NFT: Metal (music) recommendations needed

Cannibal Corpse type stuff, obviously, but what about Pantera/Phil Anselmo screaming?

In comment 13986956 Greg from LI said:

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Cannibal Corpse type stuff, obviously, but what about Pantera/Phil Anselmo screaming?

Pantera is ok. Anything more vocally aggressive than that is probably where I draw the line

Iced Earth is one that's actual singing, not screaming.

I can't tell genres apart sometimes.

If you like Metallica, you might like Five Finger Death Punch.

One of my favorites of this era, but they're kind of mainstream.

Is Volbeat too mainstream for you?

In comment 13986968 Tim in JTown said:

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Is Volbeat too mainstream for you?

never heard of them. You can safely assume I haven’t heard of most of the good metal out there

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In comment 13986962 Greg from LI said:

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Iced Earth is one that's actual singing, not screaming.

Lamb of God is most excellent on first listen.

They're local for me, which is cool

In comment 13986977 Tim in JTown said:

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thats an interesting sound. A little mashup of Dropkick and Muse, IMO. I dig it

Yeah. they grew on me. Lots of singable songs but they still have some balls too. One more:

In comment 13986988 Dave in PA said:

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In comment 13986977 Tim in JTown said: Quote: . Link - ( New Window ) thats an interesting sound. A little mashup of Dropkick and Muse, IMO. I dig it

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Skeletonwitch
Bolt Thrower
Lamb of God
Shadows Fall
At the Gates
Be’lakor
Ne Obliviscaris
Amon Amarth
Death

I could go on for days, but these are some good heavy bands to start with.

You already like Tool and Porcupine Tree, you will love these guys too. Lots of great albums and DVD's.

Recently lost their guitar player, RIP. but I hear they are carrying on anyways....
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Check out Hollowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden

Tool and porqupine tree are prototypical progmetal.

Try some of these:
Fair to Midland - my personal favorite band
Saosin
Rishloo
Baroness
Tesseract - especially the album Polaris

from Australia

One of the most influential albums ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHtbzk_JK8A

Angelwitch is another NWOBHM

Song: Angel Witch
Artist: Angel Witch
Album: Angel Witch
Year: Angel Witch


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5o-8FVXom8

Gojira is newer than those bands, might be too "yelly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGHlZwMYO9g

In comment 13987014 Blue The Dog said:

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Tool and porqupine tree are prototypical progmetal. Try some of these: Fair to Midland - my personal favorite band Saosin Rishloo Baroness Tesseract - especially the album Polaris

I know someone else that loves Fair to Midland, but I couldn't think of the band name for a long time.

The guitars are amazing.

Songs are really good.

I couldn't deal with it either (and I'm old). However, after listening to Opeth a couple of times - it really grew on me. Give it a chance - Their last two albums are 100% clean vocals.

Others that mostly fit your requirements - Pain of Salvation, Anthrax, Avatar, Blackfield (Steven Wilson), Faith No More, Godsmack, Heaven and Hell, The Mars Volta, Perihelion Ship, Stone Sour, Testament, ...

Avenged Sevenfold
Five Finger Deathpunch
Parkway Drive
Adelina’s Way
Lamb of God.
Mastodon

They are excellent! Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies with Lola Montez, The Nameless One, etc. from 2013.

Prayers for the Blessed.

And I just saw the Fort Rock Festival with 95% of bands I never heard other than Ozzy and STP. There's a lot of good music out there.

Godsmack
Five Finger Death Punch
Sevendust
Texas Hippie Coalition
Shinedown
Stone Sour
Avatar
Hatebreed
Breaking Benjamain

And those are just the ones I remember from the festival and I tell you I had an awesome time and I didn't know any of the songs.


Sorry LauderdaleMatty but I saw Avenge Sevenfold for free and they had to be the shittiest band I've ever seen. You'd have to pay me to stand through that drivel again

not to see Killswitch Engage mentioned anywhere. Rose of Sharyn is one of my top 10 songs of all time. Heavy vocals but not screamy. End of Heartache, Last Serenade, My Curse...lots to choose from

Larry I know I always liked you (mentioning Sevendust). Sevendust is a great band with a great vocalist. Start with their Animosity album and go from there.

Lamb of God's best song is Black Label...just FYI. I left my favorite performance of mine in the link below.

You may hate the vocals but check out August Burns Red. Fantastic band with a world class drummer in Matt Greiner. Same with As I Lay Dying...great band but vocals could be too much for you...oh and the singer tried to have his wife killed but moving on.

Diecast is a solid metal band with a decent singer. Lots of good band previously mentioned that I won't repeat.
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try Wage War and a Day to Remember...you may be able to tolerate vocals. Both bands are from Ocala, FL
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Periphery - Icarus Lives...also check out Scarlet
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Supposedly unplugged from Vegas, but OMG! 1 of my favorite You Tube videos to play on laptop HDMI connected to my SYSTEM! THE SYSTEM!!! (*its sick, spent WAY TOO MUCH on it but I love proper sound!)

Seriously, Check it out!! WHOLE SHOW mind you! Hope you can play on a proper system & not just a laptop or sumthin.

Now that you had me look this up I'm gonna have to listen to it myself as soon as the Yankees are done dispatching the Mets... :-}

Play List:

0:00 Trippin
8:22 Re-align
13:57 Running blind
20:38 Serenity
26:30 Voodoo
33:52 Spiral
39:02 Bass solo
40:00 Batalla De Los Tambores
45:58 Keep away
52:40 Touche with John Kosco
56:35 Reefer headed woman with John Kosco
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I’ll be busy teaching my little guys how to head bang this weekend

This one is Crazy Horse. It's from the 'Order Of The Black' disc. Fucking love this disc. Can't believe it's 8 years old already.
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behemoth,trivium, haken all really good. one of my personal favorites is Alcest from france and gojira.

If you haven’t already...listen to every Fucking Maiden album ever. They are the best metal band ever.

System of a Down is incredible as is Marilyn Manson. Killswitch Engage is grey and so is Gojira.

Five Finger and Shinedown are good too

Periphery, as someone said before.
Veil of Maya.
Animals and Leaders

Really good prog/djent Metal with less death metal type vocals.

In comment 13987309 Steve L said:

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If you haven’t already...listen to every Fucking Maiden album ever. They are the best metal band ever.

I still say Sabbath is the best metal band ever. I was listening to Heaven and Hell Follow the Tears on the way to work and all I could say is damn that's fucking Black Sabbath. It was heavier than God is Dead which followed it in the playlist and to me sounds more Sabbath. As far as Maiden goes they lost me after Seventh Son. IMHO everything they did up to Powerslave are metal masterpieces.

Mark as far as Sevendust goes I listened to one song before the festival and I hated it. The production was terrible and made everything sound thin and overproduced. Fast forward to the show and they just put on a killer show with songs full of crunch that made me a fan and I added their music to my playlist. A great band to rock out to

'Irony is a Dead Scene' a try. They were between singers and Mike Patton filled in for an ep.

Check out Hella, Battles, Don Cabbellero. They are all a bit older, but are always my go too’s for metal. Love me some classic Metallica on occasion, or the early death metal stuff like Pantera and Mega Death. I just gravitate to the instrumental stuff more.

From Mean Streak to Blind Guardian, Evergrey to Hammerfall, Tad Morose to Tyr and so on...been part metal head for 50 years. If you are on Spotify search "Lekworld"....playlists of everything, but a few metal and prog still up..more material I am prone to listen to these days.....always adding.

didn't see them mentioned.

the 1st album considered to be "heavy metal"?
It's Led Zepplin's Physical Graffiti double album.
It hit the street in early '75 and it's great.

Tesseract!

Heavy groovey guitars and rhythms and gorgeous clean vocals.

In comment 13987470 732NYG said:

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Periphery, as someone said before. Veil of Maya. Animals and Leaders Really good prog/djent Metal with less death metal type vocals.

I second this list, and add Tesseract!

In comment 13987582 mrvax said:

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the 1st album considered to be "heavy metal"? It's Led Zepplin's Physical Graffiti double album. It hit the street in early '75 and it's great.

I think you're missing the first five Black Sabbath albums (Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Volume 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) all which came out before 1974

fits what you were asking for Dave. Not mainstream and no screaming. One of the best guitarists in the world too. Oh and they will be at the Starland Ballroom in August.
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In comment 13987094 Larry in Pencilvania said:

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And I just saw the Fort Rock Festival with 95% of bands I never heard other than Ozzy and STP. There's a lot of good music out there. Godsmack Five Finger Death Punch Sevendust Texas Hippie Coalition Shinedown Stone Sour Avatar Hatebreed Breaking Benjamain And those are just the ones I remember from the festival and I tell you I had an awesome time and I didn't know any of the songs. Sorry LauderdaleMatty but I saw Avenge Sevenfold for free and they had to be the shittiest band I've ever seen. You'd have to pay me to stand through that drivel again

Haha All good. I'm of your generation and wish i could have gone to that show you went to. Octane on Sirius has helped an old metal head like me find sme new stuff I love. As for Avenged 7X I got into their older stuff. Some songs I love and others hate. Don't like any of their new stuff Also some bands IMO just suck live. I guess they may be one of them

In comment 13987594 Larry in Pencilvania said:

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In comment 13987582 mrvax said: Quote: the 1st album considered to be "heavy metal"? It's Led Zepplin's Physical Graffiti double album. It hit the street in early '75 and it's great. I think you're missing the first five Black Sabbath albums (Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Volume 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) all which came out before 1974

Hey Larry, you could be right. I'm going off of what critics and my ears said years ago. When I was young, I heard only radio songs of Black Sabbath. Then a little older I LOVED Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman. Sucks about young Randy Rhoads. He was amazing.

BTW: I was born in 1960, you?

In comment 13987650 LauderdaleMatty said:

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In comment 13987094 Larry in Pencilvania said: Quote: And I just saw the Fort Rock Festival with 95% of bands I never heard other than Ozzy and STP. There's a lot of good music out there. Godsmack Five Finger Death Punch Sevendust Texas Hippie Coalition Shinedown Stone Sour Avatar Hatebreed Breaking Benjamain And those are just the ones I remember from the festival and I tell you I had an awesome time and I didn't know any of the songs. Sorry LauderdaleMatty but I saw Avenge Sevenfold for free and they had to be the shittiest band I've ever seen. You'd have to pay me to stand through that drivel again Haha All good. I'm of your generation and wish i could have gone to that show you went to. Octane on Sirius has helped an old metal head like me find sme new stuff I love. As for Avenged 7X I got into their older stuff. Some songs I love and others hate. Don't like any of their new stuff Also some bands IMO just suck live. I guess they may be one of them

I flew down to FORT Lauderdale and went with my buddy and his ten year old son. The festival was at Markham Park. We made our way to the front for each show and had a great time. I love going to metal shows. Last year i flew down for Metallica at Hard Rock Stadium.

I'm getting ready to see Deep Purple & Judas Priest here in Philly and then Glenn Hughes Classic Deep Purple show all in the same weekend

Some have been mentioned. Some not.
Agreed on the Volbeat and the Five Finger Death Punch.

Stone Sour (Corey Taylor is one of the best vocalists around. Check out Tired)
Avenged Sevenfold (Hommage to Metallica with This means war)
Korn Every album is very different
Lacuna Coil (Nothing stands in our way)
Amaranthe ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdyExxpd3Pg )
Ghost (Very different and fresh sounding check our Square Hammer)
Shinedown (all of it)
Greta Van Fleet (Second coming of Led Zepplin)
Queensryche All of it. With the old and the new singer. Operation Mindcrime..... Kings of prog metal IMO
Trivium (Silence in the snow)
Sevendust ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-eJRpfbXs )
Alter Bridge all of it
Corrosion of Conformity (New album is amazing)
Killswitch Engage ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn3WKmyprEo )
Disturbed - The Light (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LypjOTTH6E ) and of course their absolutely incredible version of The Sound Of Silence

Honorable mention to WASP because the The Crimson Idol is one of the greatest concept albums ever made.

In comment 13987673 mrvax said:

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In comment 13987594 Larry in Pencilvania said: Quote: In comment 13987582 mrvax said: Quote: the 1st album considered to be "heavy metal"? It's Led Zepplin's Physical Graffiti double album. It hit the street in early '75 and it's great. I think you're missing the first five Black Sabbath albums (Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Volume 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) all which came out before 1974 Hey Larry, you could be right. I'm going off of what critics and my ears said years ago. When I was young, I heard only radio songs of Black Sabbath. Then a little older I LOVED Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman. Sucks about young Randy Rhoads. He was amazing. BTW: I was born in 1960, you?

I was born in 68 so I wasn't old enough to enjoy the bands I love first hand. There was no Sabbath on the radio just my friends and my records

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In comment 13987793 Larry in Pencilvania said:

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Hey Larry, you could be right. I'm going off of what critics and my ears said years ago. When I was young, I heard only radio songs of Black Sabbath. Then a little older I LOVED Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman. Sucks about young Randy Rhoads. He was amazing. BTW: I was born in 1960, you? I was born in 68 so I wasn't old enough to enjoy the bands I love first hand. There was no Sabbath on the radio just my friends and my records

I remember most of the Sabbath fans were just a little older than me.

and he had and older brother. He turned me onto those bands. His brother took us to the Philly Spectrum in 85 to see Deep Purple. I had some friends that took me in 86 to se Faux Sabbath with WASP and Anthrax. It wasn't until 1992 when I saw Sabbath for real with Dio singing. That was a killer show. I eventually saw Ozzy with Sabbath 3 times, but he's very limited in what he can and will do where Dio was open and songs changed setlists varied.

It sux that these guys got old and some died

is that there no more good, new rock groups where 1 or more band members are masters of their instruments.

At least we have access to 1000's of old albums.

In comment 13988059 mrvax said:

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is that there no more good, new rock groups where 1 or more band members are masters of their instruments. At least we have access to 1000's of old albums.

For the most part you are spot on. Still. There are some fantastic players out there now.

Granted. They have been around since the 90's. However. You should check out Sevendust. Morgan Rose is one of the great drummers out there right now, and Clint Lowery is a phenomenal guitarist.

In comment 13987479 Larry in Pencilvania said:

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In comment 13987309 Steve L said: Quote: If you haven’t already...listen to every Fucking Maiden album ever. They are the best metal band ever. I still say Sabbath is the best metal band ever. I was listening to Heaven and Hell Follow the Tears on the way to work and all I could say is damn that's fucking Black Sabbath. It was heavier than God is Dead which followed it in the playlist and to me sounds more Sabbath. As far as Maiden goes they lost me after Seventh Son. IMHO everything they did up to Powerslave are metal masterpieces. Mark as far as Sevendust goes I listened to one song before the festival and I hated it. The production was terrible and made everything sound thin and overproduced. Fast forward to the show and they just put on a killer show with songs full of crunch that made me a fan and I added their music to my playlist. A great band to rock out to

Seventh Son was their last great album, I know Fear of the Dark sold very well, but Dickinson's voice was misused. Brave New World was really good after they got back together. Maiden is still my favorite band of all time. And yes, Powerslave is an awesome album, their best in my opinion.The song that got me hooked on them was Hallowed Be Thy Name, I loved it the first time I heard it!! Up The Irons!!

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