do a damn thing to help the horrid vocals on it.

1/7/2005 9:31:01 AM

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"You know what would be the greatest show to ever grace this planet? Just think: Tool and Opeth."

not quite what you are looking for, but I have heard rumors that TOOL and ISIS may tour together...I think that would give me the ultimate woodie

1/7/2005 9:31:45 AM

1. linkin park

there is no else

1/7/2005 9:32:44 AM

Shadowrunner...nice inclusion of Emperor, man it's hard to list them all


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1/7/2005 9:35:57 AM

i hear ya. i really wish Emperor was still around, i thought the Prometheus album was possibly their best, which says a lot. but i like Zyklon and Peccatum both, so i guess i won't complain too much.

1/7/2005 9:38:14 AM

Has Zyklon put anything out since "World ov Worms?"

I'm a little behind...

[Edited on January 7, 2005 at 9:43 AM. Reason : ed]

1/7/2005 9:43:08 AM

Yeah, they put out another album in 2003 called Aeon, which is pretty good too.

1/7/2005 9:46:56 AM

kitty

b/c any chick that can growl like that deserves a gold star

1/7/2005 10:02:51 AM

it's Kittie, not Kitty.

i like them a lot, they're one of my guilty pleasures.

1/7/2005 10:07:40 AM

bwaaha..

Opeth
Children of Bodom
Evergrey
In Flames (Colony and before, i'd have to say)
Arch Enemy
Cradle of Filth
Metallica (And Justice, and earlier)
Blind Guardian
Soilwork

How in the holy fuck did any of you fail to mention:

AT THE GATES!!

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"kitty b/c any chick that can growl like that deserves a gold star"

They have a pretty good drummer, and i'd have sex with her. Otherwise, i cant say much else about them.

[Edited on January 7, 2005 at 10:40 AM. Reason : ]

1/7/2005 10:39:22 AM

^knew we were forgetting someone...fuck me that band kicked ass

1/7/2005 11:56:19 AM

Speaking of which....Soilwork and Dark Tranquility are going to be in Winston Salem in April

1/7/2005 1:26:55 PM