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So, while I was looking for music to play in Beat Hazard, it came to my attention that Metal and Hard Rock make for fun games.

No problemo, I dug through my iTunes collection and came to a scary realisation. For someone who spent his teens and early 20s immersed in the music of Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Gun n Roses, System of Down, Pantera and any other of a multitude of greats, my current music collection is pretty light on metallic elements.

I have a bit of Metallica, and a few compilations and soundtracks and not too much else.

As a poor teen with rich friends when I was in school I taped all of their CDs. Those tapes are all long gone, and if they weren't they wouldn't be functional or usable anymore. So now I need to go back and legitimately rebuild that collection of yore.

So I'm going to be doing some music shopping, but I can't just get a bunch of old stuff. The last new metal CD I bought was System of A Down's Toxicity, which was incredible, but there must be a wealth of unknown (to me) stuff out there.

So who has kept current, and what can be recommended?

Remembering that Six was my favourite Guitar Hero II song I got All That Remains The Fall of Ideals. DevilDriver's album The Fury of out Maker's Hand was recommended, and the new Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis. Both are excellent.

I do prefer thrash influenced stuff with lots of fast riffs, rather than the grungier detuned power-chording style, and I prefer faster tempos generally but I'm pretty open to most things.

Come GWJ, bring the metal!

Mastodon

No metalhead I, but none can deny the awesomeness of Amon Amarth's Viking metal.

The Haunted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijfCX...

Pretty melodious Gothenburg Metal. Good stuff.

Seeing you had one of my favorites (Dillinger Escape Plan) there, I would also suggest Converge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jjBi...

(Forgot how to embed YouTube, so... clickety!)

Amorphis
Led Zeppelin
Stolen Babies
Dimmu Borgir
Kyuss
Acid King
The Sword

Hatredcopter by Dethklok. NSFW Lyrics.

EDIT: Even if you think the show and or videos are silly, definitely check out their albums. Bloodrocuted is one of my favorite songs.

Children Of Bodom's Are You Dead Yet? is the best metal album of quite some years now. It's thrashy, all right.

Ghost Brigade is a Finnish band which might be hard to find. Nonetheless, Isolation Songs is an awesome metal album, if you can get past the vocalist's weird pronunciation.

Ensiferum's Finnish viking battle metal. I didn't much care for the new album, but Victory Songs is all kinds of great.

Bullet For My Valentine is interesting. I really don't much care for the new stuff, but The Poison was really pretty good. Very much modern kids friendly, high on beat and melody.

I'm all for Paradise Lost, being my number one favorite ever since I was 15. The latest album is good, but Draconian Times is where it's at.

Type O Negative is current now that Peter Steele died. You can't go wrong with Bloody Kisses.

In Flames is another band from which I only like one album, Soundtrack To Your Escape. Melodic screaming from Sweden.

Lamb Of God is kind of uneven to my tastes, but really good when it works. Try Sacrament. Wikipedia says it's "groove metal", but whatever, sounds thrashy to me.

Machinae Supremacy's chip-tune metal is at times sublime. Go for Overworld. They're Swedish, I think.

Rotten Sound is the only grindcore outfit I like these days. If you're into that at all, try Cycles. From Finland, where else.

Swallow The Sun is the best doom band I know of. Hope is their best album yet and yes, Finland, again.

And finally for even more Finnish bands, Total Devastation's "stoner death metal" is refreshing.

I'm supposed to be putting together a student dance party setlist for Tuesday, and now all I want to do is to listen to most of the music I just listed. Thanks, it's gonna be a somewhat distant leap to Beyonce and the like.

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Edit: In retrospect, 1) I didn't realize almost all of the metal in my library is Finnish, and 2) I didn't realize I have so much metal in my library. I've been a lot into pop, dance, electro types of things lately, but metal is what I always come back to.

jlaakso wrote:

Children Of Bodom's Are You Dead Yet? is the best metal album of quite some years now. It's thrashy, all right.

For someone with a Megadeath, Iron Maiden and Metallica background, this is a great suggestion.

I'll add a rather one trick pony to the mix: Disfear

Meshuggah. Hands down one of the most influential and exciting metal bands in the past 15 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Ver...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOd-T...

If you find yourself digging those guys, there are a host of other bands that have sprung up in their lengthy shadow (not counting mainstream bands like Tool and Deftones that cite Meshuggah as an influence).

Periphery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ah6Y...

Tesseract
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF_YI...

Sikth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7BoK...

Animals as Leaders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ho4-...

Not new, but more:

Coven - Boneless Christian. This album is a complete ridiculous joke, but has catchy song titles like f*cking a Nun, Christsycle and Satanic as Hell- and offensively over-the-top lyrics that even had me going "Did they just say that?"

Type O Negative- Slow, Deep, and Hard. Timeless.

Never too late to recommend albums by Tool.

MaxShrek wrote:

Never too late to recommend albums by Tool.

+100

I also suggest Podunk's last.fm.
It has not failed yet to find me good metal.

I'll suggest my Brazilian buddies:

Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots, Slave New World, Territory and Attitude

Soulfly - Bleed, Eye for and Eye, Unleash, Prophecy and Blood Fire War Hate

Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted, Sanctuary, Dark Ark and Bloodbrawl

Oh, man, also, how could I forget Devy and Strapping Young Lad?

http://www.youtube.com/user/poopynug...
(featuring Anneke, formerly of The Gathering)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeG-6...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfl1_...

garion333 wrote:
MaxShrek wrote:

Never too late to recommend albums by Tool.

+100

As an old Metallica, G&R and System of a Down fan, I absolutely endorse this statement! These guys are serious musicians (and Danny Carey is a drumming god) and I wish I'd discovered them before last year. Quite partial to Fear Factory as well, even if it is a bit old now.

WARNING: long post ahead. I didn't bother to read all previous posts, so consider any repeats to be +1.

Anthrax

Arch Enemy

Children of Bodom

Corrosion of Conformity

Damageplan (R.I.P. Darrel)

Death (R.I.P. Chuck)

Dethklok (seriously)

Down

Exodus

Fear Factory

Grip Inc.

Hallows Eve

High on Fire

Iced Earth

Intruder

Kreator

Lamb of God

M.O.D.

Machine Head

Meshuggah

Nailbomb

Obituary

Overkill

S.O.D.

Savatage

Sepultura

Six Feet Under

Skeletonwitch

Slayer

Suicidal Tendencies

Superjoint Ritual

Testament

The Force (VERY hard to find in the US, I can send you mp3 if you want)

Wrathchild America

Love that Machine Head track. What a great album.

Slayer and Baroness are my current metal faves. Slayer has always been on my list. A good mix of thrash with a punk sensibility.

Baroness is a relatively new band, but gets more rotation on my zune than anything else these days. It hearkens back to the structure of early metallica, but with a much more raw sound. Get both of their albums, you won't be disappointed.

Baroness' "Rays on Pinion"

Not to mention that their Singer/Guitarist is an amazing Artist as well, having done all the covers for their stuff, as well as Kylesa, black tusk and a few others. John Dyer Baizley. He's a mix of Pushead and Alfonse Mucha.

MaxShrek wrote:

Never too late to recommend albums by Tool.

I'm so happy I finally get to see Maynard in concert!

The Agonist.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Avenged Sevenfold yet. I haven't heard their more recent stuff, but anything from City Of Evil or earlier is worth checking out.

MaxShrek wrote:

Never too late to recommend albums by Tool.

Love Tool, but they're the only show I haven't liked live. It was at Ozzfest '98, and for some reason, the sound was all screwed up, and nobody outside the first half of the seats could hear anything but a low buzzing sound. They got everything fixed in time for Megadeth and Ozzy, but my dumbass brother and his friends insisted we leave 4 songs into Ozzy because they'd heard he was lame, and they had my car keys.

I'm going to build a time machine and kill them.

Hopefully I'll get to see Tool when they're here in town.

3 Inches of Blood
Protest the Hero
The Sword
Saviours

Not generally for newbies, but my current favorite band: Dillinger Escape Plan.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
MaxShrek wrote:

Never too late to recommend albums by Tool.

Love Tool, but they're the only show I haven't liked live. It was at Ozzfest '98, and for some reason, the sound was all screwed up, and nobody outside the first half of the seats could hear anything but a low buzzing sound.

Tool is flipping amazing live. I don't like seeing them at festivals, but you really should see them again, I mean ...

IMAGE(http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv242/adamaynard420/ToolLive1.jpg)

To all of you guys, great recommendations here so far, going to take a while to pick through everything.

El-Producto wrote:

Not generally for newbies, but my current favorite band: Dillinger Escape Plan.

Not really a newbie, just lapsed. :p Dillinger Escape Plan are fantastic. Nice to hear weird timing changes in something other than art music and jazz.

Hope these are what you're looking for

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Love Tool, but they're the only show I haven't liked live.

I saw them on the Lateralus tour, and had a similar impression. I mean, the spectacle was pretty amazing, with the lasers and projection screens and stuff, but Maynard was singing painfully flat for the first hour, and the guitarist and bassist just sort of stood around in the dark and played. Danny Carey was awesome to watch, and was a notable bright spot, but overall King Crimson (who opened) blew them off the stage.

Don't get me wrong, I think Tool is a great band, but I went into the show with huge expectations and was disappointed.

Also, see this thread:
Suggest Me Some Metal

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Nothing is more metal than a group hug. IMAGE(http://rps.net/QS/Images/Smilies/headbanger.gif)

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