Favorite metal albums

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

I don't really like Metal but I think Manowar is pretty funny. I'd pay to go see them.

I want to go see Dethklok on tour. If you are unfamiliar, Dethklok is the band from the cartoon Metalocalypse. The guys who write all of the music are going on tour, with Gene Hoglan from Strapping Young Lad on drums.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

My hubsand likes:

Meshuggah...

Sikth...

Paradise Lost...

Cryptopsy...

Plus most...if not all of the bands already listed.

He's a huge metal fan...me, I can handle some of it. But I love, Love, Love to watch him play drums.

Heh, that in a pretty similar direction to what my husband likes.

I generally noticed two things in any large assembly of metalheads:

1) Men outnumbered women generally 3 or 4 to 1.

2) All the women were very visibly taken.

Women and metal appear to not go together. I guess a woman has to be predisposed to it somehow. I like my metal inspired by historical figures, events, works, because I am a history nerd. This is something that you will find everywhere in metal in away that is lacking in most other genres beyond folk itself. Something like:

Menhir's Hildesbrandslied I (The Lay of Hildebrand)

And I will admit, the singer's voice is unbelievably hot.

Brujeria's Division del Norte (The Northern Division)

Skyforger's Kauja Pie Saules (The Battle of Saule)

We saw them in 2005 in Dortmund and we drank some beers with them after the show. They were pretty cool.

Tyr's Regin Smiður

Then just because I just saw this and it is awesome. Has nothing to do with anything else:

Japanische Kampfhoerspiele's Kundenbetreuer (Customer Service Rep)

Dialogue is "I will now connect you to a customer service representative. We ask for your patience. Please give me your customer number. What is it you are calling about? What was that? Again please." Repeat.

Manowar is parodied by an Italian band called Nanowar. I am not sure Manowar needed parody, they seem to do a good job themselves, but it exists or existed.

[Mags 112]

I spent many of my teen years at metal concerts. Bands like:

Slayer (I adored Tom Araya!)

Metallica

Megadeth,

Motorhead,

AC/DC

Guns N' Roses

Killing Joke (not really metal but hey, whatever!)

and quite a few more that I really can't remember.

I mostly went to smaller local concerts when given the chance, we had some really good local metal bands.

[jundp 191]

Menhir : Buchonia

One of my fave albums.

[desperate_heart 0]

Hi Jesse, its really cool idea to post a new topic about Heavy Metal. As you guess, I am a '80s metal fan, because I started to listen heavy metal in '87 with Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time, I really miss and love those times, oh man it was really cool because every band was releasing another boom! I mean Iron Maiden's Somewher in Time, WASP's Inside the Electric Circus, Live in the Raw, Judas Priest's Ram It Down, and much more, It was golden age of HM, in the '90s it went down all metal bands changed their style for example Metallica, even Iron Maiden changed its style a little bit, Alice Cooper, he changed too but there are some new bands those I really like to listen Night Wish, Maryln Manson, they are not bad. I will listen to Heavy Metal until the day I die, When I will be 90(of course If I live) I want to wear my Judas Priest t-shirt and to say "Heavy Metal Rules"

Edited January 12, 2008 by desperate_heart

[Dr. Obvious 49]

Menhir : Buchonia

One of my fave albums.

I think I like Germanenkunst the best from that album. My favorite song overall by them is Wotans Runenlied off of Ziuwari. That song is just amazing. Das Hildebrandslied Teil I is a close second. I would like to see them live, dunno if that will happen though.

As you guess, I am a '80s metal fan, because I started to listen heavy metal in '87 with Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time, I really miss and love those times, oh man it was really cool because every band was releasing another boom! I mean Iron Maiden's Somewher in Time, WASP's Inside the Electric Circus, Live in the Raw, Judas Priest's Ram It Down, and much more,

Did you ever see Twisted Sister?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

No Slipknot? Nine Inch Nails? Tool?

that's pop.

Seriously...that's like saying the Clash was pop. Pop (popular) can be applied to any band that achieves commercial success. Just as popularity doesn't necessarily indicate greatness, a band that achieves popularity doesn't automatically make them cheesy.

Anyway, I'm not how accurate such labels as Heavy Metal or Rap can be. Was Rage Against The Machine, Rap or Heavy Metal? Not every band's style can fit so nicely into one category.

[Fuzzness 2]

Metallica (old), Maiden, Sabbath, Motorhead, Stratovarius, and Dragonforce are my faves

oh and Sepultura

Edited January 12, 2008 by Fuzzness

[~Chad~ 0]

In 2004 I saw Godsmack and Metallica in New Orleans, AWESOME concert!

[peejay 327]

Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, etc. are all good stuff. Not all of it is considered true heavy metal.

I got burned out on the stuff I grew up on as a teenager. Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, James Gang, Guess Who, The Who, Steppenwolf, etc., etc. Every once in a while I dig out my old vinyl to listen.

[almaty 19]

ac/dc...

[eric&gen 0]

Yeah horns high

AC/DC

OZZYOSBOURNE

LAMB OF GOD

ROB ZOMBIE

KORN

WASP

MOTLEY CRUE

KISS

The best metal band of all is VANHALEN.

[Jamie76 0]

I think most would agree, this is all the metal one needs, and then some:

[Cecile and Bryan 0]

No Slipknot? Nine Inch Nails? Tool?

that's pop.

Seriously...that's like saying the Clash was pop. Pop (popular) can be applied to any band that achieves commercial success. Just as popularity doesn't necessarily indicate greatness, a band that achieves popularity doesn't automatically make them cheesy.

Anyway, I'm not how accurate such labels as Heavy Metal or Rap can be. Was Rage Against The Machine, Rap or Heavy Metal? Not every band's style can fit so nicely into one category.

yeah labels are not always easy to use.

This post is about "metal albums" but does it refer to only heavy metal and black metal or all the subcategories of metal? like heavy, black, death metal, nu metal, symphonic metal, gothic metal, doom, industrial, etc...

Anyway, Nine Inch Nails and Type O Negative rock!

[Jeraly 4]

My hubsand likes:

Meshuggah...

Sikth...

Paradise Lost...

Cryptopsy...

Plus most...if not all of the bands already listed.

He's a huge metal fan...me, I can handle some of it. But I love, Love, Love to watch him play drums.

*drools* Yeah - I need to get Jeremy into playing drums... Purely because it would be.... *tries to think of some excuse* Oh ok - just cause it's hot

I don't own many albums... I did try and indoctrinate my little bro when he was about 5 though (he's 20 now)... Made him a compilation tape of Iron Maiden, Metallica etc... now he's a HUGE Maiden fan and a complete metalhead with goth tendencies (it's an image thing- he's like a 14 year old )

Remember first listening to Fear of the Dark album when I was about 13/14 and thinking it just sounded like screaming... it is one of the albums I actually own now

Thought I'd stand up with Mags for us girlies