Band Recommendations...

[Pethical]

They get old real fast.

Now Cog on the other hand...

fantastic band. seen them at least 20 times

 

[metal_wrath]

I would highly recommend checking out this band, Genghis Tron, fucking mindblowing stuff, with furious vocals, unique musicianship... I am listening to their album Dead Mountain Mouth, very good stuff here. Ayybody heard of this band? they are a mix of noise-core and alternative-metal soundscapes.

 

[FUBAR]

^ ive heard one track by that band twas pretty cool they've got a unique sound.

 

[Tybud]

Anyone like Carcass? I recently downloaded the song "Heartwork" and really like it. Is the album good?

 

[illidurit]

yes carcass owns, that album is pretty badass but if you go further back in their discography everything's grind/death so don't be fooled by heartwork's melodicness

 

[CAIRATH]

All Carcass albums except for the first one are great. (yes, even Swansong)

But yeah, none of the others sound like Heartwork. Swansong is more death 'n roll, and the ones preceeding Heartwork are death/grind rather than melodic death metal.

 

[Keith!]

I'm a big Carcass fan.

Fav album is Heartwork. I really love the production on this album, has great heavy riffs and really nice solo's.

 

[BloodSword]

Drudkh--Blood in our Wells and Autumn Aurora. Any and all Agalloch.

 

[Darkstone]

www.myspace.com/theocularisinfernum - tech death metal with a 17 year old drummer, i've seen it live!

 

[Risquit]

Can't get enough of the latest by Burst. What a record.

 

[Orionica]

You might argue that it's a thread that's done to death, but I guess what people would recommend keeps changing anyway.

Having been on a massive metal hiatus since my late teens I've recently got back into metal in a huge way and am looking for new bands. Recently I have been mostly loving (not in order of preference):

Opeth (obviously)
Meshuggah
Dream Theater
Devin Townsend Band
Strapping Young lad
Slayer
Tool
The Haunted

NuMetal (the era I completely skipped) still leaves me completely cold as do wanky emo-ey bands singing about being bullied in stereotypical song structures.

I like many musical genres, as many others on this board also seem to, but what other metal would you suggest, given the above?

Have you heard about Polish death-metal band Sceptic? I'm not their fan.. but recently I've heard their album Pathetic Being and I should agree that it's not bad, rather good in my opinion.. though I prefer somewhat another music.

Power Metal: Mano'war, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody, Dragonforce (arguably happy hardcore) Powerquest, Demons and Wizards.

I think that Manowar is Heavy metal band. And from power metal bands most of all I like Sonata Arctica and Stratovarius. Hammerfall is also not bad... Sinergy...

And about another styles: Are you ready to listen to pop-rock bands? For example, estonian band Vanilla Ninja... Many metallers love their music (or they...)