Top 5 Metal bands

Right now, it's

1 - My Dying Bride
2 - Darkthrone
3 - Falkenbach

That's as far as I'll go, since I can't pick out one single band for place four and five respectively.

 

I will not list Maiden and Sabbath simply b/c it wouldn't leave enough room for my new faves. *Ahem*

1. Opeth
2. Pain of Salvation
3. Emperor
4. Devin Townsend
5. Children of Bodom
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For the record, the following bands are NOT metal:
Slipknot
System of a Down
Bon Jovi
Guns n Roses
Motley Crue
Alice In Chains
Disturbed
Coal Chamber
Mudvayne
Deftones
Godsmack
Vanilla Ice
Mushroomhead
Soulfly
White Zombie
Korn
rob zombie
tool
ratm
marilyn manson
Skid Row
Europe

All those bands fit into one of the following catagories: Hard Rock, Glam Rock, Industrial, Nu Metal (not a true form of Metal!), and Alternative Rock.

Of coarse Black Sabath is a Metal band, they're almost universaly considered the first Metal band! The style they played lives on today in the sub-genre of Doom Metal.

Also, for those of you who listed Dimmu Burgers and Cradle, I hope you know that they are not true Black Metal.



I would have to agree with you on this. Nu-metal is not metal. It used chords used in rock not metal. I guess that would be the main way to determin if something is metal or not. Its pretty tricky though, hah.

As for my top 5

1)Black Sabbath
2)Judas Priest
3)Megadeth
4)Overkill
5)it changes often..slayer, madien, anthrax, mercyful fate

 

Alice in Chains is WAY better than most of these "top 5" bands you fuckheads keep listing.

If you're going to claim a band isn't metal, why bother? If you're wishing to dispute it, back up your claims, otherwise you just look like a dickhead stating the obvious, or a fuckwit bashing someone's preferred artists.

 

Dude, I have to agree with almost everything kreyrocks said. Besides that, your post seems more bashing than his, he's stating his opinion.

I don't see most of Black Sabbath's music as metal though, but I'm totally fine with it if other people state that it is.

By the way, Alice in Chains is grunge. And these are personal top 5 lists, just what the topicstarter asked for.

 

..I wasn't talking about weed try listenin to them on acid!

- Seriously have to tell you to stop chatting shit there. You place Soulfly into this genre, then define it - but miss out a point. Soulfly doesn't fall into this description - Soulfly are metal as fuck and use 'Metal chords'. What Soulfly do is underline their music with Metal, meaning Metal is the basis of their music. Max then incorporates different styles, instruments, techniques and sounds to thicken the texture of the music and give it an overall interesting sound. If you saw the Soulfly DVD and actually understood the band, you'd be retarded to call them Nu-Metal.

Sounds familiar.

 

Haha, missed Soulfly on his list. That's indeed wrong defined as well.

 

Meshuggah

Tool
Fear Factory
Opeth
Lamb of God

 

Now Fear Factory are something else

 

Yeah, top 5 lists, just what the "topic starter" asked for, so what brought people to start "THIS IS NOT METAL" lists?

Do you claim that you can't be bashing something when stating an opinion? What the hell?

Yes, you are correct. AIC does play grunge, however if you listened to them at all, you'd know that they also play metal, and of course metal influenced songs.

 

Believe me when I tell you I've listened to my fair share of Alice in Chains, and not once have I come across a Metal song by them. Well, not Metal that would fit into YOUR definition of the genre anyway, therefore you saying AIC write Metal sounds like one big contradiction. Whoops.

 

Wouldn't matter what someone listened to Opeth on, they still suck. I have heard them on acid and it certainly never made Opeth appealing at all. Every time the vocalist opens his mouth the music turns to aids infested shit.. One of the worst bands I can think of, easily.

Regardless of what you call soulfly (or half the bands listed above) they're still pretty lame.

Yeah, I suggested not bashing at people's preferred bands, but, after all, this is opeth and soulfly we're talking about here...

Psygrunge, I thought you were done here? Oh well.

 

So you've listened to the self titled, facelift and dirt and have yet to come across a metal song? Are you retarded?

Edit: just what is MY definition of metal?

 

I'm not done here... I'll continue posting where I feel and to the extent I see fit.
No I am not retarded. I doubt I'd be able to type on this keyboard, put my thoughts into phrases or even voice an opinion on the music that enters my ears if I was anywhere near the level of 'mentally challenged'.
AIC haven't written Metal. They've written heavier songs than others but it still isn't Metal.
By 'your definition' of Metal I was talking about the general type of music spread across bands which you like and refer to as true metal (and how all other types of metal music don't cut it, etc) that you have shared with us in the past.

I would just like to add...
what kind of a FUCKtard listens to a band, which he obviously has a strong distaste for, while under the influence of a profound drug? One which acts primarily on set and setting to produce positive effects? And you're the one asking me if I'm a retard?

Keep misusing a drug of this power and you could well become one.

 

It's great that you're sticking around. After all, you do atleast try to debate.

I still have a hard time believing that you aren't in some way mentally handicapped. You do realize that there are different levels of such a handicap, right?

Much of AIC's "heavier" stuff.. (see "Them Bones", "We Die Young", if you need more, just say) IS widely considered to be metal. Whether you choose to label it "grunge", which they did do much of, or "hard rock", I couldn't really care less. Ultimately, yeah, you're wrong... again.

So now you're saying that you wouldn't listen to something while under an influence, that you dislike while clean and sober? Seeing as how you questioned it, I guess I am at liberty to shed some light on the matter. I was listening to Primus and scrolled lower in my library, to notice opeth's ghost reveries album, so I decided to check it out. I skipped around a few songs and still found that it sounded like shit, so I went back to Primus' Brown album.

The effects of acid will still take place regardless of what I'm doing at the time, maybe you have different experiences, but if you try being open minded, in place of empty minded, I'm sure you'll find the same conclusion.

 

Please, do not start a debate with me on the effects of acid. The effects will be present but the way in which you feel the acid is HEAVILY affected by your surroundings.
What I'm trying to say is that while under the influence of such a complex drug, even something as little as a change of lighting can result in sending a perfectly smooth trip into the realms of psychedelic hell. Bad trips are reknown for re-occuring mentally and can damage a person's mind for a while.

I'm not trying to be bitchy about all of this, as you mentioned above, a good debate is the object.I guess I'm not putting much of one up. Peace.

 

I'm sure you'll agree that it's one's attitude toward something that creates good or bad trips, obviously I was still in a positive mindframe when I decided that Opeth positively suck when the vocalist opens his mouth.

It is also rare that bad trips have any permenant lingering damage, and for that matter, I have had what people could consider bad trips in the past, and after the fact, I enjoyed it just as much as a "good trip". It's all about the experiences, imo.

 

guns n roses
tool
pantera
skindred
alice in chains

 

To be fair, it was wrong of me to judge others' experiences by mine, and I do apologise.
Surely you can understand where I was coming from though.
Obviously, you were in a positive mind frame when you decided to put Opeth on, but I was thinking that because you don't like them, once they were actually playing it'd be a different story.
Personally, I wouldn't say I'm into Opeth but they definitely intrigue me. First of all, I'm pretty new to them and I do find them interesting. If you don't then that's cool. I'd advise people to listen to the looong songs packed with changes in both vocals and music, but if it's not your cup of tea then that's the way it goes.
By the way, I found a stoner/doom Metal band from the U.K. called 'Electric Wizard' recently. I'm pretty sure you're no stranger to the good old herb Metallideth so I recommend the next time you're having a blaze, find yourself a few tracks by these (namely 'A Chosen Few' and 'Dopethrone') and see what you think. Not bad, sound very Sabbath-like to be honest.

 

Oh yeah! Electric wizard do have long songs I can listen to, in contrast to Opeth.
I had the pleasure to rock out at a show of Electric Wizard at Roadburn 2005, I was pretty strunk. Fantastic shit!