Who are the metal fans?

haha sorry! i did listen to some kyuss tho...so i think that more than made up for it!

 

You is forgiven!!

 

woooooo

 

im into metal, but im yet to explore much thats not in the metal mainstream. Any suggstions as to who i should lok into?

 

metal has a mainstream?

 

i love metal i just heard an awesome band last night on the radio, but i can't remember their name... mad though...
i been listening to a lot of SOAD recently...class

 

I listen to AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Ozbourne as well as a few others.

 

Dr. Bart recommends (based, of course, purely on personal opinions) you start with:

DOOM METAL
Lacrimas profundere
Morgion
Mourning beloveth
My dying bride
Novembers doom
Shape of despair
The prophecy

BLACK METAL
Abigor
Absu
Ancient rites
Behemoth
Cirith gorgor
Dissection
Darkthrone
Dimmu borgir
Enslaved
Emperor
Falkenbach
Horna
Immortal
Kvist
Marduk
Mayhem
Naglfar
Satyricon
Setherial
Summoning
Taake

DEATH METAL
Amon amarth
God dethroned
Incantation
Morbid angel
Vader

Enjoy!

@ Rhodesian: Well, you might call bands like Slayer, Iron Maiden, Metallica etcetera, bands everyone's bound to have heard (of) at least once, mainstream metal. If you want to consider this "nu-metal" stuff genuine metal, it would certainly be mainstream.

I enjoy black metal (preferably not too watered down with keyboards unless done stylishly) and atmospheric death-doom metal especially. And I'm snobbish about it, so beware.

I've said it before but I'll say it again: if anyone is interested in anything I've got, add me to your Soulseek list if you're into file sharing, I share all my music (including non-metal), my username is "Futureemperorofhipness" (obviously without the quotes), I've got over 6000 files worth of good albums, kept well-sorted and regularly restocked.


Black metal supremacy!
(I sooooo ♥ this picture ^_^)

 

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

 

Chip-away boy, growling over one chord is a form of art of which you'll never understand the beauty.

I don't consider the bands you mentioned to be metal, by the way.

 

soulfly are the only metal band he listed

 

Hi there, how are you all doing?

I'm a bit of a prog metal fan, though I like me bog standard metal too. Devin Townsend is one of my favourites.

Used to be into power metal in a big way. I love dramatic and moving music that takes you somewhere during it's meandering course. Something about the sound of the palm muted guitar that beckons a lively spirit and a warming fire in the belly. Has anybody else ever realised that a palm muted guitar through heavy distortion, (y'know the classic metal sound) is sonicaly akin to the beating of a thousand drums.

 

huh? whut? didya say sumthin? sorry... i'm half deaf from standin in front of the stage - lol!!!

count me in

 

some of my fav metal ish bands
Macabre, Autopsy/Abscess, old can corpse, Carcass, Broken hope, Hemorrhage, Embalmer,Anal Blast,
and for my fav B/M Darkthrone has gotta be up there along with the first couple of Burzum lp's and a little bit of Gorgoroth and you'v gotta love the oddness that is Impaled Nazarine . Other oddbands wirth having a listen to Libido airbag, Revernd Pokey Bunge, Avulsed. Murder Sqaud. Hermafrodit(they got an odd jazz thing going on) Carnival in Coal, Gorerotted always manage to amuse me and probably lots more but i cant be arsed to go looking through my cd's at present to remind myself

 

Led Zeppelin were considered blues/rock when they came out. :H


Come on, Ginglymus.. Pipe up with your recommendations

 

ahh but with metal ya got all kinds of stupid little subgenres grind/black/porn/scream/blast/power/gore and probably a shit load more.
to me if someone terms a band "metal" then fuckit its a good enough description for me
who i am to start categerising?????

 

MaDe Of MeTaL \m/

black and death and thrash and speed and power and heavy and whatever else i can get

i am so fucking metal, hit me and i ring like a piece of metal being stuck

 

being stuck where?

 

Now we're getting somewhere...

 

Dude, you shouldn't take anything I say so seriously. This IS a friendly place. I am friendly too, maybe not enough when I wrote what I wrote, but still. I didn't know how you'd take it but I certainly didn't mean to be malicious.

When I said the "growling over a chord is art" thing, I merely ment to say that it (= black / death / doom metal) has got more complexity, melody etcetera behind it than most people who haven't taken the effort to listen to it more closely would at first recognise. Really. And even those that really are nothing more than one or two chords per twelve minutes counting song (*cough*burzum,sunno))),shapeofdespair*cough*) can have a very satisfying atmosphere. And don't you ever hear a melody you wished would go on forever?

Your contest of extremes theory is for the biggest part very invalid. With the previous paragraph I already indicated that it really IS about making enjoyable music, even though it might only be heard and appreciated by a few people. Of course there are some bands that are all about faster / heavier / less melody / hatefuller / more depressing than anything existing before, but for most part these people just play the music they like to listen to best. I agree though, within the more extreme corners of metal there's too much similar sounding bands. However, all bands together cover an incredibly wide and varied range of different sounds. You just have to exploring new bands, and get deeper into those that matter to you.

As for fans, most just want to express their musical tastes as they feel it's part of themselves, and I'm sure you would agree that after a while, your favourite music WILL indeed become a part of yourself. But this doesn't have to exclude softer elements. I love metal, but don't behave or feel "metal" AT ALL. A friend of mine with similar musical interest once told me that he thought it was weird that I'd rolled into music so fundamentally different from myself. I wear black bandshirts, sure, but I also love my oh-my-god-my-eyes, orange-and-pink shirt. Often unbuttoned showing my bandshirt so it becomes a combination of brutality and flamboyance. I love to chill out to softer music more than once in a while. My view: people that sacrifice identity for extremity have their priorities mixed up.

Besides, sticking genres on things is something entirely subjective and depending on what features of the music you judge by, and even on not wanting to correspond bands you dislike with genres you like, and the other way around. So if you want to call your mentioned bands metal, I can only give my opinion about it, not overrule yours (obviously this only counts for bands on the border of metal, if you try to call Ashlee simpson or anything metal you just need to jump off a skyscraper ).

Don't get me wrong, I like bits and pieces of some of the bands you mentioned too. But in my opinion, they are not metal. Using the argument "are SoaD pop?!", translating itself in my head to "they're not pop so they must be metal", clashes horridly with your being a musician for as long as you can remember and the professional way of talking about music that should go along with that.

I'm sorry about that, and hope things will be better for you soon. You didn't offend me, seeing as I'm near-inoffendable. You didn't go beyond friendly discussion, I realise now my previous comment came closer to the border.

There is much more music against the status-quo with a disrespectful attitude towards authority and a certain amount of passion than metal. And not by all means is all metal how you described it should be. Disrespect for authority? Most metal has cut all ties with politics, including the view of having to stand up to it. I do agree a band should make their passion be felt, be it joy or sorrow or hatred...

You compare the bands I like to industry puppets? Not the growling single-chord ones, they're very underground, have specialised labels and press they run themselves, can't support themselves through the music alone and often release only tiny amounts of copies per album to keep it that way (. Even the most misanthropic bands offer musical pleasure to those people who can appreciate it, isn't that already a positive, constructive thing?

If you want people to ignore you you shouldn't say so at the end, when we've already read everything you said.

I'm sorry you misunderstood me and that my reply made you feel the need to get so defensive. I'm an alright fella, honestly.