Used to listen to Linkin Park when I was an emo middle schooler and have gotten back into them along with Breaking Benjamin and Seether. I KNOW THESE AREN'T METAL BANDS
Started listening to Disturbed other than just Down With The Sickness and now love them. Got into Sabaton which is like my perfect band because I love history and power metal.
Discovered Powerwolf yesterday and holy fuck this music makes me feel ALIVE. Have listened to Amon Amarth in the past and fuck with them too, but Powerwolf is amazing.
Godsmack also slaps. Alter Bridge has some bangers as well. I don't listen to rap that much anymore. Interesting how I went from "bitches and bottles" to "sanctified with dynamite"
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Favorite Sabaton song below....saw them live a few years back. Great show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnAvNdVyJB0
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not a huge fan of metal so unrelated, but the app isn't that great yet
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I really enjoy pretty much everyone you listed, would also add Three Days Grace, Saliva, Drowning Pool, Korn, Five Finger Death Punch.
Solid list. Would recommend System of a Down, Rise Against, and A Day To Remember too
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Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King
https://youtu.be/DelhLppPSxY
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
Isaiah have you ever met a person you can't relate with? Genuinely curious
haha good question - I usually have at a bit in common with most people I meet in some way.
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
Yeah this is an OG banger
This album was featured in WWE 2k15. Unkind memories
Avenged Sevenfold got me through junior high <3
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Nightmare album or Hail to the King album? I'm going Nightmare all the way
Slipknot, Architects, Bring Me the Horizon (not exactly sure if these guys are metal), Killswitch Engage, We Came As Romans, and Of Mice and Men are the metals bands I listen to these days.
Of Mice and Men has bangers
I think Bring Me the Horizon would traditionally be considered Post Hardcore - my favorite Post Hardcore band is Pierce the Veil.
Would throw Beartooth and Bad Wolves in that group too
Man that whole Warped Tour / rise records era for post hardcore was amazing in the mid 10s. I listened to so much BMTH, Mice and Men, Parkway Drive. Definitely what got me into other kinds of metal.
Before I Forget is og banger
Would highly recommend you check out Imminence
Make them suffer, osiah, auras, born of Osiris
Born of Osiris is legit. Only recently discovered them and love their new album
Love Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed (especially Immortalized), select FFDP, smaller progressive bands like Ayreon, Kamelot, Avantasia, Theocracy, Seventh Wonder, etc. If you want music that makes you feel alive check out Beast In Black, especially the From Hell With Love album. Listened to that more than anything at the gym. But my favorite all time is Dream Theater (metal or otherwise). If you want straight metal check out Train of Thought, more prog check out Octavarium, but overall their crown jewel is Images and Words - some of the best musicianship I've ever heard.
Will make sure to check these out. I'm wfh now bc i got Covid and have been blasting metal from my surround sound. Amazing how much more productive I am when my balls are able to breathe and I've got music shaking my room
Right here, man! Love all kinds of metal. Was actually fortunate to see an awesome concert with Alter Bridge opening for Breaking Benjamin and Disturbed back in 2015 or so. Still love that stuff but have been really into black metal lately. Stuff like Darkthrone, Sunken, and Summoning have been really refreshing after listening to a ton of stuff like Metallica and Electric Wizard over the years.
Metalingus is a top 5 song for me
You have to listen to Three Days Grace, the One-X album in particular, if you haven't listened to them - your mind will be blown. Another good one is Deftones, also Mastodon is pretty sick.
Riot and Animal I Have Become slap
Yeah those ones are good, I think Over and Over is my favorite, Pain is a good one too. Honestly that whole album is full of bangers.
Ik it's alt metal, but you have to listen to Tool. I listen to a disgusting amount of Tool. Tbh since I started listening to them a year ago, I stopped listening to every other genre that I used to (mostly rap).
Lateralus, Forty Six and 2, Pushit, Invincible, and The Pot are their best songs.
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Whatever you do don't tell an actual (snobby) metalhead that you unironically like disturbed or linkin park
For metal I'm moreso a fan of the atmospheric subgenres - sludge, doom, gothic, prog etc. My Dying Bride was among the very first bands I ever listened to, along with porcupine tree and Converge. Draconian and katatonia are also solid doom outfits, love them. Lake of Tears are goth gods.
I would like to pretend I'm the average snob proghead but I never got into tool or opeth or any prog essential other than porcupine tree. Dream Theatre and Mastodon are my favourites here.
Though I don't think I'd ever be assimilated into black metal I still listen to Ulver's first record a lot. Love the atmospheric/gloomy vibes mixed up with black metal aggressive riffs and style. I just listened to Ethereal Shroud's new record yesterday and absolutely loved it. Last year was kind to blackers. Atmospheric black metal is actually quite good and a refresher from the typical shitty produced black metal.
Overall these are bands that have broken into the mainstream on their own. There are countless obscure bands that are amazing
Also check out the growing alt metal + shoegaze scene. Alcest, Deafheaven, Sadness. It's a bit more unorthodox and creative
If you're working from home stream Sunbather asap - it's such a beautiful record. I went to see deafheaven live once and it was one of the gloomiest nights of my life. The closer track, the pecan tree, will make you a sobbing mess.
Deafheaven is really awesome. You should check out Blut Aus Nord's 777 Cosmosophy.
Atmospheric black metal is what got me into the rest of black metal. Had also always listened to doom and drone so there's a lot of the same great sounds in it. Love Beorn's Hall
Metal hits sometimes very different. The heavy guitars and melody mixed with the screams and lyrics, god it'sll good. Few of my favourites are: As I lay Dying, Slipknot, We Butter The Bread With Butter, Destrage, Gojira, and Bleed From Within.
Surprised not more love for the OG metal… Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth (tornado of souls is great), Motörhead, Judas Priest (still cranking out music, Evil Never Dies is awesome), Dio, Pantera, Slayer, etc
Also like Rammstein and Rob Zombie
If you're into Iron Maiden check out The Odyssey by Symphony X. Gives me Rime of the Ancient Mariner vibes and the final 10 minutes is basically a tribute to Iron Maiden with the drumming rhythm. Absolute masterpiece and tells a great story.
Good look - will check it out
I'm big on a lot of the classic metal like Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Megadeth. I like a decent amount of newer metal music too, and as much as people in the metal community like to shit on them I love Ghost.
Lots of good stuff here, plenty not named all across the various sub-genres - love it all including the darkest ugliest filth and the comically cheesy stuff.
Some old and new favorites on regular rotation not already mentioned include, and in no particular order or organization:
Machine Head, Between the Buried and Me, Trivium, Periphery, Baroness, Earth, Neurosis, Cult of Luna, Mr Bungle/Fantomas, Killer Be Killed, Dillinger Escape Plan, Ghost, Pelican, Isis, Meshuggah, Sepultura, Tribulation, High on Fire, Genghis Tron, Darkthrone, An Albatross, The Locust, Lamb of God, TesseracT, Behemoth, Nails, Whitechapel, Motörhead… could go on and on.
Massive music lover, classical, metal, jazz, hiphop, freestyle, rock, reggae, grunge and more. Below list is not necessarily all metal, but what I most often call my "angry young man music" regardless of the fact that I'm most often a happy old woman, LOL...
Ayron Jones
Sevendust
Black Label Society
The Hu
Halestorm
Skunk Anansie
Opeth
Clutch
Dimmu Borgir
Volbeat
Disturbed
Engage Killswitch
Skindred
5FDP
Katatonia
MC Xander
Bad Wolves
Chevelle
Dub FX
Burzum
Coheed & Cambria
Black Dahlia Murder
...plus Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Dio, Rainbow, Deep Purple, King Crimson aaaaaand the Big 4: Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth - have seen them all separately as well as all together at Yankee Stadium.
Dimmu Borgir and Burzum are really great. I don't know if Filosofem will ever be 1 upped
Really loving the 90s metal right now... Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill has has me absolutely ripped through some models. Definitely check that album out. Also shuffle through plenty of Korn Slayer Slipknot easy. If you like some of the darker side of metal that's not scremo but more growl like, check out Xibalba. Burn and Cold by them will make your hair stand
Metallica, Black Sabbath, Ozzie Osbourne, Slayer, Megadeath, ACDC, Avenged Sevenfold, etc.
Also really like powermetal. Love DragonForce - Highway to Oblivion.
I only listen to metal/rock (any song that has a sick solo or shreds) and a lot of EDM.
Been out of the loop for a while but this inspired me to go dig up a bunch of old favorites. Particularly second the doom/sludge/atmospheric recs. A list of stuff I'd recommend (irrespective of subgenre): Deathspell Omega, Isis, Neurosis, Jesu, The Angelic Process, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Overmars (Born Again specifically), Syven, Katatonia, Ea, Signs of Betrayal (the first two or three albums), Mastodon, Dirge, Gnaw Their Tongues, Agalloch, Nadja, Tesseract (the very early stuff), Ghost Brigade, Rosetta, Deafheaven, The Ocean.
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