Power/Progressive/Nu/Black/Death Metal? Which is your favourite, and why?

[FretSlug]

Just plain gallup.. I'm intrested..

I like Progressive most, and I'm cursing that there are so little people (other than guitarists) who like that kind of music as much as I do, because I would like to start a band but hey, what can you do.. Aargh..

[educatedfilm]

it's post like these that make me realise how out of touch with other guitarists i am... what the hell is death metal? (is it bands like "craddle of filth"?)
What happened to thrash metal, or is it called something different across the pond?
what's power metal?

[Edited by educatedfilm on 05-06-2002 at 01:35 PM]

[Willdridge]

And nowadays you've got stuff like Doom Metal, Jazz Metal (Shaun Baxter's debut album) and a whole host of other forms and bone crunching metal riffs...
I personally lean most towards the thrash metal (old Metallica, Megadeth, Angra) and Death Metal (In Flames, Iced Earth) and the Doom Metal (Crowbar...) but, I like quite a few "Nu-Metal" songs, I like some of the 80's hair metal songs/bands...so, really it's a case of a decent song more than anything...
And then there's good ol' rock...:D

[zepp_rules]

for me, it's completely random. depends on each individual band. my music taste is the most subjuctive thing in the world. although i tend to lean towards progressive and classic metal (ozzy, iron maiden, etc...)

[Bodomchild]

Although I like all metal(some in smaller doses than others namely black metal, that is downright evil stuff!)I really enjoy melodic death metal out of Europe.Sweden is the biggest contributor of this style;Bands like Soilwork,Archenemy and At the Gates started there and they really keep the integrity of music-not going mach 10 for an entire song,(That's what most American death metal is)with some of the best shredding leads you ever heard.

[^Chacron^]

Metal is metal to me....i just listen to all kinds without really worrying about what catagory they fit into. My fav band changes a lot, at the moment its megadeth.....i guess i'm still in denial about them splitting up :( Such a shame...but more modern metal bands agree with my ears.....especially Tool.....they got talent, even if the songs go on a bit on 'Laterallus' its a really good album.

Fretslug are you talking about progressive rock or metal there? I've never heard the term progressive metal before.....

[mc9mm]

Im really in to the 80's rock/metal.
I used to hate Def leppard, Twisted Sister
and Alice Cooper and all the other 80's profiles
but now I just cant get enough.
It affects my social life. And my clothing.
This may sound weird, but the musicvideo to
Twisted Sister's "I wanna rock" is exactly how I
want my life to be. You can interpret that any
way you want to. I wanna rock is also the best
song ever. Its so simple, so 80's, so loud,
its just perfect!

[Benoit]

Helloween, blind guardian, iron savior, edguy, tad morose, manowar, startovarius, hammerfall, kanziner, heavenly, and all the others I forget.

Always loved that style and always will... I just wish I could play it right :)

[aiwass]

There is a good band in all of these genres. Except Black Metal. Examples of Black Metal song titles and artists: Dimmu Borgir - "Tormentor of Christian souls", Marduk - "Christf*cking black metal", Mayhem - "A time to die", Burzum - "Stemmen Fra Taarnet" (the voice from the tower, for those of you who don't speak norwegian), Dimmu Borgir - "For all tid" (for all time, or actually the complete sentence is " our Lord will arise for all time and we will be rewardedf for our struggle" or something) and countless others. Burzum, also known as Varg Vikernes or Count Grishnack, is the former bass player for Mayhem, and is currently in prison for the most brutal murder in the history of Norway (namely killing the guitarist in his own band due to political disagreements). Members of the black metal band Emperor have been known to burn churches. Mayhem are known to burn and carve cows heads on stage and throw them out to the audience. But what really pisses me off abou these bands is the fact that except for marduk, they are all Norwegian. I read some review of a tool cd, and the journalist thought THEIR music was scary... LOL