Best New Metal

[Bird]

So I'm going to start writing some songs for a metal EP of my own, just for fun, and I'm looking for some inspiration. I don't buy a lot of metal these days so I could use some suggestions to help  me find the good stuff. Used to listen to nothing but metal back in the 80's. Now it's mostly classic rock and jazz. So help me out, what will get the METAL FIRES going again  :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:

[Kepu]

depends on what kind of metal
some of my recommendations:

Power Metal: Blind Guardian(!!!); Angra; Lost Horizon; Avantasia
Symphonic Metal: Symphony X; Nightwish
Death Metal: Quo Vadis; Death (that's the name); Amon Amarth; Wintersun; In Flames; Kalmah; Children Of Bodom; Mors Principium Est;
Doom Metal: Agalloch; Katatonia; Electric Wizard; Novembers Doom
Progressive Metal:(my fav genre) Opeth; Ayreon; Arcturus; Green Carnation; Riverside; Sleepytime Gorilla Museum; In The Woods...; uneXpect; Winds;


I left lots of bands out of that list I thought you might know so that's kinda small list
and with metal it's kinda hard to put them into genres cuz they mix a lot of them, like Agalloch, and especially on the prog genre. Like Riverside and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum which occasionally doesn't have very much to do with metal at all


then some bands classic bands you should check out if you havn't:
W.A.S.P.; Exodus; Anthrax; Helloween; Iced Earth; Queensrÿche; Savatage; Stone; Tarot

[Bird]

It's tough to put some bands in one category since many of them combine many elements. I'm just looking for suggestions overall, even specific cds if you have favs. I'll have to get used to the growling vocals though   I'm probably most interested in progressive if I had to pick one genre. Looking at review of Mastodon, Lamb of God, Opeth, Meshuggah, and Children of Bodom on Amazon here.  :twisted:  :twisted:

[Kepu]

alright some awesome (some almost essential) metal CDs:

Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Deliverance
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Damnation (no growling at all, calm counterpart of Deliverance album)
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - Morningrise (basically any Opeth will do)
Ayreon - The Human Equation (features Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt)
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale (these Arcturus albums might a bit hard to get used to at first)
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth (and same with BG, mostly anything will do but these are the best)
Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness (one album, one song, it lasts for 60:06)
Green Carnation - A Blessing In Disguise
In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - Whoracle
Lost Horizon - Awakening The World
Angra - Temple Of Shadows
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
Pain Of Salvation - BE (I forgot this prog band out of the last list... BE is very hard to get into, but it's awesome)
Symphony X - The Divine Winds Of Tragedy
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Winds - Reflections Of The I
Riverside - Out Of Myself
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Amon Amarth - Versus The World
Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall
Edguy - Hellfire Club
Edguy - Rocket Ride
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (this one features... again! Mikael Åkerfeldt... though one warning, all Katatonia is very depressing music)
Mors Principium Est - The Unborn
Death - Symbolic
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Wintersun - Wintersun (self-titled)


That should keep you busy for a while :)
And remember, some of that stuff is hard to get into and will take a while... and I'm pretty sure you won't like some of the stuff there, that's just something I like

[Bird]

PDT_027   Wow, that's quite a list. Thanks for that I'll check them out... might take me a while  :lol:

[Muttley]

Check out Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour.  Fantastic album...

[chrisola]

http://www.bnrmetal.com/

check out the top 10 lists on there, this site is GREAT, a proper encylopedia metallicus ;)


Some random 'OMG I LOVE THIS ALBUM' cd's that come to mind:

Jesu - Jesu
Agalloch - The Mantle
Sculptured - Spirit Of The Lilly Is Aureoled
Atheist - Elements
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
Deicide - Stench Of Redemption
In Flames - Jester Race
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
Nevermore - Enemies Of Reality
Windir - 1184 / Arntor, Ein Windir / Likferd
X Japan - Art Of Life
Sentenced - The Funeral Album



Depends what sort of lyrics you want, in metal theres everything from fantasy,religious,themed,angst,historical styles etc etc

[Kepu]

yeah some more that comes to mind:

Sentenced - Crimson
Sentenced - Down
Sentenced - The Cold White Light
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Angra - Fireworks
Angra - Holy Land
Avantasia - The Metal Opera pt. I
Avantasia - The Metal Opera pt. II
Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination
Tarot - Suffer Our Pleasures
Tarot - For The Glory Of Nothing
Tarot - Spell Of Iron



And btw, is Nevermore really good? I never really got into them, where should I start?

[MDV]

I have to second the nevermore suggestion in particular, and add:

Straight up metal

Byzantine (their moto: "Beating the eyeliner off the face of metal")
Crowbar
DevilDriver
Soilwork
Lamb of God
Strapping Young Lad
The Haunted
Meshuggah

Death type stuff

Beneath the Massacre
Candlemass
Control Denied
Death
Cryptopsy
Gojira
Gorguts
Lykathea Aflame
Martyr
Necrophagist
Nile
Origin
Sleep Terror
Spawn of Possession
Suffocation
Textures
Vader
Vital Remains
At the Gates

Metalcore-ish (but good)

Despised Icon
Jonny Truant
Reflux

Unclassifiable.

Isis
Protest the Hero
Pelican
Mastodon
Pain of Salvation
Sikth

Honorable mention:

Pig Destroyer

Those would be some of my personal favourite new to new-ish heavy bands (tryin gnot to repeat any of the great suggestions so far)

[jt]

:D Pagans Mind - Enigmatic Calling [ imho the best Metal album of 2005]  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yER_PTPJlhI


If you like 80`s style Metal then check out

Randy Pipers Animal - Violent New Bread

http://www.myspace.com/randypipersanimal

Or  MIss Crazy - Miss Crazy

http://www.myspace.com/misscrazymusic


 :D  8)

[chrisola]

Kepu, yeah Nevermore are great...

start with the remixed Enemies of Reality imo :)

[Crazy_Joe]

Personally i liked Dreaming Neon Black and This Godless Endeavor more than Enemies of Reality.

And yeah Pagan's Mind, one of the best bands around!

[genocidal tendencies]

I can't be bothered repeating everyone else's suggestions so I'll just mention a few that I don't think anyone else will. Persuader are one of my all time favourite bands, all three of their albums are great but the hunter is a bit more melodic, evolution purgatory is a bit thrashier and when eden burns is a bit more epic. Their website (http://www.persuader.nu) has a web radio with shitety quality versions of a few from all the albums. Sonata arctica are definitely worth a look if you like power metal at all, silence is probably their best album. Also, nobody's mentioned machine head yet, and I know they're not that recent but they weren't around in the 80s.

[Davey]

Ensiferium (former band of the Wintersun vocalist i think. combine clean and growl-ish singing)

Korpiklaani (finnish folk metal band. they hands down rule. if you got a chance of seeing em in concert DO IT!)

Lordi (for the fun of it haha. i got 3 of their albums on friday and they're fun fun fun. easy listening, since it's just straight forward metal. no solos to speak of realy, but the songs are cool. all of them are done pretty much exactly the same way, but who cares hehe. great for parties)

[Hell Hound]

As for god like death metal bands:

Nocturnus
Edge of Sanity (Dan Swanö era)
Cynic
Pestilence
Sadist
Sadus (insane italian band)

In the challenging department :

Meshuggah (polyrythms to the extreme, listen to Destroy Erase Improve)
Fredrik Thordendal solo album (a more jazzy extention of Destroy Erase Improve, listen to the 1999 version)
Ephel Duath (A painter's palette : very jazzy/harcorish/madness and Pain Necessary to Know : more on the extreme free jazz/noise side)
Dilinger Escape Plan (Miss Machine : another jazz/hardcore/madness mix)

In the popish metalcore genre:

Killswitch Engage (easy mtv-like but honnest and fun, just watch their DVD, it's so funny!)