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Re: The Official Metalheads Thread
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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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) and on the topic of folk metal, try Eluveitie. |
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I refuse to classify crabcore as metal. Or music for that matter. All crabcore can just go die in a fire and no one will ever miss it.
I'm not very much of a metal person, but when I do, I listen to Dream Theater, Megadeth, Mastodon, and Metallica. Huge variety there, right. I guess if you count Coheed and Cambria... |
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Mastodon is a great band, even if Crack the Skye was more progressive rock than metal.
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As for metal, I went to see Between the Buried and Me last Saturday, and everyone who played was fantastic. Scale the Summit is more prog than metal, but the Devin Townsend Project made me feel ashamed I wasn't more familiar with Devin Townsend, the genius that he is. Cynic was phenomenal. I actually lost a shoe in their pit, but I got my remaining shoe signed by all 4 members of the band after the show! I may be a bit biased, seeing as BTBAM is my favorite band, but they were incredible as well. ![]() Last edited by Josh Fox : 26-01-2010 at 08:35. |
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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. Quote:
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? |
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Lamb of God is a solid one. I'm also a fan of Dimmu Borgir, and for the times when I feel like throwing on a Kilt and going on a rampage, Eluveitie is some solid stuff.
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Doom/Stoner metal is amazing, bands like Sleep, Electric Wizard, Witchcraft, Kyuss and Witchfinder General are great. High on Fire introduced me to doom/stoner, and the genre has failed to dissappoint.
On another note, who here listens to Bolt Thower? While more original and brutal bands exist, they have some of the best cover artwork ever, about as over-the-top as Man O War. |
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Sleep reunion tour in 2010!
![]() Also, a new High on Fire album. Mr. Pike certainly will be busy. If you like stoner doom, check out sHEAVY, Black Pyramid, Serpent Throne, Harvey Milk, Acid King, The Sword, War Pigs, Earth, and Torche. For "doomier" doom, you can always go with St. Vitus, Pentagram, Trouble, Candlemass, or Jex Thoth. I do enjoy Bolt Thrower, but it's another band I'm guilty of not listening to as often as I should. |
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Candlemass is a great band, even if the the vocals are over-the-top.
I wonder if Pike will put his shirt back on for the Sleep tour ![]() |
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Behemoth cancelled due to being stuck in North Dakota. Stupid Snow.
Anyways, gonna go see Slayer/Megadeth/Testament in a week or so. Should be an awesome show. I saw High on Fire play with Converge, Mastodon, and Dethklok back this fall. That was an awesome show. I definitely need to listen to more High on Fire. To whoever mentioned Scale the Summit: Yes, they're more progressive than metal. I saw them with Dream Theater back in August, and they were incredibly impressive (all bands there were. Dweezil Zappa was by far the greatest performance there, even though I came for Dream Theater). Also, if anybody wants to extend doom into drone, I'm currently writing a music paper involving the band Sunn 0))). If you have the patience, they really are fantastic to listen to. Although maybe not technically metal, does anybody listen to straight up grindcore? Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer, etc? Last edited by machetemonkey : 30-01-2010 at 12:41. |
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Sunn 0))) is good, but I extend my atmosphere out to the likes of Isis, Cult of Luna, Rosetta and Nuerosis.
Listening to more High on Fire is always a good idea. |
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On a more classic-rock-proto-metal note, I maintain that the intro riff to Godzilla by Blue Oyster cult is one of the heaviest riffs ever. And that takes into account all the extreme metal I listen to. |
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I was pretty certain most Slayer concerts in the next few weeks were cancelled due to a band member needing back surgery.
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Oh that sucks. Two concerts in two weeks cancelled? I was so excited.
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