The Metal Thread

BTBAM is awesome. Although I can't think of any other albums i'm looking forward to at the moment.

 

Hoping Sonata Arctica's new album makes it out before the end of the year, but that's looking more like 2010 at this stage. Also looking forward to Korpiklaani's new album - Karkelo - which I think is coming out in July.

Of course, it's only 13 days until Dream Theater's new album is officially released, but I've been listening to that for a while now

 

Some of the songs are - The Shattered Fortress and A Rite Of Passage are probably the tracks that come closest to the Train of Thought vibe.

 

At the moment im obsessed with female-fronted metal. Otep, Nightwish, The Agonist, and such. I'm also getting really into Opeth lately.

 

Oh and Arch Enemy! Angela Gossaw is a goddess.

 

If you don't already have Blackwater Park, you need it in your life.

My bro and his GF are seeing Opeth at Download this weekend, and I'm stuck at home

My favourite bands? Dream Theater, Sonata Arctica, Apocalyptica, Blind Guardian, Mastodon, Opeth, Gojira, Arch Enemy, Korpiklaani, Pantera, Down, Nightwish, Leaves' Eyes, Epica, Within Temptation, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Stam1na, Terasbetoni, Angra, Symphony X, Ensiferum, Black Sabbath...

I'm listening to Mastodon right now. In the interest of sharing the love...

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My favorite type of metal is Aluminum. /typical loser reply.

Nah, metal ftw boys!

My fav band is Iron Maiden. I dont keep up to date when new albums come out, so i dont have any I'm looking forward too.

 

MEGADETH FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN! Can't wait for their new album.

Oh and Between the Buried and Me are core, not metal. But that's just me.

Anybody here a fan of old-school death metal like Dismember? They're one of my favorites, along with Death.

 

None, at the moment. I've only very recently got into them, so I've only heard a handful of songs via youtube.

 

Female-fronted symphonic metal is the shit. I think my favorite band is Nightwish. It´s between them and Within Temptation. I also like Xandria, Epica, After Forever, Avantasia, Sirenia... I probably forgot a few.

Then I have a couple of Theater Of Tragedy, Tristania, Sonata Arctica and Apocalyptica albums on my iPod I´m going to listen to soon.

 

I love Ghost Reveries and Still Life too... but Blackwater Park was the album that got me hooked on Opeth. I actually really like Watershed too, it took a while to grow on me but it got there eventually.

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Silly question for the thread: who were your gateway bands, the bands that first got you into metal?

For me - there were quite a few different ones.
I was a huge Nirvana fan when I was younger (yes, I know they're grunge), and their unplugged album is still one of my all-time favourites. Same thing with Nevermind - it's really weird to think of how long it's been since that came out! I was also a huge Foo Fighters, Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers fan when I was younger - I still listen to the older stuff by them from time to time. Californication was amazing when I was about 15

I started listening to Korn and Slipknot in my mid-teens at the suggestion of one of the girls I was friends with (and thought was kinda cute...) at CTYI - I still listen to Slipknot now sometimes, particularly when I'm running, but thankfully I got over the whole Korn thing quickly. Metalcore is not one of my loves, but Slipknot actually grew up a bit with Vol III: The Subliminal Verses.

I went through a huge System Of A Down and Metallica phase during my Leaving Cert year - Toxicity came out that year. I started listening to Metallica because my friend bought me Ride The Lightning for a present (AWESOME!). I've moved on a bit from both of those, but some days I'll just throw on Master of Puppets and rock out

Finally, my taste for power, prog and symphonic metal really got kickstarted when I discovered Sonata Arctica and Nightwish through recommendations on the old samus.co.uk forums. That was probably about 6-7 years ago.

In the words of the Manic Street Preachers: this is my truth, tell me yours

 

Honestly, it was probably Linkin Park when I was in Middle School. And then it just evolved and grew from there. Thats such an embarrassing starting point though XD. I think then I got REALLY into Nirvana around the time I started getting more into playing guitar. Then my musical tastes just expanded exponentially.