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[joenisnorac]

I've been in desperate need for some new Metal music. I like deathmetal, but i also like instrumental and melodic metal.

Recently I've been listing too:

• Children of Bodom
• The Acacia Strain
• I Killed the Prom Queen
• Lacuna Coil
• Misery Signals

Seriously, what is everyone's favorite metal bands, I'd love to check em out. I NEED new stuff to listen to.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

Zao
Dimmu Borgir
Arch Enemy
Augury
Agalloch
The Devil Wears Prada (they have a couple of songs that i really like, despite the terrible name)
Between The Buried & Me

this is just off the top of my head, i don't listen to much metal these days.


edit: you should probably take the image out of your sig, they are heavily frowned upon here and some people can be pretty hostile when it comes to the rules and new people. just a heads up!

[joenisnorac]

Thanks for the heads up.. i was wondering about that.. i started noticing that people didn't have them.

Anyway, which of those would you recommend the most?

[A Shoggoth on the Roof]

dunno about him but I'm gonna second the Agalloch suggestion

[rynne]

The Haunted - The Dead Eye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IvLABwaHU4

Strapping Young Lad - City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrNOqVZbwWw

[JD]

Mastadon,Kyuss,Agalloch, Boris, Sunn O)))

[Harun]

some metal albums released this year that I have been enjoying immensely, in alphabetical order:

Amesoeurs - s/t: think spacey post-rock infused black metal. if you like Agaloch you'll like these guys
Animals as Leaders - s/t: hands down one of my favorite metal albums this year. The guitarist is way too talented. I also upped this album in the mf!re thread a little while back...
Architects - Hollow Crown: pretty technical metalcore. You'll like LOVE these guys if you like IKAPQ/Acacia/MisSigs
Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return: American-style Swedish melodic death. After a couple listens, this is definitely their best since Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation (which I would probably check out first - that album is amazing)
Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God: blackened death metal with catchy riffs that are sludgy as fcuk and heavier than a hundred walruses.
Gorod - Process of a New Decline: I'm still not sure how these guys can be as technical as they can and still maintain an amazing level of melody and coherence. Crazy talented, these guys are.
Hacricide - Lazarus: Another one of my favorite albums so far this year. Heavy, techincal, amazing songwriting and dynamism. Some of the softer parts reminded me of NIN, mixed with heavier Meshuggah/Gojira like riffing. A Definite must listen.
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos: THRASH/CIRCLEPIT/THRASH
Nightrage - Wearing a Martyr's Crown: Top-notch melodic death metal. Catchy riffs + solos with outrageous vibrato and scale runs = really fun listen
Obscura - Cosmogenesis : Techinical death metal with sexy fretless bass, razar-sharp riffs, ridicilous solos. Seriously, that bass,

[joenisnorac]

some metal albums released this year that I have been enjoying immensely, in alphabetical order:

Amesoeurs - s/t: think spacey post-rock infused black metal. if you like Agaloch you'll like these guys
Animals as Leaders - s/t: hands down one of my favorite metal albums this year. The guitarist is way too talented. I also upped this album in the mf!re thread a little while back...
Architects - Hollow Crown: pretty technical metalcore. You'll like LOVE these guys if you like IKAPQ/Acacia/MisSigs
Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return: American-style Swedish melodic death. After a couple listens, this is definitely their best since Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation (which I would probably check out first - that album is amazing)
Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God: blackened death metal with catchy riffs that are sludgy as fcuk and heavier than a hundred walruses.
Gorod - Process of a New Decline: I'm still not sure how these guys can be as technical as they can and still maintain an amazing level of melody and coherence. Crazy talented, these guys are.
Hacricide - Lazarus: Another one of my favorite albums so far this year. Heavy, techincal, amazing songwriting and dynamism. Some of the softer parts reminded me of NIN, mixed with heavier Meshuggah/Gojira like riffing. A Definite must listen.
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos: THRASH/CIRCLEPIT/THRASH
Nightrage - Wearing a Martyr's Crown: Top-notch melodic death metal. Catchy riffs + solos with outrageous vibrato and scale runs = really fun listen
Obscura - Cosmogenesis : Techinical death metal with sexy fretless bass, razar-sharp riffs, ridicilous solos. Seriously, that bass,

Thanks for the discriptions.. Im gonna start looking up a few of these right now.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

i'll second Darkest Hour.  the more i listen to them, the more they're becoming possibly my favourite metal band, at least of the modern crop of metal bands anyway.  any of the last four albums ("hidden hands of a sadist nation," "undoing ruin," "deliver us," and "the eternal return") are all a good bet.  what came before wasn't bad, but not a patch on those four.

i'd also recommend, in a similar vein, Sylosis, a UK melodic thrash metal band.  "conclusion of an age," their full length, is amazing, but i'd definitely recommend searching for their earlier EPs "the supreme oppressor" and "casting shadows."


oh, and if you want to hear the most badass melodic death album ever, and also find out where most of the metalcore/deathcore/melodic death (etc.) bands got their ideas from, check out Carcass' "Heartwork" - a fucking masterpiece.

[Caspian]

These recommendation... what the hell? Do you people really have that bad taste in metal?

I'd like to cancel out the Agalloch suggestion. Bland and terrible. Same with, well, most of the other bands here.

Metallica's first four, Megadeth up to Rust in Peace and Slayer up too Reign in Blood are all pretty essential. Excellent thrash free of gimmicks- and the material from these guys is all really different.

Bolt Thrower and Unleashed would be my favourite death metal bands. Free from triggers and monotonous songwriting, just heaps of really huge riffs. Every Bolt Thrower album sounds exactly the same (except for the debut) so just pick one at random, you can't lose. For Unleashed I'd recommend Where No Life Dwells. Otherwise, Demilich and Cosmic Atrophy both win by virtue of sheer weirdness and excellent songwriting.

In terms of doom metal good starting points would be Candlemass (King of the Grey Islands probably isn't their best but it's my favourite) and maybe My Dying Bride's Turn Loose the Swans. I guess some Sabbath would also be good- get Paranoid, Master of Reality and/or Heaven and Hell. For weirder slow albums I'd recommend Thergothon's Stream from the Heavens, Disembowelment's Transcendence into the Peripheral, and Nadja's Touched. These three albums are pretty inaccessible, though.

General heavy metal is simple- Iron Maiden (get NotB and maybe their s/t) Judas Priest (sad wings of destiny, screaming for vengeance, Painkiller) and some Manilla Road (pretty much any album).

All of these bands are great; gimmick free (unlike most of the previous recs) and just chock full of great music. I've got a bunch more suggestions but this will be enough for now, I guess.

[joenisnorac]

Animals as Leaders - s/t: hands down one of my favorite metal albums this year. The guitarist is way too talented. I also upped this album in the mf!re thread a little while back...

Wow.. ill ive listen to so far is this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VixG3b-C7Fk and It blew me away already. Great recommendation!

[Nodaisho]

I'd like to cancel out the Agalloch suggestion.

I'd like you to blow me.

I'll cover the stuff that I don't really hear anyone mentioning around here. Try Corrosion of Conformity (from Blind onward, at least. Haven't heard their earlier stuff, it is impossible to find), Crowbar (try Lifesblood for the Downtrodden, that one is more accessible than their early stuff), and Down. Also, Alabama Thunderpussy, and Black Label Society, to round out the southern metal / sludge metal while not getting into anything too off-putting. I know someone is going to come in here suggesting Eyehategod, but I don't really find them a good example of how to get to like the genre.

Some of the bands other people have recommended might not be something you like at first, I know I have gotten to really like stuff that I would have despised if I had started listening to it before the gateway bands. Agalloch in particular tends to be an acquired taste, Caspian is just too much of a philistine to have ever acquired it. They are not really a band you sit down and listen to intently, they are too slow for that, they make better background music.

[onewheelwizzard]

If you like slow, heavy, slow, heavy music, you are tragically missing out if you have not yet listened to:

Electric Wizard, Sleep, Om, Acid King, Sons of Otis, YOB, 5ive, Zoroaster, Bongripper, Eternal Elysium, Indian, and UfoMammut.

Among many others, of course.

[Dimmukane]

Bolded are ones people have already posted (that are really good)

!T.O.O.H.! - if you never listen to another grindcore song in your life, listen to this one.  Whoever uploaded it messed with the levels a bit, though.
Agalloch - Caspian, you've obviously never gotten stoned and driven on a winding mountain road during a snowstorm listening to Ashes Against the Grain.
Anata - these guys are...harmonic death metal? Kind of a dueling-guitarist type deal.
Arch Enemy - these guys are pretty famous now, most of their stuff is pretty solid (even the albums with Johan Liiva, I don't care if the dude was shite for live shows and a prick)
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors is what you want to check out
Arsis - check out the song 'A Diamond For Disease', honestly it's the only song of theirs I like, but you'd probably like some of their other stuff.  That song is too long for youtube, though.
Augury - probably my favorite band.  Metal for comets to listen to during their trips through the void.
Baroness - I just found this fanmade video, it's pretty sweet.
Cynic - fuck all the haters.  Not that there are any on this board.  Proto-tech-death-jazz-fusion. 
Dethklok - needs no explanation

Genghis Tron - I would just like to point out that if brokenCYDE and Attack Attack! had an antithesis, it is these guys.  No crabcore here.

In Flames - any of their albums up to Whoracle, really driving melodeath/viking type stuff.  After that they kind of stopped being good.  The Jester Race/Black Ash Inheritance still hasn't gotten old.
Kronos - see Colossal Titan Strife.  Probably the most deathy band I'm recommending.
Lykathea Aflame - the second most deathy.  We will probably never hear music like theirs again.
Mastodon - this board is kind of love/hate about them.  I like them.  Whatever.
the Pax Cecilia - if Opeth wasn't so wanky, this is what they'd sound like.  You'd probably like Opeth, too.

[Koremora]

Meshuggah is some sweet mathy metal, you should try obZen by them. Also I'd like to 2nd Between the Buried and Me, Alaska and Colors are GREAT albums. Anything ISIS has touched is gold, as well as Pelican and Russian Circles if you like the whole post-metal thing. Mastodon is sweet stoner/prog too... I'm just gonna list some more of these:

Baroness - amazing southern prog metal
BORIS - REALLY heavy Japanese stoner/doom metal
Cult of Luna - Swedish post-metal band, somewhat similar to ISIS, perhaps a bit darker
The Dillinger Escape Plan - thrashy, mathy experimental metal, perhaps a bit hardcore in it as well
Gojira - awesome Prog. Death metal, if you like BTBAM you will likely like this, and perhaps even if you don't
High on Fire - fantastic thrashy stoner/doom metal
Kylesa - again with the southern metal, somewhat crust-punk/psychedelic tinged
Neurosis - the original "post-metal" band, slow and atmospheric, crushingly heavy
OM - drone/stoner metal with an Eastern European tinge. Somewhat spiritual in nature, think of chanting.
Jesu - drone metal, but generally major key and more upbeat. I call it power drone.
Opeth - classic progressive death metal band, nobody really does it better than these guys.
Rosetta - another post-metal band, their self description of "Neurosis covering Stars of the Lid" says it best.
Sleep - Stoner/doom metal, original members went on to form High on Fire and OM, respectively. Sleep's Holy Mountain and Dopesmoker are amazing.
Sunn O))) - Drone doom metal, perhaps the best (or most well-known). Sounds dark, IMPOSSIBLY heavy, and equally slow.
Tombs - An interesting mix of atmospheric black metal and thrash, Winter Hours is a great album.
Torche - another very thick, heavy southern metal band, with pop influences of all things. Pop doom? I guess it's possible.
Wolves in the Throne Room - amazing atmospheric black metal/ambient music.

[Caspian]

guys, I can accept that I'm the only one who doesn't like Agalloch (it should be noted that I have a boner for lots of other slow, atmospheric metal, just not weak, limp wristed stuff) but seriously.. The Dillinger Escape Plan? How in the hell are they metal? It's technical hardcore.. there's little to no metal influence at all.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but the amount of really abysmal hipster metal recommendations (this coming from a dude who has no problem with Isis, jesu and Nadja, among others) in this thread is making me a sad panda. On another note, Dethklok is a terrible show and the soundtrack reflects that.

High on Fire is a sweet band, though. I can dig that.

[E. Spaceman]

The dude has no mercy!

[Cernunnos]

or tact

[Caspian]

or manners!

[Dimmukane]

guys, I can accept that I'm the only one who doesn't like Agalloch

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but the amount of really abysmal hipster metal recommendations (this coming from a dude who has no problem with Isis, jesu and Nadja, among others) in this thread is making me a sad panda. On another note, Dethklok is a terrible show and the soundtrack reflects that.

As far as Agalloch goes, you have to be in a particular mindset to really enjoy them.  It's pretty easy to get into that headspace, but I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't like them.  Did you even like the closer on AATG, though?

I tried to avoid putting up hipster metal stuff, or stoner metal stuff for that matter.  I figured everyone else would take care of that.  I know I don't really fap over half of those bands like some of the people on here.  Probably not his cup of tea, anyways. 

But c'mon.  Dethklok?  What about Spinal Tap?  Well, I guess I understand that one, too.  The reason I love Metalocalypse so much is because I used to be one of those dudes bent on finding the craziest metal with the weirdest stories behind it.  If you've never been part of that culture or understood how those people think, the humor is generally lost after first viewing.  I've watched both seasons at least 5 times now.  I still maintain that Go Into The Water is a pretty boss track.

[Caspian]

I like Spinal Tap a fair bit. I just don't think Dethklok is terribly funny. It's nothing to do with me being all po-faced or whatever; the art of the show isn't terribly good, and it's just not a particularly funny show. The music isn't terrible, but I can't really say I like it.

I guess calling it a terrible show was an overreaction. it's a mediocre show.

With Agalloch- I've reviewed all of their full lengths on metal-archives if you want to get my opinion on them. I don't really hate them, I guess you could say it annoys me more that people seem to really like them. It's like Tool or Opeth; the music is "yeah it's ok" but combined with the fanboys...

[Nodaisho]

Huh, I'm pretty sure I've actually read most of those before. Don't remember The Mantle, but I remember the Pale Folklore one, and the Ashes one is extremely similar to one I remember reading on Metal Observer. Did you put that one up too?

Would I be accurate in saying that a large part of your problem is with how popular they are? You seem to be much more positive about them in the first review, which was written a year and a half before the next, and another year before the last. You even said you liked Ashes in the review for Pale Folklore, before decided that you hated it.

It's really difficult to write this post because I have such a hard time understanding the review. I understand the words you use, I understand what they mean, but I would never guess what album you are talking about if I just read it at random.

When you referred to a lack of catharsis at the end of the song, what do you mean? The sort of huge-sounding part at the end of a lot of post-rock? It seems like that (along with the guitar tone) is more of a matter of taste (please don't make the obvious joke here), it isn't that they forgot to put it in, it is that they intentionally wrote it without one.

Where are you getting the coldplay part from? You mention it pretty constantly, but I'm not hearing it at all. I will grant you, however, that the bit in Skyline pt.3 is absolutely terrible, I wince every time I hear it.

[Caspian]

The first album was written when I was still a bit of a newb in the world of metal. (and yeah, I used to write for TMO). I still prefer it to the others.. I'd probably give it a 60% nowdays. Popularity isn't an issue, at least not a conscious one- I'm a Metallica fanboy and have no problem with a bunch of oft-fellated bands (Isis and Neurosis being obvious examples).

Lack of catharsis- no I'm not meaning a post rock freak out or anything. I'm just saying the songs don't really go anywhere. With most bands around there's some sort of satisfaction as to when the climax has came and went and the song's done- that just doesn't happen with Agalloch. Kind of hard to properly articulate what i mean here- I guess there's no release of emotion at the end of the song.

Coldplay is just me doing a bit of exaggeration. Agalloch are accessible, melodic, and bland as all hell- metal's MOR. Coldplay is also accessible, melodic and bland. Obviously there's no great musical influence or what have you.

[sean]

the Pax Cecilia - if Opeth wasn't so wanky, this is what they'd sound like.  You'd probably like Opeth, too.

Do these guys usually get brought up in metal discussion? I mean their second album I guess gets pretty metal but their first is basically textbook screamo.

Also Aggaloch bland? Really? Eh I guess you can have yr own opinion.

[KharBevNor]

I'm actually basing this on the dudes post, unlike most people in this thread (honourable exceptions) just listing every heavy band they've heard of, and I am giving youtube videos as always.

Basically dude I think your first port of call should be a little town called Gothenburg.

These bands should all definitely tickle your fancy, then we can progress.

Arch Enemy - Leader of the Rats
At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Dark Tranquillity - Monochromatic Stains
Darkane - Innocence Gone
Edge of Sanity - Elegy
In Flames - Pinball Map
Nightingale - Losing Myself

And a few more similiar (and some less similiar) things to consider:

Amon Amarth - The Pursuit of Vikings
Amorphis - Against Widows
Cryptic Wintermoon - Synthetic Gods
Dissection - Thorns of Crimson Death
Kalmah - They Will Return
Katatonia - Murder
Moonspell - Opium
Opeth - Bleak
Tiamat - Cain


All of these are good songs. Some of these are great songs. Together they point the way to a firm foundation from which you can begin to fully appreciate the more exotic and difficult genres of metal.

[Finin]

A great list

[BeoPuppy]

... no Skyclad?

I know you based your list on his list but still ... from you, no Skyclad?

Well ... I recommend Skyclad. To anyone.

[Koremora]

Caspian, basically what I'm getting out of your posts is that you're BAAAAW'ing because people's taste in metal aren't as "correct" as yours. So, basically you're bitching to hear yourself bitch, because it doesn't really add anything constructive to the topic at all.

[KharBevNor]

I know you based your list on his list but still ... from you, no Skyclad?

Nothing on his list really indicates he will appreciate Skyclad. Yet. Oh, we'll get him there. We'll get him everywhere. The discovery of the many genres and forms of metal is something to be taken slowly and savoured. By making each musical step small one can more fully appreciate the next step along the way. You can't really expect a dude to jump straight from CoB to Unleashed, even less so some of the other stuff people have been suggesting. You show the dude classic gothenburg MDM first, then work him back through the Edge of Sanity catalogue, you make him conversant with the work of Bloodbath, then reverently, like a priest giving the sacrament, you hand him the three sacred tomes of Scandinavian death metal: Left Hand Path, Where No Life Dwells and Soulless. Then, once the awe has left his heart, Vader, Decapitated, Carcass, Behemoth perhaps, Bolt Thrower and maybe even Napalm Death...

Fuck, I wish it could all be new to me again.


Also, if you're going to compare any melo-black band to Coldplay, shouldn't it be Woods of Ypres? Dude come on are we even listening to the same band?

[Nodaisho]

You do have a way with words, Khar. My suggestions probably don't fit him too well, I was thinking of metal nobody else ever mentions, and I was also mixing up Children of Bodom with Lamb of God, I always do that.

OiC, maybe it is like how people that eat too much spicy food lose the ability to taste more subtle things? Of course in this case, it isn't necessarily subtle tastes, but a subtle taste.

I'm seconding Khar's Katatonia recommendation, by the way. Especially Brave Murder Day. I like their other stuff as well, but BMD is the best.

[KharBevNor]

I just really love metal. Sometimes I forget how much, but I do love it so. I will be sitting there listening to my neo-folk or industrial or dub or whatever, and suddenly winamp will grab me by the FUCKING BALLS and make me remember.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

random mindless elitist drivel

hey, thread starter, don't end up being like THIS^ guy.  not that i think you will, but still, there seems to be a disturbingly large proportion of people who get into metal who suddenly get that kinda mindset, and as annoying as it is for everyone else, the worst part is that their closedmindedness stops them from hearing and getting into stuff they might themselves enjoy if they gave a chance.

i'm not gonna say i like EVERY band that's been suggested on this thread, but don't let pricks like this guy sway you - check it all out and make your own mind up.

[snalin]

In Flames - any of their albums up to Whoracle, really driving melodeath/viking type stuff.  After that they kind of stopped being good.  The Jester Race/Black Ash Inheritance still hasn't gotten old.

This, just the total other way around. Everything from Clayman and onwards blows my mind, every day. In Flames has the track record of Gods and shit. Seriously. Check out the single they released with the latest album - Tilt, Earser and Abnegation are all fucking awesome songs (click the HQ button, it does wonders with the sound)

The band did a big change of direction midway through their career. I think they've gotten better, more melodic, and their vocalist learned to sing/growl properly. There's always someone going "bluh bluh COLONY bluh bluh" in every single fucking review and youtube-comment section. It made me give up on music reviewers in general.

Other bands:

Nightrage - A new disease is born HELL YES. This one works better in normal quality. huh...

Eluveitie is pure melodeath/folk love, check out inis Mona. The second (Spirit) and third (Slania) albums are really epic and , the last was a acoustic thing, still good, but not metal.  They have promised to return with more growl and metal and awesome.

Soilwork - Okay, these guys are best buddies with In Flames, so you know what to expect. light the torch (HQ) gets a lot of points for an awesome music video.

Equilibrium - more melodeathish stuff - in German, still epic. blut im auge explains why I love them. This album really gives me a pirate feeling. Heh.

That's the best ones right now. Check out Ho-chi-Ming as well, they are sweeet.

[snalin]

Basically dude I think your first port of call should be a little town called Gothenburg.

Also, this.

[Caspian]

Khar, i know about WoY but didn't really see any point mentioning them; I'd agree that they're terrible though. Also, Where no Life Dwells is a pretty accessible dm album; it's a bit cavernous maybe, but not super fast or anything. It was one of my first DM albums; I reckon it's the sort of thing that even the most casual metal fan can get into (not that that's an insult, it's a rad album). On another note, I notice you didn't mention any thrash- you don't care for it or something? Just curious, is all; I prefer it a fair bit over death metal myself.

random mindless elitist drivel

Honestly, what is so wrong with being elitist? I listen to a pretty huge variety of music (check my last.fm; username's caspiannnnn) but I feel no need to compromise as to what I like and what I don't like, and I tell it like I see it. There's nothing wrong with that. It seems that when people call someone "elitist", they tend to mean "people who have opinions about music that aren't always positive".

[A Wet Helmet]

Try Corrosion of Conformity (from Blind onward, at least. Haven't heard their earlier stuff, it is impossible to find),

I'll go ahead and up Technocracy and Animosity in the mediaf!re thread.   For the record, I thought listening to Blind was theoretically about as fun as sucking on the ass of roadkill, but liked everything previous to that.  That stuff is certainly one of the finest examples of 80s crossover out there.

Edited to add:  The whole genre, in my opinion, is a little whack, but I can't deny that COC is one of the best examples of it.     They're up in mediafire if you want to check them out.

[Dimmukane]

Don't listen to Snalin, early In Flames was better.  That's when their songwriting actually went places and wasn't derivative.  Most of Jasper's creativity petered out during Colony.  To be honest, though, it kind of depends on how deathy you like your metal.  If you ask me, there is a lot more raw energy and harmony behind their earlier work.  I tried to tailor my list to things the OP might like, and he said he didn't mind death metal, so I leaned in that direction.  He'd probably really like Reroute To Remain.

[Jed]

Here's a few.

Impaled Nazarene = Black
Cradle of Filth = Black/Melodic
Finntroll = Folk?
Mokoma = Speed/Trash
The Kovenant = Industrial
Ruoska = Industrial
The 69 Eyes = Goth?
Sentenced = Goth/Death/Heavy

Enjoy.

[Caspian]

Sentenced = Goth/Death/Heavy

Enjoy.

Their cold white light album is pretty enjoyable. It's sort of a suicidal version of the Black Album; polished, accessible, quite awesome. Definitely worth checking out.

[BeoPuppy]

Trying to give someone a recommendation of Cradle Of Filth via a Sisters of Mercy cover may not be the best way to go.

Might I suggest Lord Abortion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbGCA-YtmmU

[Jed]

Trying to give someone a recommendation of Cradle Of Filth via a Sisters of Mercy cover may not be the best way to go.

Meh. It's a good song.

[BeoPuppy]

The original is better. Plus, it's not all that indicative of CoF's music.

[Jed]

You are right about that. I have all the Cradle albums from Principle to Nymph. Though their newer stuff is crappier after Damnation. (Propably the reason I stopped buyin their albums.)

Back to topic: Kyprian's Circle = Really old black

[KharBevNor]

On another note, I notice you didn't mention any thrash- you don't care for it or something? Just curious, is all; I prefer it a fair bit over death metal myself.

I didn't mention any black or doom either. The dude gave a fairly good inidication of what he likes, nothing of whih really indicates his tastes draw him towards thrash atm. Several of my suggestions lead fairly obviously more toards thrash though, just as some begin to bridge out towards black, doom and folk.

Also, the 69 Eyes aren't metal. Maybe on one album (though even then debatable), but not the album you posted. They come from the same slick production/overdriven guitar school of 90's goth rock as Nosferatu, London After Midnight, Inkubus Sukkubus etc. which is more a logical outgrowth of old death rock bands like .45 Grave and Southern Death Cult via proto-industrial rock acts like Alien Sex Fiend than it is anything to do with metal. Compare early Type O Negative material to observe the crucial differences.

Also, if we're going to be chucking about Cradle of Filth tracks, there's only one we should be really talking about.


Seduction, my obsessive art
A pantheon of tragedies inscribed upon the stars
Like thistled ruin, garbed around thy heart
Bacchanal Cinderella, desirious midnight passed
Leaving thee as sacrifice asleep within my arms
'Midst dreams of robed redemption versed in sexual aftermath
When we ebb as tides together, carnal souls entwined
And orgasms expire, come puppet wires and the....BLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND

[Llewellian]

Meh, i am total oldschool ^^.

Things in my shelf:

Gamma Ray (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u14doIBp-Xc)
Kreator (Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7xBj0bDD8)
Helloween (Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOAl0enE7kI)
Running Wild (Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjTN4Av7qgE)
Tankart (Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNg4aFJs1cw)
Sodom (Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS-qBctWpH0)
Megadeth (Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv6psE7l7rk)

and many more... U.D.O, Doro Pesch, Napalm Death and such...

Btw... if you want some "Input", check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacken_Open_Air . Wikipedia lists the Bandlineup of the Festival  - and all i can say: If you are ever going to Germany in early August... go Wacken Open Air. 70.000 Metalheads, 10+ Stages and Beer, Beer, Beer ;o).

[KharBevNor]

Wait, what? Wacken has four stages. The True Stage, The Black Stage, the Party Stage and the Tent. Like, the whole graphic design of all their merchandise is even based around this (like how you can buy the blue True Stage shirts, the red Black Stage shirts or the green Party Stage shirts).

[Llewellian]

  Yup. 4 BIG Stages. And more or less official/inoffical sidestages. Smaller bands playing some kind of private. And there is this year the extra ground for the mediaval market / Larp Parp / Wiking Park where smaller mediaval / nordic folk bands will play.

[KharBevNor]

Wait, what sidestages? You mean shit like Metal Batman playing in the campgrounds?

[Be My Head]

Kreator

Oh, and

Death
Cynic
Atheist
Gorguts
Edge of Sanity
Peste Noire
Saint Vitus
Candlemass
Dismember
Enslaved
Celtic Frost
Dark Angel
Hellhammer
Exodus
Darkthrone
Destruction
Martyr
Illogicist



Shout out to all you Agalloch fans, if you like them you will like Enslaved's later stuff, particularly Below The Lights.

For extra credit, check out:

Amaseffer
Aghora
Belketre
Bone Awl
Burning Witch
Cauldron Black Ram
Church of Misery
Cirith Ungol
Cryptopsy
Deathspell Omega
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Diabolical Masquerade
Entombed
Fates Warning
Gallhammer
Ghremdrakk
Goatsnake
Grand Magus
Heathen (the thrash metal band)
Hypocrisy
Langsuyr
Minotauri
Morbid Angel
Morbid Saint
Nachtmystium
Neath


And I'm getting tired of listing bands, that's enough for now.

Edit: might wanna listen to most of these only after you've listened to Khar's recommendations earlier and gotten a taste for metal. Those are all decent bands, but imo, more like starter groups.

www.metal-archives.com is a great source for all things metal.

[Nodaisho]

the red Black Stage shirts

The fuck?

If you do go on metal archives, don't let them disliking it throw you off, they have more than their fair share of pretentious pricks there, and I have really enjoyed some stuff that gets poor marks for not being troo enough.