Metal suggestions?

Evil Multifarious

I've been listening to a lot of different metal bands lately, trying to find more that really tickle my fancy, and I haven't been overly successful - not only for metal, but also for rock that is metal-influenced.

Mastodon, Baroness, Boris and Red Fang are constantly rotating on my mp3 player, and I've also enjoyed Children of Bodom and Gojira when it comes to more....metal-y (metallic?) metal.

I tried High on Fire, Isis, and Intronaut most recently, and was unmoved.

Any other suggestions along these lines?

Torque Monkey

Jazz influenced technical french death metal sound like something up your alley? If so, I would highly recommend giving Gorod a shot. Or, for more suggestions, some a little easier to listen to, read below for a broad rock/metal band/album list that I would recommend at least looking up on last.fm and see if you like.

In no particular order:

Amon Amarth(With Oden On Our Side)
Between the Buried and Me(Colors)
Brand New(The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me)
Decapitated(Nihility) specific track, Spheres of Madness
Demons & Wizards
Blind Guardian
Nile
In Flames(Whoracle and Jotun specifically)
Katatonia(The Great Cold Distance)
Machine Head(anything, their entire discography is amazing, similar to old Metallica)
Muse
Megadeth
Opeth
Pelican(March Into the Sea)
Symphony X(The Odyssey, because who doesn't love 24 minute power metal songs?)
Trivium(Ascendancy)
Vader(Litany, entire album is amazing)

Broad list of stuff, hopefully one of 'em will pique your interest.

Kingthlayer

If you like Children of Bodom you'll probably like Kalmah. I'm gonna second Amon Amarth from that list up there above me, because they're 100% my favorite band. Most of the other stuff on that list is pretty good, too.

You might also try Meshuggah. I recommend their album "Chaosphere," myself.

SoulStalker

Swallow The Sun
Insomnium
The Duskfall
Wintersun
Disillusion (in particular, Back To Times Of Splendor)
Disarmonia Mundi
Agalloch
Avatar (Swedish band)
Before the Dawn (particularly their new album, Soundscape of Silence)
Black Sun Aeon
Cynic (their new album, Traced In Air)
Dark Tranquillity
Daylight Dies
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Lunarsea (new album Route Code Selector)
Noumena
Nightrage
Rapture (Finnish band)
Soilwork
Tarot (if you're into old-school-style heavy metal; check out the album Suffer Our Pleasures)
Within Y
The Wake

I also very strongly second the recommendations of Opeth, In Flames, Between The Buried and Me's album Colors, and Amon Amarth

Tav

D&D Metal Thread. Click link, clicking on the first spoiler alone should give you enough stuff to last you a few months[.

LoveIsUnity

At the Gates may do it for you. We seem to have similar tastes in music, all of the bands on your current rotation also make it in to mine fairly regularly. At the Gates is more metal-y than the post-metal stuff you listed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJme5uubkyQ

It may just be my speakers, but the youtube clips of their music doesn't really do it justice.

METAzraeL

Tav wrote: »

D&D Metal Thread. Click link, clicking on the first spoiler alone should give you enough stuff to last you a few months[.

I'm slightly confused, because Evil used to partake in our thread. I presume he grew tired of our tastes, heh.

Falhurk

Some of these have been mentioned by a couple of people in this thread. However:

In Flames (Soundtrack to Your Escape or Reroute to Remain)
Soilwork (Natural Born Chaos)
Children of Bodom (Hate Crew Deathroll)
Hypocricy (Catch 22)
At The Gates (Slaughter of the Soul)
Into Eternity (Buried in Oblivion)
Arch Enemy (Anthems of Rebellion)
Opeth (Ghost Reveries)
Iron Maiden.. Anything by them really. Added to this list as it's required anyways.

The brackets are the albums I'm recommending and some of my absolute favorite music.

Toefoo

Artists followed by recommended albums:

Arsis (A Celebration of Guilt/United in Regret/We Are the Nightmare)
Between the Buried and Me (Self-titled/Silent Circus/Alaska/Colors)
Darkest Hour (Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation/Undoing Ruin)
Unearth (Stings of Conscience/The Oncoming Storm/III-In the Eyes of Fire/The March)

Djinn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAKXkvXEaMY

kaptein_kaffe

Overkill - Wrecking your neck must be my all time favourite album

Tav

METAzraeL wrote: »

Tav wrote: »

D&D Metal Thread. Click link, clicking on the first spoiler alone should give you enough stuff to last you a few months[.

I'm slightly confused, because Evil used to partake in our thread. I presume he grew tired of our tastes, heh.

Eh, I just throw that link into any H/A thread about metal. I don't even look at the OP most of the time.

Helloween

I did this in the last thread on metal as well.

Helloween
Gamma Ray
Cathedral
Iron Maiden
Testament
W.A.S.P.
Venom

And Mother fucking Judas Priest

Painkiller

Sorry if these were covered already.

Adus

Adagio (Symphonic/progressive metal)
After Forever (Female Fronted Symphonic Metal with some harsh vocals)
Amorphis (melodic heavy metal)
Andre Matos (solo album, symphonic metal)
Angra (Brazilian symphonic power metal. Recommended album: Temple of Shadows)
Arcturus (Atmospheric/Avant-garde metal)
Avantasia (Symphonic Power Metal)
Ayreon (progressive metal with many guest artists/changing themes/styles)
Communic (Progressive metal)
Dark Lunacy (Dramatic/symphonic Death Metal)
Dark Moor (Power/symphonic metal)
Dark Tranquillity (Gothenburg metal)
Dimmu Borgir (Death (symphonic) metal)
Dream Theater (Progressive metal)
Edguy (Heavy/Power Metal. Recommended album: Mandrake)
Einherjer (Viking/folk Metal)
Einsiferum (Folk metal)
Epica (Female fronted symphonic metal)
Fairyland (Symphonic metal)
Falconer (Folk power metal)
Fates Warning (Progressive Metal)
Freedom Call (Power metal)
Gamma Ray (Power Metal)
Green Carnation (Dark progressive metal)
Haggard (Epic folk metal with mainly harsh vocals. Recommended album: Eppur Si Muove)
Helloween (Power metal)
Iced Earth (US Heavy/Power Metal)
Iron Maiden (... It's fucking Iron Maiden)
Kamelot (Power/symphonic metal. Recommended album: The Black Halo)
Luca Turilli (Cosmic (?) power metal)
Moonsorrow (Viking folk metal)
Nightwish (Female fronted Symphonic metal)
Opeth (Progressive death metal)
Pain of Salvation (Progressive Metal)
Porcupine Tree (progressive rock/metal. Very Pink Floydian)
Queensrÿche (Progressive heavy metal)
Rhapsody of Fire (Cheesy but Epic Symphonic power metal.)
Royal Hunt (Power Metal)
Scar Symmetry (Gothenburg metal)
Serenity (Symphonic power metal)
Shaaman/Shaman (Power metal)
Shadow Gallery (Progressive metal. RIP Mike Baker)
Sirenia (Symphonic Gothic metal)
Sonata Arctica (Power metal)
Stratovarius (power metal)
Symphony X (Symphonic progressive metal. Suggested album: The Divine Wings of Tragedy)
Therion (Symphonic metal)
Vintersorg (Viking folk metal)

There are a few others but those are the main block of what I like.

rfalias

I'm not a huge fan of metal, but I do love spineshank.
Saw them on the back of a disturbed CD as one of their like influences.

METAzraeL

Hey Evil, what about Neurosis or Cult of Luna? You seem like you would have checked them out, but didn't mention them.

Erios

Adus, you basically linked every big name power metal band besides Hammerfall .

Adus

Well, I do love me some power metal. I have Hammerfall, too, but they never quite did it for me.

truck-a-sauras

Torque Monkey wrote: »

Machine Head(anything, their entire discography is amazing, similar to old Metallica)

BEWARE! there is one album called the Burning Red. Avoid it. If I remember correctly it was their we wanna be rap-rockers phase like Limp Bizkit style garbage, well unless you like that kind of thing. blech

Helloween

Adus wrote: »

Shit hot list

Dude, :^: . I'm going to link a few gems.

Rhapsody of fire - Dawn of Victory

Sonata Arctica - Silver Tongue


Gamma Ray - Condemned to hell

Testament - More than meets the eye

FightTest

Everyone likes In Flames.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrbQdlqvjEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4GVmc8OD7I

And some Dark Tranquility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjOITeJzIDc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo7DBI8kuOs

And for something different plus something not mentioned, how about some Fear Factory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyGtiPYL6Uo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qJjrESPwb8

edit..
everyone including myself has just gone real heavy, but my favorite band of the past couple decades is Deftones. Title said metal and not heavy metal, so here's some Deftones.

Lighter, ambient sort.
Older, heavier stuff.

Evil Multifarious

Oh wow, I totally forgot I had made this thread. It is time to plunder it. Incidentally, the reason I'm asking here instead of the D&D metal thread is that I have already had suggestions from them, some of which were good and some not, and I'd like to get some different suggestions.

Let me give some feedback on some of this stuff, so that I may continue to exploit the brain-collective of this community:

Amon Amarth - have listened before, not a huge fan. I don't like the dragons and vikings and wizards kind of power metal thing.
In Flames - decent metal but nothing really interesting to me. I would not take notice if I heard it playing somewhere.
Muse - have already listened them to death.
Megadeath - can't really get into them, although I could give it another try.
Opeth - their acoustic album is fantastic; their actual metal I find less engaging, mostly due to the vocals.
Wintersun - not my thing at all.
At the Gates - the song that was posted is pretty good, appealing in the same way that Children of Bodom does.
Iron Maiden - obviously excellent.
Judas Priest - who doesn't love motherfucking Judas Priest.
Torche - I have listened before and they're good, but they've got a bit too much of the stoner rock sound going on for my taste.
Dream Theater - haven't listened in depth, but they are fun
Porcupine Tree - fucking rad as hell
Deftones - I really like them as well

This is just based on what I've listened to previously, and what I've scanned from youtube for a few of them.

I will check out some of the other stuff this week. Thanks a lot guys! I look forward to further suggestions, if anyone has more. Judging by my research into the horrible mess of genre names, post-metal and sludge metal are what I'm looking for.

metaghost

If you preferred Opeth's acoustic stuff, you should definitely be listening to Maudlin of the Well.

Their final "record" was just released and it's free in all relevant formats (MP3, Wav, FLAC).

Download & listen here: http://www.maudlinofthewell.net/

Their older, out of print, material has much more of a "metal" sound, but their non-metal aspects are more interesting IMO.

Adus

In Absentia is probably my favorite Porcupine Tree album, but they're all quite good.

Evil Monkey

Lamb of God and devil driver are worth a listen if you havent already

CycloneRanger

All the big names have been mentioned, but one band I quite like is Sabaton. Their newest album (The Art of War) is good, as is the one preceding it. Their style is sort of a heavy power metal, and the vast majority of their songs are about great battles from world history.