TRUE Metal fans????
 

Hey y'all, just wondering if there are any fans of true metal on here. If your down with heavy/power/hair/fantasy metal, list your top fav bands! (Slipknot, Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin and the like are not allowed:dead:)

Here are my top 13:

13. Megadeth
12. Edguy
11. Crystal Eyes
10. Judas Priest
9. Nightwish
8. Twisted Sister
7. Sabaton
6. DragonForce
5. Metallica
4. Helloween
3. Iron Maiden
2. Manowar
1. Hammerfall

"True" metal is a sad choice of words...

But right now I'm really into

Lamb of God
Fear Factory
Faithful Darkness (a local band www.myspace.com/faithfulldarkness)

"True" metal is metal that is defined as metal and only metal, wether it be hair or power or fantasy metal, it's still metal, where as stuff like Limp Bizkit could be defined as "nu-metal" or rap-metal. True metal isn't a mix of genres. So that wasn't a "sad choice of words", just the ever lovin' truth.

That's a good list there, friend.

Oh boy don't get me started on true metal. I will say any band that plays in drop C and uses constant double bass that has clean vocals is not true metal.

Dark Tranquillity - Favorite band, From Haven - Current only
Arch Enemy - From Wages Of Sin -Current only
Children Of Bodom - From Hatebreeder - Current only
In Flames - From Jester's Race To Clayman only
Cradle Of Filth - From Vempire - Current, some CDs I don't like or only like a few songs off of.
Dimension Zero - All
Nightrage - Descent Into Chaos and a few songs off Sweet Vengence
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, Some songs off Death Cult Armageddon
Soilwork - Chainheart Machine only
Norther - Mirror Of Madness only
The Haunted - One Kill Wonder only
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul only
Therion - Secret Of The Runes and Siruis B only
Hellhound - Ice Age
Devildriver - Some songs spread out through all their CDs
Testament - The Gathering, First Strike Still Deadly only
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good, Peace Sells...But Who's Buying, Rust In Peace, and a few songs off United Abominations
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden, The Number Of The Beast, Somewhere In Time, Powerslave, Brave New World, Dance Of Death, and A Matter of Life And Death
Metallica - Kill'em All - Master Of Puppets only
Slayer - Show No Mercy, Reign In Blood, Decade Of Aggression only

As you can see I'm extremely selective when it comes to music. Even my favorite bands do crap I hate.

Ok, I don't really wanna get into this discussion, since I feel it won't get anywhere, but I just have to say...

You mean industrial metal like Fear Factory doesn't count? Since industrial is a genre...

And Lamb of God doesn't count since they're metalcore?

And also, I don't think of rapmetal and numetal as the same genre. Rapmetal is Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park's first and second album and numetal is stuff like Korn-album 1-6 or Slipknot's first (even though it's kinda more experimental than a regular numetal-album)

And another thing (omg.. :P) I don't see rapmetal as a mix of genres, I see it as metal with influence from rap...

Thank you and good night, I have to wake up in four hours... -.- ****ing insomnia...

By hair metal I assume you mean "glam" metal, which is the more respectful term. In that regard:

Def Leppard
Autograph
Dokken
Judas Priest (namely their album Turbo)
Van Halen
Cinderella
Extreme
Whitesnake

It's basically all I listen to.

I enjoy metal, but I don't really listen to it regularly. Theres a lot of stuff I would probably like but have never heard of and don't have the time to find it all.

Alright, I guess because everyone seems to have a problem with my Manowar inspired call for "true metal", just list your favorite metal bands, whatever style of metal it may be. You can even go ahead and list Vanilla Ice as one of your favs, nobody will pick on ya.:|

My favorite metalbands are Britney Spears and that guy with the accordion

Uhh... No... My fav-bands right now are the ones I listed in an above post... Just tried to show that "true metal" is subjective, and there really is no such thing... Uhm... Yeah.. Kind of what I wanted to write.. I'm tired...:sleep:

I'm a big fan of Megadeth, Alice in Chains, Pantera, Zombie, Sevendust, stuff like that.

So if True Metal (tm) doesn't mix genres, why do you consider Nightwish as true metal?

Or even metal. I can't remember it have been heavy for...what? Last fives years at least. :lol:


There's so much of different types of heavy/metal I see a need for more spesific cathegories.

I consider metal as one of the sub genres of heavy music. I usually refer music to metal if it's heavy and somehow emphasized in rhythm and bass section (prolly the same thing you refer to nu-metal. Rap-metal is a term I haven't heard of), such as Korn or System Of A Down for example. 'Hair metal' would prolly consist of genres I call heavy-, glam- or hard rock.

I do listen to heavy/metal quite regularly, and when I'm visiting night clubs they are mostly heavy bars. Good bands have been listed here, but I'd like to mention W.A.S.P. My all time favorite.

Cause they f'n rock, that's why!!!!!!

Let's just say that "true metal (tm)" are bands that f'n kick ass and rock hard.

Good grief, I had no idea people would have such a big problem with a stupid saying.






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Let's see here...

Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Metallica
Judas Priest
DragonForce
Rammstein
Iced Earth
Anthrax
Manowar
Rhapsody
System of A Down
Helloween
Fear Factory
HammerFall

Chill out, darling. :wink: I was just amused by the way your definition of the true metal clashed with your own list of bands.

Opeth is also a band I've been listening lately. Almost joined to an opeth-styled band as a guitarist, but somehow the whole project died...well, that was over a year ago anyway.

Right now I love more experimental stuff

Gojira (prog-death)
Opeth (prog-death)
Cult of Luna (post-metal)
Neurosis (post-metal)
Tool (Uhh.. Weird sh¡t..)

There are more, but I can't remember them right now.. O_o Whatever

I'm not a "metal head" per say. I'm into a lot of different types of music, but my favorite metal bands would have to be...

Embrace the End

Between the Buried and Me

and sorry...Slipknot:lol:

If you have'nt heard the first two bands(assuming moooost of you have heard slipknot) I highly highly reccomend it. Coming from any perspective, they are both super talented bands...whether you like that kinda music or not.

Metal only gets mixed into different things when jack offs decide to tag things onto the word metal.

Speed metal, Death metal, Power metal, Heavy metal, Black metal

Those are the 5 basic types of metal and any band I listen to is one of the 5. Power metal is new, created for bands that are new but stick true to the 80's style, in my opinion they all suck but that's just my opinion.

This other crap kids come up with I don't know where the hell it comes from. I had someone tell me Arch Enemy is "Metal-core" I don't know what the hell that means but from my experience anything with "core" tagged onto the end of it is garbage. Being as how Arch Enemy is very technical, full of riffs and solos I'd have to say it doesn't fall into that category.

That's just my input.

Any metal that sucks is metalcore to some people.

Mix thrash with hardcore and classic metal i.e. not Arch Enemy

A band isn't great just because of that.. O.o

Some bands get over-technical to the point where it's just boring to listen to, imo

Oh I know, like Dragon Force...Arch Enemy happens to be one of my favorite bands. Arch Enemy has classical bits especially on their new CD but I don't see those others things you mentioned, thanks for telling me what it meant cause I had no idea.