Best Metal Bands?

[minimatt1967]

Greetings children of the Korn, what I would like is for every one to discuss their favourite metal bands of all time and all so to suggest bands that fellow metallers might want to investigate further.

Let me start off the proceedings;
Some of my all time favourites,
Megadeth
Metallica
Pantera
Iron Maiden
Guns n Roses
Machine head

My current favourites
Lamb of God
Hell Yeah
Dimmu Borgir

Look Forward to your responses

Matt

[TimmerTVR]

Ooh this is a good topic, although the boff's may pick holes at the term "metal" for some bands.

I know i like:

Iron Maiden!!!
Metallica
Arch Enemy
Trivium (I don't care what people say)
Queensryche
In Flames
Helloween
Saxon
Guns N Roses
Iced Earth
Machine Head

and many many more.................

Edited by TimmerTVR on Tuesday 27th November 20:53

[DavidY]

Lamb of Mother*uck*** God (their words not mine), had the misfortune to see them support Heaven and Hell (1980s line up Black Sabbath) a coupleof weeks ago, what a load of complete shite

davidy (an ageing rocker, brought up on 'proper metal bands' like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, early Iron Maiden, etc and 'proper rock bands' like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rainbow, etc

[minimatt1967]

DavidY said:

Lamb of Mother*uck*** God (their words not mine), had the misfortune to see them support Heaven and Hell (1980s line up Black Sabbath) a coupleof weeks ago, what a load of complete shite

davidy (an ageing rocker, brought up on 'proper metal bands' like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, early Iron Maiden, etc and 'proper rock bands' like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rainbow, etc

Thats a fair point i was a little confused as to why they put them on the bill? I enjoyed them but I can understand why you didn't!!! Thanks for your opinion!

Minimatt likes & respects his classic rock!

Edited by minimatt1967 on Tuesday 27th November 21:02

[Negative Creep]

Depending on how broad your definition of metal is, I'd say my all time favourites would be

Metallica
Iron Maiden
System of a Down
Paradise Lost
Biohazard
Fear Factory
Nine Inch Nails
VNV Nation
Machine Head
Trivium
Slipknot


Getting heavy play at the moment
All that Remains
Within Temptation
Serj Tankian (System of a Down frontman)
It Dies Today
Swift
Chimaira

Edited by Negative Creep on Tuesday 27th November 21:04

[Hanslow]

Good (and bloody hard) question.

Covering ranges of distortion oriented music, in no particular order.

Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
Metallica
Megadeth
Anthrax
Helloween
Iron Maiden
Nuclear Assault
Fear Factory
Alice In Chains
Soundgarden
Slayer
Gary Moore
Ministry
Slipknot
Gravity Kills
WASP
Clawfinger
ACDC
Prong
White Zombie


Particular favourites Gravity Kills, Clawfinger, Metallica, Pantera
Apologies for the long list, so much good music! Just realised I'm firmly stuck in the 90s! The missus is into the likes of Arch Enemy, Trivium, and other new fandangled stuff... time for me to broaden my horizons....

Edited by Hanslow on Tuesday 27th November 21:49

[Kinky]

Oh, come on guys ..... how can you forget ......

Motorhead (original lineup with Philty and Fast Eddie)

And of coursehow could I not post on a thread like this and not mention Mamas Boys

K

[alman]

Slayer, Metallica, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Machine-ing-head (saw them yesterday actually-awesome) Anthrax, Motorhead, Sabbath. Lamb of God, Dragonforce and children of Bodom are good from the newer metal bands-too many bands i hear recently though will have awesome riffs and drums let down by a characterless constant growl instead of any form of real voice.

[smiller]

alman said:

Slayer, Metallica, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Machine-ing-head (saw them yesterday actually-awesome) Anthrax, Motorhead, Sabbath. Lamb of God, Dragonforce and children of Bodom are good from the newer metal bands-too many bands i hear recently though will have awesome riffs and drums let down by a characterless constant growl instead of any form of real voice.

You can thank, I think, Dimebag (RIP dude), Vinny J, Rex, and Phil for the current fascination with growling vocals with roaring, stomach churning riff and drum.

I like Pantera, BTW. "A New Level" is a particular favourite; "got shit on, pissed on, spit on, stepped on, ed with, and pointed at by lesser men"

Megadeth, Metallica, Zep, Sabbath, Soundgarden also good.

[PulsatingStar]

About time Death were mentioned.

[Kinky]

and Venom.

Raven. Saxon, etc, etc ......

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Tool

[clonmult]

Kinky said:

Oh, come on guys ..... how can you forget ......

Motorhead (original lineup with Philty and Fast Eddie)

And of coursehow could I not post on a thread like this and not mention Mamas Boys

K

And if you're bringing them up, got to mention Fast Eddies other band Fastway - saw them at the Hyde Park Calling, absolutely fantastic.

From last night, I'd definitely have to put Within Temptation up there. As well as Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, Placebo (okay, their more just rock?), Cradle of Filth, Angtoria .... just way too many to mention.

[RobM77]

When I'm in a metal mood I mostly listen to:

Metallica
Sepultura
Napalm Death
Machine Head
Fear Factory
Paradise Lost

[wasted years]

Gamma Ray
Anthrax
Bruce Dickinson
Dragonforce
X Japan

[chrisj]

Electric Wizard
Sloth
Crowbar
Solace
Archie Bunker
S Club 7

[clonmult]

chrisj said:

S Club 7

[alman]

smiller said:

alman said:

Slayer, Metallica, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Machine-ing-head (saw them yesterday actually-awesome) Anthrax, Motorhead, Sabbath. Lamb of God, Dragonforce and children of Bodom are good from the newer metal bands-too many bands i hear recently though will have awesome riffs and drums let down by a characterless constant growl instead of any form of real voice.

You can thank, I think, Dimebag (RIP dude), Vinny J, Rex, and Phil for the current fascination with growling vocals with roaring, stomach churning riff and drum.

I like Pantera, BTW. "A New Level" is a particular favourite; "got shit on, pissed on, spit on, stepped on, ed with, and pointed at by lesser men"

Megadeth, Metallica, Zep, Sabbath, Soundgarden also good.

Aii I can see where Pantera etc. have contributed to the growling but Phil's voice has got character-screams, growls, roars all different devices used in his singing. A lot of newer metal voices seem to be just a constant growl with no defining features IMO

[S7Paul]

In no particular order:

Black Sabbath
Heaven & Hell
Ozzy (solo stuff)
Iommi (solo stuff)
Metallica
Motorhead
Black Label Society
Stone Sour
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Led Zep
Faith No More
Velvet Revolver
Audioslave
Soundgarden
Black Stone Cherry
Korn
Coheed & Cambria
QOTSA (earlier stuff)
Hawkwind (early stuff)

Like many others, I just can't abide the shouty/growly vocals emitted by some neanderthal with all the charisma of a mic stand (yes, I too endured Lamb of God recently).

[minimatt1967]

clonmult said:

chrisj said:

S Club 7

yes s-club 7 are the dark lord masters/mistresses of metal...

Or am I getting confused with someone else

oh yes so I am