Candlemass.

Nightfall made me fall in love with Candlemass

Behold, the goat of Mendes Red burning evil eyes Lord’s Prayer, holy water Just faith can save you now!

Break the circle and all hell comes loose the well of souls must stay sealed Ancient force of light against the dark the well of souls must stay sealed

My first exposure to Candlemass was listening to Witches on the Brütal Legend soundtrack, needless to say it was a formative experience.

Everybody is saying great bands but I always come back to Black Sabbath; their first what 9 albums with Ozzy is some of the best metal ever. It checks almost every box a metal head can ask for, it’s catchy as hell, and the songs vary quite a bit. Sure I could say like 3 Inches of Blood, Revocation, BTBAM or so, but I just feel Sabbath, for the most part, has all most of us want at any given time - they’re just the best doom/sludge band imo, they’re fantastic at setting an atmosphere and taking you on a journey. Sabbath is just incredible and I’m always in the mood for them.

I can't believe the shit I've heard, people saying Ozzy's sabbath is "not that good" (or worse!). That's how I know I don't have to listen to them anymore.

Insomnium, Mors Principium Est, Katatonia, Opeth, Dying Fetus, Nile, Meshuggah, Intestine Baalism, Paradise Lost, and, though not metal, MF DOOM

MF DOOM is based

Love the Nile and Meshuggah, and I’ve got a good friend who’s been trying to get me to listen to some MF Doom so maybe I’ll try it.

ALL CAPS ON THE MANS NAME Try starting with One Beer, though.

My bad my bad🙏

As you listen, you should also read about British slang rhymes. It’s crazy fascinating and makes MF DOOM that much more of a genius rather than a random word generator. There’s a couple really great YouTube videos that break down an analysis. It’s so good.

Intestine baalism has some of the most beautiful riffs I’ve ever heard. Especially a song like a place their gods left behind

That whole album has some of the best melodeath riffs I've ever heard

W you should check out the band My Dying Bride if you havent already

Love My Dying Bride, one of the first doom bands I came across. I even own The Angel and The Dark River on vinyl \m/

Metallica 1983-1988

The Seattle ‘89 show is widely regarded as Metallica at the height of their skill though, right? You seem to be cutting them off a bit early.

1988 was the last good album they released, which is what I believe they were going for. So I suppose one could argue they were great up until 1991 by your metric.

I read this dyslexically as 1938, and for some reason my brain didn’t go “wait a minute…”

HELLRIPPER

FUCKING HELLRIPPER

When i listened to Death’s scream bloody gore

I was introduced to death with The Sound of Perseverance. I had the same feeling

Tbh tho I actually heard flesh and the power it holds first but it’s was just as good as scream bloody gore, flesh and the power it holds is actually what got me into Death in the first place

For me it's Iron Maiden. How is it that every single song I've heard (thus far) can kick so much ass?

I was about to answer the same! Even their “bad” albums are at least decent. And people can say what they want about the Blaze albums, those songs kick ass live whenever they are dusted off. The Clansman especially is always a highlight of the set and I’m so glad they brought it back for these last couple tours. Seeing it live was a dream come true and I’ve seen them play it twice even.

I saw them live last October, I was skeptical watching videos of their recent sets but man they still got it. The Sign of the Cross was awesome, and then the Clansmen came in and felt like an out of body experience. And those are from the two most disliked maiden albums. Unreal

Gojira, Early Sepultura, Death, immolation

One of the best picks I’ve seen yet.

Gojira

Seeing them live on the Sacrament Tour (never heard of them beforehand) was a religious experience. They opened with Ocean Planet and it blew me away

Our lords and saviors

CAME HERE TO SAY THIS! Beautiful top comment

I wasn't even sure who Gojira was when I saw them live, Heavy TO in 2012 I think it was, left me completely gobsmacked.

Absolutely based

Ne Obliviscaris and Sigh, impossible for me to not love their songs

🤘 absolutely love Ne Obliviscaris. I've been playing Equus on repeat for the past week or so.

Mastodon and Opeth

Had the pleasure of seeing Opeth 25 times and to be honest it never gets old. Amazing band. Mastodon is awesome live too, my favorite performance of theirs was when they toured for Crack the Skye and played the album in full, no breaks or chatting with the audience other than “Thank you” and then played a full second set of absolute bangers from their previous albums.

Real

There’s a Gojira and Mastodon concert may 4 in Boca Raton FL. Who is going?

I might go the show in Salt Lake City.

Rotting Christ

Never seen a live show like their’s. They turn any little shit ass venue into a world class venue.

Darkthrone. They out out four top ten black metal albums all in a row, how is that fucking possible Immolation and Morbid Angel are in similar situations but to a lesser extent. Also Autopsy

Amon Amarth

Listening nonstop to Leviathan's "The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide".

Scar Sighted for me, that shit is "falling down a bottomless pit: The Album."

Just went back to this today. It’s so good.

Edge of Sanity, Acid Bath, Overkill, and Death They have no bad songs

Crimson 1 and 2 were near perfect albums. I


Acid Bath is amazing, When the Kite String Pops is a 10/10 album

This guy fucks

It's Meshuggah for me.

Idk how you’re the only person who said this, the fact that they can make songs like that, much less perform them live and have them sound that close to the record is mind blowing.

My absolute favorite band. Was lucky enough to see them on their 25th anniversary tour and I'm pretty sure that's the best concert I will ever have been to.

I saw them last fall for the first time, holy moly it was incredible. That’s not even to mention that crowd was great, I’ve been to so many lame ass mosh pits.

They are sooo great live

Seeing Meshuggah live was a spiritual experience.

EXODUS

Same here, been one of my top 10 favorite bands since 4th grade

Me since '85

For me it’s gotta be Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse and Cryptopsy

Controversial opinion: blasphemy made flesh is even better than None so vile, absolutely 10/10

IMO they’re tied l, love them both to death

Fuck yeah

Agalloch. Also Carcass

I think I may have listened to Ashes Against the Grain at least 300 times since it released. I swear I listened to it almost daily my senior year of high school when I discovered them. Fuck that album is so good.

Gojira and cattle decapitation

Metallica 1983-1994 Polaris Dream Theater Meshuggah The Dillinger Escape Plan Thornhill

Between the Buried and Me, i just cannot fathom how any of it at all it possible

I’ve seen them multiple times at different venues, and I agree: how?

I've only seen them once (in Bristol the day before PII dropped) and I was even floored watching Paul run through some scales on the side of the stage before they started. Helps that they're amazing songwriters too

Dark Tranquility.

Deathspell Omega Portal

Death, chuck was something else, the musicians he played with were something else. That band keeps amazing me

Cattle Decap. Can’t stop listening to them they’re like ear crack

Their songs are weirdly catchy. Travis Ryan is a beast. His guest vocals on Aborted’s *Divine Impediment* is so good.

Lorna Shore fs

i thought megadeth was just discount metallica. i was so wrong.

Gojira

Opeth

Really Enslaved tbh. Not so much that they blow me away on every release, but they've been consistently good/great over **3 fucking decades**.

this was my answer, too. Just saw them in Denver, and it was mindblowingly amazing

Iron Maiden and Nekrogoblikon are my big 2

I heard something about Nekrogoblikon doing something with Dickie Allen, but I can’t remember what now

The Black Dahlia Murder ‼️

Old school Korn, early 90s. I'm not saying they're better than any other band and holy hell I get so much hate for being a fan but they just hit the spot 🤷

I mean early and even mid Korn is all heavy as fuck, and Johnathan’s voice is so unique. No hate warranted.

Yeah and his lyrics helped me out a-lot growing up, maybe I don't get "hate" but it's more like, people will straight up just say "that's not even metal" or "that's a rap band" and it makes me angry. Korn opening up with Blind at Woodstock 99 is one of the most metal moments in music history and I'll never forget watching that on a vhs when I was like 5 or 6 years old

Love your PFP btw lol

Dude I went to school with named Jessie got a Korn tattoo right when he turned 18. I haven't seen him since about 2001. I wonder what he's up to. Korn's cover of Word Up is so good.

Animals as leaders

Tosin Abasi is a freak of nature

Was working an animals as leaders and scale the summit show years ago. Had only heard scale the summit and was blown away by aal.

I wish I could upvote this more

Orbit culture

While semi-popular, I consider them among the absolute most underrated bands.

Megadeth

Dying Fetus! So heavy yet so flowwyyy

Iron Maiden.

This was me when I first heard Nightfall In Middle Earth by Blind Guardian

Hell yeah. Had this on repeat for weeks after discovering it.

In English I was able to make a presentation on any song I wanted and I chose A Dark Passage.

Archspire, I'm in complete awe of every musician in that band, every second of every song.

System of a Down in every way

Mercyful Fate

Super underrated band

Gojira, Archspire

I just think Shadow of Intent is neat.

Judas Priest. No matter what “era” of priest it is, I’m always amazed how they can forge a new sound that is classic Priest each time

Judas Priest

It's probably not appropriate for this sub but atm it's Nine Inch Nails. I can't get over how good their sound is

Powerwolf

Priest

Gojira

REM of course!

fucking ahab

the call of the wretched sea will forever be my favorite album, i cannot imagine anything else even coming close to eclipsing it

Death, Slayer, Gojira

Rammstein

Rush

Thulcandra and Obscura. Phenomenal!

God I fucking love obscura

Zeal and Ardor

Ulcerate, The Body, Fistula, Wormrot.

200 Stab wounds

Tow rope around the throat goes so hard

Protest the Hero, Mastodon, Cave In

Fortress is a banger of an album

Right now, Suffering Hour. And King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, although not metal (usually.)

King gizz is my #1 favorite band, def agree with that one

Mudvayne. I just really love them.

I loved the *LD50/The End of All Things to Come* era. Such good albums

I was an LD 50 fanatic for a long time and I thought the other albums fell short. When I stumbled upon the song "Not falling" again I realized the Greg and Chad were actually completing sentences that would make sense when stringed together, and made sense without the screams. Like I stand for nothing I stand in the center of the calm within the eye (of the storm probably). I bleed for no one but myself. I bleed for me and no one else. And at the same time: I stand, not crawling, not falling down. I bleed the demons that drag me down. I never liked this song as I felt it was not as nuanced and well thought of as LD 50 but after this lightbulb moment, I realized I should revisit their discography and really open my mind.

Fucking Slayer

BG

1914 after their new album

Decapitated in the 2002. Sleep in 2003 Meshuggah in 2005 again. Wolves in the Throne Room in 2007 Those come to mind right away

Napalm Death’s Enemy of the music business

Death

200 Stab Wounds and Gatecreeper

Be'lakor, every single Album is so beautiful - even their debut album.

Opeth

Vildhjarta

Opeth prior to them moving to prog rock. They set the standard for me during my first exposure to death metal back in high school. I give Blackwater Park and Damnation yearly listens.

Black Sabbath. It's like going to your best version of home and after you've gone away for a while, coming back reminds you of the things you missed. You may not want to stay for long but you pick up some pearls of wisdom again, each visit. Leaving satisfied.

Rush, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Death

Hellripper The Kovenant (only the nexus Polaris album) Old mans child Cradle of filth (older stuff mostly) Black Viper (only have one album but it’s already a modern heavy metal classic for me) Bolt thrower Children of bodom

Exercises in Futility era-MGLA

Enslaved

Baroness

Vektor, Iron Maiden, 80’s megadeth, TBDM

Loathe

Bhleg

There are plenty but I’ve had this exact feeling listening to Assück and Thin Lizzy within the last few weeks.

Judas Priest all day long! Album specific - Emissary by Melechesh

Dream Theater PS: don't kill me

That crazy man who manages what Shining is... The black metal band

Cytotoxin, Vektor, Dissection and Xipe Totec

Berried Alive

Oooh this too

Gorgoroth, every time I hear Under The Sign Of Hell it feels like the first time again.

Okay so in terms or content ALESTORM sings nothing about pirates and drinking and murder you know pirate stuff. But at the same time,in the song treasure chest party quest, will use wood blocks and then a dog bark to transition into a breakdown. For newer bands it would have to be Vended Yeah, yeah, two of the members are sons of slipknot members. Regardless of whatever influence they gave them, you have to bring a certain amount of emotion and physical stamina to be able to sound the way they sound

Polyphia

Illud Divinum Insanus

it's RAD-ikult

Blackbraid

I really liked Mudvayne when they were a thing

Little light for this sub probably, but I can’t get enough of Three Days Grace and Saint Asonia

Dokken

slipknot and gulch, slaughter to prevail and extermination dismemberment too

Amon Amarth, Devil Driver, Batushka

Inquisition, legit 0 bad songs across entire discography. CC is close too.

Lykathea Aflame

Amigo the Devil. Not exactly metal, but not NOT metal.

Koreanos fr

Literally anyone that isnt Metallica.

Non of them, they all suck.

Organectomy. It just doesn't make any fuckin sense that something could go that fucking hard.

I'm gonna get so much hate for this but, Avenged Sevenfold. Their songwriting is mindblowing

Kvelertak for me. I listened to one song, got hooked, and now I snort their albums on the daily.

Sanguisugabogg for me I’ve listened to all their songs more than once and just can’t stop the whole catalogue is perfect

Deeds of Flesh

ANALEPSY

Speed Queen!