BoldEnglishman
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I've been listening to metal music since my mid-teens (so a year or two before I registered here actually), and since then have embraced the metal lifestyle. I am a bit of a genre-nerd, but at the same time I do draw a line somewhere - some so-called 'sub-genres' are just ridiculous.
Currently I mainly listen to older music, as I decided a good place to start finding more great metal music was the very pioneers of the various sub-genres. I've also been to various metal festivals for a few years now (planning on going to both Bloodstock and Hellfest this year so far), and go to concerts every so often.
I like to think that I like a bit of everything metal has to offer. The only genres you could say I dislike (meaning I simply don't listen to them because they don't do anything for me) are nu-metal, glam metal, the "New Wave of American Metal" (the likes of Killswitch Engage, Five Finger Death Punch, Chimaera etc.) most crossover thrash and most grindcore. I also don't particularly like "djent" either. Generally I tend to lean towards "extreme metal".
Yes this was a lot of effort to put together, but I've presently got nothing to do so what the hell.
Traditional metal / hard rock:
- Deep Purple
- Led Zeppelin
- Black Sabbath (seen Ozzy live, almost counts :P)
- Queen (there early-mid '70s work certainly qualifies)
- Judas Priest (seen this band)
- Rainbow
- Dio
- Heaven and Hell
NWOBHM:
- Motorhead (seen this band)
- Saxon
- Iron Maiden
- Diamond Head
- Angel Witch (seen this band)
Power/folk metal:
- Manowar
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Helloween (seen this band)
- Blind Guardian (seen this band)
- Iced Earth (seen this band)
- Mercyful Fate (musically I don't think they sound all that different from a lot of the NWOBHM, though others would label them as part of the "first wave" of black metal)
- King Diamond (seen this band)
- Demons and Wizards
- Gamma Ray (seen this band)
- Sabaton (seen this band)
- Alestorm (seen this band)
- Falconer
- Eluveitie (seen this band)
- Korpiklaani (seen this band)
- Turisas (seen this band)
- Skyclad
Thrash metal (arguably my favourite sub-genre, though it entirely depends on my mood):
- Metallica
- Slayer (will be seeing this band later this year... so fucking excited!)
- Anthrax
- Megadeth (seen this band)
- Pantera
- Exodus (seen this band)
- Overkill (seen this band)
- Kreator (seen this band)
- Destruction (seen this band)
- Sodom (seen this band)
- Sepultura (seen this band)
- Testament (seen this band)
- Death Angel (seen this band)
- Venom
- Hellhammer
- Celtic Frost
- Annihilator
- Skeletonwitch (seen this band)
- Coroner
- Evile (seen this band)
- Municipal Waste
- Metal Church
- Artillery
- Tankard
- Forbidden
- Stormtroopers of Death
- Flotsam and Jetsam
- Dark Angel
- Heathen
- Toxik
- Sabbat
- Nuclear Assault
- Morbid Saint
- Vio-lence
- Fear Factory (more industrial metal, but I put them here because I don't really listen to any other industrial metal so...)
Death metal:
- Possessed (seen this band)
- Death
- Morbid Angel (seen this band)
- Obituary (seen this band)
- Cannibal Corpse (seen this band)
- Deicide
- Vader (seen this band)
- Nile (seen this band)
- Cynic (very progressive metal as well)
- Behemoth (seen this band)
- Bloodbath
- Septicflesh (seen this band)
- Necrophagist
- Decapitated (seen this band)
- Obscura
- Suffocation (seen this band)
- Bolt Thrower
- Napalm Death (mainly grindcore but same reason as Fear Factory above)
- Fleshgod Apocalypse
- Atheist (also very progressive metal)
- Anaal Nathrakh (same as Napalm Death above, seen them as well)
Black metal (my other favourite sub-genre):
- Bathory
- Mayhem (seen this band)
- Darkthrone
- Immortal (seen this band)
- Satyricon (seen this band)
- Enslaved (seen this band)
- Gorgoroth (seen this band)
- Emperor
- Dimmu Borgir (seen this band)
- Cradle of Filth (seen this band)
- Dark Funeral (seen this band)
- Ihsahn
- Primordial (seen this band)
- Dissection
- Belphegor (will be seeing this band later this year)
- Agalloch
- Burzum
- Alcest (seen this band)
- Summoning
- Ulver (most of their work isn't black metal at all, but I guess you could argue they're still philosophically/spiritually black metal)
- Windir
- Shining (seen this band)
- Samael
- Drudkh
- Watain (seen this band)
- Old Man's Child
- Wolves in the Throne Room
- Carpathian Forest
- Blut Aus Nord
- Negura Bunget
- Dark Fortress (seen this band)
- Akercocke
- A Forest of Stars
- Aura Noir
- Wodensthrone
- Saturnian -- friend's band from university, hence the link. Check them out if you like your Symphonic black metal.
- Aklash -- band that I'm in, hence the link. For fans of more atmospheric black metal.
Doom metal:
- Witchfinder General
- Trouble
- Candlemass (will be seeing this band later this year)
- Cathedral
- Electric Wizard (seen this band)
- Katatonia (seen this band)
- Anathema (seen this band)
- Swallow the Sun (seen this band)
- Pentagram (seen this band)
- Saint Vitus
- Grand Magus (seen this band)
- Pagan Altar
Progressive metal:
- Rush
- Savatage
- Queensryche
- Fates Warning
- Voivod
- Dream Theater (seen this band)
- Opeth (seen this band)
- Gojira (seen this band)
- Symphony X (seen this band)
- Evergrey
- Ayreon
- Devin Townsend
- Control Denied
- Periphery (seen this band)
- Star One
- Threshold (seen this band)
- Liquid Tension Experiment
- Office of Strategic Influence
Melodic death metal:
- Amon Amarth (seen this band)
- Amorphis (seen this band)
- Insomnium (seen this band)
Extreme power/folk metal (iffy sub-genre I know, but I think it's the best way to describe the following bands):
- Children of Bodom (seen this band)
- Wintersun (seen this band)
- Ensiferum (seen this band)
- Finntroll (seen this band)
- Moonsorrow (also very progressive metal in a way, also seen this band)
- Equilibrium
- Orphaned Land (seen this band)
I'm also a big '70s progressive rock nerd, but that's an entirely different story.
EDIT: Forget spoilers don't condense the text like they do at the ZDoom forums, sorry for the huge wall of text people!
Last edited by BoldEnglishman on 02-20-13 at 21:38
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