Heavy music

[Hoss]

He is Legend

Underoath

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

The Showdown

[3'scompany]

He is Legend


Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

Two of my favorite bands! Are you a fan?

[DankStar]

I grabbed a handful from my collection that seemed to be somewhat in line with your list, with an old-school and thrash slant. As far as albums go, if you stick with a general rule of "their first few" that usually holds true, but not in all cases. Sorry if I repeated some from your list and others', I got in the zone. These are my tried and true faves; the bands I usually turn to.

Don't forget the new Testament album drops in April!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Akercocke
Amon Amarth
Amorphis
Anathema
Arch Enemy
At the Gates
Brutality
Carcass
Celtic Frost
Coroner
Cryptic Slaughter
Cynic
Dark Angel
Death
Deceased
Demolitin Hammer
Destruction
Desultory
Devastation
Dismember
Dissection
Entombed
Exhorder
Exodus
Fear Factory
Forbidden
Hellbastard
High on Fire
Hypocrisy
Immolation
In Flames
Incantation
Incubus
Into Eternity
Kreator
Malevolent Creation
Massacre
Master
Mastodon
Morgoth
Municipal Waste
Napalm Death
Obituary
Obliveon
Pestilence
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Sadus
Séance
Sepultura
Sodom
Suffocation
Testament
The Crown
The Haunted
Violator
Vio-lence
Voivod
W.A.S.P.
Wehrmacht
Whiplash

[Diocletian]

Almost all of you guys are recommending newer bands, like The Haunted, who, as far as I'm concerned don't hold a candle to older, better bands like these:

Vader
Death
Morbid Angel
Carcass
Deicide
Darkthrone
Krisiun
Lawnmower Deth



Or, for newer bands, Nile, Immolation, Angelcorpse and Akercocke.

[grumptruck]

August burns red - Messengers
Dillinger escape plan - Calculating infinity

[mediumpimpin]

So I went to Best Buy and picked up a cpl albums based on your recs. BB is close to my house otherwise I would have gone to an actual record store, but they've got a decent enuff selection I guess. I picked up Pig Destroyer-Phanton Limb, Iced Earth-Framing Armageddon, Chimaira-Resurrection, Zao-the Fear is what Keeps us Here and last but not least Pantera- A Vulger Display of Power. I got the Pantera b/c BB didn't have a lot of the bands on the big list I brought plus I've never really given them their fair due before.

Those should hold me over for a little while, but I will be shopping around for more stuff in the mean time. I'll definitely have to order some of the albums online tho, that always seems to be the case when I want to get more obscure stuff.

[Rowan]

Two of my favorite bands! Are you a fan?

I didn't know some of you's guys liked He is Legend! Me love them long time. They were also there at night at Verizion Wireless Theater.

He is Legend
Chimaira
Dragonforce
Killswitch Engage.


I've actually seen them play with Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. Not bad, they played a heavy sort of southern rock.

[DankStar]

Almost all of you guys are recommending newer bands, like The Haunted, who, as far as I'm concerned don't hold a candle to older, better bands .

as a band, The Haunted are up and down. their debut, in my opinion, was one of the best debuts in metal (and not that recent, really), and surely on my top 100 metal albums list (although I don't really maintain a list of those). but, to each his own.

[DankStar]

So I went to Best Buy and picked up a cpl albums based on your recs. BB is close to my house otherwise I would have gone to an actual record store, but they've got a decent enuff selection I guess. I picked up Pig Destroyer-Phanton Limb, Iced Earth-Framing Armageddon, Chimaira-Resurrection, Zao-the Fear is what Keeps us Here and last but not least Pantera- A Vulger Display of Power. I got the Pantera b/c BB didn't have a lot of the bands on the big list I brought plus I've never really given them their fair due before.

Those should hold me over for a little while, but I will be shopping around for more stuff in the mean time. I'll definitely have to order some of the albums online tho, that always seems to be the case when I want to get more obscure stuff.

reminds me of when I used to go in tape world and come out with a stack of helloween, celtic frost, obsession, saxon, onslaught, etc. i didn't know one from the other, but they had cool album covers, and awesome imagery. that's how ya gotta do it. jump in, sort it out later.

[Rich_T]

Almost all of you guys are recommending newer bands, like The Haunted, who, as far as I'm concerned don't hold a candle to older, better bands like these:

Some of us have had enough of listening to the same old stuff for 10 years.

[suislidE03]

So I went to Best Buy and picked up a cpl albums based on your recs. BB is close to my house otherwise I would have gone to an actual record store, but they've got a decent enuff selection I guess. I picked up Pig Destroyer-Phanton Limb, Iced Earth-Framing Armageddon, Chimaira-Resurrection, Zao-the Fear is what Keeps us Here and last but not least Pantera- A Vulger Display of Power. I got the Pantera b/c BB didn't have a lot of the bands on the big list I brought plus I've never really given them their fair due before.

Those should hold me over for a little while, but I will be shopping around for more stuff in the mean time. I'll definitely have to order some of the albums online tho, that always seems to be the case when I want to get more obscure stuff.

Man, Ive heard a lot of bad stuff come from Iced Earth recently. I will assume that they didnt have Burnt Offerings, cause that albums just hammers all of their others. Get it! or PM me.

[tc]

well i didn't read the whole thing...but you mean jarzombek (bad spelling) as in Spastic Ink brothers jarzombek!? ermmm...wow. no i mean WOW THAT'S FRIGGIN AWESOME!!!!!

give libido airbag and cock and ball torture a listen. very nice stuff man

[mediumpimpin]

well i didn't read the whole thing...but you mean jarzombek (bad spelling) as in Spastic Ink brothers jarzombek!? ermmm...wow. no i mean WOW THAT'S FRIGGIN AWESOME!!!!!

give libido airbag and cock and ball torture a listen. very nice stuff man

Yes sir! Check out Ron's new band, Blotted Science. BS has him on guitars, the bassist from Cannibal Corpse and the drummer from Behold the Arctopus. It's insanely technical and badass. Go to myspace there's like 8 streaming songs, Bleeding the Brain is my fave.

[drew_half_empty]

see, here's the thing

a lot of you are reccomending hard bands

hard & heavy are not the same thing

blood brothers are hard, slayer is hard, but neither of them are heavy

at least not compared to mammoth volume, the sword, isis...

[TheProphet]

S ... abb ... ath?

J/K

I've been partial to Jucifer lately ... but I have no idea how that rates on the hard/heavy scale. I have no idea what people classify stuff as now. I guess I was weaned on VH, Crue and Iron Maiden as being hard.

[theboatcandream]

see, here's the thing

a lot of you are reccomending hard bands

hard & heavy are not the same thing

blood brothers are hard, slayer is hard, but neither of them are heavy

at least not compared to mammoth volume, the sword, isis...

Melvins, Helmet, Kyuss

[rashayritto]

true that, discerning between "hard" and "heavy". but i guess the "hard" bands are just another subcategory of heavy. for heavy, hit up your history books and check out some DOOM bands. Cathedral? candlemass? Sleep is a good one too.

[Rowan]

Oh **** I can't believe I forgot these guys.

AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE

They're hard, heavy, whatever. Lets not get caught up in semantics here.


And Isis has heavy stuff? All I've heard from them is ambient type music.

[Rich_T]

And Isis has heavy stuff? All I've heard from them is ambient type music.

A lot of it has ambient breaks, but they get crushingly heavy in a lot of it. Check out The Red Sea EP, Celestial, Sgnl 05, Oceanic and Panopticon

[Rainmaker]

They're hard, heavy, whatever. Lets not get caught up in semantics here.

I don't think it's merely semantics here. The terms may imply very different things.

Heavy, at least to me, refers to a particular form of deep rhythmic weight... behind the beat and plodding or droning along.

eg. Black Sabbath's Electric Funeral

I think Hard indicates a solid and even 'slicing the beat' or slicing at the top of the beat style of rhythm - often at a fast tempo.

eg. Helloween's Push

One makes you feel like a dwarf with a monstrous 40 pound axe, whilst the other makes you feel like a swordsman in chain mail swinging two katanas at blinding speed.

My $0.02.