Metal

What are your favorite bands atm? Like classic metal or newer like LoG, shadows fall etc.

Mine right now are

Pantera [mainstay]
Lamb Of God
Black Label Society
Some Trivium


Ozz

Not really that into metal, but if i had to choose one it would be motorhead.

ozzy osbourne. period. but only in the early 80s witb randy, i also like preist, maiden, metallica, motorhead is good, some hair like def leppard, i like quiet riot with randy.

Iron Maiden
Death
Children of Bodom

thats really all the metal ive been listening too lately, and some Dio years Sabbath too.. but mostly just Maiden actually

I'm quite fond of Avenged Sevenfold at the moment. Apart from that, all your standard metal bands i.e. Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden etc etc.

pantera, luna mortis, mushroom head, opeth and nevermore tunes have been bombarding my ears recently.

Iron Maiden, 80's Metallica, Megadeath, Dethklok(really only the show), Mötley Crüe, Guns N' Roses, Van Halen(if you consider them 'teeth' metal), and a smaller band from the 80's ,from where i used to live in Phoenix called Flotsam and Jetsam.

I really like the classic metal like Priest, Maiden and Metallica but right now I'm really into Symphony X. The New Mythology Suite is one of the best metal albums I've ever heard. It's one of those albums that you make time to listen to from beggining to end in one sitting!

@ Case - lol. Since when Is Flotsam and Jetsam small?? They had Jason Newsted at one point I think.

I've been listening to Mastodon a lot lately. I'm pretty excited for their new album (comes out in 4 days, I think).

In this genre, it would be:

Symphony X
Necrophagist
Tyr
Hammerfall
Blind Guardian
To-Mera

Flotsam and Jetsam had Newsted? wow, now I feel guilty! My dad was in High School when he heard them and told me that they were not the biggest name in the industry. Great stuff though, especially "Dig me up to Bury Me".

Yeah. That's actually why he got booted from Metallica. Spending too much time with his side projects. And I agree with James and Lars on that one, Metallica is BIG. It is your only focus is basically their point.

Ive been listening to Maiden and Van Halen.
@Jazz: Have you heard Blind Guardian's cover of "Mr. Sandman?"

Van Halen w00t!!

Metallica, Children of bodom and pantera are like the absolute favourites, but i like Megadeth, black label society, Slayer, anthrax and iron maiden aswell:)

id choose
soad
is tool metal?

Yeah, Tool are metal.

I've been going off metal for the past few months, it doesn't really inspire me much any more.

recently ive been listen to more metalcore and deathcore type stuff like:

All Thats Remains
All Shall Perish
As Blood Runs Black
Trivium( apparently theyre thrash, but not to be)
The Bleeding Cult
Agony Scene
Still remains
ect.

ive also been listen to metal instrumental artists like:
rusty cooley
francesco fareri
joe stump
yngwie malmsteen
jeff loomis( not his stuff with nevermore though)
andy james( a really talented player, i recommened you look him up)
michael romeo
michael angelo batio
jason becker
ect.

Actually Tool is prog rock. Not metal. And to get technical Soy, SOAD are Nu-metal.

Ozz knows his shizz. lol.

You can't get "technical" with genres!

Tool are a genre transcending band who incorporate both prog rock and metal elements. To say that they are exclusively one or the other is wrong.

As for SOAD, they are generally classed as alternative metal. Even if they are nu metal, it still comes under the metal umbrella.

Nu- metal as in not "Old - metal" lol. I'm right! uh huh!! Suck dat. lol j/k. My friend is making me laugh reaaally hard. srry.

Wow! You said it yourself!

Yeah, I've got all of their albums. Along with all of Iced Earth's albums. (EPIC)

i still don't get why they call it nu-metal. is it an actual style or just a name they give to "new" bands.

It's a sub-genre of metal; a fusion of metal with hip hop and other influences. Lots of bands around the late 90s and early 00s were catagorised as nu-metal, although like most genres nowadays it is hard to define exactly what is nu-metal and what classes a band as being a nu-metal band. Since the early 00s, the popularity of nu-metal has declined, and metalcore and the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal (NWOAHM) has more or less taken its place.

Parkway Drive
Nevermore
I Killed the Prom Queen
Iron Maiden
In Flames(not all albums)
The Devil Wears prada
myGrain
...

Nu Metal - Limp Bizkit, KoRn, Slipknot.

NEW Metal - LoG, Shadows Fall, BLS. Just anything new. Or an older act making new music. Therefore a "New Metal" album. Not the act though. Like Ozzy, Megadeth, Maiden, Metallica, etc.

some of the few good metal bands that started this century are 3 Inches of Blood, Protest the Hero, and Wintersun. theres some more, but these 3 are the best imo

The Black Dahlia Murder
The Faceless
OPETH
At the Gates
Winds of Plague - Just got the CD pretty addicting

The only thing I don't like about a lot of newer metal bands is the devil voice thing. What is that metal called? I know I sound old again!

Ok. Here's one you may not of heard. Caninus - They are Pitbull Grindcore! WTF! This is great stuff.

haha! it sounds like a lot of real bands xD

Avenged Sevenfold :)

@ Mac - I call it the cookie monster tone. They call it gutterall. idk. It sucks, but if the guitars are good I listen anyways. ex. - Lamb of God, Shadows Fall.

@Ozz,

Exactly! I kept hearing about those bands and decided to take a listen. All the music is awesome but the vocals blow.

hmm? I wonder if they actually blow wen doing that too? lol.

It sounds like it! Seriously, why have a band where all the members are excellent musicians lead by a singer that doesnt sing??!! It doesnt take much talent to grunt. I applaude Caninus for what they do because you might as well have a dog!

some bands do have awful singers, but some death metal singers, or "grunters" i call it growling or screaming, are very tolerable, Alexi Laiho, Petri Lindroos, Corey Taylor are a few. but some just are bad. and it is quite difficult to do without sounding like a frog

aww yea