ANY METAL HEADS IN HERE?

[Atrocious]

Originally Posted by floorpuncher

If you want some new bands try checking out any of the following...

Face of Reality
Maroon
Arise and Ruin
See You Next Tuesday
Turns to Ashes
Winds of Plague
The Blinding Light
The Day Light Curse
Nights Like These
Bridge to Solace
The Chariot
Symphony in Peril
Daysend
December
Demise of Eros
Destroy The Runner
Elysia
Fall of Serenity
Fear My Thoughts
Ghost and The Storm Outside
Killwhitneydead

Just let me know if you want some more... I've got tons of them...

I've played with Winds of Plague, Nights Like These, and Elysia. and I've seen most of those bands anyways...

[mr.handsomeman]

Originally Posted by Atrocious

I've played with Winds of Plague, Nights Like These, and Elysia. and I've seen most of those bands anyways...

you've played with Nights Like These? do you have any proof? If you do, then I will give you mad props, but if not, then I can't really trust it.

[Atrocious]

Originally Posted by mr.handsomeman

you've played with Nights Like These? do you have any proof? If you do, then I will give you mad props, but if not, then I can't really trust it.

www.myspace.com/letterstolaodicea

We have a list of bands that we've played with, and since i'm at school, Myspace is blocked.

[Dark616]

justy got into otep! Confrontation ftw

[mr.handsomeman]

nice man! well I'm at school too, so I guess I'll have to check it out whnen I get home, thanks then for the link man.

[Locust Star]

I love heavy metal music, but the genre is filled with elitist fans. That being said, I tend to avoid contact with other metal fans, cause I don't wish to get into pitiful internet feuds.

Some bands I like are The Sword, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Children of Bodom, Morbid Angel, Death, Weedeater, Neurosis, Mastodon, Pentagram, Watain, Electric Wizard, Witchfinder General, Immortal, Fireball Ministry, I've been into a lot of doomy stuff lately.

I also like others kinds music besides metal.

[mr.handsomeman]

Originally Posted by Locust Star

I love heavy metal music, but the genre is filled with elitist fans. That being said, I tend to avoid contact with other metal fans, cause I don't wish to get into pitiful internet feuds.

Some bands I like are The Sword, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Children of Bodom, Morbid Angel, Death, Weedeater, Neurosis, Mastodon, Pentagram, Watain, Electric Wizard, Witchfinder General, Immortal, Fireball Ministry, I've been into a lot of doomy stuff lately.

I also like others kinds music besides metal.

what do you mean by elitist fans?

[Locust Star]

Originally Posted by mr.handsomeman

what do you mean by elitist fans?

For instance, some people don't like "nu-metal" bands like Korn, Slipknot, and label them as "false metal". It goes much further then that but it would take hours to give all the possible elitist "fan-types".

A good place to encounter elitist metal fans is Last.fm, its infested.

[mr.handsomeman]

well, I know that slipknot and Korn are metal, but I don't like it at all, i mean, maybe like one or two songs, but it's not really metal.
metal is like....As I Lay Dying, and The Chariot, but Black Sabbath and them can qualify too, just as old school metal.
Am i an elitist?

[Locust Star]

Originally Posted by mr.handsomeman

well, I know that slipknot and Korn are metal, but I don't like it at all, i mean, maybe like one or two songs, but it's not really metal.
metal is like....As I Lay Dying, and The Chariot, but Black Sabbath and them can qualify too, just as old school metal.
Am i an elitist?

I wouldn't say your elitist.

However, when I think of metal As I Lay Dying and The Chariot are not the first bands to come to mind. Usually Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Megadeth. Granted metalcore is metal influenced but compared to the bands mentioned above theres no contest as far as them being heavy metal bands (no one can debate whether or not that they are) and all of them are pretty much classic bands. I like metalcore (Lamb of God, Horse the Band, Bullet For My Valentine) but a lot of the bands sound very similar and it gets tiring. Metalcore bands are another group that is looked down upon by many elitist metal fans.

[mr.handsomeman]

Originally Posted by Locust Star

I wouldn't say your elitist.

However, when I think of metal As I Lay Dying and The Chariot are not the first bands to come to mind. Usually Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Megadeth. Granted metalcore is metal influenced but compared to the bands mentioned above theres no contest as far as them being heavy metal bands (no one can debate whether or not that they are) and all of them are pretty much classic bands. I like metalcore (Lamb of God, Horse the Band, Bullet For My Valentine) but a lot of the bands sound very similar and it gets tiring. Metalcore bands are another group that is looked down upon by many elitist metal fans.

Ah, i see what you are speaking of now
I think I may like metalcore more than I like metal. I don't know. I like them both a lot. but, that's what I like.
Which do you like more?

[Atrocious]

Korn and Slipknot aren't metal. There's different kind of metal through the decade, what that guy is talking about would now probably be called like heavy metal or mall metal now. It's not as upbeat as most current metal is.

[Little Horn]

Originally Posted by Atrocious

Korn and Slipknot aren't metal. There's different kind of metal through the decade, what that guy is talking about would now probably be called like heavy metal or mall metal now. It's not as upbeat as most current metal is.

I find it tiresome to try and classify bands into a specific genre. I find it pointless. I don't have time to sit a create musical sub-genre's in an attempt to separate a "good" band from a "bad" band. To me that's the only reason that people come up with these ridiculous sub-genres. They find it hard to put Slipknot into the same category as Zao because Zao is a good metal band and they don't want to sully the name of "metal" with the name of Slipknot so they make these stupid sub-genres in order to draw a definate line.

Am i alone? Don't you think it's a little ridiculous to say; "Slayer isn't metal, they're thrash"? It's stupid. I mean if you really wanted to get technical about it all, you could go so far as to say that Iron Maiden isn't Metal because they brought a punk influence into their music and seemed to ditch a lot of the blues influences that bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and UFO used as the foundation for the majority of their early song writing.

[Atrocious]

Zao isn't a good metal band.

[Little Horn]

Originally Posted by Atrocious

Zao isn't a good metal band.

I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that and move on...

[mr.handsomeman]

Originally Posted by floorpuncher

I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that and move on...

I agree, I'm going to do the same,
but as far as labeling bands and it becoming tiresome and pointless, I can see what you're saying, but I know that I come up with those genres as well, such as Death metal and Speed Metal and what not,

[Atrocious]

Everything has to be categorized as specific as possible in reality.

It's just like Kingdom, Genus, Family, Order, Species, etc.

Everything has a category, and it can be specified down.