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The discussion centers around preferences for various metal bands, with a strong emphasis on death metal. Participants share their favorite bands, including Kataklysm, Amon Amarth, All That Remains, and Scar Symmetry, while also mentioning other genres like black metal and progressive metal. Key highlights include the mention of influential bands such as Slayer, Pantera, and Iron Maiden, with some users expressing nostalgia for classic rock influences. There is a notable debate regarding the technicality in music, particularly surrounding Dream Theater, with some participants criticizing their fans for perceived arrogance and narrow tastes. Others advocate for the band's technical prowess and emotional depth. The conversation also touches on the diversity within metal genres, including melodic death metal, thrash, and power metal, as well as the appeal of bands like Meshuggah, Opeth, and Motorhead. Overall, the thread showcases a vibrant exchange of musical tastes and opinions within the metal community.
  • #31
blackcat said:
I despise DT fans!

Do you? Oh dear, I LOVE Dream Theater. And Tool.

Forget about technical artistry or whatever, some of DT's stuff is just hauntingly good.
 
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  • #32
True that :-).
 
  • #33
Thanks I'll listen to SS later.

And yeah DT have some great songs. Such as Learning to Live, Blind Faith, Goodnight Kiss (awesome solo in that one), In the Name of God. A lot of their early stuff is my favourite.
 
  • #34
This thread is old but no matter...

My favorite bands in the metal category are,

Heavy:
Judas Priest
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
Hammerfall
Dragonforce (when you listen to them enough you start to differentiate the movements sort of like how classicla may seem all the same the first time you hear it and the same goes for death metal)

Thrash:
Slayer
Anthrax
Megadeth

Death:
Massacra
Immolation (vehemently antichristian)
Deicide (also antichristian but tonally different)
Newer Cannibal Corpse (from vile upwards the technicality blows me away not just bc they are skilled though but bc it adds a new level of intensity that is both amazingly invigorating and also helps me think faster during study sessions)
Necrophaghist
Decapitated
Vital Remains (Amazing demonstration of technical solos combined with brutal riffage)
Possessed (death metal originators possibly)
Morbid Angel

Black:
Mayhem
Marduk
Darkthrone
Burzum has some great riffs and vocals but he is not a cool dude as far as his morals go
Nargaroth
Dark Funeral
 
  • #35
I like a lot of Viking metal, but having just got into it, I can't name any names...
System of a Down is great, and Serj is a badass.
 
  • #36
Pantera for the win!
 
  • #37
BLACK:
Absu, Anaal Nathrakh, Ancient Wisdom, ...and Oceans, Bestial Mockery, Belenos, Blut Aus Nord, Children of Maani, Count Nosferatu Kommando, Deathspell Omega, Dissection, Eikenskaden, Emperor, Fleurety, Judas Iscariot, Leviathan, Rotting Christ, Solefald, Tvangeste, Velvet Cacoon, Wyrd, Transcending Bizarre, Wolves in the Throne Room
DEATH:
Atheist, Argoslent, Behemoth, Carcass, Cryptopsy, Cynic, Death, Gorgasm, Gorguts, Gurkhass, Intestine Baalism, Impaled, Kronos, Lykathea Aflame, Mithras, Morbid Angel, Necrophagist, Psycroptic, Sleep Terror, Spawn of Possesion, Vomit Remnants, Wormed, Genghis Tron, Gorod
DOOM, SLUDGE, DRONE, and STONER:
5ive, 500 Feet of Pipe, Aarni, Boris, Candlemass, Cathedral, Church of Misery, Doomraiser, Doomsword, Dot(.), Earth, Electric Wizard, Esoteric, Floor, Iron Monkey, Jesu, Katatonia, Lair of the Minotaur, Monolithe, Morgain, Morgion, Negura Bunget, Ocean Chief, Overmars, Pelican, Porn(the men of), Satan's Penguins, Shape of Despair, sHEAVY, Sleep, Sons of Otis, Sunn0))), Swallow the Sun, TEETH OF LIONS RULE THE DIVINE, Theatre of Tragedy, Thee Plague of Gentlemen, Thergothen, Thorr's Hammer, Toadliquor, Torche, Until Death Overtakes Me, Wall of Sleep, YOB
FOLK:
Agalloch, Asmegin, Einherjer, Ensiferium, Falkenbach, Glittertind, Heol Telwen, Korpiklaani, Moonsorrow, Otyg, Tyr, Vintersorg, XIV Dark Centuries
GRIND:
!T.O.O.H.!, Assuck, Bowel Stew, Fleshgrind, ****...I'm Dead, Lymphatic Phlegm, Squash Bowels

PROG/POWER:
3 Inches of Blood, Adagio, Athlantis, Celesty, Dio, Edguy, EuroForce, Falconer, Hammers of Misfortune, Heavenly, Helloween, Iron Maiden, Kamelot, MANOWAR, The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Circle II Circle, Dream Theater, Isis, Opeth, Pain of Salvation, Spiral Architect, Winds


There are plenty of others I'm forgetting, and the genres I gave are kind of broad (like Opeth and Iron Maiden in prog/power. Also,

Especially Likely Sloth > everything
 
  • #38
I don't really have favorites, but here goes :


Industiral type metal > rammstein ,fear factory

black > stormlord, dimmu borgir,

death > benighted,amon amarth , norther ,in flames and many others
 
  • #39
Dream Theater and Iron Maiden ROCK!
 
  • #41
Death Klok!

Like spinal tap on steroids! :smile:
 
  • #42
Yeah, ha ha. Dethklok is funny. I like "Dark Water" but I've never been able to find a download...
 
  • #43
First of all, I don't see metal bands as badass tough guys. To me, it's just fun energetic music. Sometimes, it's almost like a joke to me.

That being said:

Heavy Metal (Power Rock):

Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Sonata Arctica

Death Metal (Melodic Metal):

Dimmu Borgir
Cradle of Filth
one Dismal Euphony song (can't remember what it's called)
 
  • #44
Thank you guys for finally mentioning Megadeth. Dave doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves. All of his past mistakes are blown up and eclipse what a truly amazing musician he is.
 
  • #45
Not really into metal that much, but I do enjoy Iron Maiden; they have some pretty awesome guitar riffs.
'Afraid to shoot strangers' is one of my favorites.
 
  • #46
Iron Maiden, 'nuff said =).
 

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