I used to like alot of rap/hip hop but most stuff you hear nowadays is so much crap I fell out of it. And I don't have the will to look up all these supposedly badass 'underground' artistes. I've found I prefer the music to th lyrics in general anyways.So I listen to alot of metal now. So surprised I have not seen the greatest metal band of all time mentioned: IRON MAIDEN. Seriously, bow down.So I listen to heavy metal like Maiden, Mastodon, Manowar. Also my fave subgenre is power metal, bands like Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Kamelot (amazing) and Sonata Arctica.I never liked death grunts so I was never much into death metal. The one Opeth I listened to left my ears hurting. But then came Metalocalypse and I thought Dethklok was awesome so I decided to look for some melodic death. And so Opeth isn't too bad anyway and I love Amon Amarth now. So much so I made "Cry of the Blackbirds" my ringtone on account of the awesome opening.Can't stand screeching though so black metal is more or less out.
i eh go debate the bands yuh call being pwr metal i fed up hear them classify them and declassify them but nice selection, especially the kamelot , i love karma.
Quote from: devon on January 24, 2007, 08:09:54 AMi eh go debate the bands yuh call being pwr metal i fed up hear them classify them and declassify them but nice selection, especially the kamelot , i love karma.You should check out Kamelot's last album, The Black Halo. Baddest power metal album I've ever heard.
Look out for Dethklok's first full length album entitled Dethalbum this Summer
well yes and no, metal had broken off from rock with bands like YES,WHO,Deep Purple and Iron Butterfly (or at least i thinks is iron butterfly :S) in the late '60s, it is only then there was no real genre for it, so it remained in rock, metal is more or less classified by emphasis on the guitars and the heavy vocals or heavy lyrics, thats how bands like zep came into it, their music per say isn't heavy but the lyrics are in your face, Maiden refined power and/or speed metal to an extent.
genres suck.