Metal heads -- what kind of metal music do you listen to?

[petee]

Metallica
Megadeth
Slayer
Prong
Pantera
Obituary
Suicidal Tendencies
Black Sabbath
..just to name a few of the highlights.

 

[fek]

Okay, so here's another question for you while we're at it. What metal do you dislike that a lot of other people seem to like?

I just can't palette cookie monster vocals. If it has good musicians and I can hear what they are doing I probably will like it. I love instrumentals but bad vocals just ruins it for me.

+1. I hear the monotone screaming growl and I am out. Which is too bad because I actually like some of the grooves but cookie monster is all that I can hear. It is funny though because I can block out what I would consider to be a bad vocalist and dig the groove as long as it doesn't sound like that blue fuzzy F'er.

 

[maddnotez]

I like a lot of crossover, not straight up old school thrash. Bands like Solstice, SOD. Etc.

Death Metal, Black Metal, Slam, Hardcore, Deathcore. Anything heavy, technicalll or dark if it's good. There's a lot of shit out there in every genre.

 

[spacebard]

80's and 90's:
Twisted Sister, Helix, Scorpions, Kiss Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Skid Row, Extreme, Winger, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns & Roses, Megadeth, Pantera, Testament, Triump, Harem Scarem and most of the hair and heavy metal except Dokken (don't know why, never got into them)


From 1992 I listened mostly only power metal :
Blind Guardian, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Edguy, Rhapsody, Avantasia, Sonata Arctica (can't stand Tony's voice anymore, find it annoying)


Now:
Dream Theater
DGM
Noveria
Primal Fear
Allen Lande
Pretty Maids
instrumental like Marco Sfogli, Andy James, Andy Timmons
and some power metal bands...

 

[thegame]

I'm into classic hard rock (Zeppelin, Queen), a bit of 70's prog, old school British metal by the founding fathers (Sabbath, Priest, Maiden), 80's thrash, a handful of death metal acts, and an even smaller handful of hardcore/punk.

Barring Van Halen who started it but weren't part of it themselves (IMO), hair metal is an absolute no-no for me.

Can't stand Nu-metal, industrial, djent, 80's thrash revival bands, Euro sounding power metal (Helloween Keeper/7 keys gets a pass), Folk metal, Female (or male) fronted symphonic metal, rap metal, emo-screamo, 90's Euro trash (oops, I meant thrash like In Flames, Soilwork, Arch Enemy, etc).

I like a few newer (post 2000) acts who are largely rooted in old school thrash but have managed to take it to a different place like Revocation and Vektor. I'll also add Tool to my like list because they don't really fit into any of the myriad of genres I listed above.

 

[311boogieman]

Vintage metal:

Iron Maiden
Ozzy
Black Label Society
Black Sabbath
Dio

Modern metal:

Ahab
Saturnus
Triptykon
Rammstein
A Pale Horse Named Death
Agalloch
Gojira
Godsmack
Metallica

Annoying noise:

Mastodon
Pantera
Slipknot

That's a good list. I'm pretty open to most metal including Baby Metal and Nu Metal. The super opera stuff that someone mentioned is a little tough for me. Like I won't knock it, but I won't be listing to entire albums of it while road tripping either.