Your favorite current/past "other" metal bands?

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Ok, a few people mentioned other metal bands in the Hair Metal thread I started.

I didn't want to hijack that thread in another direction, but I figured I'd start another metal thread since there seems to be some interest in the subject.

So, who are some your favorite current or past metal bands, or songs, that don't fit into the "hair metal" category? Here are a few of mine.

My all-time favorite metal band is Iron Maiden. This one is called Where Eagles Dare.




Currently I'm really into a band called RED. This is a song called Death Of Me.

 
I'm not going to add an videos, cause I'd be here all night.

Probably my all time favorite metal band would have to be Metallica. Them along with the other three of the "big four" thrash metal bands from the 80s are still to be reckoned with: Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer.

My current favorite is probably the best metal band to come out in 30 year, from Sweden, Opeth. Can be extremely heavy, complete with "cookie monster" style vocals, but can be beautifully melodic, and progressive. (I know they've often been labeled as "prog metal" as well.
 
Okay it's become obvious to me I have a few years on most of you but when I think Metal I think of these bands.

Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Steppenwolf, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Who, Alice Cooper,Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, Areosmith, Iron Butterfly, Jethro Tull and others.


 
Disturbed: not really too heavy but good IMO.
Sevendust is great saw them live 3 times.
Static X quite heavy, good workout music
Korn, earlier stuff was awesome.
Saliva
Older Metallica was classic stuff
 
Okay it's become obvious to me I have a few years on most of you but when I think Metal I think of these bands.

Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Steppenwolf, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Who, Alice Cooper,Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, Areosmith, Iron Butterfly, Jethro Tull and others.
Now yer talking my period. :partytime
 
Okay it's become obvious to me I have a few years on most of you but when I think Metal I think of these bands.

Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Steppenwolf, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Who, Alice Cooper,Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, Areosmith, Iron Butterfly, Jethro Tull and others.
Been to a few of these concerts myself and bought many of the albums and 8 tracks for about all of these. Grand Funk Railroad was also another favorite.
 
Volbeat; a mix of old and new.
Zeppelin is NOT metal, they're a Rock 'n Roll band. Someone is confused.
Oh my, just how young are you? Rock 'n Roll is much younger than Zepplelin. While I could agree with you that Zeppelin might not be a metal band. they came around during the psychedelic period, though they weren't a true psychedelic band....not far from it though. There seems to be a period between psychedelic and metal, but where do you draw the line.
 
Oh my, just how young are you? Rock 'n Roll is much younger than Zepplelin. While I could agree with you that Zeppelin might not be a metal band. they came around during the psychedelic period, though they weren't a true psychedelic band....not far from it though. There seems to be a period between psychedelic and metal, but where do you draw the line.
How old are you?! :D
Led Zeppelin IS NOT metal by today's standards.
 
How old are you?! :D
Led Zeppelin IS NOT metal by today's standards.
I don't even think Zeppelin was a metal band by any standards. Even they would make sure it was known that they weren't a heavy metal band. Same thing goes for Jethro Tull, but even more so.

I highly recommend Sam Dunn's most recent documentary series, "The Evolution of Metal," or even "Metal - A Headbanger's Journey" to get a real definitive answer on what heavy metal truly is.

Or just ask me, a long time, self proclaimed metalhead. :headbang:
 
Does anybody know where the term "heavy metal" came from?

Born To Be Wild
by Steppenwolf

I like smokin' lightnin'
heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
and the feelin' that I'm under
 
Does anybody know where the term "heavy metal" came from?

Born To Be Wild
by Steppenwolf

I like smokin' lightnin'
heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
and the feelin' that I'm under
Now that was a song I loved but couldn't believe some of the words they used in their songs...i.e. The Pusher. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't this song popular in 1968? It brings back a place named Sasnak, a place another of our group is familiar with. Great place.
 
From Wikipedia-

...The origin of the term "heavy metal" in a musical context is uncertain. The phrase has been used for centuries in chemistry and metallurgy, where the periodic table organizes elements of both light and heavy metals (e.g. uranium). An early use of the term in modern popular culture was by countercultural writer William S. Burroughs. His 1962 novel The Soft Machine includes a character known as "Uranian Willy, the Heavy Metal Kid." Burroughs's next novel, Nova Express (1964), develops the theme, using heavy metal as a metaphor for addictive drugs: "With their diseases and orgasm drugs and their sexless parasite life forms—Heavy Metal People of Uranus wrapped in cool blue mist of vaporized bank notes—And The Insect People of Minraud with metal music."[55]
Metal historian Ian Christe describes what the components of the term mean in "hippiespeak": "heavy" is roughly synonymous with "potent" or "profound," and "metal" designates a certain type of mood, grinding and weighted as with metal.[56] The word "heavy" in this sense was a basic element of beatnik and later countercultural slang, and references to "heavy music"—typically slower, more amplified variations of standard pop fare—were already common by the mid-1960s. British psychedelic art experimenters Hapshash and the Coloured Coat released a record in 1967 titled Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids. Iron Butterfly's debut album, released in early 1968, was titled Heavy. The first recorded use of "heavy metal" is a reference to a motorcycle in the Steppenwolf song "Born to Be Wild", also released that year:[57] "I like smoke and lightning/Heavy metal thunder/Racin' with the wind/And the feelin' that I'm under." A late, and disputed, claim about the source of the term was made by "Chas" Chandler, former manager of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In a 1995 interview on the PBS program Rock and Roll, he asserted that heavy metal "was a term originated in a New York Times article reviewing a Jimi Hendrix performance," in which the author likened the event to "listening to heavy metal falling from the sky." A source for Chandler's claim has never been found.
The first documented use of the phrase to describe a type of rock music identified to date appears in a review by Barry Gifford. In the May 11, 1968, issue of Rolling Stone, he wrote about the album A Long Time Comin' by U.S. band Electric Flag: "Nobody who's been listening to Mike Bloomfield—either talking or playing—in the last few years could have expected this. This is the new soul music, the synthesis of white blues and heavy metal rock."[58] In January 1970 Lucian K. Truscott IV reviewing Led Zeppelin II for the Village Voice described the sound as "heavy" and made comparisons with Blue Cheer and Vanilla Fudge.[59] Other early documented uses of the phrase are from reviews by critic Mike Saunders. In the November 12, 1970, issue of Rolling Stone, he commented on an album put out the previous year by the British band Humble Pie: "Safe as Yesterday Is, their first American release, proved that Humble Pie could be boring in lots of different ways. Here they were a noisy, unmelodic, heavy metal-leaden ****-rock band with the loud and noisy parts beyond doubt. There were a couple of nice songs...and one monumental pile of refuse." He described the band's latest, self-titled release as "more of the same 27th-rate heavy metal crap."[60] In a review of Sir Lord Baltimore's Kingdom Come in the May 1971 Creem, Saunders wrote, "Sir Lord Baltimore seems to have down pat most all the best heavy metal tricks in the book."[61] Creem critic Lester Bangs is credited with popularizing the term via his early 1970s essays on bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.[62] Through the decade, heavy metal was used by certain critics as a virtually automatic putdown. In 1979, lead New York Times popular music critic John Rockwell described what he called "heavy-metal rock" as "brutally aggressive music played mostly for minds clouded by drugs,"[63] and, in a different article, as "a crude exaggeration of rock basics that appeals to white teenagers."[64]
Coined by Black Sabbath drummer, Bill Ward, "downer rock" was one of the earliest terms used to describe this style of music and was applied to acts such as Sabbath and Bloodrock. Classic Rock magazine described the downer rock culture revolving around the use of Quaaludes and the drinking of wine.[65] Later the term would be replaced by "heavy metal."[66]
The terms "heavy metal" and "hard rock" have often been used interchangeably, particularly in discussing bands of the 1970s, a period when the terms were largely synonymous.[67] For example, the 1983 Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll includes this passage: "known for its aggressive blues-based hard-rock style, Aerosmith was the top American heavy-metal band of the mid-Seventies..."
 
Wasn't it Frank Zappa who, after hearing a band from England, say''That band will take off like a Led Zepplin?'
And my vote is for Black Sabbath's fifth album,Sabotage. Exquisite Meatal in it's rawest form...
 
Wasn't it Frank Zappa who, after hearing a band from England, say''That band will take off like a Led Zepplin?'
And my vote is for Black Sabbath's fifth album,Sabotage. Exquisite Meatal in it's rawest form...
Wasn't it Frank Zappa who, after hearing a band from England, say''That band will take off like a Led Zepplin?'
And my vote is for Black Sabbath's fifth album,Sabotage. Exquisite Meatal in it's rawest form...
I believe it was Keith Moon, upon hearing who was going to be in the band, offered, "That oughta go over like a lead baloon", or something to that effect...
 
I dig this one. But go to 2:04 of this video. I don't know what you call this kind of singing when the vocalist screams at the top of his lungs through the whole verse, but it seems to work for this song. I'm just not keen on it when the singer "sings" the entire song with this style. Just not for me. I like to know what the dude is saying.
Guess I'm old school.

 
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