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Hey, could someone recommend me some Heavy Metal and punk rock-type bands?

...I was looking, but everything I found wasn't that great. Arguably, no punk rock except for them sounds good to me after I listened to the Dead Kennedys (Curse you and your chocolately goodness!)

Then we get to heavy metal.

I tried Nine Inch Nails. I expect deep sympathy from everyone for having been exposed to that.

Black Sabbath and Dio are great. Try Dio's first album, Holy Diver, and Sabbath's Heaven and Hell album. As well as the Paranoid album by Sabbath (Can't forget that!) Motorhead is also good if you don't mind vocals that sound like ground gravel. I like them, but honestly, Lemmy can't sing.

Fugazi?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJFWirQ3ks

Leftover Crack

go on, go download some.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZEYTk3Garxo

and also maybe some Bad brains, rancid, minor threat, Uk subs, subhumans, choking victim, INDK, voodoo glow skulls, operation ivy, misfits, sex pistols, slits to name a few..

Holy crap...

I just found out that I've listened to stuff like the Dead Kennedys for so long that actual good singing sounds whiny...

Try these guys (http://www.myspace.com/thegrumpy) out. They have a song called Asstastic, how bad can they be?

And no I'm not in or involved with that band.

Hey, could someone recommend me some Heavy Metal and punk rock-type bands?

...I was looking, but everything I found wasn't that great. Arguably, no punk rock except for them sounds good to me after I listened to the Dead Kennedys (Curse you and your chocolately goodness!)

Then we get to heavy metal.

I tried Nine Inch Nails. I expect deep sympathy from everyone for having been exposed to that.

Napalm Death. "Order of the leech", ""words from the exit wound" "smear campaign" should get you started. Slayer, nearly anything by them..."God hates us all" being a particular favourite. Carcass, now defunct but "heartwork" is a classy album by any standard.......

Heavy Metal? Modern, or classic?
I'd give Black Sabbath's "Paranoid", Iron Maiden's "Powerslave", and/or Judas Priest's "Screaming for Vengeance"...
more modern stuff... I still kind-of like a Greek band called Firewind. Their "Forged by Fire" album is the only one I own, so I'm afraid it's the only one I can reccommend however.

All that said, heavy metal's not really my bag any more, as can be seen from my sig. If you're up for something a bit different, try something out fo that lot (though I don't think you'd be much up for such a drastic move as onto Joni Mitchell, neccessarily, straight from NIN. :p)

Enjoy, in any case.

If you don't mind the obscurity of those artists and have bittorrent or emule:

Freibeuter AG: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/1669/?refuid=31458
Chili 70: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/904/?refuid=31458

Tool. Unquestionably.

Rage (standart heavy metal with great vocals): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_%28band%29

I recomend Soundchaser and Unity.

Soilwork (alternative heavy metal): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soilwork

Figure Number Five is more standart, while Chainheart Machine is more alternative, but considered one of their best. I liked Figure Number Five more.

Velvet Revolver (pop heavy metal): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_revolver

They only have one album, which is called Contraband.

And if you´re really interested in diferent stuff, The Gathering (trance+instrumental), Nocturnal Rites (hard heavy metal), Dream Theater (progressive), Liquid Tension Experiment (instrumental), Blind Guardian (epic heavy metal).

Tool. Unquestionably.
Hell, yes. And Isis, Neurosis and Converge.

Here's a great resource (http://www.bnrmetal.com/).

I'm more of a metal guy, but here are my two punk recommendations:

For classic punk, The Anti-Nowhere League. I Hate People is probably their best song.

For newer punk, Anal ****. Seriously - that's their name. AxCx goes out of their way to be offensive, and as such they're often quite funny.

DragonForce (http://www.myspace.com/dragonforce)
Arch Enemy (http://www.myspace.com/archenemy)
Children of Bodom (http://www.myspace.com/childrenofbodom)

Black Sabbath and Dio are great. Try Dio's first album, Holy Diver, and Sabbath's Heaven and Hell album. As well as the Paranoid album by Sabbath (Can't forget that!) Motorhead is also good if you don't mind vocals that sound like ground gravel. I like them, but honestly, Lemmy can't sing.
Lemmy can sing. He just doesn't most of the time. But he puts up a decent vocal in tracks like Nightmare/The Dreamtime and 1916.

Oh, and I saw Dio performing with Black Sabbath earlier this month (Megadeth and Down opened). That was an amazing show.

Black Sabbath (first 8 albums, I fucking hate Dio), Slayer, Megadeth, Electric Wizard (Doom/Sludge metal, so it might be a bit slow for you), Mastodon, Ministry (Particularly the album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs), Asesino, Brujeria, and Vader are my suggestions for Heavy Metal.

I don't really listen to punk...

Lemmy can sing. He just doesn't most of the time. But he puts up a decent vocal in tracks like Nightmare/The Dreamtime and 1916.

Oh, and I saw Dio performing with Black Sabbath earlier this month (Megadeth and Down opened). That was an amazing show.

You saw the Heaven and Hell tour? Man, that's awesome.

To-Mera (http://www.myspace.com/tomeraband)
Anaal Nathrakh (http://www.myspace.com/anaalnathrakh)

Symphony X.

You saw the Heaven and Hell tour? Man, that's awesome.
First show (Vancouver). It was great to hear some of the lesser known songs like Lady Evil and Falling Off the Edge of the World.

I love Ronnie. I have all his stuff starting in 1958 (7" single Lover, by Ronnie and the Red Caps - Conquest B-side). Ronnie sings back-up on Lover, and plays feature trumpet on Conquest. He didn't sing lead until their 1959 single An Angel is Missing.

Most of the suggestions that I've heard are good, with the exception of the atrocious Anal ****.

Anyways, for punk: The Gits, The Plasmatics, Bikini Kill, The Damned, The Crucifucks, The Dicks, Cryptic Slaughter, The Lunachicks, Butthole Surfers (except for Weird Revolution), and The Wipers should get you started.

For metal: Cradle of Filth, Dark Tranquillity, Fear Factory, Celtic Frost, Testament, Amon Amarth, and Venom should get you started there.
I left off slower doomy bands like Cathedral and Candlemass and slow industrial metal like Godflesh or Jesu, because I doubt they're your thing.

Darkthrone, Converge, Orchid, Saetia, Burzum, Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Iskra.

I myself am partial to Lordi, they're very over the top metal. I'm not much of a metal fan, but they're quite interesting.

What's you favourite Colour (http://www.livingcolour.com/), baby?

For great metal[in my opinion] look up:

Slayer
Cradle of filth
Rammstein[German]
Avenged Sevenfold
Damageplan
Pantera

hmm, where to start...

Arcturus
Age of Silence
Winds
The Kovenant (earlier stuff)
Mirrorthrone
Equilibrium (the german one)
Falkenbach
Finntroll
Ensiferum
Asmegin
Borknagar
Burzum
Cynic
Diabolical MAsquerade
Einherjer
Fuck...I'm Dead
Himinbjorg
Jotunspor
Kalmah
Necrophagist
Nile
Otyg
Sacramentum
Skyfire
Summoning
Sunn O)))
Thyrfing
Tyr
Unexpect
Vintersorg
Vital Remains
Waylander
Windir
Wintersun
Wolf Eyes
Woodtemple
Xasthur

tool- unique music (kinda slow and soft most of the time but its well done) and good lyrics
metallica- nuff said
soad (system of a down)- the music is fairly good and the lyrics have an outraged activist ring to them (but some of the songs suxxor) (and most of the time they make 'joke' songs like this cocaine makes me feel like I'm on this song and ddevil that only make sense in the way that they don't make sense)

Iron Maiden is always a classic choice. You can have so much fun tracing bands that were influenced by them. Sonta Arctica, for example.

Try a band called Kasabian, the track is Clubfoot. Very groovy.

Or Kyuss - Demon Cleaner

OR, for a very fucked up and strange band, try 'The Undoing of David Wright'. These guys are loons.

Symphony X.

Hooray for you.

I would recommend collecting the complete works of Iron Maiden. once you've gotten all that under your belt, you'll be ready to walk the path of the enlightened to the glorious land that is Power Metal.
To start off in power metal, I'd suggest listening to DragonForce. They're failry mainstream as power metal goes, and people who aren't familiar with the genre tend to get into them fairly easy. However, they really aren't that great a band. After that you can move on to such bands as:
Helloween
Grave Digger
Rage
Hammerfall
Rhapsody (of Fire)
Symphony X
Sonata Arctica
Stratovarius
Kamelot
Falconer
Dragonland
Edguy
Elvenking
Steel Attack
Angra
Vision Divine
and many others

Hooray for you.

I would recommend collecting the complete works of Iron Maiden. once you've gotten all that under your belt, you'll be ready to walk the path of the enlightened to the glorious land that is Power Metal.
To start off in power metal, I'd suggest listening to DragonForce. They're failry mainstream as power metal goes, and people who aren't familiar with the genre tend to get into them fairly easy. However, they really aren't that great a band. After that you can move on to such bands as:
Helloween
Grave Digger
Rage
Hammerfall
Rhapsody (of Fire)
Symphony X
Sonata Arctica
Stratovarius
Kamelot
Falconer
Dragonland
Edguy
Elvenking
Steel Attack
Angra
Vision Divine
and many others

You, sir, are my new favorite person on this forum.

Hey, could someone recommend me some Heavy Metal and punk rock-type bands?

...I was looking, but everything I found wasn't that great. Arguably, no punk rock except for them sounds good to me after I listened to the Dead Kennedys (Curse you and your chocolately goodness!)

Then we get to heavy metal.

I tried Nine Inch Nails. I expect deep sympathy from everyone for having been exposed to that.

When all else fails, turn to the classics (http://www.ramones.com/) :D

I tried Nine Inch Nails. I expect deep sympathy from everyone for having been exposed to that.

You get no sympathy from me...*is a NIN fan*

Most of the bands I would recommend have already been mentioned...(Blind Guardian, Tool, Rammstein, Arch Enemy, Fear Factory, System of a Down, etc.)

I'll throw a few more out there...
In Flames (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flames)
Iced Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iced_Earth)
Machine Head (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Head_%28band%29)
Mudvayne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudvayne)

Try a band called Kasabian, the track is Clubfoot. Very groovy.
:confused:

Are you recommending them as punk or metal? They can hardly be described as either of them, but I'm still interested.

Sabaton and Persuader are really good.
In fact,i think i started listening to Sabaton following a recommendation on a similar forum.

Electric Wizard are the heaviest band in the universe. :)

Hell, yes. And Isis, Neurosis and Converge.


Yay. :)



For newer punk, Anal ****. Seriously - that's their name. AxCx goes out of their way to be offensive, and as such they're often quite funny.

They're not really new... (and they're shit)


Or Kyuss - Demon Cleaner

:fluffle:

The whole point of Anal **** is they're the worst band ever. That's why it's funny. The fact that it often manages to be catchy just adds to it all.

Testament and Bolt Thrower are my favourite metal bands

me also likes Sepultura today :)


and Anal **** are hilarious :p

You, sir, are my new favorite person on this forum.

*feels all warm and fuzzy*

I've heard an Electric Wizard song. I thought it was pretty good.

Soo...here's my library of heavy metal, as it is. You guys convinced me to grab a bit of Iron Maiden. It's pretty good.

Apocalyptica
-Reflections
-Cult
Avenged Sevenfold
-City of Evil
-Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Iron Maiden
-Killers (Limited Edition)
Send More Paramedics
-A Feast for the Fallen
Sonata Arctica
-Ecliptica
-Reckoning Night


And then, punk.

Bad Religion
-How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Dead Kennedys
-Bedtime For Democracy
-Frankenchrist
-Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
-Give Me Convienence or Give Me Death
-Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God we Trust, Inc.
The Ramones
-Acid Eaters
-Brain Drain
-It's Alive
Voodoo Glow Skulls
-Firme

You better appreciate this, because joining old shopping lists and weeding out the non-PC/punk/metal (which I think I've managed now) took far longer than I'd anticipated. Anyway, here's a ton of suggestions covering the last 3 decades of the bits of punk & metal I enjoy:

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A Global Threat
A-Political
Abrasive Wheels
Abstürzende Brieftauben
Abwärts
ACAB
Andanada 7
Adicts
Adolescents
Against All Authority
Against Me!
Agent Bulldogg
Agnostic Front
Alice Donut
Amen 81
Analogs
Angel City Outcasts
Angelic Upstarts
Angora Static
Angry Samoans
Anti Pasti
Anti Product
Anti Cimex
Anti-NoWhere League
Antidote
Antischism

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Arschgefickte Gummifotzen
Artless
Asbest
Asocial
Asta Kask
Atari Teenage Riot
Aus Rotten
Auswurph
Avskum

Badlands
Banner of Thugs
Bannlyst
Beefeater
Beerzone
Bierpatioten
Biohazard
Bitterbois
Black Flag
Blaggers
Blasted Mechanism
Bleach Boys
Blind Idiot God
Blitz
Blood For Blood
Boikot
Bolchoi
Bolt Thrower
Bonehouse
Boot Party
Boots And Braces
Bound for Glory
Boxhamsters
Brassknuckle Boys
Bread And Water
La Brigada Del Vizio
Broilers
Broken Bones
Bruisers
Brutal Truth
Bulldozer
Business
Butthole Surfers
Buzzcocks

Canalterror
Cannibal Corpse
Capdown
Capitalist Casualties
Casualties
Cathedral
Cela Nr.3
Cerebros Exprimidos
Chaos Rabak
Chaos UK
Chaos Z
Cheap Sex
Children Of Bodom
Choking Victim
Circle Jerks
Citizen Fish
Coalesce
Cockney Rejects
Colera
Combat 84
Condemned 84
Conflict
Cotzraitz
Crass
Crise Total
Crucifix
Cut My Skin

Daily Terror
Damned
Danzig
Dead and Gone
Deadguy
Dead Kennedys
Dead Milkmen
Deadline
Demolition Hammer
Descendents
Dicks
Dillinger Escape Plan
Dimple Minds
Dirt
DRI
Discharge
Discharger
Discipline
Disface
Disorder
Doc Martens Beat
Dritte Wahl
Dropkick Murphys
Dödelhaie

EA80
Earth Crisis
Ejected
Electric Deads
Emscherkurve 77
Endstufe
English Dogs
Enola Gay
ESA-Zecken
Evil Conduct
Exploited
External Menace

F-Minus
The Faction
Fahnenflucht
Fantômas
Los Fastidios
Fear
Flipper
Fluchtweg
Foetus Party
Foierstoss
Fraction Hexagone
La Fraction
Framtid
The Freak Accident
Die Frohlix
Frontkick
Fuckin Faces
Fudge Tunnel
Fugazi

GBH
Gaga
Garage Lopez
Geistige Verunreinigung
Generation 69
Germs
GISM
Glittertind
Glory Stompers
Gorilla Angreb
Government Issue
Gray Matter
Gundog
Gutter Demons
Guttermouth
Guttersnipe

HAF
Haggis
Hardsell
Hardskin
Hausvabot
Hellworms
Hôrs Contrôle
Hüsker Dü

Idiots
In Memoriam
Infa Riot
Insurgentes
Iron Maiden

Jerry's Kids
The Jesus Lizard
JFA

Kaaos
Kafka
Kalashnikov
Kataklysm
KGB
Killing Joke
Kina
Kjött
Kochise
Kreator
Die Kreuzen
KSU

Last Resort
Leftover Crack
Legion Of Thor
Lemonheads
Lewd

MIA
Macc Lads
Major Accident
Malevolent Creation
Mansfields
Mau Maus
MDC
Meatmen
Melvins
MenosPrecio
Midgårds Söner
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Minutemen
Misfits
Mob 47
Molotow Soda
Morbid Angel
Movement
Mr. Bungle
Mule

Nabat
Napalm Death
Negative Approach
Neurotic Arseholes
New Model Army
No Exit
NoRMAhl

Obituary
Odrörir
OHL
Oi Polloi
Oi! The Arrase
Oiro
Olho Seco
One Way System
Operation Ivy
Oppressed

PainKiller
Paragraf 119
Partisans
Penetration
Perkele
Peter and The Test Tube Babies
The Piss Drunks
Plasmatics
Poison Idea
La Polla
Post Regiment
Products
Prong
propagandhi
Protector
Prowlers

Queers
Quincy Punx

Rammstein
Ramones
Rasta Knast
Raw Power
Razorblade
Reagan Youth
Red Alert
Red Flag 77
Redd Kross
Residents
Riot Squad
Rise Against
River City Rebels
Rollins Band
Ron Ruins
Roots And Boots
Rose Tatoo
Rudimentary Peni
Ruts

Saccharine Trust
Saturn's Flea Collar
Scattergun
Schliessmuskel
Schlong
Sedes
Sepultura
Sham 69
Siekiera
Skatenigs
Skeptix
Skint
Skitsystem
Slaughter & The Dogs
Slayer
Sleep
Slime
Slits
Smegma
Snuff
Social Distortion
Sofa Glue
Sore Throat
Soziedad Alcoholica
Special Duties
Speedtwins
Spermbirds
Sprengsatz
SS Decontrol
SS Ultrabrutal
Steelpole Bathtub
Stengte Dører
Stiff Little Fingers
Stranglers
Strapping Young Lad
Street Terror
Street Troopers
Stupids
Subhumans
Suffocation
Suicidal Tendencies
Svart Framtid
Swiz
Tagada Jones
Terrorgruppe
Tom And The Bootboys
Total Chaos
Toxic Narcotic
Toxoplasma
TSOL
TZN-Xenna

UK Subs
Ultra Bidé
Unseen
Uproar
US Bombs
Used
Ümlaüt

Vacant Lot
Varukers
Verbal Abuse
Verbal Assault
Verlorene Jungs
Versaute Stiefkinder
Vibrators
Vice Squad
Victims Family
Les Vilains
Violators
Vitamin X
Void
Las Vulpess

Wannskraekk
War Of Destruction
WKG

X-Ray Spex

Youth Brigade

Zaunpfahl
Zbeer
Zeni Geva
Zero Boys
Zielone Zabki
ZSK

As I do in every single music thread I will recommend Genghis Tron. An acquired taste, I'll admit, but in my opinion they are teh awesomeness. A few songs, including 'Arms', the greatest joy ever experienced by mine ears, can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/genghistron

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:fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0KcMENB8EfI

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What, you have the X-Ray Specs, but no Sex Pistols or Leatherface? What's wrong with you?

What, you have the X-Ray Specs, but no Sex Pistols or Leatherface? What's wrong with you?

Sex Pistols suck, I'm shocked at the lack of Orchid though. :(

They're not really new... (and they're shit)
Any punk band that was founded after 1985 is new.

Sex Pistols suck, I'm shocked at the lack of Orchid though. :(You both missed the bit about it being bits and pieces of 2-3 years of shopping lists, didn't you? :p

Yes, I have SexPistols and Leatherface. If memory serves, I had an Orchid single once, but it got destroyed by rightious, alcohol-induced wrath over how horrible it was.

SexPistols don't suck. Not really. They were just the Wierd Al of punkrock, and like any joke, got old. Leatherface is brilliant tho.

You better appreciate this, because joining old shopping lists and weeding out the non-PC/punk/metal (which I think I've managed now) took far longer than I'd anticipated. Anyway, here's a ton of suggestions covering the last 3 decades of the bits of punk & metal I enjoy:
*snip*

No Shonen Knife (http://www.shonenknife.net/)?

How about Foreskin 500 (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=54484593)

ooh! and Gamma Ray! I forgot Gamma Ray.

Best punk/hardcore band I've seen in months?

Auktion (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7367216)

Swedish d-beat with gratuitous rock and roll guitar solos all played by a bunch of young disreputable crusty ne'erdowells.

The first two tracks on their *spit* Myspace ain't so hot, but those tracks off the album which are third and fourth on the player... wow.

You both missed the bit about it being bits and pieces of 2-3 years of shopping lists, didn't you? :p

No, I just forgot it by the time I was four posts away. :D


If memory serves, I had an Orchid single once, but it got destroyed by rightious, alcohol-induced wrath over how horrible it was.

This makes me sad. :(

Any punk band that was founded after 1985 is new.

Oh, you're one of those. :)

Best punk/hardcore band I've seen in months?

Auktion (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7367216)Hmmm... How to get to Köpi with a broken leg... Fuck :( No, I just forgot it by the time I was four posts away.Heh, I know the ... Hang on, what woz we talkin 'bout? This makes me sad.I thought non-MTV EMOs were supposed to get mad?

... I give up on trying to understand other people's cult's.

First show (Vancouver). It was great to hear some of the lesser known songs like Lady Evil and Falling Off the Edge of the World.

I love Ronnie. I have all his stuff starting in 1958 (7" single Lover, by Ronnie and the Red Caps - Conquest B-side). Ronnie sings back-up on Lover, and plays feature trumpet on Conquest. He didn't sing lead until their 1959 single An Angel is Missing.

I'm more of a Sabbath fan, and I used to prefer Ozzy. I got into Dio because of his tenure in Sabbath.

Sim, Los Fastidios? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfsp2sfVF2Y) Classic.

Iron Maiden.

Sim, Los Fastidios? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfsp2sfVF2Y) Classic.Many an occasion's been kicked off to the sound of that - pun intended :D

But in keeping with the theme; Klasse Kriminale? (http://www.radioblogclub.com/open/80220/antifa/Klass%20Kriminale%20-%20AntiPoliceHooligans)

SexPistols don't suck. Not really. They were just the Wierd Al of punkrock, and like any joke, got old. Leatherface is brilliant tho.

Rather quaint, that one.