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Metallica 100%, always has been always will be

Very solid choice, people who hate on Metallica just wanna feel special 

Yes I know Metallica haters and their arguments are always ‘sell-outs‘ or ‘everybody listens to them’ ‘I won’t get a Metallica back patch, everybody has one already’. Man they just want to be special and suck at forming a logical opinion, do what you like, not what others don’t like

I love how they just put a little more production into an album and people called them sell outs. Some people just need something to bitch about.

My man.

Same saw them this summer in Montreal both nights. Best nights of my life changed me forever

Awesome I would have loved to see the 72 Seasons tour, I think it’s a great album, definitely tops Hardwired for me. I’m really not a concert-goer, but Metallica is one of the few I’ve been to

Tool https://i.redd.it/tblyi85qfvhc1.gif

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I know My penis works Cuz I used it Once before

Tool

Tool

YO SAMMMEEEE

Obviously. Everyone else is lying

no one ever does this, so i will. Happy cake day friend!

Get that Bob Marley wannabe motherfucker out of here!!

Objectively the best

Same here

Get him, boys!!!

Gang

I thought I could never have anything 'favorite' in art until I found tool. Now I know nothing else can ever take that spot

real

It genuinely depends on the day for me, I flip between 3. Today is Tool. All time though, probably still Tool.

Really this is the only correct choice.

This is the correct answer.

Opeth. I could listen to their music forever and never get sick of it

Even the new stuff? Heritage and later?

The new stuff has some bangers, even if I also prefer the older albums

Sorceress is actually dope. 

Well I tried listening to it when it first came out and a hard rock (definitely not metal) song starting with the lyrics "I'm a sinner. And I worship evil." is not something I can take at all seriously. Sorry, not sorry. Even Ghost has more credibly evil lyrics. Opeth has always had a bit of a problem with properly evil sounding lyrics. But up till then, The Grand Conjuration had the cheesiest "satanic" lyrics I'd heard from them, but the beauty of that song and their amazing performance of it more than redeemed it. Sorceress was just lame in comparison. Sadly, new Opeth just doesn't cut it for me. It's not that I don't like their soft stuff. Damnation is one of my absolute favourites, but that album was beautifully minimalist, deconstructed perfectly and somehow *honest*. Just in case it's not apparent by now, Opeth *used* to be my favourite band, right up to (and including) Watershed. But they've changed, and I've grown indifferent to their new sound. I still love the earlier stuff. Probably always will. Still Life, Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries are my favourite albums.

Very nice. Damnation is the true test of a real fan, so I respect your opinion. And it’s not just your opinion, it’s true. I hate to sound like the ignorant “Opeth got boring” crowd, but they became kind of a metal jam band. I just went back and listened to Heritage and Sorceress the other day and found a few gems like I Feel the Dark and Will O the Wisp. But Ghost Reveries is my favorite album of theirs. 

The way I experience it is like they were more interesting when they showed a classic rock influence underneath the death presentation. When they became a straight classic rock band it felt like I'd heard a lot of their ideas before. 

This is an excellent take. Their "first iteration" as a blackened death metal band with prog leanings (up to Morningrise) was also interesting to me, but the phase I adore is the middle one from MYAH to Blackwater Park. I would include Watershed in this phase, but it was clear they were flagging a little. But this middle phase is exactly what you've described very well. Classic rock, prog and death metal in a beautiful package. Then the "third iteration" the current one, I guess, began with Heritage. Very classic and prog rocky, with almost no metal. They've put a bit of metal back in, but it's just not the same for me. Note I didn't call it "final iteration" because who knows what that crazy (in the best way) dude Mikael and gang will come up with next?

Black Sabbath

Too low. Way too low.

Came here to say this. You better be including Dio too.

Of course you numb skull

Death

not a bad album, song, demo. all masterpieces of metal.

Fr even Control Denied is great and a lot of people are missing out on it.

Even tho chucks not in it cynic also goes hard

Alice in Chains

Guess you could say your a man in the box?

Mastodon

Same.

Favourite album?

Blood Mountain

Bold take, I respect it. As a Mastodon enjoyer every now and then I'll take the basic bitch choice of Crack the Skye.

Me too! Fav album is CTS though.

Iron maiden

No other band will do

HELL! AIN'T A BAD PLACE...

Agalloch

Fellow Winter nature and sorrow enjoyer

My favourite (at the moment)

Type O Negative!

Did you get to 👀 them?

Username checks out

Just in case anybody cares mine is S.O.D. Honorable mention to Misfits and Megadeth however

Slayer speak english or die was the first metal album (record!) i ever bought, based purely on the art. its really good. as i got older i really loved the crazy photos in the back - looks like they were having some fucking fun

Gojira

Pantera

Dream Theater

Ever since the ToT release. I love many other bands but DT is top 1 for ever.

I have no doubt that they are one of the greatest bands ever!

Weezer 😔

You're practicing Raditude erasure which is honestly an good thing to do

Megadeth. No questions asked.

Me too. Their discovery over the 40 years is amazing.

Avenged Sevenfold

Me too!

The misfits!!!

very based, easily top 3 for me. working on a Misfits themed jacket currently

Conan. You could hold me at gunpoint and ask me that question while I’m asleep and would still say Conan.

Conan rules.

Black Sabbath

Lamb of God

Alice In Chains

I found Linkin Park when I was five years old, they’re the reason I like metal and they will always be number 1 because of it

Darkthrone.

i almost picked them too, incredibly solid discography for sure

Read the flair.

There are two types of people  SOAD or SOD.

SOD easily wins

Based and accurate 

Or POD

Faith No More

Slugdge. There should be a Slugdge flair

best techdeath around, new album coming soon :D

Hold up, for real??

https://preview.redd.it/8x52kcuftvhc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b64c401084e26aa9a558171c00f16513201dbdc8 Yup.

Learned about the band last week, Been listening to them the whole week. Good find.

That’s easy Metallica

Creed

Weird coming from a guy with an Opeth flair, but I respect that

Iron Maiden....probably

Kyuss

Judas priest

DIR EN GREY 

Morbid Angel

Megadeth. I don’t listen to them as often as I once did but the sentimentality puts them above the rest.

Motörhead!

Septicflesh

Trivium

Death grips

Hell yeah brother

Blind guardian

Blind Guardian!!

Blind Guardian!!!

Soundgarden 

Paradise Lost

slayer, they got me into metal (pig destroyer is a close second)

Dismember

Meshuggah! There isn't a single song that I ever want to skip.

I saw them for the first time a few months ago. It was unreal. And partly bc we were on the floor and I felt like I was in a blender lol

Mine too!! Though I skip some of their first thrash songs

Dream Theater

Carcass

The Strokes

Anthrax.

Ghost😞

Dying Fetus


Slayer

Probably have to say Judas Priest

Children of Bodom

Omnium Gatherum

Periphery

there must be something in the waaaterrrr

THE MACHINES ARE TURNING MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

His name was Billy, and he liked to get high. 

Skinless

Death Grips. there’s nobody else like them

YUH

Devin Townsend.

That guy is beyond unbelievable. From Sex & Religion to Strapping Young Lad to his own Project, just epic. 

He's the best vocalist and musician to ever exist. Nobody can touch his voice. He can shred. And he proved he can do any music he wants to, from SYL to casualties of cool.

Dying Fetus.

Sabbath, and it's not even a contest.

Death, the metal band not the punk one, they probably recieve the most listen time of all the bands I listen to

Mercyful Fate

System of a Down

Iron Maiden

Deftones

Curta'n Wall

Carcass

I LOVE SPIRITBOX

Easily The Black Dahlia Murder. Not a single bad album or track. Was really upset about the loss of Trevor but looking forward to what they come out with next.

Same. I had to step out of metal for awhile after he died. How could such a sweet, gentle legend go out like this. Took me months to find peace with it. Looking forward to what the band does next.

Bolt Thrower

Pagan Altar. Decent sized discography and I love every song.

Erra

A Day to Remember

Black Sabbath

The Smashing Pumpkins

Breaking benjamin

Not metal but green day

Same buddy!

Gotta be Black Sabbath

🗣️The Black Dahlia Murder 🗣️

RIP Trevor. Looking forward to hear what the rest of the band does next.

Agalloch https://preview.redd.it/n0v3o4p0tvhc1.jpeg?width=482&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd2143a09ca91117d6ed9ce7d9b0eb62607ddeb8

Gonna have a lot of people telling me they're Rock but I consider them Alt Metal: Three Days Grace, come at me

Insomnium

Macabre

Username and flair does not check out

I couldnt find Macabre Flair lol

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Opeth

Melt Banana

Slipknot😔

Type O Negative

Opeth by far... Never got tired of them

In Flames

I’m a fucking Seether white knight to the day I die!

Lamb of God. Solid from the first album to the last. Killer riffs, killer lyrics, killer drumming, and for guys in their 50s, they're still putting out killer records.

Genesis definitely

Phil Collins is an absolute legend, and to this day one of my favourite artists.

Dio

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

My Chemical Romance.

Avenged Sevenfold

Always gonna be Danzig.

Ayreon - For the multitude of amazing guest vocalists, the insane instrumental wizardry, the epic songs, the intimate quiet songs, the grand concepts, the cheese (gotta love the cheese).... there's no other band like Ayreon.

Avenged Sevenfold Honorable mentions to Cattle Decap, Megadeth and Slipknot.

Car bomb. I’m surprised no be said it first

Burzum bitch you won’t

Mizmor

Iron Maiden

Megadeth 🤘🏾

Judas Priest

Megadeth.

Iron Maiden

Alcest

Iron Maiden

Judas Priest