best metal bands??

[+SAM+]

Originally Posted by UV-7-BK

Arch Enemy......even their t-shirts say 'PURE F*CKING METAL' .....nuff said

I can imagine some dumbass fans walking around with a stainless steel shirt lmao!



CONCERTO MOON, DOUBLE DEALER

Bands that cannot be defeated.

[Magical Muffin]

Originally Posted by DEADTUNES666

Obviously Pop Metal's my thang...

Scorpions
Dokken
White Lion
Ratt
Kiss
Danger Danger
Stryper
XYZ
Krokus
Iron Maiden
Twisted Sister
Ozzy Osbourne
Savatage
Quiet Riot
Queensryche
Alice Cooper
Poison
Judas Priest
Motley Crue
Ted Nugent
Night Ranger
Megadeth
AC/DC
House Of Lords/Giuffria
Whitesnake
Dio

No offense but the vast majority of those bands are either hard rock or glam, etc. Not everything with a distorted guitar from the 80's was/is metal.

The only guys I'd consider 'metal' from that list would be Megadeth, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, and Motley Crue (just barely though).



Some of my personal favs are The Faceless, Five Finger Death Punch, Gojira, Dethklok, Powerglove, Trivium, as well as most of the bands mentioned here already.

[eviltwin]

Originally Posted by Magical Muffin

No offense but the vast majority of those bands are either hard rock or glam, etc. Not everything with a distorted guitar from the 80's was/is metal.

The only guys I'd consider 'metal' from that list would be Megadeth, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, and Motley Crue (just barely though).

it's not my kind of metal, or yours apparently, but you will have to accept that a lot of those band are indeed glam *metal* or hair *metal*, so they do qualify as metal, especially as the poster says he likes pop metal.

And older bands like Scorpions, Dokken, Witesnake, AC/DC have actually defined what is Heavy Metal, you may want to label them Hard Rock. But even if you don't care for them, it would still be silly to ignore them, or berate someone for calling them metal.

In much the same way that Pop can refer to Britney Spears, Bon Jovi or the Beatles...

[SonicProvocateur]

Between the Buried and Me
Dream Theater
Lamb of God
Through The Eyes of the Dead
Opeth
Necrophagist
Mastodon
Protest the Hero
The Human Abstract
Meshuggah
The Chariot
Behold...The Arctopus


I've been kind of getting into Cephalic Carnage lately, but im still not entirely sold on some of it...oh and Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza...pretty heavy stuff...I have very mixed loves for metal, from the extreme to the blunt force; like The Chariot, but if you live here in the south and see The Chariot, its just one of those things.

[j.t..i.]

Darkthrone (last 2 albums 'dark thrones and black flags' 'FOAD' pure metal)
Enslaved (check out the new album 'vertebrae' and 'Mardraum' is killer)

some of the best riffs youll ever hear


if you're not farmiliar with these bands, give them a listen. ESPECIALLY ENSLAVED "MARDRAUM"!!!!!

[Magical Muffin]

Originally Posted by eviltwin

it's not my kind of metal, or yours apparently, but you will have to accept that a lot of those band are indeed glam *metal* or hair *metal*, so they do qualify as metal, especially as the poster says he likes pop metal.

And older bands like Scorpions, Dokken, Witesnake, AC/DC have actually defined what is Heavy Metal, you may want to label them Hard Rock. But even if you don't care for them, it would still be silly to ignore them, or berate someone for calling them metal.

In much the same way that Pop can refer to Britney Spears, Bon Jovi or the Beatles...

I very much understand what you say, but the way I personally see it when it comes to classifying bands like Deadtunes did is kind of like saying Coldplay is rock. Some people might see it like that way but I just don't think that they fit that description (I'm pretty sure they even said they weren't really rock when they won the Rock Album Grammy).


That being said, classifying bands into genres is a pretty fudged topic. Some bands fall under around nearly 10 different genres in wikipedia (even if most of them are pretty much completely wrong), so it's more or less pointless to argue about this thing.

And finally someone who likes behold the arctopus, lol!

[Draco]

One can never go wrong with Meshuggah...they are just a beast of a band.

[TAorama]

It just depends on what the individual thinks of as 'metal.' My list would be about the same as DeadTunes. I think of heavier bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Dethklok, Sepultura, Necrophagist, etc., more as "thrash" or "industrial" or "black" metal. You can't say, "Oh, those hair bands aren't metal!" because everyone perceives metal as something different. I listen to a lot of "hair metal" so to me, that IS metal. You listen to Deathklok, so to you, the definition of metal is something much heavier.

It's ALL metal, just different branches of the same family tree.

[BeboRock91]

Dream Theater
Circus Maximus
Tool
Opeth
Death
Protest The Hero
Meshuggah
Lamb Of God
Angra
Symphony X
Arch Enemy
Cynic

[BeboRock91]

I forgot Divine Heresy

[Homebake]

i've recently gotten into meshuggah. those guys are ****ing brutal man, awesome ****.

but my favourite is tool. i really love how they are really spiritual about their music.

[Timbaline]

I'm probably going to add more as soon as I remember them... Anyways, for now:
Scale the Summit
Dream Theater
Angra
Dethklok
Rhapsody (of fire)
Nevermore
Megadeth
Racer X
Dragonforce
Mastodon
W.A.S.P.
Alice Cooper
Quiet Riot
Winger
Dokken
White Snake
Cacophony
White Lion
Steel Panther
Naoto Project Storm Rider
Dreamquest
Danger Danger
Poison
Alcatrazz
Faster Pu**ycat (the name gets censored on jemsite.)
Britny Fox
Iron Maiden
Twisted Sister
Stryper
Nightrider
Amon Amarth
Between The Buried and Me

[decypher]

watchtower, opeth, fates warning, king diamond / mercyful fate, voivod, titan force, heir apparent, crimson glory (...), shadow gallery, sieges even, iron maiden, dream theater, cynic, realm, spiral architect, anacrusis and stuff like that

I liked the 80s...

[Yousef]

Symphony X and Iced Earth.

[IBNZ_RG]

DEATH!!!!! CHUCK IS GOD!!!!