Any metal fans here?

[Rincewind]

Heh, heh... exactly, it was funny. Hmm... speaking of metal we're speaking of subculture. So what about it? Are you still playing with this funny things?Ã, Heh, heh... Know what I mean? Sometimes I still wear my beloved leather, combat trousers and heavy boots, but it's not the same feeling as in the past. Actually I don't deplore my hairs, I'm glad I've cut them -- shaved head is not so bad.

And metal (subculture and partially music) just sucks.

Hehe, well, I've never been one for the whole "leather-and-studs"-image-thing, since I've always found it, well, very silly, to be honest.Ã, 
But if you refer to long hair, well, yes, since I enjoy my long hair. And that's about it. I listen just as much to old 60's psychedelic music for me to be called a hippie instead of a metalhead, to tell you the truth...

[A-Hed]

Yes!! I have just waited for this kind of thread to appear 

The three kinds of metal I like is Deathmetal, Thrashmetal and Blackmetal. Though the last named is by far my favourite. As I also play in a blackmetal band its hard for me to listen to anything else.

Bands I really like are:

Enslaved
Dissection
Mörk Gryning
Pagan Reign
Ulver
Skyforger
Setherial

...And many more that I dont want to bore you with.

There are alot of people saying: "They are just screaming all the time! " and I just hate that. Because of this they think every Black or Death band is very bad music and hate it for that.

Sure, at first I didnt like either Deathmetal or Blackmetal but I started paying attention to the melodies and in some bands noticed very odd riffs that wouldnt be found in any other genre that I knew of. I like the singing in many Blackmetalbands to (not growl like in deathmetal though) because they are sometimes very different from band to band, or even album to album. Trying new styles, finding some style that havent been done yet.

I really like exploring, experimenting with new things when it comes to music, that may be why I like Black so much. And I really think that metal deserves more attention than it gets today.

And im sorry if im maybe offending some of you for saying this, but I really cant see anything good with the nu-metal genre.

[Helm]

Las: hardcore came from 'hardcore punk' whichi isn't the same as hardcore, or punk. It's silly, but people like to overclassify. Depends on who you ask on what is hardcore and what is not. I tend to call 'hardcore punk' bands hardcore, like old Husker Du, Minutemen, early DRI, UK Subs, Crumbsuckers etc because I'm too ashamed to admit that the current wave of retarded slayer-meets-madball type of bands exist, much less deserve their own genre.

My personal metal favourites include early progressive metal/involved thrash metal like Coroner, Psychotic Waltz, Mekong Delta, Deathrow, Midas Touch, Watchtower, Sieges Even, Megace to doom metal like Candlemass, Shape of Despair, Skepticism, Evoken to some extremely idiosyncratic and unclassifiable bands like Maudlin of the Well, The 3rd and the Mortal, Unholy

[Arboris]

Oh yea, I like metal. Most of it anyway 

For those who are dutch, and have cable or adsl you should try this. http://www.kinkaardschok.nl/ It's an dutch metal internet radio.
Altho they dont really play the "harder" stuff like grindkorn or viking metal. (wich I dont really mind anyway)

[Helm]

Grindkorn!!

[Rincewind]

Helm, I think that is what you get when you put Jonathan Davies in a meatgrinder.
Either that, or people grinding with corn as a rhythm-instrument.
Come to think of it, the sound of popcorn popping could make for a great progressive drumbeat.
I wonder if the Dillinger Escape Plan and Atheist are up for the challenge?

[rika]

 Cannibal Korn

[Arboris]

*ahem* Grindcore is what i meant ofcourse. 

[m0ds]

I'm not into metal enough to know what the differences are between each type, and I suppose I like the more commercial stuff. I like a good bit of metal, my favourite bands being;

Sepultura (ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTS)
Machine Head, Pantera, Metallica, Megadeath, In Flames, Chaimera, Mastadon, some Rage and some Strapping Young Lad (though they're a bit extreme for me, and the music isn't particularly blinding). Ramstein can be fun in the right mood too

And if they also count, some Slipknot.

plus the currently unknown Equinox, Kerosine and Doom Engine!

[Helm]

Malevolentknot

Asphixzkit

Soadfocation

[Ponch]

This whole thread has me feeling terribly old.

When I think metal, I think of the sort of metal I listened to when I was a young'un. Motorhead, Judas Priest, Old Metallica (anything before and including Master of Puppets), Iron Maiden, Anthrax, that sort of thing. I was also into the louder punk stuff like Husker Du and Black Flag - both of which are practically golden oldies by today's standards.

Most of the more modern metal I just can't get into. But then, it isn't really for me, is it?

I need some warm milk and a nap. I tire so easily these days.

- Ponch

[Ishmael]

Hmmmh.... so you got me into this... all is not metal, I just list what I can think of, and I naturally forget something...

Deathchain
Ensiferum
Iron Maiden
Metallica (old, Master or Puppets and the Black album mostly)
Sonata Arctica
Dream Evil
Children Of Bodom
Nightwish
Ramones
Sentenced
For My Pain
Accept
Helloween
Kiuas
Chain Reaktion
Diablo *
Dreamtale *

and others, which I can't right now remember o_O I'll be back to url them names for the ones I know the homepage of...

* EDIT: Yah, as I said, I forgot some... and more are sure to come...

[Erenan]

This whole thread has me feeling terribly old.

When I think metal, I think of the sort of metal I listened to when I was a young'un. Motorhead, Judas Priest, Old Metallica (anything before and including Master of Puppets), Iron Maiden, Anthrax, that sort of thing. I was also into the louder punk stuff like Husker Du and Black Flag - both of which are practically golden oldies by today's standards.

Most of the more modern metal I just can't get into. But then, it isn't really for me, is it?

I need some warm milk and a nap. I tire so easily these days.

I'm only twenty-one and I listened to Metallica when I was young too, and I am talking about Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets. But I wouldn't consider that stuff terribly old, really. There's always Blue Öyster Cult.

[Babar]

heh...throughout this thread, the only names I recognised were Metallica, Slipnot, and the ones Evil mentioned.

My cousin went through a "metal phase". That is why I now have a truckload of weird leather-studded hand-me-downs. I even wear some of the stuff once in  a while.

[Synthetique]

I love metal!!

Some bands on my playlist:
Rob Zombie
Battlelore
Kovenant
Ministry
Gothminister

[rika]

 to the guy that said he's old:

you're not acting old, but acting smart, cause the 80's were the golden age of metal

[Ponch]

to the guy that said he's old:

you're not acting old, but acting smart, cause the 80's were the golden age of metal

Exactly!

I am old, though.

So very, very old.

- Ponch

[LimpingFish]

Maiden! Maiden! Maiden!

The first time around...

  :o


Now, thats OLD. 

[SpacePirateCaine]

The Minibosses, yo. Dunno if they classify as metal or not to many of you, but they still rock. I enjoy a bit of metal now and then, but I'm not a big fan of lyrical music for the most part, which seems to classify Metal for a lot of people. I mostly just listen to whatever my older brother listened to when we still lived in the same house back in the 90's - He's the family metalhead. Lots of Megadeth, Opeth and so on. Would Ozzy be metal? Also groovy. White/Rob Zombie... Saw Slipknot and Marilyn Manson in 2001 in Osaka - that was fun, though Concerts just aren't as cool in Japan. Nine Inch Nails rocks still - Saw the NIN/David Bowie tour back in the day, too.

I'm personally much more inclined to techno and jazz, but I can certainly appreciate metal for its driving energy and what-have you. Especially good to listen to for getting my head moving again when I'm up at 4 a.m. working on a bit of sprite animation.

[Gijs]

I love metal!
Here are my fav metal bands:

AC/DC
motörhead
iron maiden
metallica (before st.anger)
sentenced