Bands with no bad releases....

[AchrisK]

Not even close to a Nu-Metal band. They're just metal. I love them, and still to this day, there is nothing that gets the pit moving more than a Pantera cover.

...and I don't consider them nu-metal either. They are some kinda tough-guy metal. They seem more closely related to hardcore than metal in some ways, and I think they helped encourage the whole 90's HC movement to some degree, though never really being a HC band. They were one of the few metal bands that the media was aware of at the time. That along with simple, easy to digest tunes made them the metal band of the 90's...just about by default.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

I just don't care for Pantera other than a select few songs.

 

[Vitor]

...and I don't consider them nu-metal either. They are some kinda tough-guy metal. They seem more closely related to hardcore than metal in some ways, and I think they helped encourage the whole 90's HC movement to some degree, though never really being a HC band. They were one of the few metal bands that the media was aware of at the time. That along with simple, easy to digest tunes made them the metal band of the 90's...just about by default.

HC??? dude, pantera was a jazz metal band that reinvented the way of metal and influenced many horrible bands, but they (pantera) were great at all

 

[Ender Rises]

Jazz metal? What?

 

[Vitor]

Yep, jazz metal! Dimebag had a strong influence from jazz. Just pay attention to the solos and most of the riffs. And what i could say about Vinnie Paul? he was the best drummer of heavy metal for a moment, and he had been chosen the best by the Modern Drummer Magazine.

 

[Ender Rises]

Every guitar player in metal is heavily influenced by jazz and blues.

 

[Vitor]

Every guitar player in metal is heavily influenced by jazz and blues.

Yep. Everybody can see how B. B. King has influenced bands like Exhumed and Enthroned

 

[seedofvengeance]

...and I don't consider them nu-metal either. They are some kinda tough-guy metal. They seem more closely related to hardcore than metal in some ways, and I think they helped encourage the whole 90's HC movement to some degree, though never really being a HC band. They were one of the few metal bands that the media was aware of at the time. That along with simple, easy to digest tunes made them the metal band of the 90's...just about by default.

Agreed.

 

[Ender Rises]

Yep. Everybody can see how B. B. King has influenced bands like Exhumed and Enthroned

The way in which metal guitar players play the guitar, create riffs and solos, and look at the guitar in general was done by jazz and blues before metal was ever a genre. Except for perhaps back metal, everything in metal has been done by jazz and blues guitar players, just in a different way.

 

[ThrashMetalAddict]

Off the top of my head:

Overkill (a few so-so releases but none I would call bad)
Sodom
Tankard
Death
Morbid Angel
Nevermore
Vader
Agent Steel
DRI
Dismember

 

[tagradh]

Off the top of my head:

Overkill (a few so-so releases but none I would call bad)
Sodom
Tankard
Death
Morbid Angel
Nevermore
Vader
Agent Steel
DRI
Dismember

Not being a dick but incase you were yet to notice, you can edit posts. :> I'd agree on some of those bands but Morbid Angel and Sodom? =p

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Sodom has been mediocre since Agent Orange.

 

[ThrashMetalAddict]

Not being a dick but incase you were yet to notice, you can edit posts. :> I'd agree on some of those bands but Morbid Angel and Sodom? =p

Yeah, not sure what happened on the double post. Anyway, yes, I have all of MA and Sodom's stuff and although I have my preferences I enjoy em all.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I cleared it up for you, never worry

 

[waif]

Sodom has been mediocre since Agent Orange.

M16 was fantastic
But the last one (s/t) was awful

 

[JontRevolting]

Destroyer 666 will never release a bad one imo

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Yep, jazz metal! Dimebag had a strong influence from jazz. Just pay attention to the solos and most of the riffs.

No, just no. Dimebag did not know shit about Jazz. In all his carerr he never even played a Jazz progression. He drew all his influence from Van Halen & Randy Rhoads, which neither one of them played Jazz either. I doubt Dimebag could play Jazz improv if his life depended on it. He was a Rock/Metal guy so I'm sure he could play some Blues, but Jazz is much further up on the evolutionary chain than Blues.

You're clearly wrong this time, my friend. I just wanted to point that out... You're probably joking anyways... So nevamind.

 

[Mean Machine]

Testament
Iced Earth
Dungeon
Rotting Christ
Agalloch

that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[Rumpole]

Destroyer 666 will never release a bad one imo

Never say never (although it would be pretty unlikely), but everything they've put out is of exceptional quality.

True Sons Of Satan!

 

[waif]

We'd all like to pretend Testament never released Low and The Ritual, but they did...