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Symphony X
My Dying Bride
Lamb of God
Tool
Strapping Young Lad
Dream Theater
Deftones
Rage Against The Machine
Slipknot
Opeth
System Of A Down
Metallica
Nine Inch Nails
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I listen to all of those except My Dying Bride, DT, Deftones, some RATM (it's ok, but the whole anti-everything-but-communism gets old after a bit), and SOAD. Opeth is a band I listen to a good bit, and barring the fact that their past two albums have rather been disappointing (Blackwater Park and Deliverance are my two favorite albums from them), the mixing of clean and death-metal vocals works quite well. What's funny is how many "zomg ubAr metalheads" say that anything without the death metal vocals is "weak" or whatever, as the trend is now. I'm just honestly getting tired of just about every new metal band doing the same thing - generic "urrr chug chug" vocals, generic sound, instead of trying some new stuff. I guess the "_____-core" metal is the trend that's displaced the emofag music, and while I like metal, I can't say I like the hordes of "metalheads" who've never even heard of Exodus or been to a concert without "hardcore moshing" (the kind of spastic, flailing stuff kids do now when they go to concerts) and "XXX straight-edge" kids more than I do emofags. Hopefully they all move on to something else, like enjoying silence, as their next trend.
I have an undying, ruthless, black hatred for SOAD. I can't stand their music, I can't stand the political crape they constantly pull, and they blow gay goats live. I saw them at Ozzfest back in '06, and between Serg acting drunk, hardly singing, and constantly walking off stage, the songs being utterly incomprehensible, and the 5 minute uber-liberal political diatribe between each song, I just wanted to napalm the stage. I mean, Christ on a bouncy stick, I liked
Disturbed better and typically I can't stand neo-nu-metal mainstream bullsh*t.
I've got a rather large collection of metal (from stuff that scares people, to stuff most metalheads would turn up their noses at and call gay).
Quickest way I know of listing what I have and listen to, heh.
A lot of people rag on Nightwish with Annette instead of Tarja (not sure if you follow Nightwish, but they're a great band), but I saw them live about 2 months ago and it was an absolute epic concert. Course, ignore the fact that there were only about 30 real metalheads there (people were wearing polos tucked into khakis at a Nightwish concert, What mate?), but they're still great (and Annette is pretty damned hot, too). I'm not exactly the typical metalhead, though.