Sentenced - The Cold White Light


Symphony X - V


Dream Theater - Octavarium


Poets of the Fall - Signs of Life


Pendulum - Hold Your Color


Winds - The Imaginary Direction of Time


Sigur Rós - Takk...


Ayreon - The Human Equation


Pain of Salvation - Scarsick


Rise Against - The Sufferer & the Witness

Quote from Becky Rose :

I could name 100 brilliant albums that I can't resist playing when I see the album just sitting there all lonely waiting to be heard... This is a small selection of my favorites covering many of the genres I enjoy.


1) Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Alternative / Rock


2) Genitorturers - Machine Love
Fettish-Metal


3) Billy Talent - III
Punk


4) The LoveCrave - The Angel and the Rain
Gothic Pop


5) Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
Rap Metal


6) Placebo - Meds
Alternative


7) Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Heavy Rock


8) Feeder - The Singles
Indi / Alternative Rock


9) Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
Indi


10) Mindless Self Indulgance - You'll Rebel to Anything
Punk / Black Metal

Linkin Park is Nu Metal.
And Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast, which was actually released in 1982 (and just digitally remastered and put on an enhanced CD in 98) is (New wave of British) Heavy Metal, but not Heavy rock.


About my own Albums... There are not really much albums I listen too, it's usually just a couple of songs per artist and album I listen to, but two Albums from Symphony X just really are breathtaking awesome: The Odyssey and Paradise Lost. Other than that it owuld be maybe The 2 Iron Maiden Albums Brave New World and A Matter of Life and Death (I ain't a big fan of Dance of Death). And maybe Sonic Firestorm and/or Inhuman Rampage, both by Dragonforce, are my favorites also. Also Avenged Sevenfold's City Of Evil.

Quote from Stefani24 :

Linkin Park is Nu Metal.
And Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast, which was actually released in 1982 (and just digitally remastered and put on an enhanced CD in 98) is (New wave of British) Heavy Metal, but not Heavy rock.

I herd u liek genres?


Does it really matter? Rap Metal and Nu Metal describes Linkin Park adequately, just as Heavy Metal and Heavy Rock (and Metal, and Power Metal, and NWOBHM and many, many more) describe Maiden. Getting into arse-aching pedantry about genres is almost as pointless as it is boring.

I see your Battle Metal and raise you two helpings of Viking Metal.

Was listening to Amon Amarth on the way into work this morning

Battle Metal tends to be *fairly* Viking-y anyway..


On a related note, I am now the proud owner of BattleMetalChris.co.uk for the next 2 years

Ok, here are mine.

1. Britney Spears - Circus
2. Lady GaGa - The Fame
3. Christina Aguilera - Stripped










Oh, sorry, that was the wrong order, those are the worst.





1. System Of A Down - Toxicity


2. Tool - Lateralus


3. Alanis Morissette - MTV Unplugged (Nov '99 according to Wikipedia but whatever; probably my most listened to album ever)



4. Rammstein - Mutter


5. Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead


6. The Gathering - Souvenirs


7. Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses


8. Rammstein - Reise, Reise


9. Incubus - Light Grenades


10. Hurt - Vol. 1


Honorable mentions to (in no particular order):

Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Rammstein - Rosenrot
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Tool - 10,000 Days
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Papa Roach - Infest
Paramore - Riot!
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
KoRn - Untouchables
Evanescence - Fallen
Lacuna Coil - Comalies
Billy Talent - Billy Talent II
Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder...
Submersed - In Due Time
Fair To Midland - Fables From A Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
Red - End Of Silence
Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness
30 Seconds To Mars - 30 Seconds To Mars
30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie
Three Days Grace - One-X
Breaking Benjamin - Phobia
Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide
Godsmack - Faceless
Godsmack - IV
Staind - Break The Cycle
Staind - Chapter V
Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
The Gathering - Home
Agua De Annique - Air

Wow, that's a lot.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

I herd u liek genres?


Does it really matter? Rap Metal and Nu Metal describes Linkin Park adequately, just as Heavy Metal and Heavy Rock (and Metal, and Power Metal, and NWOBHM and many, many more) describe Maiden. Getting into arse-aching pedantry about genres is almost as pointless as it is boring.

It doesn't matter much really, what I actually meant was that that Album wasn't released in the past 10 years.
Sorry for bitching around.

Quote from zeugnimod :

5. Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead

Now that is probably my favourite album, But i am now going to pick my next 9. Give me some time please i need it

Here's my go.

Gravenhurst - Fires in Distant Buildings

Gravenhurst - The Western Lands

Radiohead - Kid A

LCD Soundsystem - Debut

Nightmares on Wax - Car Boot Soul

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Lyre of Orpheus / Abattoir Blues

Grinderman - Grinderman

Joanna Newsom - Ys

50 Foot Wave - Golden Ocean

(If anyone's interested there's a great video on youtube. 50 Foot Wave - Clara Bow.)

Quote from zeugnimod :

1. System Of A Down - Toxicity

I absolutely *love* Serj Tankian's voice, I was so gutted when SOAD split up. Him and Tony Kakko of Sonata Arctica are easily my favourite vocalists.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

I absolutely *love* Serj Tankian's voice, I was so gutted when SOAD split up.

+1

He's certainly not the greatest singer on earth but his voice is so unique.

I'd take an interesting vocalist over a technically perfect one every time.

Can't stand him.

Though I'm sure T&S aren't for everyone either.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Mastodon - Leviathan

Awesome group! But I really can't stand the singer's voice

I feel like most forum members look like this...



I'm sure most of you still got some time, but if you're all still listening to metal when you're fourty years and older, i'd say chances are high you can be classified as some sort of psychopath.

I dunno, i still listen to some rock music now and then, but heavy metal? I thought that was music for kids who feel the need to be a rebel.

*puts on flameproof suit*

What a ridiculous notion. I'm 30 and still listen to metal, and I fully intend to whether I'm 30, 40 or 140. I don't see any reason why I shouldn't - I'm not going to suddenly stop liking it just because I'm 'not supposed to'. Granted, within that genre my 'average' musical tastes have shifted a bit since I was 15 (although that's more because it's grown that actually changed) but the majority of my music is no less heavy than it was 15 years go.

It's just music - we're not all manic-depressive sociopaths like Klutch ( ), some of us are quite normal.

Well, i know my point is somehow ridiculous, and i'm not trying to say you should stop listening to a certain type of music.

It's just that i don't really understand what people keep finding in this genre when they should have "grown up a little" by now?

For me music has to be something i can relate to. I could relate to punk rock and metal when i was sixteen, because then i had long hair, felt like "**** the system" and was interested in cool and mystical stuff, etc.

The only thing that i can relate to in this genre these days is the musical part. Some of the good old maiden guitar solos are just timeless, and they'll always touch me in some way, but that's about it. The whole rest, the attitude, the lyrics about dungeons, demons and dragons... fairytales... i just can't relate to that anymore.

I've grown up somehow i guess. I'm still a kid at heart and i don't intend to ever change that (so don't tell me i'm an old and boring guy). To me there's more important things than "yelling at the system" and having to be a rebel, etc.

I'm sure there's more to it than what i see in it for myself, but i can't help it... if i see a guy in his fourties, looking like the front guy of some metal band, i just have to think "when will you grow up dude?". No offense.

And again, it's not because i'm "old and boring" nowadays. I actually listen to hiphop most of the time, which you could say is music for kids i suppose (if you have no idea about hiphop and only know the mainstream stuff that is)... but actually it's very grown up music, containing true wisdom about life and lots of positivity (something i discovered when i startet thinking more about life, about what is really important, got a little more mature, etc).

I was mainly trying to say that i find 40 year old rebels and fairytale fans a bit weird.

Well, colour me weird then - I've found it's actually the fairytale and mythology side of it I've got more into the older I've got.

I get 'when will you grow out of all this?' from my mum all the time - she seems to think I should have started wearing suits as soon as I hit 20.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

she seems to think I should have started wearing suits as soon as I hit 20.

Has nothing to do with this at all IMO. I only wear suits when i really have to. Jeans and a t-shirt are simply much more comfortable.

To be fair, my music has *expanded* a lot, over the past 5 or 10 years to include a lot of classic rock. It's great to be able to go to gigs with my dad (who's a 65-year-old Iron Maiden fan, and I think possibly a significant influence on me )

I can only really think of a few:

Muse - Absolution




Moby - Play




Suprised no-one's thought of this yet, my favourite: Maroon 5 - Songs about Jane

Quote from jibber :

I'm sure most of you still got some time, but if you're all still listening to metal when you're fourty years and older, i'd say chances are high you can be classified as some sort of psychopath.

Lol wut. :wtf2:

I think it's more grown up to listen to music you like instead of still being worried about what other people think.

Quote from geeman1 :

Lol wut. :wtf2:

I think it's more grown up to listen to music you like instead of still being worried about what other people think.

Who said i'm worried about what other people think?

Quote from jibber :

Who said i'm worried about what other people think?

I read that from between the lines.

Quote from geeman1 :

I read that from between the lines.

You try to read too much from between the lines then.

I don't care what other people think, i was just stating my opinion about old guys still listening to metal. It seems you are the one who cares too much about my opinion here.

Anyway, i appologize for going off topic so much.