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Metal/Rock music suggestions / Favorite metal songs/artists/albums?

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I'm kinda curious to hear who are your favourite Rock/Metal artists.Mine are 5FDP,Rise Against and Disturbed.Also try to avoid Electronic,Alternative Rock etc.I want to see how many Metal fans are among the anime community.Oh and I'm happy to discuss any suggestions you have.See you in the posts below!

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LeadersasAnimals 10y
ANIMALS AS LEADERS.
- Taluun 10y
  Did... you make this account just to comment on this....
  
  That being said great band.
Edmond 10y
Some of my fav. bands are (only metal genre):

Dornenreich
Lunar Aurora
(Boris)
The Ruins of Beverast
Paysage d'Hiver
Nokturnal Mortum
Raventale
Chthonic
Summoning
Helrunar
Darkspace
Agrypnie
Agalloch
Aaskereia
Drudkh

None of it is similar to your taste (nu metal / alternativ metal ): But yeah, you can try Machine Head, Slipknot , Korn, DevilDriver, Soulfly etc.
You can also tryout some metal core stuff like ''As I lay dying '' since it comes pretty close to what you listen to. And also some thrash metal stuff like Sepultura, Slayer,Pantera etc.

Good Power Metal starting bands : HammerFall, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody of Fire or just (Nightwish).

Apocalyptica´s : ''Cult'', ''Reflections'' and'' inquisition symphony'' are pretty good as well.

Katatonia is also pretty easy to get in. start with the album : ''The Great Cold Distance''

Though nu metal, metal core (everything with core) and alternative metal are my least fav. metal subgenres.

Are you okay with growls / screams etc. ? If so ,then I can suggest you some folk- , pagan-, melodic death metal bands.
- Darkostis 10y
  Hmmm haven't heard most of your fav bands.No matter though I'll try listening to a couple of their songs.I'm mostly a heavy/groove metal fan but I don't really mind screams.Although I tend to stay away from death and black metal some suggestions won't be bad.I was actually going to start lestening to Slipknot and Machine Head anyway.The core stuff are slighty different but for some reason I can't really enjoy them.I have a feeling that you're gonna suggest a lot of bands so thanks in advance.
  Edmond 10y
  okay, you can also try out some sludge metal, like :
  
  Cult of Luna
  
  Terra Tenebrosa
  
  Post Rock (shoegaze/ post punk) :
  
  Amesoeurs
  
  Les Discrets
  
  Experim/ post rock :
  
  凛として時雨
  
  Shoegaze/ Post rock :
  
  Mono
  
  My Dead GirlFriend
  
  Wassermanns Fiebertraum
  
  And ofc, the best metal band out there : Babymetal
  Edmond 10y
  And I´m surprised no one called a visual kei band yet. Since this is an anime community site ^^.
  
  So here are some visual kei bands (and yes they look gay af -.-, but some bands have good songs)
  
  Dir en Grey
  Dir en Grey
  Dir en Grey < this one is their best song (my opinion)
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   UnsraW
  UnsraW
  Darkostis 10y
  Also I don't mind gay looks :D.Really though the name doesn't really matter if the songs are good.I'm starting to think that this post is far from anime.I was expecting some anime related suggestions sigh
  WolfOnTheStreet 5y
  Dir en Grey are a fantastic band! One of my all time faves!!!
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- Darkostis 10y
  Thanks I'll check them out later
Sub 10y

Also try to avoid Electronic,Alternative Rock etc.

And here I already tried to participate.
- Darkostis 10y
  Don't worry that is enough even though I already did avoid Electronic Rock and the similar.
Shoq 10y
System of a Down
Slipknot
Bullet for My Valentine
Blue Stahli
Mindless Self Indulgence
Cult to Follow
Three Days Grace
Bring Me the Horizon
- Darkostis 10y
  Thanks I'll check some of them out later
FloozyGod 10y
listen to the album Stand Up and Scream, by Asking Alexandria

oh wait nvm dont
- Darkostis 10y
  Why not?Any particular reason?I haven't even heard about that album
- FloozyGod 10y
  It's metalcore with some EDM. You know, i'd give it a shot, they blend well togther, one doesn't overpower the other.
  Darkostis 10y
  Of course.I was gonna try it anyway
Adam7 10y
- Iron Maiden >>>>>>(Top)<<<<<<
- CRADLE OF FILTH
- Nightwish
- Within Temptation
- KoRn
- System of a Down
- Dirty Harry
- 3 Doors Down
- Fall Against Fate
- sum 41
- Yellow Card
- Megadeth
- Slipknot
- Metallica
- Darkostis 10y
  Already know most of them thanks anyway
Xezarior 10y
Uuh... Nice thread, but I don't know how to write them all down: there's too much of them :3
Okay, so... in random order:
- Kalisia
- Haken
- Ayreon
- Subsignal
- Thought Chamber
- Dream Theater
- Gordian Knot
- King Crimson
- Iron Maiden
- ...
So globally it's almost only progressive stuff, in various shapes :D
- Darkostis 10y
  Don't you have something other than progressive?You know for variety
KyonV2 10y
I'm listening to whatever band I like, I don't really know much about genres.

August Burns Red
Breakdown of Sanity
Element Eighty
Feed Her To The Sharks
Hope For the Dying
Haste the Day
Wolves at the Gates
Oh, Sleeper
Phinehas
Ill Nino
Volumes
The Ongoing Concept
Texas In July
The Ghost Inside
The Black Dahlia Murder
Scar Symmetry
Adestria
Architects (UK)
As I Lay Dying
Born of Orsis
Bury Tommorow
After the Burial
Fetsch 10y
Opeth
Katatonia
Ayreon
Alcest
Riverside
Leprous
Alestorm
Amon Amarth
Blind Guardian
Devin Townsend Project
Dropkick Murphys
Eluveitie
Gojira
Jorn
Týr
Van Canto
Volbeat

If the bands don't need to have English vocals:
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Equilibrium
Finntroll
Korpiklaani
Skálmöld
Svartsot

I tried to list mainly bands with English vocals, I know a ton more bands I'd recommend if I knew if you were into Folk Metal or not and if you mind non-English vocals or not.
- Darkostis 10y
  Well the answer on both is no,I dont prefer Folk matel nor non English vocals.Good try though
  Fetsch 10y
  You still have the list on the top then.
  Edmond 10y
  Alcest isn't english . And their old stuff is black metal, which you don´t like. But the rest of this list is good for a beginner, well maybe Gojira is a little bit too much for you.
FloozyGod 10y
If you have the time, I would listen to the album from the beginning. the first song like an intro, then the next "the Final Episode" is like their siggy. Then listen all the way through if you can.
- Darkostis 10y
  Got it
  FloozyGod 10y
  Cool, let me know what you think!!
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- Darkostis 10y
  Odd songs?Which ones?Oh and One Ok Rock is pretty awesome
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  Darkostis 10y
  So basicly the most known ones,right?
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- Edmond 10y
  good list, though Kvelertak is probably the only band here , the OP might like :D . Caladan Brood, but no Summoning :D?
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  Edmond 10y
  Try ''Lugburz'' my fav. album from summoning. Less Dungeon Synth , more black metal :)
  And Midnight Oddesy , Ancient Wisdom or Caladan Brood are all pretty close to dungeon synth as well.
  One of my fav. atmo bm is ''Lustre'' , is similar to Midnight Oddesy. But again, there is not much black metal to be found.^^
  Draumar is also pretty neat.
  Do you listen to dsbm as well ?
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  Edmond 10y
  Shining is kinda ..meh ^^
  Never heard of Grift, but it sounds pretty good. That piano part is placed very well.
  Not a big fan of Dark Funeral , Taake. ^^ Although Taake is fine I guess. Cult of fire live was a blast this year (2015^^), Inquisition was good as always. Mgla was also pretty dope.
  2016 will be a poor year for me though^^, No time / money for festivals ...only ''under the black sun'' , but the line up looks pretty bad so far,so yeah.,.
  continue this thread →
Taluun 10y
Hihi!

I don't listen to much rock at this point aside from prog rock and J-rock. I don't like 5FDP at all, Rise Against is alright and Disturbed has some decent songs imo so our tastes may not line up fantastically but I shall try to mention some things anyway! The list is far from all inclusive and bolded bands are highly suggested ones.

The bands are in no particular order.

Prog metal:
Dream Theater
Devin Townsend Project
Animals as Leaders (On the djent side of prog)
Symphony X
Ayreon (and all of Arjens side projects)
Fates Warning
Periphery (On the djent side of prog)
Anubis Gate
Meshuggah (One of the original Djent bands, if you want heavy stuff that hasn't been muddled with mainstream djent check this out)
Orphaned Land
Andromeda
Psychotic Waltz
Vision Divine
Between The Buried and Me
Evergrey
Labyrinth
Mastodon
Liquid Tension Experiment (Instrumental version of Dream Theater)
Stream of Passion
Riverside (this may fall under prog rock)
Circus Maximus
James Labrie (Singer of Dream Theater)
Strapping Young Lad (Previous band with Devin Townsend)
Planet X (One of Derek Sherinians bands)
Spheric Universe Experience
Leprous
TesseracT
Linked Horizon
Dreamscape
Silent Voices
Myrath
Haken
Dissona
Halcyon Way
Anthriel
Richard Campbell
Borealis

Prog Rock:
Rush
Spriritual Beggars
The Flower Kings
Porcupine Tree
Spocks Beard
King Crimson
Focus
Transatlantic
The Mars Volta
Circa Survive
Bigelf
Derek Sherinian (Ex-Dream Theater Member)
Amplifier
Rishloo
Star One (One of Arjen's projects)
Jolly
3 (yes just the number 3)
Ambeon
Toehider
Flying Colors

Power Metal:
Galneryus (more neo-symphonic than anything)
Blind Guardian
Hammerfall
Iced Earth
Gamma Ray
Iron Savior
Angra
Rhapsody/Rhapsody of Fire
Sabaton
Sonata Arctica
Firewind
Van Canto
Amorphis (older stuff is more death metally)
Heavenly
Alestorm
Orden Ogan
Persuader
Exilibris
Sinergy
Zonata
Helloween
Iron Fire
Northern Kings (Cover band)
Black Tide
Animetal (metal cover band of anime themes)
Animetal USA (American cover band of Animetal, yes they cover other covers)
Lost Horizon
Gloryhammer

Heavy Metal:
Iron Maiden
Adrenaline Mob
Ghost
Charlemagne (Christopher Lee made a metal album, nothing else needs to be said)
Lords of the Trident

Symphonic Metal:
Therion (the older stuff is death metal)
Apocalyptica
Nightwish
Kamelot
Avantasia
Ancient Myth

Visual kei:
Dir En Grey
X Japan

Death metal:
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter (On the folk metal side of things)
Dark Tranquility (Melodic Death)
In Flames (Melodic Death)
Children of Bodom (Melodic Death)
Blood Stain Child (Melodic Death/Trance)
Amon Amarth (Melodic Death)
Darkest Hour (Melodic Death)
Opeth (Progressive Death)
Arsis (Technical/Melodic)
Gojira (idk what subgenre to go with here)
Mercenary
Disarmonia Mundi (Melodic)
Revocation (Technical Death)
Mechina (progressive Death)
Scar Symmetry (Melodic Death)
Omnium Gatherum (Melodic Death)
Mors Principium Est (melodic death)
Emergency Gate (melodic death)
Nekrogoblikon (Melodic Death, kind of folky)
Sybreed (Melodic Death/Industrial)
Fleshgod Apocalypse (Technical Death)
Imaginary Flying Machines (Made of up of bands like Blood Stain Child and Disarmonia Mundi, they play covers of Studio Ghibli songs)
Silent Descent (melodic Death/electronic elements)
Be'lakor (Progressive death)
Wintersun (Melodic/Progressive)
Starkill (melodic)
Mithridium (Melodic Death)

Folk Metal:
Chthonic
Arkona
Eluveitie
Korpiklaani
Ensiferum
Tyr
Hevisaurus
Equilibrium
Falkenbach (blackened folk)
Svartsot
Heidevolk
Turisas
Mago De Oz (Power metally)
Winterhymn

Metalcore:
God Forbid
August Burns Red (Melodic Metalcore)
Trivium (Melodic Metalcore)
Devildriver (Kind of Groove metally)
All That Remains
Avenged Sevenfold
Breakdown of Sanity

Black Metal:
Enslaved
Dimmu Borgir
Finntroll (Folk Metally)
Solstafir (Progressive Black)
Iskald (Melodic Black)
Ne Obliviscaris (progressive Black)

Doom Metal:
Woods of Ypres (Blackened doom)
Siren (Blackened Doom, maybe)

Thrash:
Anacrusis (progressive thrash)
Battlecross

Avant Garde:
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Unexpect

I dont even know Metal:
Babymetal (fuck you I love them)
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  Taluun 10y
  Will do!
- Darkostis 10y
  So many D: this is gonna take a while
  Taluun 10y
  If you can be more explicit with what you tend to like and what you dont like I can try to narrow it down some. Based on a few of the comments above I can guess some of these bands you wont like at all.
  
  Out of the different genres I mentioned do any sound appealing?
  Darkostis 10y
  Well I mostly prefer Groove/Alternative/Heavy/Nu metal.I guess I can try some other genres but definetly not Doom,Black and Death metal.I listen to a little Metalcore as well but not as much as the other genres
  Taluun 10y
  Maximum the hormone is a nu-metal japanese band.
  
  All the stuff in the heavy metal metal may be good for you. Some of the stuff in power metal like Sabaton may be up your aisle as well.
  
  I typically dont like doom metal myself but Woods of Ypres blew me away.
  
  Have you listened to any of the prog metal bands I listed?
  Taluun 10y
  Maximum the hormone is a nu-metal japanese band.
  
  All the stuff in the heavy metal metal may be good for you. Some of the stuff in power metal like Sabaton may be up your aisle as well.
  
  I typically dont like doom metal myself but Woods of Ypres blew me away.
  
  Have you listened to any of the prog metal bands I listed?
  Darkostis 10y
  Not yet I'm kinda busy at the moment.Besides prog metal isn't really my thing.I will try your prog bands though don't worry
  continue this thread →
- Darkostis 10y
  Just listened to Babymetal...
  It was pretty weird not gonna lie BUT for some reason I have fallen in love with them(not literally) so yeah,great sugestion I guess?I don't even know anymore
Lelimo 10y
just listen to converge actually
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Hollywood Undead <3
- Darkostis 10y
  Ummm that's rap rock not exactly metal but whatever I already listen to them
elcaptino 10y
Galenryus (HunterxHunter op ed fame) Power metal
Korn
Distrubed
Darkostis 10y
Ok so it took me week but I FINALLY checked out most of the artists you guys suggested.I got hooked up with Nightwish,Symphony X,The Ghost Inside,Behemoth,Volumes and fianlly BABYMETAL(don't judge,I know it's weird).
AnimeChingy 10y
Hmm, I listen to A7X, pretty good I'd say.
VinylDash 9y
I hear quite a lot of genres, but mostly Brutal Death Metal. Therefore, most of the bands are rather less well known.

Here are some of my favorites

Abnormality
Broken Flesh
Syphilic
Crepitation
Maximize Bestiality
Orphan Playground Sniper
Party Cannon
Pighead
Being Killed
Begging for Incest
Cerebral Incubation
Cytotoxin
Guttural Secrete
Kraanium
pud 9y
i'll share (some of) my poor taste in the spoiler below

Rise of the Northstar
Cannibal Corpse
Slayer
Amon Amarth
Psycroptic
Jungle Rot
Hatebreed
Deicide
Belphegor
Vader
Dethklok
Abysmal Dawn
Soulfly
The Acacia Strain
Pro-Pain
Impending Doom
Gojira
Entombed
Lamb of God
Behemoth
Throwdown
Carcass
Pig Destroyer
Black Sabbath
Devil Driver

this is not a list of suggestions
TheGruesomeGoblin 9y
Uhhhhhh, I listen to a bunch of garbage but off the top of my head here's what I usually end up listening to most of the time. Tried to only include bands for which I have more than just a couple of songs in my musical library because otherwise, this list would be ridiculously long. It's mostly power metal though.

Hypocrisy (Swedish death metal about things ranging from Satanism, to aliens, to conspiracy theories)
Pain (Musical project by the head of Hypocrisy, it's basically industrial metal)
Sonata Arctica (First power metal band I ever listened to)
Blind Guardian (Second power metal band I ever listened to)
Royal Hunt (progressive/power metal band that has a bunch of albums, some really good, some really mixed)
Grave Digger (heavy metal/power metal band from the 80's, some stuff is great, some is ehhh)
Hell (NWOBHM band from the 80's that came back a few years ago and actually started releasing albums and it's just glorious. One of my favorite bands)
Battle Beast (power metal, with numerous songs strongly about Berserk which is just kind of crazy)
Bejelit (power metal band that's really unknown, a majority of songs are definitely Berserk inspired)
Bloodbound
Xandria
Demons & Wizards
Van Canto (acapella power metal)
Avantasia
Freedom Call
Iron Fire
Keldian
Lost Horizon
Manowar
Masterplan
Sabaton
Stratovarius

My Last.FM, though I listen to more than just metal overall so
Verdict 9y
My favourite is soilwork. They do melodic death metal.
Beard 9y
Slice the Cake, one of the best Metal bands I've ever heard.
Taluun 6y
@Dunkan85 made me aware of this glorious song...
reedrizzy 5y
rock music is my favorite genre (ᵔᴥᵔ) i recommend courtesy call and off the rails by thousand foot krutch, linkin park in general, i miss sex but at least i dont wanna die anymore and watch what happens next by waterparks, and nirvana! (ᵔᴥᵔ)(ᵔᴥᵔ)
Removed 5y
lacuna coil
type o negative
slipknot
korn
mairlyn manson
metallica
Alice Cooper
Cold AS Life
onchyophoran 5y
CONVULSING GOLGOTHAN REMAINS DIPLOID SIBERIAN HELL SOUNDS BLIGHT WORMS LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY
- Removed 5y
  these recs go so hard holy shit
anime 5y
Destinyblade 5y
Rammstein. It's a german band.

Fair warning. The music videos are pretty bizarre and carry a lot of messages that might go over people's heads. I'm not good at german so I had to translate the lyrics to figure out what the songs meant

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