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Ignore all recommendations by anyone who says you should listen to Trivium, Killswitch, Slipknot, or Trivium
and yes if i were to listen to anyone's opinion on metal it would be fallout
slipknot used to be a guilty pleasure of mine but killswitch blows so hard (if you really want to listen to metalcore there is so much better) and trivium doubly sucks
oh also listen to benighted, everyone. so good.
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I admit to liking some stuff off of Slipknot's first album :oops:
I've never seen them live, but I like their albums because they're very heavy (well, at least for the most part) but still have strong melodies and the vocalist can actually sing as opposed to using the Cookie Monster vocals all of the time. I think that vocal style has its place too, but I tend to get bored when it's the only one that's used on an entire album.
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Listen to the other bands that he sings in, the best 2 being Down and Superjoint Ritual
Check out Damage Plan, there pantera with a new singer thats sound simlar to the old one.
Lamb of God is hands down my favorite band. There cd ashes of the wake as only left my car's cd to be put on my computer.
To the op check out every band every one as mentioned good or bad becuase no matter how much a band may suck to one person someone else likes it.
if i limed things i'd lime this and glue gold trim and little bits of macaroni to it
extreme vocals aren't necessarily monotonous, a skilled vocalist can do plenty with them
If you want some seriously unpleasant (but good!) vocals check out Anaal Nathrakh (especially the earlier stuff before they incorporated occasional clean vox) and Silencer.
I'll take bad "bad singing" over bad "good singing" any day.
Listen to Amorphis - Elegy if you want a good mix of singing and growling vocals, with a good dose of awesome.
Classic shit - Iron Maiden, Death, Venom, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Mercyfal fate.
Black metal/viking influence - Enslaved, Emperor (I'd take any day of mayhem) Bathory, Gorgoroth. Dimmu Borgir get the job done as well. Dismember.
Prog Metal - Mastadon (Leviathon and Blood mountain are the best albums of all time.) Boris.
Post Metal - Isis, Pelican, Neurosis, Junius.
Stoner metal (slow drony, sludgy goodness) Sleep, Kyuss, Melvins. Electric wizard. (self proclaimed "loudest band on earth")
Doom metal - Sunn, Earth, Obsessed.
Riffage and shit - 3 inches of blood (first two albums, not the new one) early man, fucking champs, ASG, Darkest hour. Old CKY.
Retro metal- High on Fire, The Sword,
Christian metal - Stryper, wicked riffage, funny lyrics.
Epic - Rhapsody, heavenly, Stratovarius.
Like I said, I'm not a metalhead, but I've been listening *to* metal for over fifteen years and I still like Trivium. They, God Forbid, and In Flames are actually what got me interested in the style again, since I'm generally more into industrial. That's why there's a big gap in the metal bands I like - either they're pretty old (My Dying Bride), or not (the aforementioned).
I'm definitely interested in checking out some of the bands people have mentioned in this thread (particularly Lamb of God, since everyone seems to like them), but that's not going to *stop* me from liking Trivium. Like I said, they have catchy songs that still tend to be very heavy. I also respect that their lyrics tend to cover challenging territory. If I were interested in hearing the most angry, noisy music I could get my hands on, it wouldn't be metal at all, it would be e.g. Winterkalte.
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Just like with everything here (e.g. scotch, beer, books, etc), when a neophyte asks for advice on getting into something, you're always going to have your snobs come in and shit all over everyone's recommendations. Don't let it get to you. Metal snobs are just as bad as any other kind.
One of my favorite genres is Doom Metal, so I'll throw out a few more suggestions:
Novembers Doom - The Knowing
Anathema - The Silent Enigma, Eternity, Alternative 4, Judgment (their sound gets softer as they go, but more refined IMO)
My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
October Tide - Rain Without End
Here's my (almost) short list of stuff to listen to:
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (their best work)
Scissorfight - self-titled
Kyuss/slo burn/Unida - Anything really
The Sword - Age of Winters (surprisingly good metal, catchy)
Acid King - Busse Woods
Los Natas (a bargain bin Kyuss!)
Lowrider (Yet Another Kyuss Soundalike)
Sleep (so heavy...), and now reincarnated into Om, drone-y metal good stuff
Pelican - Australasia, I think this is their best work, not caring for their latest album
Sons of Otis - everything but X, got me into stoner
Church of Misery - I've only got the early stuff, and it's glorious
Gammera
Moonsorrow - Viking metal goodness, can't stand demon burger and others, just don't click with me.
Karma to Burn
men of porn - yes, yes they are
Ufomammut - ufo metal! They've got a theramin and everything!
I loves the metal.
Sleep is average stoner rock, nothing special.
For rock and roll rooted stoner rock, big Black Sabbath and Deep Purple influences, go to the originator: Kyuss. The greatest stoner rock band of all time.
For slow, sludgy, super heavy stoner rock, hit up Electric Wizard. They're like Black Sabbath on ketamine.
For fast, rude riffs, hit up one of the first three Atomic Bitchwax albums (I, II and Spit Blood). Everything since has been sort of like a weak Queens of the Stone Age rip off.
Orange Goblin is really good, like if Fu Manchu never started to suck. Unida is good, as they're pretty much Kyuss lite.
Monster Magnet is shit, but Spine of God and Dopes to Infinity are decent. Fu Manchu's really early work is good, but they suck really hard now too. The Action Is Go however, is a great album. Really fast, rock inspired stoner rock. Clutch is either awesome or terrible, depending on how much value you place in wit and how much you place on vocal strength. They have the former but not the latter.
None of these bands have much to do with the music on Metalocalypse, but stoner rock is pretty worth checking into if you like heavy music in general.
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Like, before or after King of the Road?
I just couldn't sit and let Stryper be all that there is to represent Christian metal. Hair metal is just too fruity. Slechtvalk, Antestor, Sympathy, Tourniquet, Paramaecium, Holy Blood (Black, black, death, thrash, doom, folk, respectively) All very awesome bands.
Also, I just have to again mention Necrophagist. Very technical. Incredible.
As for other bands that I enjoy:
Killswitch Engage
Children of Bodom
As I Lay Dying
Dragonforce
Dream Evil - these guys are alot like Iron Maiden I find, their albums are stories put into music which is awesome
Iron Maiden
Primal Fear
Monster Magnet
Megadeth
Shadows Fall
Is "I'd suggest staying away from their new stuff unless you like everything that sounds the same and is slow tempo." about Megadeth or Black Sabbath? I haven't heard any new Sabbath stuff and Megadeth, well, certainly not up to the quality they used to be but I think "The System Has Failed" was still a big step in the right direction from "The World Needs a Hero".
I'd toss Clutch in there with an asterix. Old Clutch.
It's about Sabbath, all their new stuff they played Wednesday night all sounded the same and starts really slow, almost every song has a solo in it but after a while the solos end up beginning to sound the same.
The new Megadeth stuff sounds really good. They played Washington is Next and I enjoyed it alot.
There is no such thing as christian black metal
King of the Road is the first shit album. The Action Is Go is their last good one, and possibly their best album. The bass line on Grendel, Snowman really says it all.
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