What do you consider modern metal ?

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Great thread.

For me -
-Mostly after the 80's
-Post Hair Metal and Thrash
-90's Grunge influenced
-Thicker guitars
-Usually down tuned
-Drums had blast beats and double bass pedals
-Lots of low end
-Must be tight though
-Ability to be thick and sludgy or tight
-I'll say the Mesa Rectifier has a lot to do with it
-Metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage is what I would play if you wanted an example
 
Probably that math rock elevator music with the clean tones the kids are all raging about. I'm about done since the Nu metal era, sans a few bands.
 
In my mind, bands like Periphery and Meshuggah kind of stick out as the "most modern" popular metal bands these days, but to me, modern metal really started to develop its sound in the very late 90's and early 2000's when the Scandinavian Melodeath and Doom bands really started to get big.
 
These days,

Vildhjarta, Carbomb, Zenith Passage, Humanities Last Breath, Irrita
 
VonBonfire said:
When people say Polyphia I will have a gag reflex.
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I dig Polyphia, saw them locally this past September:

Good spot to watch the show...better live IMO

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I don't consider Polyphia metal; "modern metal" is derivative schlock IMO; I'll go back to Death, Sadus, Carcass, Cynic, Morbid Angel, Obituary, Venom, etc.


What's new in metal today sound not only derivative to me, but also too similar. I find metal today boring; downtune to C, and chug. :rolleyes:

Hard pass for me. I'm going back to '80s hair metal, death, thrash, and prog, fusion these days.
 
311splawndude said:
Anything?

Foo Fighters?
Mammoth?
Greta Van Fleet?

I don't consider those guys modern metal. For example. Or am I reading you wrong?
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Any metal band after in flames.

They took Iron Maiden and made it darker, moodier and heavier
 
This really interesting. I’m checking the ones don’t know
 
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