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Originally Posted by -42-
I've always viewed LoG as a mainstream 'metal' band along the lines of Slipknot or Disturbed.
I found 2008 to be a great year for metal, Meshuggah, Gojira, and High on Fire all had releases.
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Lamb of God is definitely less mainstream than Slipknot or Disturbed, though they are hardly an underground band. But, for that matter, we really haven't seen many underground bands mentioned in this thread at all. LoG really isn't any more mainstream than Dream Theater.
And I wasn't saying that 2008 was a particularly bad year for metal, but it wasn't particularly great, either. 2001, 2004, 2007, and 2009 all certainly had a higher quantity of very high quality releases. Most other years in the 2000s were on-par with 2008.
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Originally Posted by delsaner
A7X, Escape The Fate, Disturbed, A Skylit Drive, We Came as Romans, Attack Attack, Bless The Fall, AFI, Saosin, Alesana, Dead By April, Underoath, The Devil Wears Prada, Broadway, Framing Hanley, and probably a bunch more... <3
(some may not be metal, but these are my favs)
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Personally as an avid music listener, I wouldn't consider a single band you listed to be metal (save perhaps Disturbed). Nor is BTBAM.
There's a difference between metal-influenced (post)hardcore and metal. Many of these post-hardcore/"screamo" (albeit they're not actually screamo, either)/quasi-metalcore bands like Underoath, The Devil Wears Prada, and August Burns Red are primarily like 2000s-era post-hardcore music, with some metal elements thrown in. Strained screams, breakdowns, two-step beats, and dissonant melodies are
not metal characteristics, but rather decend from hardcore punk.
This thread is sorely lacking in appreciation for black metal. Someone out there has to love Wolves in the Throne Room, Darkthrone, or Blut aus Nord. And High on Fire is as close as we've come to mentioning doom metal. Where's the love for Pentagram, Electric Wizard, and Coffins?