ok, if you wanna go meat 'n potatoes metal, AT THE GATES: SLAUGHTER OF THE SOUL.

its really hard to top that album as far as straight up "metal" goes.

its much more thrash, but Slayer's Reign In Blood is a must have as well.

for more modern stuff, Darkest Hour's "Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation" is incredible, and personally, The Black Dahlia Murder's "Unhallowed" is a favorite (i love the new album too. definitely recommended.)

its hard not to get really biased about this stuff. "Jane Doe" is probably my favorite album of all time, but i dunno if it qualifies for the "metal" list. its all subjective as to how/why you bracket things into genres.





i'm a huge grindcore fan.

I've been into Whitechapel recently, http://whitechapelmetal.com/ About the only metal band that's been brutal enough. Lyrics can't hear them but the growling vocals are perferct in my opinion. Super heavy, one guitarist has a 9 string so he can tune real low, not sure how low it is but it's wonderful.

oh, yeah.

kreator
sodom
zeni geva

that got me to work this morning

oh, yeah, and that reminds me:

this thread is not OT! it's proven that carrying a boombox blasting metal makes me ride faster!

oh also how could i forget! DEICIDE!

but yeah i feel like a lot of the bands are not really metal, but i love them regardless, if we're talking dystopia and crust i can't believe this thread has gone so long with out mentioning his hero is gone. but yeah i also second kreator.

venom mayhem hirax possessed

oooh Hirax, good one

oh i forgot KING DIAMOND


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GRAAAANDMAAAAAAA

well hell, if we're getting into crust.

blacken the skies
catharsis
discharge
amebix
requiem
tragedy

wasn't that new dystopia album supposed to come out this summer? what gives?

nausea
extreme noise terror
disrupt
concrete sox
doom
dystopia

damad
ruination
kill the man who questions
orchid
asterisk
nausum
jenny piccolo

i was at the ktmwq reunion show. it ripped.

also orchid isn't crust.

damnit

NICE TRY.

also catharsis is hilarious

there's a certain amount of overlap between metal, thrash, grindcore, crust, hardcore, etc...sometimes it's best not to worry about what the labels are, but more important to just rock out.

assuck

their singer taught me how to growl

Necrophagist

I also like Opeth a lot.

corrupted :)

Meshuggah
Pig Destroyer
Brutal Truth
Rune
Discordance Axis

Oh wow.

edit: I can't stop watching it.

Marco Minnemann is currently in Necrophagist.

LAMB OF GOD

The Haunted
Uneath
Machine Head
Devil Driver
Daath
Three Inches of Blood
Children of Bodom

and check out Exodus' "Riot Act"

Did anybody mention Judas Priest yet?

metal?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3tCY...eature=related