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Heavy metal
Cerulaetas:
--- Quote from: super_rad ---i actually do like some parts of heavy metal. i really like the musical part of it. i really like how the people in heavy metal bands can usually play their instruments really fast and really well. i just don't like the vocals. i personally am of the opinion that it ruins the music. i'm just not a fan of the growly bear type singing.
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Growly bear type of singing? You're not listening to heavy metal then, most likely death metal. My recommendations would be Nightwish, Magica, Sonata Arctica, Therion, later Sentenced, Nightmare, and Blind Guardian. Ok, most of those are power metal, but power metal is quite close to heavy metal, just with some minor stylistic differences, as opposed to what can happen when it comes to death metal...
Also, a great resource for getting into metal is Metal Storm Radio. It focuses on the more melodic metal genres, like power metal, progressive metal, heavy metal, and gothic metal, though there are a few bands in the mix that fall under the extreme metal genres of thrash, black, and death.
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And I'm going to have to double disagree; I think PTW are generally terrible. And Trivium, for that matter.
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Add Killswitch Engage to that list.
Bastardous Bassist:
I concur with the Killswitch comment. The computer at my radio station has some Killswitch, and I listened to it to find out if maybe someone else had loaded up some music that I could use on my show (there is some pretty good jazz that people loaded up, so I figured someone might have good taste in metal, too). Well, basically I stay away from that which is marked "Thrash" from now on, because all that's there is Killswitch and Hatebreed. No thank you.
Rizzo:
I disagree, Killswitch were one of the first to do what they do. And they still do it better than any of the current bands.
Actually. I haven't heard anything from their later albums, for all I know they could be an MCR tribute band.
*Puts on "Alive or just breathing"*
Cerulaetas:
Sure, Killswitch may be the first to do what they do (whatever that may be), but it's not a style I like particularly. I can't get into their musicianship, and their vocals just bother me (the screams are terrible, the clean vocals not that great). The closest to them that I listen to would have to be Sonic Syndicate (two free clips on their "releases" page), which I actually enjoy (especially the song Jailbreak). Trivium isn't so bad, because musically they're really talented, it's just that their vocalist completely ruins it.
Bastardous: I'm not one for thrash really, but Nevermore is quite good. The radio link I posted has Nevermore in its database, that's an easy way to get some exposure to the band. Also, Yahoo! Music Videos has three videos by Nevermore, all of which are quality songs.
But yeah, Hatebreeder and Killswitch, not so good. I'm not even sure if I'd classify those as thrash, probably as thrashy nu-metal, but not actual thrash.
Bastardous Bassist:
Oh, I am a wee bit familiar with thrash (definitely familiar with Nevermore), but my radio station doesn't have any of it, which means I can't play any of it on-air (we're trying to get an FCC license, so we can only play 100% legal stuff, an our manager is limiting us to only using actcual, store-bought CDs).
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