Metal School

[Dannyalcatraz]

 

[Luminous]

Marilyn Manson, etc.

You are awesome.

 

[R_J_K75]

Two bands that arent old school or even "metal" but are relatively newer are Bigelf and Kyng.

Bigelf is more prog-based but has alot of Sabbath, & Floyd influence without being contrived. They started in the 90's but didnt get much traction until the 2000s. Think they've disbanded sadly. Their CDs arent easy to find, but if you want to check them out I suggest starting with "Hex" circa 2002-2003 maybe. Saw them in a very small theater in 2009 or 2010 and they were awesome.

Kyng have 3 CD's out, all are good but their first "Trampled Sun" is their best IMO. They are doom/stoner metal with a Soundgarden bent, think they started around 2010. Again one of those bands that wear their influences on their sleeve without sounding like a direct ripoff.

I personally don't like categorizing music too much, I just look at it as good and I like it or it suck and I don't. Most musicians either hate the genre label they been given by the media and consuming public and when asked to classify their music will just say we tried to make the music we like and the best music we could at the time.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

My son's been trying to get me into Gojira and Dillinger Escape Plan... Thoughts?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I’m a huge fan of Gojira.

 

[R_J_K75]

I have a friend I grew up with in Buffalo that played in alot of local bands. One, STEMM started getting popular along with Chimera in the early 2000s. Damageplan, Stemm and Chimera played a show in Buffalo Dec 7, 2004 and all three bands went and partied at the casino in Niagara Falls after. I remember my friend telling me how surreal it was to meet and hang out with Dime & Vinnie only to find out Dime was murdered the next day. He said it was just a testament to how cool and humble those guys were to take out a couple of young band partying as peers and not thinking they were any better. Hard to believe its been 16 years since Dimes been gone and 40 for John Lennon.

 

[Zardnaar]

I like some of the new metal bands coming out of Europe in the last 20 odd years.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Who else am I listening to?

Lacuna Coil is pretty consistent. Opeth has been growing on me. Baroness, Pelican.

Hex is a pretty good industrial band, but I don’t know that they’re together anymore.

 

[R_J_K75]

The end is great.

 

[R_J_K75]

This is what Im listening to. Antemasgue, Its the Mars Volta but they disbanded the Mars Volta and reformed the same band.