Whats your favorite alternative/metal band? Why?

[Robbie10000]

well you know what its about, whats your answer?

Id have to say Rage Against the Machine cuz they got a great
guitarist who plays crazy **** and thats just what im into
and their vocalist is very good to, but hey thats my opinion
Im surprized nobody has said anything about them in any
topic... I was told there going to break up? Does anyone
know anything about it?.... laterz

[Bofatron]

rage did break up but I hear they are going to carry on w/o the original singer.

Anyway, my fav group (one of many) is Praxis. Check out their legendary album "Transmutation"

next, of course, is me ;)

http://ShredLikeHell.com

[James]

Yeah ratm rocked imop. I didn't know they were going to carry on without the vocalist, that's great news, although it won't be the same I bet.

Some alternative bands I like:
Smashing Pumpkins
Radiohead
Our Lady Peace
The Matthew Good Band

[norsteen]

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[iamnem]

METALLICA

Because they have been around since the early 80s, and are still around, they have 10 albums, and Kirk Hammett is the best guitarist who ever lived.

Some of my other favorites include AC/DC, Godsmack, Megadeth, etc...

See ya later!

[Joseph]

I must say that although I'm not very much into the combination of rap and metal, I must say I recognize so much potential with Rage Against The Machine, (so much raw energy that I havent seen in a long time. I really admire the fact that Tom Morello relies on his intuitive knowledge instead of catering to whats considered acceptable. Its too bad they lost Zach while they're in their prime as a group, although his words can be rather annoying at times, I really can't picture this band without him, without that raw conviction...

But throughput the 90's, I must say that the "Alternative" band that influenced me the most would have to be NIRVANA. In the early 90's alot of the rock music had become rather tame and predictable, Nirvana came along at a time when musicians believed that everything had to be done a certain way in order to suceed. Nirvana broke the rules and inspired millions of bands to use their instincts, and to work their creativity for all its worth. I think alot of people really appreciated their honest approach to music, where their primary intenbtion was what they felt best constituted a good song. i think its safe to say that every serious musician really gets off on playing a few NBirvana songs every now and then, just to get their mojo going. :)

-Joseph

[metalisbest]

I have a lot. A few favorites are:
Metallica
Godsmack
Quench
Sevendust(not really any of those genres but who cares)
311
Incubus

[Josh Redstone]

I like Metallica and Incubus too.

[PonyOne]

I was actually quite happy when Rage broke up. I can't stand Zach's voice (something about nails on chalkboard comes to mind...), and he thinks he's a hardcore Bob Marley. I've ranted about them at length before, and though Morello doesn't suck, he gets more credit as a guitarist than he deserves.

I just erased about two paragraphs of rant material... I am the absolute anti-rage man. Why? BECAUSE THEY....RRRRRRGH.....(trying not to go into a mad screaming rant) All I can say is for God's sake, choose a cause, become well versed in it and stick with it, don't lie and jump from cause to cause witohut reading anything more than an article on the subject on antiwar.com

Here I go again. Whoops. Well, in any case, for real, good, way-over-the-hard side anti-establishment rock, check out Refused. They are absolutely insane. And their lyrics make sense.

My favorite alternative band? failure. www.failure.org

[ZackyH]

Don't get me wrong, I liked Rage Against the Machine, but I'd have to say that there was no evolution in their sound. It pretty much stayed the same. Now, toward the end their cover CD they released, Renegades, had a little more variety in sound. Battle of LA had slightly more variety (only 2 songs sounded exactly the same). Too bad they broke up a few months later. Zack De La Rocha said in interviews that he wanted to quit the band because of the lack of variety in the music and I think that's for the best. Maybe the Chris Cornell/RATM project (which I hear is getting back together) will attempt to bring more variety to the sound.

Oh yeah, and Zack De La Rocha is doing a solo record and *GASP* Trent Reznor is working with him! Here's a link to that news story.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1457027/20020814/de_la_rocha_zack.jhtml

[iiholly]

I like Incubus, Fuel, and Matchbox Twenty.

[Slow Diver]

Originally posted by PonyOne


I just erased about two paragraphs of rant material... I am the absolute anti-rage man. Why? BECAUSE THEY....RRRRRRGH.....(trying not to go into a mad screaming rant) All I can say is for God's sake, choose a cause, become well versed in it and stick with it, don't lie and jump from cause to cause witohut reading anything more than an article on the subject on antiwar.com


:)
Well I never realy went into analyzing ratm's lyrics and I don't know a thing about it. Hoewver their music makes a lot more sense than the whole neo metal gang(Stinkin Park, POD and similar)

My favorite alternative bands are Jane's Addiction, Asian Dub Foundation, 311, Primus, the Seatle bands

[Devin11]

AC/DC cuz i think they rule.