LIST YOUR TOP 10 METAL BANDS

[reaper]

how could anyone leave out Pantera

 

[jägermonsta]

how could anyone leave out Pantera

 

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[ReCycled]

how could anyone leave out Pantera

Cuz...like....its a car, dude...

[jägermonsta]

Precision Attack Navigation and Targeting with Extended Range Acquisition

[|iR|Focalor]

A Dark Halo
Airway
Blinded Colony
Bullet For My Valentine
Caliban
Goddass
In Flames
Ofearia
Sonic Syndicate
Manowar

 

Metal. Not Metalcore.

So by that logic... you're saying that death metal isn't "metal" either?

how could anyone leave out Pantera

 

Eh, I left out Pantera yet included Down. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate their music, I just find Down's style and sound a little more aesthetically appealing. But Superjoint Ritual.... hmmm... seemed like all the songs sounded the same on the first album. The second album was a slight improvement, but still didn't break any ground that I found to be overly interesting like Down II.

[jägermonsta]

Metal. Not Metalcore.

So by that logic... you're saying that death metal isn't "metal" either?

As of lately I've been having a real problem with metalcore bands. I feel like it's turning into butt rock. They need to stop bleeding out their 'vadges' and start shoving knives up 'vadges'

I left out Pantera yet included Down. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate their music, I just find Down's style and sound a little more aesthetically appealing.

 

[|iR|Focalor]

Metal. Not Metalcore.

So by that logic... you're saying that death metal isn't "metal" either?

As of lately I've been having a real problem with metalcore bands. I feel like it's turning into butt rock. They need to stop bleeding out their 'vadges' and start shoving knives up 'vadges'

My point was basically if it's too hard to just be considered "hard rock", then it falls into the catch-all "metal" category. It's getting hard to classify though. I guess I'd lump a band like Soundgarden into hard rock, even though quite a bit of their music was pretty metal. The "grunge" category tends to do that. The way I see it, grunge and alternative borrowed (or STOLE and PERVERTED, *grumble grumble, fuckin' bastards, grumble grumble*) the heavily distorted guitars of the metal genre, subtracted the evil and dark subject matter of most metal, and called it something new. Nirvana for example. With that guitar tone, you could easily play a minor scale riff pattern and get metal. I haven't kept up with the metal sub-genre classifications as of late, I probably wouldn't know what metalcore is if I heard it. Describe it and give a few bands that exemplify that description.

I left out Pantera yet included Down. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate their music, I just find Down's style and sound a little more aesthetically appealing.

 

Down II wasn't the same kind of metal that Pantera always brought. It was more like stoner-metal. They included a lot of different unconventional instruments on that album, lap steel guitars, organs, acoustic guitars. Some of it had a bayou blues feel to it, even a few elements of jazz fusion. Just made for some interesting and expressive songs. That album came on the heels of Phil Anselmo getting clean from heroin, I thought he put a lot of soul into those songs, some his best lyrical work ever in my opinion. I've heard a little bit from the latest Down III, but I've yet to buy it. From what I've heard, it's a little different from II, and still pretty progressive.

[|iR|Focalor]

Looks like a Lamborghini Diablo fucked a Gremlin!

475 HP!?! My ex's vibrator had more torque than that!

[reaper]

down seems more like pink floyd to me, nice reefer smoking music

[metaL]

lately i've been all about children of bodom. that guitarist is less than a god but more than a man. like the dog on the sandlot.

EDIT: also trivium's drummer never seems to let me down

[|iR|Focalor]

down seems more like pink floyd to me, nice reefer smoking music

For certain. Down II included the small instrumental piece called "Doobinterlude"...

...as well as the song "Perfection of the Seed", a song about pot, the people who smoke it, and the people who grow it.

Back when I used to chief it up daily, that was one of my favorite albums to put on while firing up the one footer. If I was smoking and drinking, I'd put on Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live disc2. That disc was an extra 5 bonus previously unreleased studio songs, some mellow mostly acoustic stuff slightly reminiscient of Zakk Wylde's solo album, Book of Shadows.

[jägermonsta]

I probably wouldn't know what metalcore is if I heard it. Describe it and give a few bands that exemplify that description.

shadows fall
as i lay dying
in flames
killswitch engage
lamb of god
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalcore

Down II wasn't the same kind of metal that Pantera always brought. It was more like stoner-metal. They included a lot of different unconventional instruments on that album, lap steel guitars, organs, acoustic guitars. Some of it had a bayou blues feel to it, even a few elements of jazz fusion. Just made for some interesting and expressive songs. That album came on the heels of Phil Anselmo getting clean from heroin, I thought he put a lot of soul into those songs, some his best lyrical work ever in my opinion. I've heard a little bit from the latest Down III, but I've yet to buy it. From what I've heard, it's a little different from II, and still pretty progressive.

I never got in to down. I went with Damageplan.

[metaL]

ehh.. i hate the name "metalcore". to me, adding "core" to the end of something basically denotes screaming. by that definition it also encompasses hardcore punk.. i dunno, i wouldn't call in flames metalcore though.. they were straight thrash in their earliest days and gradually progressed to melodic death metal.. and there is still a hint of thrash in almost all of their music.

[jägermonsta]

I find their new album to be rather metalcore

[haunted]

In order to be metalcore, the band has to have signs of hardcore punk in their music. In flames does not do this, nor does their new album even hint metalcore 

www.myspace.com/inflames

opinions? : - >

--also, just wanted to add that as i lay dying is the only band from that list that I wholeheartedly agree with being 'metalcore'. I don't like the other ones, but calling them metalcore when at least 3/4 of their stuff isn't? : - >

lamb of god sucks