How far does your taste branch out within the realms of metal?

[cookiecutter]

Ironically, I would listen to the Wu-Tang Clan's first album before I would listen to most deathcore.

As would I

 

[Einherjar86]

I dig Triarii; not as much as Rome, but still very cool stuff.

 

[RedinTheSky]

Another thing I'd like to point out:

There is nothing better than walking home on a rainy afternoon with ColdWorld playing.

More wet songs :

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Ironically, I would listen to the Wu-Tang Clan's first album before I would listen to most deathcore.

Fuck yeah! Definitely one of my favorite albums outside of metal.

 

[Onder]

I guess I'll have to check out Wu-Tang, I have hear about them from various people including czech and foreign.

 

[Badbird]

I guess I'll have to check out Wu-Tang, I have hear about them from various people including czech and foreign.

Check them out NOW.Go downloading or using Myspace and Youtube to listen to the Wu-Tang.Even if you dislike hip-hop or rap they are still a fuckin great group.

 

[Tonka Time]

Anybody else listen to Tri-Function Million?

 

[DarkBliss]

I'll check out Triarii.

If you like Triarii, check out Puissance, In Slaughter Natives and Laibach. Sol Invictus as well, and maybe Sophia.Martial industrial is a pretty limited genre, though.

 

[DarkBliss]

Have you listened to much classic prog rock? If you like VDGG I'd say at least King Crimson is mandatory listening, and I'd strongly recommend Gentle Giant as well.

plus Camel, Magma(acquired taste) and Can. The latter are krautrock, but they're amazing. Ege Bamiyasi is ingenious.

 

[Hail The Wizard!]

Camel!

 

[arg]

i dont branch out much

death metal
blackened death metal
brutal death metal
death/thrash
deathcore
grindcore

 

[Anticitizen One]

I'm pleased to see that the general response to namedropping Wu-Tang Clan here has actually been quite favorable. I don't really listen to any rap outside of the '90s NYC/east coast stuff (Wu-Tang, Notorious B.I.G. etc.), but those earlier releases (including the Wu-Tang solo side projects like Liquid Swords and Iron Man) are just really dark and fucked, thanks to The RZA's bleak synthy production skills. This was when west coast rap like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg was topping charts, but east coast rap was fucking nihilistic (crack kills, yo) and lyrically far more interesting.

 

[DarkBliss]

Wu-Tang Clan are pretty much a RateYourMusic staple. I'll have to check them out one of these days.

 

[Imolarot]

I tend to think "no poseur shit" is in and of itself a rather boring and poseuresque attitude.

My "first favorite band" was Metallica. From there I got into Bay Area thrash and other stuff: Megadeth, Testament, Slayer, Sepultura... From there it was death metal, mostly the usual suspects from Florida and New York: Morbid Angel, Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Suffocation, Immolation, etc. Swedish death metal and stuff like Bolt Thrower came next. I spent the '90s reading Metal Maniacs and listening to everything I could. Death metal remained my genre of choice -- Morbid Angel were my favorite band -- but I listened to plenty of thrash, doom, and a little bit of black metal (not mentioning all the non-metal stuff I was into; mostly industrial, some post-punk and hardcore, and so on).

It was around the later '90s that I started getting more and more into the 2nd wave black metal stuff (death metal was in a slump). And around the turn of the century, black metal was starting to get a bit weirder (recalling records by Emperor, Ulver, Borknagar, the Burzum prison albums, etc.), splintering in different directions (Ulver's Coil-inspired stuff, Emperor splitting into Peccatum and Zyklon while Ihsahn pretty much helmed Prometheus all on his own, Arcturus sounding quite epic and cheesy on The Sham Mirrors, Samael turning into dance-metal or whatever, Cradle of Filth sucking, Darkthrone just kind of on cruise control, and so on)...

There were a couple of years where I didn't listen to metal quite as obsessively -- I'd become more curious about "experimental" genres of music like free jazz, krautrock, musique concréte, noise, ambient, and all kinds of stuff you'd read about in Wire magazine. I was living in San Francisco at the time, buying records at Aquarius and Amoeba, and then Weakling's Dead as Dreams came out -- that was an extremely important record for me. It took so many things I'd come to love in recent years, Swans and noise and such, and threw it into a black metal cauldron more potent and furious than anything I'd heard ever since, say, In the Nightside Eclipse.

It wasn't too long before the French and German scenes I'm still pretty much in love with were exploding, and black metal was perhaps more vital than ever, save for when the 2nd wave was at its strongest.

And today, well, I guess you can just look at my last.fm to see where I stand.

Umm yeah....that was kind of scary reading my thoughts already posted, I guess that is almost a standard metal progression for alot of us though.

I come to this site every few monthes and get a band or 2 out of it; but usually get sick of the simple/narrow minded idiots on here that have no reason to be on here cause they already know what it "true" metal to them and do not dare step outside their self made boundries and in turn give no positive advice except "your gay, listen my metal, all the rest is for poseurs"

 

[mutantllama]

Swans are awesome. All I have is the Cop/Holy Money compilation, but it's fucking awesome.


I love Omni for talking about them so much and getting me into them.

 

[TheBountyKiller]

punk - new wave - rock - hardrock - hairmetal - sympho - heavy metal - speed - thrash

 

[The Ozzman]

Bring the motherfuckin' ruckus

 

[Eligos]

People who listen to metal and want to appreciate classical need only listen to Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".

I'd also recommend Charles Ives' "The Unanswered Question".

I enjoy a lot of minimalist composers, as well as romantic and expressionist composers, but have never been really big on baroque or classical era stuff.

 

[RedinTheSky]

I'm pleased to see that the general response to namedropping Wu-Tang Clan here has actually been quite favorable. I don't really listen to any rap outside of the '90s NYC/east coast stuff (Wu-Tang, Notorious B.I.G. etc.), but those earlier releases (including the Wu-Tang solo side projects like Liquid Swords and Iron Man) are just really dark and fucked, thanks to The RZA's bleak synthy production skills. This was when west coast rap like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg was topping charts, but east coast rap was fucking nihilistic (crack kills, yo) and lyrically far more interesting.

There you go.

 

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

That was awesome.