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The Rock/Metal Thread
We must have some metalheads on here surely, come on name some albums or bands we'll get a chat going..
Master of Puppets - Metallica - This album is what got me into the heavier stuff I love almost all Ozzy/Dio Black Sabbath, plus Headless Cross with Tony Martin Plus I like some of the new bands coming out of the UK at the moment, (bar the hot-topic ones) I could go heavier i.e Napalm Death / Meshuggah So go go go (please?) |
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One metal head right here
![]() At the moment I am mostly listening to DevilDrive, Mastadon, Gallows and Children of Bodom. Oh, also like a little bit of Hatebreed at times! What is your most rated album at the moment? How did you get into Metal/Rock to begin with? For me it would be listening to Paranoid after being told it was evil, as for most people that was the main reason I wanted it. |
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I'm a metalhead. Have been since 1976. It started with Rainbow Rising. A schoolmate of mine lived very close to school. During lunchbreak we would go to his house and listen to some music. My mate acted like some manic DJ. Putting on 15 records in 30 minutes every time. He was very much into Ritchie Blackmore, so there was a lot of Deep Purple and Rainbow going on. And of course all the other 70's classics. Status Quo, Uriah Heep, Triumph, BTO, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy and AC/DC. He indoctrinated me very effectiveley.
In later years he moved towards rock and bluesrock. But I stuck to hardrock and metal. People always said that my taste in music would mellow, but that never happened. 70's hardrock, power metal and symfo metal are my favourite subgenres. My favourite bands: 1. Thin Lizzy 2. Savatage 3. Uriah Heep 4. Rainbow/DIO 5. Deep Purple Apart from Rainbow, I've seen them all live. I love to go to concerts. My favourite albums: 1. Thin Lizzy - Bad reputation (my first own album) 2. Savatage - Streets, a rock opera 3. Deep Purple - Machinehead 4. AC/DC - Highway to hell 5. Rainbow - Rising My favourite tracks: 1. Thin Lizzy - Suicide 2. Savatage - Hounds 3. Manowar - Call to arms At the moment I'm listening to the album Festival by Jon Oliva's Pain. As Savatage is put on hold indefinetely, it's the next best thing. |
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Hopefully this thread will grow and last!
The very first record I ever bought was Fireball by Deep Purple. I cannot remember how old I was - 10?. It cost the princely sum of 45p. Bloody ell - considering how old I am that was over 40 years ago. The first album I bought was Passion Play by Jethro Tull. That cost all of £2.38. Happy days! I have always liked Deep Purple especially the earlier stuff. There is some great stuff on Youtube - in particular a live version of Lazy from the Machine Head tour. It must be around 1974? Just out of interest would Dr Feelgood be ok in this thread? Is their music considered rock? I just found this great live track. Well worth a listen too I think! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxgQzpWzrkU |
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First record for me was Master of Puppets, nicked it off my Mum who in the early to mid 80s was a Metalhead - song writing is just sublime and very melodic, fell in love since.
Then around 2004/5 I got into Meshuggah, Nothing is a great record I must admit along with the most recent, obZen. |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BkhtJM8CqE Still ever as glorious 40 years on.. |
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Nothing is as expressive, powerful and yet intelligent and profound as rock/metal music.
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I'm into classic rock (and especially prog) more than metal, but any form of rock can't be beaten, in my opinion.
(Unless you count Maiden, Saxon, Magnum et al as metal, I would class them more as heavy rock myself.) Rock is the only type of music I listen to, or want to hear, these days. |
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More into my Punk Rock/Pop Punk/Alternate Rock.
Not such a fan of metal. |
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For me, the best metal band currently playing and doing new stuff are Mastodon. Come on, within the space of one song, they can do EVERY KIND OF METAL EVER! Only louder. And with better drums.
Then there's Boris. They do the same awesome thing, only sound nothing like them. Classic bands? Motorhead. The best live band EVER. Black Sabbath. Just AWESOME. At the moment, I'm really into stoner and doom stuff. Electric Wizard, Sunn0))), OM, Burning Witch, Khanate... I love this thread. There's not enough F*CK YEAH METAL on DS. |
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My first metal album was Among the Living by Anthrax.
I've enjoyed all sorts of metal/ hard rock since then, I still love my old stuff, like Kill em all / MoP, I saw mastadon live last year (supporting metallica) and I wasn't that impressed. Avenged sevenfold kicked ass though. |
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I am another rock/metal fan. My first band I got into was Queen, but friends got me onto Iron Maiden, Led Zep, Deep Purple, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses, Dio, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Metallica, Megadeth, Alice Cooper, Anthrax, Helloween, Dokken, Dragonforce, Europe, Bon Jovi, Extreme, Fish, Fleetwood Mac, Motley Crue, Van Halen and Whitesnake.
Now I own albums from all the above, but recently in the last few years I have moved into Prog Rock with Rush, Dream Theater, Genesis, Marillion, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Focus 8, Transatlantic, Mullmuzzler (James LaBrie band) and Winter Rose (James LaBrie's first band). |
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So many bands,mostly old school.
Savatage Rainbow Dio Sabbath Crimson Glory Motley crue Maiden metallica Hammerfall IcedEarth HIM Ratt Poison Evanescence Within Temptation Cinderella Ozzy etc.. |
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Absolutely love Metallica - if not for them, I probably wouldn't be into music of any kind. Master Of Puppets and Justice are up there as my favourite albums of all time. Also got a lot of love for Iron Maiden. For my money one of the most consistently great bands ever - the first seven albums are an astonishing run of genius.
Alice In Chains are also awesome - straddled the line between heavy metal and alt-rock in the 90's, and even in their reincarnated version in recent years, they still rock. |
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Metalhead calling in here! Not as old as some of the posters here (only 20) but love the old classics. Started off getting into hard-rock stuff like Guns N' Roses (my favourite band), AC/DC etc. then onto Metallica (whom I've seen live twice), Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Dio, Deep Purple, Trouble, Black Label Society, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Led Zeppelin, Rage Against The Machine, the list goes on.
![]() In terms of new bands to check out, here's a few recommendations: - The Answer (especially for fans of Led Zep) - Airbourne - Trouble (actually one of the first doom metal bands, but hardly anyone has heard of them! Psalm 9 = one of the purest heavy-metal records ever) - Wolfmother - Alestorm - Wolf - Bullet - Edguy - Volbeat |
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For me, the best metal band currently playing and doing new stuff are Mastodon. Come on, within the space of one song, they can do EVERY KIND OF METAL EVER! Only louder. And with better drums. Sunn o))) Glorious band they are indeed!Then there's Boris. They do the same awesome thing, only sound nothing like them. Classic bands? Motorhead. The best live band EVER. Black Sabbath. Just AWESOME. At the moment, I'm really into stoner and doom stuff. Electric Wizard, Sunn0))), OM, Burning Witch, Khanate... I love this thread. There's not enough F*CK YEAH METAL on DS. Not sure how people are on the drone/doom but one of the White albums (White2 I think) was voted one of the heaviest albums of all time.. Quote:
More into my Punk Rock/Pop Punk/Alternate Rock. Don't matter, some aspects of metal came from Punk, so whatever floats your boat.
Not such a fan of metal. |
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Black Sabbath
Poison Green Day Sex Pistols Breaking Benjamin Alterbridge Buckcherry My Chemical Romance Metallica Slipnot We Are The Fallen - Made up from former members of Evanesence. Within Temptation Evanesence Seether Kamelot Disturbed Marylin Manson Godhead Terrorvision Bowling For Soup Iron Maiden Rammstein All I can say is roll on end of July for Sonisphere .
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Not sure how people are on the drone/doom but one of the White albums (White2 I think) was voted one of the heaviest albums of all time..
I like quite a lot of metal bands: some of the femme-rock symphonic gang like Lacuna Coil and Sirenia; Isis and post-metal instrumental stuff like Pelican; In This Moment, Bleeding Through, some Metallica and from the archives, some Thin Lizzy. |
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Femme rock? How on Earth did that make it to being counted as a genre
? I'm assuming it covers every band with a female vocalist, but that means Nightwish, Arch Enemy, Bikini Kill, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and The Birthday Massacre all end up in the same category, which makes no sense at all.![]() Do we need to single out female-fronted bands, anyway? I've never understood why people make such a fuss about women in rock/metal. Anyway, digressions aside... I really like Marilyn Manson's old stuff as well, although I agree that they've lost their way in recent years. The last album was better than its predecessor (possibly thanks to Twiggy), but I found it a bit tired and repetitive- there wasn't anything on it that they haven't done before. |
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Do we need to single out female-fronted bands, anyway? I've never understood why people make such a fuss about women in rock/metal.
Genres in metal can be quite confusing. |
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Someone called it that the other week. I was just using a shorthand term for that particular brand of symphonic (I think?) metal with a clean/operatic female vocal. I wasn't lumping all female-fronted metal bands together.
Genres in metal can be quite confusing. Genres in anything can be confusing- but yeah, metal's bad for it. I've seen entire flame wars started because two people couldn't decide whether a particular band was Black metal or Vampyric Gothic metal.
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For me, the best metal band currently playing and doing new stuff are Mastodon. Come on, within the space of one song, they can do EVERY KIND OF METAL EVER! Only louder. And with better drums.
![]() I'm teasing, Mastodon have a huge future, I first saw them supporting Tool @ 4 years ago and you could tell then there was something about them. Huge Metal & Prog fan here, the list would be very long if I included them all!!!!!! i was fortunate to get in to music in the late '70s so I saw bands like Motorhead & Maiden when they pretty much first started. I love the "usual" suspects, I suppose, the likes of... Iron Maiden JudasPriest Black Sabbath Rainbow AC/DC Metallica Scorpions Def Leppard Candlemass Celtic Frost But there are also some great new, and perhaps not so new, bands around... The Answer Black Stone cherry Nightwish Opeth Machine Head Dream Theater Avenged Sevenfold Magenta Touchstone The Reasoning Mostly Autumn Alice In Chains Tool - the best band I've seen live in the last 20 years!!! I'm going to both Sonisphere and High Voltage this summer and I can't wait - both line-ups look brilliant!!! |
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Tool are absolutely orgasmic live, and great song writers too, Stinkfist being my favourite tune of theirs
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Some of my friends like metal, I'm pretty open-minded so I gave it a chance and listened to quite a lot on YouTube like The Dillinger Escape Plan, Atreyu, Thursday etc.
I swear it's just noise. Just incoherent screaming, and bashing the shit out of drums. I like Rock though, you can actually hear and understand the lyrics. |
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