Never really got into metal however my exception to this is the album Sunbather by Deafheaven which is amazing. This is the opening track, 'Dream House':
@Briston_Addick my dying bride is a great name for a band! I’m not a metalhead, but may investigate on the name alone! PS. For the record, I’m happily married and wish no ill health to my wife haha!
@Briston_Addick my dying bride is a great name for a band! I’m not a metalhead, but may investigate on the name alone! PS. For the record, I’m happily married and wish no ill health to my wife haha!
My Dying Bride isn't a band to listen to if you're after happy clappy stuff - misery, pain, and dispair is the order of the day!
The music is a mixture of tempos, some fast but mostly slower, heavy, and most of the albums have a mournful violin.
This song more or less covers most of MDB's styles across 14 minutes. It's a re-recording of a track from their first album:
If you like your metal weird, extreme or completely deranged, I can help
My favourite metal albums are:
Jute Gyte - Perdurance (and Ship of Theseus) Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood Cleric - Retrocausal Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy Oranssi Pazuzu - Varahtelija Ulver - Bergtatt Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity) Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue Liturgy - The Ark Work Corpse Garden - IAO 269 Mastery - Valis Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley Gorguts - Obscura Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument Darkspace - Dark Space III Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It Cryptopsy - None So Vile The Wildhearts - Fishing For Luckies The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure Isis - Panopticon (this was kind of a gateway drug) Earth - Extra-Capsular Extraction (another gateway drug) Judas Iscariot - Heaven In Flames Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
...but I find most 'classic' metal kinda boring, so...pinch of salt
@Briston_Addick my dying bride is a great name for a band! I’m not a metalhead, but may investigate on the name alone! PS. For the record, I’m happily married and wish no ill health to my wife haha!
My Dying Bride isn't a band to listen to if you're after happy clappy stuff - misery, pain, and dispair is the order of the day!
The music is a mixture of tempos, some fast but mostly slower, heavy, and most of the albums have a mournful violin.
This song more or less covers most of MDB's styles across 14 minutes. It's a re-recording of a track from their first album:
The point where it all started to go wrong for Metallica ...
Ooh controversial! Some great songs on Metallica (Black album) including The Unforgiven, My Friend of Misery, Holier Than Thou etc. Of course the Load / Reload albums aren't great but still have some classics (less metal though I agree).
Still. Can't beat Welcome Home (Sanitarium) or Fade to Black from Puppets and Lightning albums. Or title track from MoP album.
Stay away from St Anger album though- definitely their lowest point.
I lean towards the hardcore side of metal and prefer it when things are a bit more avant garde. With that in mind:
Every Time I Die - There's 8 albums of genius in there but their latest might be their best The Dillinger Escape Plan Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Dance Gavin Dance Secret Band
ACDC: all of it up to Ballbreaker Accept: Balls to the Wall, Fast As a Shark Airbourne all of it Benedictum Most of the non-Ozzy Black Sabbath but not Dehumaniser or the Glenn Hughes stuff Black Spiders both albums Black Star Riders Cradle of Filth's esoteric covers of all sorts of stuff, their own material can be very hard work and wildly offensive Diamond Head's Lightning To The Nations Sabbat's For Those Who Died Testament: Dark Roots of Earth W.A.S.P's Headless Children Iron Maiden: from Number of The Beast to Fear of The Dark and most obviously everything Motorhead released from Overkill in 1979 onwards
ACDC: all of it up to Ballbreaker Accept: Balls to the Wall, Fast As a Shark Airbourne all of it Benedictum Most of the non-Ozzy Black Sabbath but not Dehumaniser or the Glenn Hughes stuff Black Spiders both albums Black Star Riders Cradle of Filth's esoteric covers of all sorts of stuff, their own material can be very hard work and wildly offensive Diamond Head's Lightning To The Nations Sabbat's For Those Who Died Testament: Dark Roots of Earth W.A.S.P's Headless Children Iron Maiden: from Number of The Beast to Fear of The Dark and most obviously everything Motorhead released from Overkill in 1979 onwards
Just a dozen or so to get you started
I love AC/DC, one of the all time great bands. But metal they ain’t - for me they are pure rock with a bit of roll.
If you're after something a bit more modern, killswitch engage are superb, and their side project ablum times of grace - hymn of a broken man, is one of the best albums I own. Some of the bullet for my valentine stuff is great, and 36 crazyfists albums are great too. A day to remember are another good band.
Metallica (IMO by far and away the most accomplished metal band of all time) can give you anything from all-out thrash on their early albums, to ballads and grunge. They get criticised a lot but a lot of that is down to being so good at what they do that they outgrew the 'club' nature of the genre. The new Hardwired album is absolutely brilliant. They have something for everyone.
Check out their live album 'S&M' where they collaborate with an enormous orchestra and it works so well. Many of the tracks from Load and Reload are really good and had they been released by a different band would have probably got a lot of praise.
Those who say metal "is just all noise" couldn't be more wrong. You just don't get its greatness!
Some of the suggestions are very old-school. If you are just "trying it out" and don't want to be stuck 30 or 40 years ago :-), I'd suggest starting by listening to eg Kerrang top 20 (TV on Thursdays or radio on Saturdays), which will be a mixture of current sub-genres from hardcore to pop-punk, see which bands you like, look them up to see which sub-genres they associate with and then go from there.
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The music is a mixture of tempos, some fast but mostly slower, heavy, and most of the albums have a mournful violin.
This song more or less covers most of MDB's styles across 14 minutes. It's a re-recording of a track from their first album:
Edit: it's also the track that has the band's name as one of the lines in the lyrics.
My favourite metal albums are:
Jute Gyte - Perdurance (and Ship of Theseus)
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
Cleric - Retrocausal
Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy
Oranssi Pazuzu - Varahtelija
Ulver - Bergtatt
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity)
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Liturgy - The Ark Work
Corpse Garden - IAO 269
Mastery - Valis
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Gorguts - Obscura
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Darkspace - Dark Space III
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
The Wildhearts - Fishing For Luckies
The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure
Isis - Panopticon (this was kind of a gateway drug)
Earth - Extra-Capsular Extraction (another gateway drug)
Judas Iscariot - Heaven In Flames
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel
Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
...but I find most 'classic' metal kinda boring, so...pinch of salt
Opeth as well
Still. Can't beat Welcome Home (Sanitarium) or Fade to Black from Puppets and Lightning albums. Or title track from MoP album.
Stay away from St Anger album though- definitely their lowest point.
Every Time I Die - There's 8 albums of genius in there but their latest might be their best
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo
Dance Gavin Dance
Secret Band
A great -singalong album.
Accept: Balls to the Wall, Fast As a Shark
Airbourne all of it
Benedictum
Most of the non-Ozzy Black Sabbath but not Dehumaniser or the Glenn Hughes stuff
Black Spiders both albums
Black Star Riders
Cradle of Filth's esoteric covers of all sorts of stuff, their own material can be very hard work and wildly offensive
Diamond Head's Lightning To The Nations
Sabbat's For Those Who Died
Testament: Dark Roots of Earth
W.A.S.P's Headless Children
Iron Maiden: from Number of The Beast to Fear of The Dark
and most obviously everything Motorhead released from Overkill in 1979 onwards
Just a dozen or so to get you started
Metallica (IMO by far and away the most accomplished metal band of all time) can give you anything from all-out thrash on their early albums, to ballads and grunge. They get criticised a lot but a lot of that is down to being so good at what they do that they outgrew the 'club' nature of the genre. The new Hardwired album is absolutely brilliant. They have something for everyone.
Check out their live album 'S&M' where they collaborate with an enormous orchestra and it works so well. Many of the tracks from Load and Reload are really good and had they been released by a different band would have probably got a lot of praise.
Those who say metal "is just all noise" couldn't be more wrong. You just don't get its greatness!