Yeah 🤘
My favorite music as of late is Sleep. Headphones recommended.
Recently I like me some classic Grand Magus.
Finally, my normal friends just can't appreciate Bears!
Sleep and (old) Grand Magus, heck yeah! What do you think of Electric Wizard, if I might ask? Dopethrone is the heaviest album of all time, in my unimportant opinion.
Doom metal, yeah I like it all
The pure heaviest album all time is, I think, Satan Worshipping Doom... Bongripper - Worship
It's a good one for sure! I'll put a link too in the hope of luring some more people in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaMbKZPBruU
Also, I forgot to mention Acoustic Wizard, the equally awesome EW cover band
Would you believe me if I told you I read your message while listening to that terrific album?
Also, great name for a cover band 😂
I'm glad to hear it!
That band dooms like few bands have ever doomed before. So good and so crushing live.
I just checked them out on Spotify and their discography is hilariously messed up
Al Cisneros looking furrier every year
Yep this happens like once a month for a few days. I believe the same thing happens to a bunch of bands on Spotify with generic names.
Sleep is the shit. I was supposed to see them last year but they cancelled their show. Hopefully they go on tour again at some point
Hell yes! So happy to find some other metalheads here. I’m sort of “basic”, I guess, in terms of my metal tastes. I haven’t been able to get into any harsh vocals. I can get into Mastodon’s harsh vocals and enjoy some of Gojira and Opeth. But other than that, I’ve never had harsh vocals “click” for me.
So I mainly love and always listen to Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and Megadeth…NWOBHM stuff mainly. But I want to branch out and get into some newer stuff.
Recently I’ve enjoyed the latest releases from Blood Ceremony, Blood Star and Oozing Wound. Sleep is pretty cool, and I enjoyed Thrice’s newest release.
So I’m interested in finding some new music to check out with you fine folks!
Nice pick! My favorite metal is folk and/or symphonic influenced:
Nine Treasures - Bodhicitta
Flesh Juicer - 虎爺
Krampus - Tears of Stone
Aephanemer - Dissonance Within
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Micro-aggressions by animals as leaders is fucking nuts, but everyone looks st me funny when I play it
I like a lot of what I consider 'classic' metal, which I hope is not offensive. Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Dio, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin. I like a lot of nu metal too, I hope that doesn't get me banned.
I'd like to try more, I think it's just the extreme varieties I can't really get into.
Ideally, I'd love it if we curbed the gatekeeping and "nu metal isn't metal" circlejerk here before it has a chance to start
First one to start the 'nu metal isn't metal' brigade gets my nu foot up their ass lol.
Nu-metal gets a bad wrap, but without it, modern metal wouldn't be what it is.
It is really great to hear this community is more open, it put me off sharing metal tastes in the past.
Also turns out I listen to way more power metal than I thought. Started a power metal playlist and recognised loads of bands.
Veil of Maya always struck me as quite an eclectic band. Love their stuff!
My favourite songs by preferred bands are -
Fear Factory / Slave Labor
Amon Amarth / Twilight of the Thunder God
Although I'm loving Wind Rose at the moment. It's just got that perfect amount of Power Cheese!
Can't have a favorite song but probably my favorite metal album still is Trivium's The Sin and the Sentence. It's got nice mix of influences from various metal substyles. Probably my first "real" metal album as well since I listened more to fusions genres.
Trivium is awesome! I saw them open for Iron Maiden last year. I need to explore their discography more.
I am. First post.
I threw We Butter The Bread With Butter - Fall on my Surfans this week at work. When it played, I was glad I did.
I'm basic and most of my favorite metal is pretty accessible. That being said, there's a couple I don't usually play for my friends:
Yodh - Mizmor
Converge, in general
Meshuggah, in general
Long time metalhead here, refugee from reddit, ofc. I've never listened to Veil of Maya before, but I dug this track, so thanks for sharing. Personally I'm a big fan of classic, symphonic, and power metal, but I enjoy plenty of stuff in other sub-genres as well, depends on my mood. Glad to be here, and glad there are other metalheads around.
So many great songs to choose from, so I dont really have a favorite. One great song I just listened to is called Suicide Machine by Death.
I wouldn't call myself a metalhead, but I've been listening to Galneryus a lot lately (japanese powermetal). Any recommendations?
Love Galneryus, check out some of the classic western power metal bands like Blind Guardian, or modern prog metal bands for the instrumental complexity.
Gastronomicon by Slugdge, the mollusc-themed death metal band that is far, far better than it has any right to be
So I know this comment's kinda old but I just got here lol. I'm a stoner/doom guy but I got recommended Slugdge recently and they kicked my ass. Esoteric Malacology really did it for me
Not my favorite of all time but every time I discover some ridiculously heavy and awesome song like Strangled - Defect I'm sad that I can't share it with any of my friends.
I'm here from r/progmetal, and like many people there my favourite album is still Odyssey to the West by Slice The Cake. It's a prog-tech-death concept album with deeply poetic lyrics and the soundscape is just amazing.
I have listened to and went to a lot of metal concerts. I tend to gravitate towards symphonic metal, with Epica being my favorite.
I have recently been trying to diversify and, in the process, found a lot of great new and old music to enjoy outside the genre too.
I liked to share IGNEA they are evidently Ukrainian. IGNEA — Alga (Official Video) / symphonic metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KOXbzMRQHs
Oh yeah
I hope it‘s okay if I post a link of my playlist from SoundCloud.
Hey I just joined Lemmy recently since I’m trying to get away from Reddit. Part of what I miss is the music communities for finding recs and concert dates.
Would anyone be interested if I made a space for Metal? Or maybe a more mature one already exists? I haven’t made one yet but I could figure it out!
I haven’t heard of Veil of Maya so I’ll give them a bash today.
The metal I’ve listened to has narrowed over the years but I love Gojira and a bunch of instrumental metal bands (rediscovered Deathmole recently and the track “No thanks” goes hard. Also a massive fan of Genghis Tron – every track on their album Board up the house is incredible.
Turns out most of my friends are not into grindcore nor do they appreciate me sharing said music.
Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza is another that is such an excellent song but my non-metal friends just hear noise.
I did get the wife to listen to The Chariot but I think that was about her limit.
A pal of mine set up !rabm@sh.itjust.works for red and anarchist black metal
I just discovered that community on Reddit a few weeks before the blackout, after I realized everybody on r/blackmetal was very defensive of their favorite Nazi bands.
It's nice to have a community to find bm bands whose values align with mine, and whose music still reminds me that existence is bleak and meaningless /s
Wouldn't call myself a metalhead, but Lord of the Lost is one of the bands I like that's a bit harder to share with others
For sure! Metal head to the max. I remember being younger and my folks being adamant about metal music "being a phase" that I'd grow out of. Yeah right.
A song that I can't just share with people outside of metal is Rings of Saturn - Mental Prolapse. I remember hearing this a when it came out, and blasting it non-stop for weeks. I was getting death stares at work, but didn't mind.
Please don't take offense, because I mean this as a compliment: this sounds like the music from F-Zero if it were metal. I kinda love it for that!
Oh, for sure! We even call it nintendo metal at home.
Reddit refugee - So I think I might be considered a baby metal head, though I just started getting into this genre. I'm guessing that what I've been listening to is more "light metal" but I have no idea
I had never listened to metal before and always though it was too screamy, but I let youtube music autoplay do it's thing, and it has somehow played some songs that I genuinely really, really dig
It started by playing me Sabaton, but I've somehow veered towards artists like Beast in Black - it seems more melodic?
Some of my favorites so far are:
I'm not sure why, but I think I've seen some judgments against people who listen to these bands. Maybe they're overrated or not the real deal or the stereotypical "starter metal bands"? Either way, as a musician (Violist in orchestras) I love how these songs have a tune to them and are melodic. I tend to veer away if it's too monotone or screamy, but I'm open to more suggestions :)
My wife, who is not a metal head, was amazed to discover the vast number of sub-genres within the broader metal community. Like what you like, other people can like what they like and that's ok!
As a classically trained musician, have you looked into Tool at all? Their song construction is amazingly complex and fascinating.
Yeah like I honestly had no idea! I thought it was just like screamo but with some more tune and less screamy, but a lot of it I'm really enjoying a lot!
I haven't looked into Tool yet, I know of it, but I'll give it a listen! I'm a sucker for blasting Beast in Black going home on the garden state parkway lmao
Edit: Checked out Tool, sounds good, but maybe not as "hype" as what I'm looking for? I just searched for a community "best of" playlist. Found Schism, which I remember from playing guitar hero lol
Sabaton is great, I started listening to them years before I really got into metal. All those bands you listed are considered "power metal". I think it might be the best sub-genre to begin acclimating with, because it's so melodic and there aren't a lot of harsh sounds.
You might also like doom metal, which I'd consider to be a bit heavier (thought the bands vary greatly), but still primarily focused on melody, with lots of clean vocals. Here are some bands I like, and I'll link to one song on YouTube for each:
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