Original/Creative Bands

[Dazed and Brutal]

ARCTURUS is very creative.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

And of course Burzum

 

[Mort Divine]

Creative bands?

Devin Townsend Band, Solefald, Diabolical Masquerade, In The Woods..., Arcturus, Fantomas, etc.

 

[unknown]

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Frantic Bleep are my two choices

 

[Killbot]

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Frantic Bleep are my two choices

Frantic Bleep

 

[unknown]

Frantic Bleep

unfortunately not too many people share our opinion

 

[Killbot]

unfortunately not too many people share our opinion

The guy who runs the BNR metal archives does. to that guy. He also likes Kong, so he gets another one -

 

[Mort Divine]

Frantic Bleep is awesome.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Whats BNR metal archives.

 

[Killbot]

Whats BNR metal archives.

It's like a less expansive metal-archives.com that doesn't crash as often. The guy who runs it puts some pretty good little paragraphs for each band on it:
http://www.bnrmetal.com/

 

[Boru]

Some of the most creative bands in my opinion are:

Rage Against the Machine - Considered Rap Metal which I hate that they are lumped into that group. They were a very unique band w/ many political views.

Misfits - First to mix Horror content w/ punk rock music.

Black Sabbath - Created Heavy Metal in my opinion 'nuff said.

Sepultura - First band to mix thrash/death metal with tribal stuff. If Max would of stayed I would be interested to see where they would of went with that mix.

Those are just a few right off of the top of my head.

 

[TheVaine]

Nice link, will be good for me to get some info on all the bands I keep on having to google everytime I hear about them.

 

[unknown]

I usually use BNR whenever Metal Archives is down

 

[SheisMySin]

Sepultura - First band to mix thrash/death metal with tribal stuff. If Max would of stayed I would be interested to see where they would of went with that mix.

It's called Soulfly

I like the direction he took...dabbled in tribal, rap, slower songs and clean vocals, mexican and latin influences...reggae kinda...(in The Prophecy)

Scott

 

[CF87]

Soulfly makes dumb music. Something like this is not even subjective.

 

[Kreator/Destroyer]

speaking of tribal...how bout the reggae metal band Skindred i find them funny and innovative-ish

 

[SheisMySin]

>>>Soulfly makes dumb music. Something like this is not even subjective.

Whatever.

Are you sure you didn't just try out a couple of bad songs from thier first CD and make a blanket generalization?

I used to think the same, and gave them another chance, and they really do a good job of writing good music to head band too. Helps that I like variety though - they do a good job of changing styles and pace while maintaining their metalness.

The first 5 songs off the Prophecy are just brutal - I don't see how anyone can listen to them and not head bang.

Scott

 

[SheisMySin]

speaking of tribal...how bout the reggae metal band Skindred i find them funny and innovative-ish

I never had the guts to buy/listen to their CD. I figured they were a one hit mainstream metal wonder.

Scitt

 

[Kreator/Destroyer]

o i don't have their cd either i just heard them on the radio and i was like...this shit is hilarious it's "bob marley: the metal years"

 

[Xeroth]

SlipKnoT influenced a lot of young musicians, with the mix of heavy riffs, aggressive lyrics and very fast drumming, they made the late 90's a better place to be for lovers of metal music.
Iron Maiden and Motorhead still carry on the original old-school metal ideal
Static-X have a very unique style, and so do Mushroomhead and Fear Factory have a mix of different styles.