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God, thats so effing Metal!
Krayzie
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So, like alot of other people I suppose, I've become a huge fan of the show Metalocalypse. With this love came a love for the music as well. That being so, I'd love to get my hands on some metal to rock out to. But I know nothing of metal, which is why I need you guys. What's good? What's shit? What do I need to listen to? I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions anyone could throw out.
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Mayhem are meh. Bodom are pretty much a power metal group, way more cheeseball than the other bands listed. Cannibal Corpse are noisy and honestly really not so good. Death is really good, and Dimmu Borgir are pretty good but holy shit are they a bunch of numbfucks.
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Slayer was pretty good, although I lost interest in them in the mid-90s. Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, and Seasons in the Abyss are great CDs. Hell Awaits is also supposed to be good, but I sadly do not own it.
Dark Tranquillity's The Gallery is my favorite CD in my collection.
In Flames was great, but Clayman was the last album I bought by them.
I'm sort of out of touch with the music scene these days, unfortunately.
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We moved to last.fm when they shut down megathreads in D&D (and we were the most mega of threads there). I promise we aren't scary.
Some people might not like it when you say that Cradle of Filth are avant-garde though (do you even know what that means dude [incidentally Metallica and many other bands have platinum records and are still highly regarded{i like brackets}]).
Anyways...Dethklok are basically a joke melodic death metal band with some little black metal moments and ironic power metal shredding. Try Arsis, Arch Enemy, older In Flames, Insomnium and Dark Tranquillity for melodic death metal, and check out Helloween, Gamma Ray, Running Wild and Stormwarrior for some good power metal.
Later Emperor is pretty accessible black metal with some lead guitar bits that will satisfy your twiddly Dethklok impulses. Arcturus are neat too and their work is kind of split between atmospheric black metal and some other stuff with clean vocals. I can get back to this later but 24 is on.
Disregard this post.
Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth are both decent bands overall but anyone who considers them avant-garde has clearly not listened to any Ulver, Arcturus, Blut aus Nord, Alchemist, Dødheimsgard/DHG, Isis/Pelican/etc., or, uh, anything else. All of the above are well worth listening to.
edit: and yes, I don't listen to bands that actually sell albums, that's why I love Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Voivod, Motörhead, King Diamond, Finntroll, Emperor, Mastodon, Blind Guardian, Dark Tranquillity, Venom, Iron Maiden, Amorphis, At The Gates, early In Flames, etc. etc.
Edit: Oh, and Carcass was my gateway into harder music coming from the typical American heavy metal (and still one of my absolute favorite bands). Give either Heartwork or Swan Song a try.
I think I have still yet to see W.A.S.P. mentioned on any of these. Listened to their song Chainsaw Charlie all morning and listening to it again now.
There is also helloween, judas priest, iced earth, Distrurbed (i know they are nu-metal, but their last album was good), hammerfall, motley crue, motorhead, symphony X.
Many different genres depending on what you like it would be easier to suggest what to check out, heres a list of bands all in different genres of metal
Megadeth
Blind Guardian
Black Sabbath
Arch Enemy
Cannibal Corpse
Dream Theater
Couldn't agree more. Metallica and Slayer are essential listening for any metal fan, though I'd reverse the order that you suggest. Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, then Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss.
Dimmu Borgir and In Flames have some great albums. I'm also a fan of My Dying Bride (most downtempo and brooding metal band evar), Trivium (who I think have the strongest complete albums overall of modern metal), and God Forbid*. I seem to recall liking some Tiamat too, but it's been awhile since I threw that on.
Devildriver's "Hold Back the Day" and "I Could Care Less", and some of Unearth's The Oncoming Storm are neat. I can't remember how I feel about the rest of the tracks on those albums.
YMMV, I'm not a metalhead, I just like some of the music.
* Edit: mostly for Constitution of Treason so far. I picked up Out of Misery and it was too grindcore for me.
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I dislike suggesting Dragonforce to people looking for actual metal, since it's kind of... not. They are still fun, though.
Also, Mastodon.
Depending on where you want to go from there, there are alot of other metal influenced bands/genres to check out, like thrash or grind and whatnot. I suggest: Ed Gein, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Between The Buried And Me, Every Time I Die, Me and Him Call It Us, The Black Dahlia Murder and Converge. Feel free to PM me for some more suggestions.
Also, do I get in trouble in H/A if I call Pheezer dumb?
Oh yeah, sorry for having an opinion.
None of those are metal bands. This is a thread about metal bands. You fail.
On top of that, a lot of those bands are really shitty, too.
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Why don't you read the whole post? Like the part where I said "there are alot of other metal influenced bands/genres to check out, like thrash or grind and whatnot." Usually, an intelligent person would be able to differentiate "metal" from "metal influenced" but maybe I'm expecting too much.
Okay, great. Except that this is not a thread about metal influenced bands, it's about metal bands. So you're done here now, and if you keep this tangent going any further you're going to pull an infraction for it. H/A isn't a discussion forum, and bringing up tangentially related subjects to the topic at hand isn't helpful.
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I mean, GY!BE? They rule but O_o
Dragonforce is a lot of fun but way overrated. They basically have one song.
I'm not totally sure why Metallica is such a big deal since I happened to get my hands on one or two of their "legendary" status albums, and I gotta say every time it comes on the party shuffle it's the most amazingly boring stuff. Singer kind of pisses me off too, the way he comes off every word (not really sure how to describe it). In all I can only stand like three of their songs, and in almost all of them I find I can skip around and not even be able to tell. Listening to a Metallica song is like like watching paint dry: boring, and when it's all done there wasn't even anything to see.
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They never seemed that good to me, but then I don't actually own an album. Their style doesn't seem to stand our from the crowd, and I find that being able to understand the lyrics is actually a bad thing in power metal.
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For Thrash there are only three that I can recommend but I cannot do it enough; Metallica (before Black Album, with Cliff's death they lost all metal, hell it even starts to show in ...And Justice with), Megadeth, and Annihilator. Slayer reaches too close into death for me but some people put them under the "Thrash" label. Others suggest Anthrax though I personally was never much of a fan.
For Power Metal Blind Guardian and Rhapsody in Flames are a good place to start.
Personally I am not a fan of Black metal or death but from word of mouth I hear Mayhem sums the genre up well enough. What I do know about Black metal though is listen to Bathory and King Diamond (who funnily enough had several guest spots on Metalocalypse), two of my favorite bands and Quorthon himself started the sub-genre Viking metal. Check out some Amon Amarth and Tyr to get more of a taste of Viking Metal.
I'm not a fan of the Grindcore/Metalcore scene so I can offer you nothing there.
Obviously check out the classics such as Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Dio, Motorhead, and so on.
Since I only got into death metal a couple of years ago there is still a lot of bands I've never heard, so this thread has covered most of them. Ones that haven't been mentioned that I think are worth a listen: Bolt Thrower (definitely one of my favorite bands), Cryptopsy, Decapitated, Gorguts, and Morbid Angel. I'd say out of those Bolt Thrower is probably the easiest one to get into if you aren't accustomed to extreme metal. I've had plenty of friends tell me they liked whatever Bolt Thrower album I had playing in the car who aren't even metal fans. The other 4 are more extreme and difficult to like if your ears have yet to be properly 'attuned' in my opinion.
Dillinger Escape Plan's live shows are awesome, but, uh, intense.
WTF, guys.
That they and Mastodon and Slayer all lost out to Slipknot for a Grammy is a crime against our Dark Gods. Fucking music industry.
anyway, the characters in dethklok are pretty heavily based on actual guys in the metal scene, so you might want to check out the bands they're from, like cannibal corpse (nathan explosion is so obviously derived from corspegrinder), children of bodom (the guitarist who's name i can pronounce but never spell properly. the blonde one), and toki is straight norweigan.