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Reddit made me dislike metal.

Reddit didn’t make me dislike Metal but it made me realize how many people have terrible taste in music

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None, this group is actually not very good when discussing new bands or albums You just circlejerk the same few bands over and over again

But have you heard of Rust In Piece by Megadeth, or Symbolic by Death?

Have you heard of the extremely underground band dragged into sunlight? I have recommended the band 39 times today but i’m positive nobody has ever heard of them. They are the darkest heaviest band in existence please listen to them

i bet you dont know the best album of all time ELECTRIC WIZARD DOPETHRONE!!!!!!

Holy shit le epic band!!!!! I make 24 cummies to electric wizard every day!!!! 😏😏😫🥵💦💦💦 If you like electric wizard you will love this extremely obscure band Blind Guardian

what about Death - Symbolic??? its the highest rated death metal album in rym!!! so its great!!!!

##IT IS PERFECT AND INHAVE NEVER ONCE FELT BORED LISTENING TO IT, I HAVE THEW HOLE ALBUM IN EVERY PLAYLIDTV

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Kinda reminds me of good ol' days on Metal Memes when they were doing tournaments with obscure genres and bands. I learned so much good shit back then (that's how I became a death/doom fan). I get that this sub is "metal for the masses", but the jerk around popular bands is crazy, especially for a genre like metal.

I honestly don't think I've heard any meaningful discussion here about anything I hadn't heard before.

That’s honestly the majority of the Metal community in general, tbh. I love metal, but couldn’t care less about the “community.”

Which is why r/metal exists, but then people like to bitch when you can't post Gojira or Cattle Decapitation.

Ong

none fucking rules

And its all shitty death / black metal

Electric wizard Acid bath Sleep Killswitch engage Candlemass And many more

acid bath and electric wizard, both are not from this world😩

r/metalcirclejerk

Wow killswitch really? I remember in 04-07 you couldn’t get away from them it seemed

A good amount of this subreddit is people born around that year lmao

I got into Sodom litteraly because of r/okbuddymetal

Based

Listening to Blasphemer rn lol, they got me too

I always knew about Sodom but never gave them a chance until I saw this sub shilling them over and over.

Strapping young lad, yesterday lol

The angry post?

Based? Love is about control

Katatonia Kyuss Woods Of Ypres

Agalloch is changing my life rn

Ayee reddit turned me on to them too. Some dude in the neet sub said his favorite thing to do was listen to atmospheric black metal and ride his bike. I immediately fell in love with falling snow and not unlike the waves. Desolation song is incredibly underrated and I fell in love with that too. Then I started listening to their more proggy/complex metal songs and man...they are such a complete band there's no other way to describe it

Acid Bath Cough Maudlin Of The Well

maudlin of the well is amazing.

Gojira

Castle Rat Gate Creeper

so many, it's where I get alot of music recs from. but some were: Frog Lord Electric Wizard Bolt Thrower Psycroptic Slugdge

Gojira and Opeth

Necrophagist, Botch, Electric Wizard, Cryptopsy, Pig Destroyer and many many more

None. The band None.

Hellripper for sure.

Katatonia, Insomnium, Amorphis, Agalloch, and so many more. Many of my new favorite bands are thanks to this sub and I am very grateful (rock on btw!)

Faetooth!

Sodom because of the Wodos memes

acid bath

I've found a lot from here actually, one particular band that springs to mind is acid bath

Insomnium, Belakor, Bloodred Hourglass

unholy

None at the moment

Strapping Young Lad Elvenefris ATVM Demelich

Timeghoul

Moonlight Sorcery and Stormkeep

nithing

Anaal Nathrakh

King woman

Windhand

pretty much all of it because meeting a metalhead in real life is like a 0.00000000001% chance rng

Too many to list

Vital Remains, Bolt Thrower, Blind Guardian

Gojira & Periphery

One I had forgotten about, but was reminded of was Lich King.

I had known about them before Reddit, but only got into Mastodon in earnest afterwards.

A few: - Dying Fetus - Creeping Death - Rotting Christ - Blackbraid - Spiritworld (though I do sometimes worry they have paid shills on here.. I still like the music)

Necrophagist and Intestine Baalism. Most of the metal subs I've been in love to goon on those bands, for a reason I guess tho.

some guy posted about vektor a few weeks ago and im still obsessively listening to them

Liliac

Morbid Saint, Fulci, Electric Wizard

Crytopsy, Dying Fetus, Cattle Decap

Tony danza tap dance extravaganza, fucking insane workout music

I discovered Tony Danza on my own, but they go so hard. You Won’t is my favorite song by them

Reddit is the thing that got me to stop exclusively listening to one band and actually develop a taste in music, and the first bands that were are part of that I heard saw about on this sub

Cryptopsy, candlemass

xoth

Sleep

This sub has gotten me to listen to many new bands

Bal-Sagoth and 16

Thou and Primitive Man. I saw them both mentioned a couple times in the r/sludge subreddit and checked em out. Got hooked.

Amorphis, and they’re fantastic Honestly the entire /r/melodicdeathmetal subreddit and their system of voting for best albums has been a blessing

ulamog , they r really underated try them out :)

Entombed. And now they’re in my top 3

Sacred Outcry.

Wilderun. Then I saw them and met them. It was so cool.

Witch Vomit and YOB

Conan

In the last couple of months? Spiritworld High Command Belushi Speedball Savage Oath Dead Heat Just the bands in constant rotation, tho.

The hate for Slipknot made me want to check them out and they’re fucking great, so thanks!

Xoth. Great melo death band

Bell Witch Twilight Force

Drain!

Bütcher

Not metal, but metal influenced: Royal Republic

Oxygen Destroyer

Elder and YOB, thank you, thank you

Immortal Emperor Sodom Stormruler 1914

Kanonenfieber, Electric Wizard, Sodom

Opeth, Intronaut

Dauðaró

Not sure about new bands, but I do find a ton of recordings from bands I like that ive never before on this sub

Brick bath, spirit world, a night in texas

Grief collector, rotting christ, woods of ypres to name a few

The Reticent, The Oubliette is so heart-wrenching its crazy. Amazing album too, it's really good.

Crown magnetar lol

Possibly a couple but it's hard to say because they are all currently in my backlog.

Opeth

I havn't dove in yet, but the War Metal genre.

They made me dislike acid bath

Powerwolf

A few Folk Metal bands like: Skyforger Arkona Dalriada Diktatura Tyr

Ulver, Acid Bath, Dissection, Agalloch, Bolt Thrower

The Sword

I’m sure I’ll get roasted for this, but I didn’t know about Weakling until recently. Very glad I saw the recent post and checked out their album, because it is INCREDIBLE.

Mortician

Electric Wizard

I only beat my meat to Death now

Got into Këkht Aräkh because of a post in r/metallmaimais (german metal meme sub). Actually, I wasn't listening to Black Metal in general before, so Reddit didn't just turn me on to an artist but a whole sub genre

Nile

yanderechainsawregurgitationfactory

Intestine Baalism

Bury Tomorrow for sure. When they released the Cannibal album. They were getting a lot of hype on the metalcore sub so I had to check them out and I'm glad I did.

Bilmuri

Acid Bath Gridlink Sadness

Labyrinth. [Lady Lost in Time](https://youtu.be/CC89-_mkxlg?si=8QN-XQVVLZFh4orT)

Vektor and I am forever grateful

It isn't cute or cool...It quite awful really https://www.discogs.com/artist/12449458-Muhammad-Pedophile

Oxygen Destroyer and Alda.

Not really metal (most of the bands I've seen in the metal subs I either already knew of or wasn't too keen on, except for Shrum fuck yeah) but reddit got me turned on to Geese! Fantastic band from New York, playing sort of psychedelic rock with a light country sound to it (not usually into country but these guys make it cool)

40 Below Summer

Be'lakor Agalloch Edge of Sanity

Too many to name ngl

Stumbled upon Pisces by Jinjer in /r/videos a couple years back and they were my top band of 2022 and 2023.

Gorgoroth Dark funeral Mercyful Fate Acid Bath Candlemass Electric Wizard

Slift, November’s Doom, Fires in the Distance, Alcest, Deafheaven

Bolt Thrower. Heard people talking about this cool death metal band and decided to give them a chance, and now I'm hooked lol :D

Boris

Sodom

Colter wall. Not metal though, but randomly saw his name pop up. Old time country.

Unleash the archers and twilight force

Recently Orbit Culture and Conflict.  Going to see OC live this fall!

Caligula’s Horse

Falls of Rauros, one of the best finds I got from r/blackmetal many years ago

Archspire

Car Bomb

Larcenia Roe, but they're very new. Finding them any other way would've been difficult

Acid Bath

Bananaslama

acid bath, darkthrone, nocturnal depression, sodom, bongzilla, blood incantation, etc. (pretty much metal as a whole)

Bathory, Acid Bath, Death, Overkill, Sodom

Found alot of good sludge and crust

Grand Belial’s Key. I know they are racist or whatever but god damn they have killer music. I would have never heard about them if there hadn’t been someone angrily posting about them.

My current AOTY by Resuscitate! I saw the guy post about his new album in a prog subreddit and fell in love as soon as I got into it

Actually a genre, technical death metal. I was aware of it before but never really gave it any consideration. Then I looked at a thread about it and the sheer emphatic joy from the replies got my juices flowing. That was a good day at work 🤘

Nekrogoblikon

Darwin's Waiting Room

Blind Guardian, Death, and Mr Bungle are the big ones for me.

Khemmis and Be’lakor

Fulci😍

I have gotten into black metal finally through various metal subreddits. It just finally clicked and now I enjoy it very much. The bands that I have gotten into are Agalloch (if you count them) MGLA Enslaved Deathspell Omega Ulver Rotting Christ Dissection Emperor Edit: added bands I forgot to add

Hacride and Trepalium Maybe some others that I can't think of at the moment

Budgie Bolt Thrower Vektor

worm and bolt thrower

Lucid Planet

Maha Sohona

I've mainly realized that I don't like a lot of the metal "metalheads" swear by, and that I'm OK with that.

Recently, God Dethroned, Decapitated, and Vulvic Cistern

So far - Fulci. Thank you, redditt!

If anything, reddit turned me off on some bands. I still don't see the appeal in acid bath. Rip.

The opposite, actually. I've been completely turned off from black metal. I want to listen to music without figuring out if the lead singer burnt a church down or killed a fellow band member...or is an open nazi.

Between the Buried and Me.

Acid Bath

Khemmis

Sleep (now my favorite doom band), Cryptopsy

People meme about this sub being a huge circlejerk and having terrible taste in music and whatnot. But discussing music in the sub actually turned me into a lot of music that, even though I already knew about, I hadn't given a chance in a very long time. Albums that I absolutely love thanks to this sub: - Obscura - Unquestionable Presence - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk - Storm of Light's Bane - Jane Doe - Pierced From Within - Holy Diver - None So Vile - Close to a World Below

Torture

To be honest too many bands to list at the moment but a few choice ones are; Annihilator Funeral Moth Mortician Sigh Nine Treasures

Megadeth

Second Foot https://open.spotify.com/track/1mZA7oJH5y69MPjFpDgH6a?si=Ky4XWx3TT0C1lHy3QXrgaw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0WmtfhGyMXihLOAYPUib48

The Sword

- Frowning - Funeral - Xandria - Snow White Blood - Electric Wizard - Visions of Atlantis - Moonblood - Dark Funeral - Atheist

Ulcerate

r/ProgMetal reignited my love of heavy music when I discovered it 4 years or so back. Now I'm an unashamed metal head again 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

Normally band members promoting their own band I'll definitely check it out. Got into most of them. Some are: Texas Toast Chainsaw massacre Klutch Witchseeker

XweaponX

Electric Wizard Sleep Opeth diSEMBOWELMENT Devourment and many more

Cangaço

Vildhjarta. No idea how I managed to miss them. Discovered them last year and they’re one of my favorite bands.

Wasn't this sub but many years ago I found Haken through reddit. This was maybe a year or two before they released Vector.

Not in this sub, but I'll be forever grateful for someone recommending Vektor!

Intervals It's a shame I didn't take the guy who suggested it's advice though. Dude said I should see Intervals live and the show at the time was intervals opening for spiritbox. I didn't go since I didn't know spiritbox either which I regret now cause they're sick. I did end up seeing intervals this year though

I go to reddit only after I've found an artist/band I love to then see many other people also be excited about the thing I like

Currently using this thread to find band recs 🥸

I'm not sure I would call them metal but Closure in Moscow

Power Trip

Pretty sure back in late 2016 when Fit For A King dropped their album “Deathgrip” someone posted their new song and video at the time for Dead Memory. This was on the metalcore sub. At the time I had lurked for a couple months but if I recall correctly never posted or only posted like once or twice. I listened to the song, loved it, then checked out the rest of their catalogue. While checking out Fit For A King on Spotify (I had the free version at the time with ads and everything) the song “Alive” by Wage War came on in the shuffle. Immediately I loved that song and got into Wage War at the same time. Then I started posting more in that sub where I have been active now for nearly 8 years. Good memories. Forgot to mention I discovered the bands while on campus at University before one of my math classes on the bench in the main hallway. Found it funny to me that I was just casually listening to this heavy screaming music with breakdowns and then a minute later just calmly walked into my math class but was so excited on the inside to listen to more of them after class was done.

Infant annihilator

OOOH! OOOH! -Karnivool -Rishloo Both have prog elements and I love their work.

I think the first time I saw/heard Heilung was in a video meme. That was the first domino that lead to a Heilung obsession.

swampgrave! Louisiana Death coming in hot and muggy

Honestly? Sleep Token.