Does anyone listen to heavy metal/death metal anymore?

[Fanatical Meat]

Ouch, grumbling into the mike of unintelligible "lyric", machine-gun drums fully engaged, full "goth mode" for the 12-16yr old audience. This is about as much as music as a boulder is like a meat loaf.

Damn, that is just utter crap with that "singing". The music itself could be interesting....but this growling crap is just that: Crap. All sounds the same and all unintelligible, monotone crap.

reminds me ob Bat Metal, which is a parody of a parody.

 

[Andro Boy]

I've been a metalhead ever since I heard Metallica's "One" back in 2005. Since then, I've branched my appreciation of music into most genres, except for modern country.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I've been a metalhead ever since I heard Metallica's "One" back in 2005. Since then, I've branched my appreciation of music into most genres, except for modern country.

Same here and what you said is so true. For example 99 Problems, this really should be a metal song but it’s great as is

Which was originally done by Ice T

 

[Malogeek]

A different kind of black metal... one of my favorite

 

[BurnItDwn]

This Aquilus sounds like a sorta blackened doom to me ... reminds me a bit of Opeth from the Morningrise era. I like!

Baest more or less feels nostalgic like early 90s era death metal. None of this shreaking hardcore style vocals, instead, classic death metal growl. It's good. And no, we would not see that on morning television in the us.

That said, the entire show Metalocalypse came from the US.and bands like Slayer have played live on mainstream network evening television.

 

[biostud]

This might interest som of you. Heilung is a shamanistic/trance/black something something.

If nothing else it is very different.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I would go see Kamelot just to see Alissa from the Agonist haha.

Listening to Kamelot now, did a search ... found this post.


Also a few others like Epica, Nightwish, Symphony X.....

 

[Spacehead]

I still like listening to NWOBHM type stuff from the early '80s & a range of bands from then on to today. Not so much the doom metal(i like some) but what i just consider heavy metal & prog metal.
Some new-to-me bands from the last couple of years i like are:
Within Temptation
Lacuna Coil
Volbeat
Moonspell
O´Connor
Avenged Sevenfold

 

[Puffnstuff]

Lacuna Coil is my favorite band.

 

[Spacehead]

Lacuna Coil is my favorite band.

Broken Crown Halo was my intro to them. Really like that album.

 

[Muse]

Friend of mine told me yesterday that Black Dog, best Led Zep cover band in the east is being ravaged by covid, lead singer flat on his back and "can't move." He knows the band personally. Mask up mofos...

 

[nakedfrog]

Dunno if Unleash the Archers has made an appearance in this thread yet.

 

[biostud]

Atmospheric black metal at its best

 

[biostud]

Death metal as it is meant to sound.

 

[VashHT]

Here's one about how anything can be music:

Anyone here like Kalmah?

 

[Mai72]

I was just listening to some Maiden. Wasted Years, The Trooper, 2 Minutes...

 

[Starbuck1975]

Lacuna Coil is my favorite band.

i saw them several times during the Reverie days when they were unknown and playing small clubs in Europe... awesome live band even if their newer stuff is a bit repetitive

 

[spacejamz]

I was just listening to some Maiden. Wasted Years, The Trooper, 2 Minutes...

The Maiden songs on my running playlist include those 3, icarus, # of the beast and mariner (on long runs LOL) ....also have metallica, scorpions, priest, savatage, metal church and some helstar

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

, savatage,

Pre cursor to Trans Siberian Orchestra.

 

[Spacehead]

Savatage, got to see them once, as an opener for Megadeth & Dio. Great show!

@spacejamz
Speaking of old school metal, were you ever into Armored Saint? I had kinda forgot about them since high school & a year or 2 ago i came across their 'Win Hands Down' album. That thing really rocks!

 

[UsandThem]

Speaking of old school metal, were you ever into Armored Saint? I had kinda forgot about them since high school & a year or 2 ago i came across their 'Win Hands Down' album. That thing really rocks!

I never really got into Armored Saint, but I liked the albums John Bush did with Anthrax, and I got to see him in concert in 1998 (with Pantera and Coal Chamber).

The highlight of the show was when John, Phil Anselmo, and Dez Fafara all did a few songs from each other's albums together and tried to "out growl" each other. It was pretty freaking awesome.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Here's one about how anything can be music:

Anyone here like Kalmah?

BTBAM played 2 concerts on Twitch recently. Great stuff!

 

[VashHT]

BTBAM played 2 concerts on Twitch recently. Great stuff!

Oh yeah I caught the one they did Friday night it was great, I had tickets to see em last year at the HoB in Chicago and they just rescheduled it to august this year. Got my vaccine so I'm pretty psyched for that.

 

[spacejamz]

Savatage, got to see them once, as an opener for Megadeth & Dio. Great show!

@spacejamz
Speaking of old school metal, were you ever into Armored Saint? I had kinda forgot about them since high school & a year or 2 ago i came across their 'Win Hands Down' album. That thing really rocks!

not really a big fan, but they opened for Metallica in their Houston show for the Ride the Lightning tour back in 85...I was in 10th grade back then...earlier that night, Iron Maide and WASP played at the Summit ( now Olsteen's massive church) and then Metallica/Saint played a few hours later at small club)...I was 2nd row at that show...that easily was the best concert night of my life...my ears were ringing for a few days after that night...

 

[MrSquished]

no