Yep, the thread for any metalheads here to commune and discuss the best music in the world. Whether it be thrash, classic metal (Iron Maiden, Ozzy...), death, or the metal with s stamp of approval; black metal. Oh yeah, none of that sissy nu-metal stuff! It doesn't have 's stamp of approval. *zips lips before I start a stupid rant on nu-metal*

Anyways what makes a metal band good to all you other metalheads? Personally I think it doesn't really have to be the lyrics or the style of metal. It all depends on if the band can pull it off good or not, or how good they sound.

A-HA!!Great topic Nav

I'm into any genre,just as long as it kicks ass,mainly mine of course.

hehe - i just have to post here because i abosolutely loathe metal Nu or otherwise. Gimme Industrial, EBM or goth anyday . My Bro is a metaller and we have a friendly rivalry about the whole subject. Just to wind him up i created this website.

That all said it would be a boring place if everyone liked the same thing so be proud of the music you like!

AC/DC, old Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, some Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Saxon, the list is endless but all gr8.

Psycho le Cému.

Psychotic J-Rock all the way...

Seether and Electric six!!!...but seether is the godlyest...

My favs are: Cradle of Filth, Sentenced, Iron Maiden, Old Metallica, Shadows Fall, Lacuna Coil, PoisonBlack, Darkane, Nevermore, Iced Earth, Soilwork, and then anything that has a goth or just creepy edge to it.

My favorites are Korn, Slipknot, and anything from the 80's.

Godsmack, Incubus (Science, and to a lesser extent Make Yourself, and Morning View), Deftones, Mudvayne, Machine Head, One Minute Silence (rocks!), and Breed 77.
------ Mind some of these aren't actually Metal, but heavy Rock!!!

THIS THREAD WAS f***ing NECESARY MAN........

mylist: OLD sepultura, SLAYER, old metallica, some pantera, some burzum maybe, etc...

im seeing iron maiden in 2 weeks, hate USA´s MTV and all their "heavy bands"
its a pity metallica has changed so much , they have done during the 90´s everything they were against in the 80´s

dont know what more to tell now........

ive heard new EXODUS is really really amazing......some friends have even tell me its the best album since SEASON IN THE ABYSS ......lets see

Being a musician, I like to have an open mind about music. I like all kinds. My fav metal bands in no order, Primus (seas of cheese and frizzle fry are pretty heavy) Incubus, Deftones, System of a Down, Tool, Sevendust, Far, Metallica, Puya.

deftones has been around for ten years dude. And if you go to thier live shows, yes they jam. For the most part, Nu metal as you call it, is all about rythm. Its all about music that you can feel. If I want to listen to guitar solos, I'd go see B.B. King.

i know deftones have been here for 10 years, they say the pioneered nu metal.

but i cant feel manufactured music, i cant feel music that has only one purpose: to sell records, thats why they release videos every month for MTV. they are not showing any level of music technique.....theres no guitar player thats better than the one next door and they dont want to improve in their skills.
they had the formula and repeated in every song man...its the same rythm linkin park , limp bizkit,etc.
i remember once slipknot guitarist saying in an interview: "theres no solos cause kids arent into them nowadays..." how can i posibly feel that???? lets do what the market says......there are tons of bands out there, especially death metal ones as cannibal corpse which play f***ing perfect music man, they and many more others are really talented guys which can be considered in a category of best guitarists and they havent got money even for touring!!!!!!! its unbelievable.

You think your metal is superior. Congratulations on that. I shall now call you the metal Nazi, if you so wish. Whatever floats your boat.
If you cant feel the same thing I feel when at a deftones concert,than thats okay with me too. To each his own!
But please, I beg you, let us not resort to the the "money making music industry" conspiracy.
We have all bought and payed for albums before. With any genre of music, we are only buying what they are selling.

lol, then I'm a metal Nazi too. I can't stand most Nu-metal bands. The only ones I listen to are Mudvayne, Disturbed, and Stonesour, and thats all I can handle. The rest I listen to now are all pure metal, or instrumental music from movie soundtracks. Plus the record industry has been basically hand picking these bands that really have no talent. Buy a Staind, or Cold album. Only two or 3 songs sound good on them. The we have bands like Creed, who aren't really nu-metal, but are a neo-grunge thing. And at least to me, most mainstream bands all sound the same, even the vocalists, I mean I cannot tell who is who and I can't get into that.

This seems to be the same running theme with rock music. You have an era of good rock than an era of sucky rock. For example: you have the zepplin era followed by a very sorry hair band era. Then rock comes back with metallica and so fourth. Then it starts to suck again with bands like "Firehouse" and "slaughter". Then who comes to save the day? The Pearl Jam/ Nirvana bands. But right now? We are back in the sucky rock era again. I just try to make the best of it.

And it's up to people like me to bring it back to good rock. Lol...

Moe just refuses to be old. Just cuz music sux now, should I be forced to listen to the same "ride the lightning" album untill my ears go numb? NO! That's giving up. That would be surrendering. That is how people get old. I never want to become one of those old men sitting in their rocking chairs , listening to 50 year old music and saying things like "what the hell is wrong with kids these days? "
So Moe adapted and went to concerts and jumped in the mosh pits with the kids and suddenly he had an understanding he never had before. Because the moment you start boxing yourself in and knowiing only one way, is when you start dying. There is a saying: running water never grows stale. Thats just what I do. Just keep on flowing.

Keeping with the japanese theme...
Hyde.
Hyde = AMAZING!
Ive gotten the hyde version of "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" and it rocks my world so much...

And, as a special treat for you all...
http://home.comcast.net/~andydthorley/Meta...lica_vs._FF.mp3

A comparison between for whom the bell tolls (sped up to about 1.2 speed) and "Still more fighting" from Final Fantasy Seven.

Same riff, you guys...same riff...

For me I would have to say that Cradle of Filth has to be my all time favourite, because their lyrics, speak to me in away that no other music has.

I also like Dimmu Borgir, Amon Amarth, Borknagar, Immortal, Satyricon, The Sins of Thy Beloved and Tristania, just to name a few

I forgot all about MuDvAyNe!!Powerman 5000's ok too (hate Mike though )
But whatever it is,Tool is still the best there is.Long live Maynard & khrew ......

want to have a good laugh?

check this song out....its a parody on metallica´s st anger and how they said it was their "return" to old heavy/trash metallica.


http://www.thelisteningsessions.com/mp3/Ma...ngerTribute.mp3

Sepultura, Amon Amarth, White Zombie, and Static-x all the way!! Great thread.

There should be a head banger smilie.

i don't really consider myself a metalhead lol but it is my favorite genre of music
i listen mostly too metallica , soilwork, samael , danzig, immortal , opeth , & cryptopsy

what are you top 3 all time favourite albums?

is this thread dying........ ?

Hmmm...top 3 fav albums...at the moment they are Shadows Fall - the Art of Balance, Type O Negative - Life is Killing Me, and the Metal for the Masses compiliation from Century Media.

my top 3 are

Astrocreep2000: Songs of Love and Destruction by White Zombie

La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1 by White Zombie

and Shadow Zone by Static-x

Here are some of my favorite songs by some of my favorite artists. See if you can figure out what bands these are & what songs, based on their lyrics... This is really EASY if you are fans of these bands!

Old School Bands:

(01)
Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
The way that I want you to die
Slow death, immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life
Forced in
Like cattle
You run
Stripped of
Your life’s worth
Human mice, for the angel of death
Four hundred thousand more to die
Angel of death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Sadistic, surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood

Destroying, without mercy
To benefit the aryan race

(02)
Sacrifice Is Pleasure, When Life Ends In Pain
Conceive The Last Mistake, Which Belongs To All
Creation Of Insane Rule
All We Hear:Desperate Cry
Death The Coldest Wind, Seeps Into Your Pores
A Nation Born Of Hate, Forgotten Distant Time
Creation Of Insane Rule
All We Hear: Desperate Cry
Endless Empty Maze, Despair, Distress And Silence
A Poison Vacuum, Infinity
Life, Lies, Deceit
Mute Souls End In Silence, Oceans Tainted With Blood
Empty Promises Of Hope, Buried Deep, Infected Ground
Creation Of Insane Rule
All We Hear:Desperate Cry

(03)
There goes the siren that warns of the air raid
Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak
Out for the scramble we’ve got to get airborne
Got to get up for the coming attack.

Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines
Remove all the wheelblocks there’s no time to waste
Gathering speed as we head down the runway
Gotta get airborne before it’s too late.

Running, scrambling, flying
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die

These songs Rule!

New School (I am editing some songs as you can tell)

(01)
Dark is the light,
The man you fight,
With all your prayers, incantations,
Running away, a trivial day,
Of judgment and deliverance,
To whom was sold, this bounty soul,
A gentile or a priest ?
Who victored over, the Seljuks,
When the holy land was taken

We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens

(02)
Cold seems crippling lame meander through corridors aroma's thick
with age mark off the day reflections of my life are fading

Pull me out of body don't want it don't want in,
Feeble frail and rotting descending I'm lost in,
A structure that's collapsing don't want it cast into,
Maker take the body don't want it wants me

Past has found its place salvation is no more will god accept my
peace bleached will pardon me reflections of my life are fading
Pull me out of body don't want it don't want in,
Feeble frail and rotting descending I'm lost in,
A structure that's collapsing don't want it cast into,
Maker take the body don't want it wants me

I just want to run fly kites wrestle jump and play
Swim through waves that crash to shore memories in me
cocooned in misery

I'm sick and tired of embracing reflections of past time receive me
or cast me away
...god please take me away
resistance futile suicidal ideas I will crucify my own being satisfy
selfish needs f*** the deities justify my own right to what's waiting
for me

On the other side the time has come lock and load I'm coming I'm
coming I'm coming I'm coming home

(03)
My frustration caused the callous
Turned my senses into spite
My perception with no conscience
Made the fear seem almost right
I was unaffected for so long, now I’m fu$%ing ruined
I was desperation for so long, now it’s fu$%ing gone

Can I see it? Can I see it? Can I see it? Can I?
I can’t even recognize myself
I turned into what destroyed it
Drown the truth out until it all makes sense again

I was unaffected for so long
Now I’m fu$%ing ruined
I was desperation for so long
Now it’s fu$%ing gone
Take my fu$%ing conscience from me
Try to save me from myself
Turn my fu$%ing thoughts against me
Now my ways will be dissolved

new school you mentioned:

2) i think its mudvayne ....istnt it? my brother likes them
maybe slipkntot?....

they sound similar...

There's just too many 'top albums' for me ,juz to name a few:

1.Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of LA
2.Tool - Lateralus (wait a,I meant all!!)
3.APC - 13th Step
4.Cradle of Filth - Damnation & A Day,Midian
5.gODHEAD - Evolver
6.Slipknot - Slipknot,Iowa
7.Meshuggah - Nothing

The lizt goez on.....

Oh and both MuDvAyNe albums too.....

I can't stop listening to Identity 8 at the moment , & cryptopsy "none so live " , danzig " satans child " .

One of my favourite metal groups at the moment would be Machinae Supremacy.

www.machinaesupremacy.com

A bunch of swedish nutters
I strongly advise you check out their C64 covers...
Sidology 1 (Sid Evolution), Sidology 3 (Apex Ultima) and of course, The Great Gianna Sisters

My top 3 albums...

Seether - Disclaimer
Rage Against the Machine- The Battle of LA
Dog Fashion Disco- Anarchists of Good Taste (GET THIS CD!!! www.dogfashiondisco.com!!!)

I can't stop listening at the moment to Samael "blood ritiual " & "worship him " ,

AHHH what happened to this thread. Didn't the guy state in the beginning no nu-metal? That's all that everyones been posting with the exception of like 3-4 people. Come on guys. The world of metal doesn't exist in the realm of MTV and radio. Well here are my favorite metal bands.

Opeth
Burzum
Bathory
Dark Tranquillity
Extol
Emperor
Satyricon
Nile
Katatonia
Dark Funeral
Darkthrone
Cattle Decapitation
Anathema

Im still listening to the same Samael cd
I want to go & buy some Children of bodom cd's soon i heard "needled 24/7 " by them & absolutely loved it